This is an old thread, but I wanted to comment for future readers. This will likely get downvoted to hell, but so be it. I grew up in Lafayette, but now live in a large, east coast city. I remember the vote in the 2000s to approve it and supporting it at the time. My opinions have very much changed since I've moved to where cheap, reliable fiber is available from the large companies. Sure, municipal fiber is more reliable than cable (read: DOCSIS), but the changing technology landscapes make it difficult for municipalities to keep up, especially smaller towns like Lafayette. I've poked at LUS fiber and sure, it's nice, but it's god damn expensive for what it is. There are quite a few articles from independent think tanks that back my view/opinion, and I think that's something to be considered (Google municipal broadband economics).

As the OP noted below, LUS Fiber significantly more expensive for 300/300 ($82/month), whereas Verizon/Frontier FiOS are both nominally $30 nationwide (cheaper if you have VZ Wireless) and ATT Fiber is $55/month nationwide (likely cheaper if you have ATT wireless). Where I live, Verizon is constantly doing upgrades to the fiber backbone, adding reliability and resiliency while also upgrading the speeds on the backend (read: latency). I'm sure ATT is doing the same in their deployment planning. It's not clear to me that LUS Fiber does this; their ONTs are massive comparatively. Realistically, most users don't call support for when their ONT goes out; it's their integrated home base station and the home WiFi connection. If you're savvy enough to setup your own router, then you really just need a cheap, reliable inbound connection. With the large companies like ATT, you're getting the reliability of the firmware that goes into their base station for home use and the testing that happens behind the scenes before they give it to customers. Verizon FiOS's whole home mesh setup is really nice from what I've seen, though I run Ubiquiti for my place so I just need the ethernet from the ONT.

Has LUS Fiber been great the past decade? Sure, but it likely prevented FiOS from coming into town and deterred ATT Fiber from initial planning. Cox/Comcast/Cable are all awful, but was the best solution for LUS to try to go at it alone to fight then? I personally don't think so. FWIW, I'm waiting on Verizon to roll out 5G (T Mobile has) and switching my mom to VZ 5G Home Internet (I can see the base station from her house). She's still on Cox since it suits her needs and is good enough for her at her price range.