The Lafayette City-Parish Council was told Wednesday the parish jail could be shut down if the facility's fire alarm system isn't replaced. Public Works Director Tom Carroll told the council the parish's cost of replacing the alarm system will be 350-thousand dollars, but council members say that would drop the parish general fund below one million dollars. The state fire marshal told officials last summer the jail's third-floor alarm system isn't working and the entire system would have to be replaced. Carroll says the fire marshal could shut down the jail if a new alarm system isn't installed. Council members lamented the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office refuses to contribute to the cost of replacing the alarm system, even though it has 13- million-dollars in its coffers. The council elected to introduce an ordinance to allocate 350-thousand-dollars for the alarm system, drawing a 350-thousand-dollar state match to cover the total cost of 700-thousand-dollars.