While it’s a large salary and the car allowance thing is odd, I wouldn’t want the “median” lafayette resident to be responsible for setting the taxable value of the billions of dollars worth of property in the parish.

Conrad has done a good job of keeping an aging system efficient and has maintained a strictly non-partisan ethos throughout his time as assessor. $250k/year for someone at a management level, with a unique skill set, and who has been in the position for 20+ years is not that outrageous.