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Sabine Parish Police Jury: votes at a glance — March 19 meeting
Summary
A roundup of formal votes at the March 19 Sabine Parish Police Jury meeting, including LCDBG items, surplus declarations, equipment bids, personnel authorizations and budget transfers.
At its March 19 meeting the Sabine Parish Police Jury approved a package of routine and committee-recommended actions. The items below summarize motions the jury introduced and voted on; items will be recorded in the parish minutes and supporting documents.
Votes at a glance
- Amend agenda (add items 24a and 24b): Motion carried (motion by Barry; seconder not specified). Transcript indicates the amendment was approved and recorded.
- Adopt agenda as amended: Motion carried (mover/second recorded in minutes).
- Accept minutes of the previous regular meeting (February 2025): Motion carried (motion by Barry; second by Bowe). Recorded vote cited as 8–1 on related routine votes.
- Introduce and adopt LCDBG-related items: The jury introduced a public hearing for the 2026–2027 Louisiana Community Development Block Grant (LCDBG) program and adopted resolutions to engage administrative and engineering services for LCDBG applications. Motions were made and seconded; the jury approved the public hearing notice and authorized staff to submit application materials and signatory authority for the parish president.
- Surplus and sale of equipment: The jury declared several pieces of equipment surplus and authorized sale via GovDeals/electronic auctions, including two 6-inch pumps, a 2019 Morax BH2926 (serial MMB18029-26) and other items; motions to surplus and sell carried.
- Advertisement and award of bids: Motion approved to advertise for bids for new equipment including a self-contained boom mower and a dump truck for Ward 4; jury agreed to advertise specifications and pursue financing options for new truck procurement.
- Repairs and replacement authorizations: The road shop committee recommended repairing a parish motor grader at an estimated cost of approximately $41,000; jury approved the repair.
- Temporary hire to cover master mechanic: Jury authorized hiring a temporary master mechanic to cover a staff absence; authorized hourly cap not to exceed $28 per hour and specified the temporary hire would not receive full-time benefits.
- Utility-compactor station labor pay and rescind previous resolution: The jury revisited previously adopted resolution 9696 and authorized a revised pay structure for compactor-station staffing (lead utility laborer and utility laborer rates adjusted); staff to prepare rescission and replacement resolution language; motion carried.
- Introduce ordinance amending parish sales and use tax orders (digital sales): The jury introduced ordinance language to revise earlier orders to capture sales-taxable digital goods and services; draft will return for final action next month.
- Adopt resolution authorizing parish president to contract for LCDBG admin and engineering services: Motion carried 8–1 for administrative and engineering contracting for the LCDBG application process.
- Adopted routine financial items: Jury authorized payment of approved bills and approved monthly transfers for sales tax allocations.
Procedural notes: Most of the items above were committee recommendations (road shop committee, landfill/operations) and were moved and seconded by jurors; standard motions were recorded in the minutes. Where the transcript recorded explicit counts (several routine items recorded as 8–1), those tallies are noted. Items introduced for future final action (ordinances and larger grant applications) will return to a future agenda for recorded votes.
Documentation: Staff indicated all draft ordinances and resolutions will be circulated to jurors in advance of final votes; LCDBG public-hearing notices will be published in the parish’s official journal as required by program rules.
