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Council approves routine minutes, budget amendments and appointments; several public‑hearing ordinances set
Summary
The council approved minutes, accounts payable and multiple ordinance items in the April 16 session (most votes unanimous). The meeting also set public hearings and approved appointments to boards and commissions.
The Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government council on April 16 took a series of procedural and legislative actions, most by unanimous voice vote.
Key actions at a glance
- Approved minutes of the regular council session held March 12 and March 26, 2025 (voice vote recorded as 9‑0 for the March 12 minutes).
- Approved accounts payable for listed periods (motion moved by Councilmember Babin, second by Councilmember Pleasure; vote recorded 8‑0).
- Adopted a proclamation declaring April 2025 Fair Housing Month, signed by Parish President Jason W. Beggaron and Council Chairman Carl Harding (ceremonial proclamation; no roll-call vote recorded in transcript).
- Recognitions: Council acknowledged Lewis Miller Career & Technical High School students and staff for SkillsUSA state medals and noted the recent death of student Remy Hanneman (ceremonial, no vote required).
- Set and conducted public‑hearing motions: the council moved to recess to a 6:30 p.m. public hearing and then returned; the motion to go to 6:30 passed (voice vote recorded 8‑0).
- Ordinances and budget amendments placed on public hearing and adopted in the consent sequence: the council cleared several ordinance items and budget amendments related to CDBG-DR and other capital projects (transcript records these items and the motion outcomes; several votes recorded 7‑0 or 8‑0 depending on the item). Specific line items announced on the agenda included: Fletcher Aviation workforce development ($5,000,000), Geraldine Pump Station FEMA allocation ($9,760,659) and a separate CDBG-DR allocation for Geraldine Pump Station ($3,500,000), water-line expansion ($2,600,000), and other public-works and resilience items. (The motion language and line items were read into the record during the public hearing batch.)
- Street/traffic and property items: an ordinance to rename Billy Street to Hazel Boykin Street was adopted (vote recorded 8‑0). A separate ordinance to declare certain parish equipment surplus and authorize disposal passed during the public‑hearing sequence.
- Appointments: the council reappointed and appointed members to several boards and commissions (tree board, zoning board alternate, recreation district and others). One contested vote for Recreation District No. 10 resulted in a roll-call outcome: Vasquez received 9 votes, Verrett received 0.
- Committee minutes (Budget & Finance; Community Development & Planning; Public Service) were accepted and ratified (motions recorded as passed, mostly 8‑0).
Votes recorded in the transcript used voice-machine tallies and occasional roll call. Several items in the consent/public‑hearing block were passed with unanimous or near‑unanimous results; where the transcript did not list a roll‑call by name, the article reports the recorded voice-machine tally. If specific ordinance numbers or detailed vote roll-call records are required for legal or archival purposes, those will be available in the official minutes.
Ending: Council moved on to committee reports and appointments after the public‑hearing block; no major contested policy measures were adopted at the April 16 meeting.
