Terrebonne Parish Council adopts budget adjustments, ratifies committee minutes and makes appointments in 8-0 votes

The Terrebonne Parish Council on Feb. 26 approved a package of budget adjustments and routine actions, including amendments to the 2025 operating budget and personnel appointments.

The council voted largely without debate on a set of budget and administrative items announced during the meeting’s public session and committee reports. Motions to adopt the listed measures carried with near-unanimous support.

Among the items adopted were an ordinance to amend the 2025 operating budget that listed line items including flood mitigation and several department and development allocations; a resolution for Recreation District No. 9 to participate in the parish health insurance program; and routine approvals of committee minutes and monthly reports. The council also completed appointments to municipal boards and commissions.

Votes at a glance - Ordinance to amend the 2025 adopted operating budget: Moved and seconded on the floor and adopted, vote recorded as 8–0. The ordinance text as read to the council listed allocations that included FMA flood mitigation ($433,340 as read aloud) and several entries for “LCLE,” the Houma Police Department and downtown development; the transcript lists the same items without further elaboration. The ordinance was adopted at the Feb. 26 meeting.

- Resolution: Recreation District No. 9 — participation in the parish health insurance program: Motion moved by Mr. Babin and seconded by Mr. Hamady; the motion was placed, public hearing rules noted (Home Rule Charter section 2-07e) and the item was carried on the council floor (vote outcome recorded during the meeting sequence).

- Committee minutes and ratifications: The council accepted and ratified minutes from the Public Service Committee, Community Development and Planning Committee, and the Budget and Finance Committee (motions carried, vote tallies recorded in the meeting as unanimous in each case).

- Appointments: Pat Tennyson was appointed to the municipal civil service board (motion passed, recorded vote 7 ayes, 1 nay). Deborah H. Ellinger was reappointed to a terminal passenger authority seat; the council moved to open, close and appoint and recorded the motion as carried.

What the council did not decide tonight: Several items shown during the meeting were scheduled for public hearings at later dates, including a public hearing on budget-related capital outlay items and a public hearing for an ordinance on mobile food vendor regulation (see below for dates announced during committee reports).

Council members present and procedural notes The meeting opened with routine roll call and ceremonial items. Most motions on the published agenda were handled with brief moves, second and a voice/vote tally. Where the transcript recorded a roll-call tally, the result is reported above; where the transcript read motions without an explicit tally in the same block, the vote was recorded on the floor as passed.

The council set upcoming public hearings: the Budget & Finance Committee asked the council to call a public hearing on capital outlay and operating budget amendments for Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., and the Community Development and Planning Committee set a public hearing on an ordinance amending chapter 16 (mobile food vendors) for March 26, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.

Ending The council adjourned after routine announcements and public comment; additional administrative items were scheduled for future meetings and public hearings as noted above.