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Terrebonne School Board sets 2025 millage rates; board emphasizes no increase
Summary
The board approved resolutions levying a regular school tax of 3.86 mills and a special school maintenance tax of 5.41 mills on the 2025 tax roll; trustees and staff said the vote preserves previously voter‑approved limits and does not raise rates.
The Terrebonne Parish School Board on April 15 adopted a resolution setting the 2025 millage rates at 3.86 mills for the regular school tax and 5.41 mills for the special school maintenance tax, a combined rate of 9.24 mills on the 2025 tax roll.
Board Member Matthew Ford told the public the board was not increasing rates: “We’re not increasing any levied amount. This is what we’ve already been approved. The voters have voted on this years ago. It's just every year, we have to come together as a board and decide what amount we're going to levy up to the amount that we've been approved for.”
The motion to read and adopt the resolution was moved by Roger DeHart and seconded by Debbie Benoit. After a call for public comment and brief board discussion, the board conducted a roll‑call vote: 8 yeas, 1 absent (Gregory Harding). The president announced, “It’s unanimous. It's 8 yeas, 1 absent,” and the resolution was recorded as passed.
Board members noted the combined millage of 9.24 mills is low compared with other districts; one trustee said Terrebonne operates more than 30 schools with “the lowest millage in the entire state of Louisiana.” The resolution language directed administrative officials to spread and collect the taxes on the assessment roll and stated the taxes would be enforceable and a lien on properties according to law.
The board did not change the voter‑approved maximum levy for the district; the action is an annual step to establish the rate for the upcoming tax roll.
The full resolution text, as read into the record, specified the millage amounts and directed district officials to take administrative steps to collect the levied taxes.
