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Votes at a glance: Terrebonne Parish Council adopts multiple insurance, budget and zoning ordinances; mobile-food-truck measure fails
Summary
At its Nov. 20, 2024 meeting the council adopted a series of ordinances — including appointments of insurance agents, budget amendments, property leases and zoning changes — and rejected the proposed mobile food-truck ordinance. Listed below are the items acted on and their recorded outcomes and vote tallies.
Below are key formal actions taken by the Terrebonne Parish Council during the Nov. 20, 2024 meeting. Where the transcript records a vote tally the number is included.
- Lease for Head Start classroom space with Grace Lutheran Church (Item a): Motion to adopt by Councilman Harding, second by Councilman Pletcher; recorded vote 8 ayes, 0 nays. Ordinance adopted.
- Appointment of AcroSure LLC as agent of record for property, inland marine, and flood insurance coverage (Item b): Motion to adopt by Councilman Babin, second by Councilwoman Chauvin; recorded vote 9 ayes, 0 nays. Ordinance adopted.
- Appointment of AkerSure LLC as agent of record for casualty insurance coverage (Item c): Motion to adopt by Councilwoman Chauvin, second by Councilman Babin; recorded vote 8 ayes, 0 nays. Ordinance adopted.
- Appointment of Lade Corporation (d/b/a Lade Insurance) as agent of record for comprehensive fireman’s insurance and boiler/machinery coverage (Item d): Motion to adopt by Councilman Babin, second by Councilwoman Chauvin; recorded vote 9 ayes, 0 nays. Ordinance adopted.
- Traffic safety: designation of intersection of Ellendale Drive and Ardawn Drive as a four-way stop and authorization for signage (Item e): Public hearing held; after public comment council moved to adopt. Motion carries (vote recorded during adoption sequence). Ordinance adopted.
- Multiple budget amendments and adjustments across funds, dedicated emergency funds and capital projects (Budget & Finance items; assorted agenda items through items f–j): Council motions to adopt recorded at various points; many budget amendments were adopted with recorded tallies of 9 ayes, 0 nays where noted. Specific items referenced included dedicated emergency funds, Bayou Country Sports Park ($82,957), jail plumbing, Hollywood Road Extension Bridge ($200,000), juvenile detention budget adjustments, criminal justice complex generator ($1,026,756) and Industrial Boulevard pump station ($4,626,945). Public hearings were called where required and ordinances were adopted.
- Appointment of Anthony J. Alford Insurance Corporation as agent for employee life, disability and other benefits (Item g) and for group health benefits (Item h): Motions to adopt recorded with 9 ayes, 0 nays. Ordinances adopted.
- Cooperative endeavor agreement to lease space at 7910 Main Street to Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence in Public Education (Item k): Motion to adopt recorded (vote recorded as 9–0 in transcript); ordinance adopted. Council clarified in discussion that in-kind services (Head Start and Dolly Parton Imagination Library outreach) are the primary in-lieu services.
- Rezoning items (Items l and m): Rezoning of 1923 Saint Louis Canal Road to C-2 General Commercial and rezoning of 114 Banks Avenue from R-1 to R-2 were both adopted; recorded tallies 9 ayes, 0 nays.
- Item n, proposed amendment to Chapter 16 regulating mobile food trucks: After extended public comment and council debate, the motion to adopt failed with a recorded tally of 3 ayes, 5 nays and 1 abstention. The ordinance did not pass.
- Other procedural votes and appointments: The council reappointed Jan Rogers (oil industry representative) to Coastal Zone Management and Restoration and handled other routine committee ratifications and minutes approvals (recorded unanimous or near-unanimous tallies where shown).
This list includes actions where the transcript records a formal motion and a tally or where the clerk announced that an ordinance was adopted. Several items were referred back to public hearing dates on Dec. 11, 2024 (e.g., speed limit ordinances and multiple introduction items) and will return for final action after public hearings.
