Following a combative legislative hearing that laid bare the almost non-existent working relationship between Bogalusa Mayor Tyrin Truong and the fiscal administrator appointed by the state to fix the city's budget problems, Truong is asking a state judge to remove the administrator and restore some of his power.

Truong filed a petition in state court in Franklinton on Oct. 3 seeking the removal and replacement of fiscal administrator Robert "Bob" Neilson . He argues Neilson is "guilty of negligence" and that Neilson's statements and actions since his appointment "evidence a degree of unwarranted, seemingly personal hostility, to the Mayor."

Judge Alan Zaunbrecher of the 22nd Judicial District appointed Neilson to run the Washington Parish-city of about 10,000 people in February af

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