Votes at a glance: Bossier Parish board approves training resolution, 70¢ mileage rate, property and project actions, and legal recommendation on special-Ed bus

The Bossier Parish School Board approved a slate of administrative and committee recommendations during its regular session, including a board-member training resolution, an update to the expense-reimbursement mileage rate, several property and construction actions, and a legal recommendation related to special‑education school bus incidents.

The board read a training resolution into the minutes that cites the requirement that "each member of a city and parish school board shall receive a minimum of 6 hours of training and instruction as required by Act 705 of the 2011 Louisiana Legislature" and states that all listed board members "have successfully received and exceeded the 6 hours of required training" and have completed the one-hour ethics requirement for 2024. A motion to proceed as recorded in the minutes was made by Ms. Tammy Smith and seconded by Mr. Glenn Bullard; the motion passed (individual roll-call tallies not recorded in the public transcript).

The board also approved a revision to policy DJD (expense reimbursement) to update the mileage reimbursement rate to $0.70 per mile to align with the 2025 Internal Revenue Service mileage rate. Nisha Bamberg, chief financial officer, presented the change and said it was…