Caddo board approves one‑time employee stipends; union leader says board added $500

The Caddo Parish School Board approved distribution plans for a state‑funded one‑time stipend and a district‑funded one‑time stipend for eligible employees as part of the meeting’s consent agenda.

Carlos McDaniel, president of the Caddo Federation of Teachers and Support Personnel and executive vice president of Red River United, said after the consent action that many teachers feared pay increases required leaving the parish, and he described the board’s action as welcome news. “It’s been a pleasure in this instance to be able to tell my colleagues that yes, it is,” McDaniel said of the stipend plan. He added that he did not expect the board to add “that additional 500,” and thanked the board for doing so. McDaniel urged the board to continue and finalize the distribution and noted that dispersal together in September would aid employees.

The superintendent’s agenda listed both a distribution plan for a state‑funded one‑time stipend (agenda item 6.02) and a district‑funded one‑time stipend for eligible employees (agenda item 6.03). Those items were placed on the consent agenda and confirmed by board motion. The transcript does not include the exact stipend amounts in the motion text, other than McDaniel’s comment about an additional $500.

No separate roll call for individual stipend amounts was recorded in the public portion of the transcript; the consent agenda was approved by motion earlier in the meeting. The transcript does not include implementation dates beyond McDaniel’s expectation that dispersal in September would be used, nor does it include a breakdown of state vs. district funding sources for the payments.