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Terrebonne Parish Council approves minutes, committee reports and multiple board appointments (9-0 votes)
Summary
The council unanimously approved routine business including minutes, committee minutes, street-light actions and multiple board appointments. Most votes recorded were 9 ayes, 0 nays.
The Terrebonne Parish Council on Dec. 8 voted unanimously on routine business and dozens of board appointments and committee ratifications.
Early in the meeting the council approved the minutes of the regular council session held Nov. 20, 2024; approved an accounts-payable list for Dec. 16, 2024; and approved the November 2024 manual checklist. Each motion passed on recorded votes of 9 ayes, 0 nays.
Committee minutes and administrative items were ratified by unanimous votes: the council accepted and ratified minutes of the Public Services Committee meeting held Dec. 16, 2024 (motion by Councilmember Jeff Babin), and accepted and ratified minutes of the Community Development and Planning Committee meeting held Dec. 16, 2024 (motion by Councilmember Candice Chauvin). The council also approved the street-light installation and removal requests on the agenda after a brief member exchange about locating poles without addresses; the motion passed 9–0.
The council then opened, closed and voted on a series of appointments to local boards and districts. The recorded actions (motion outcome and vote tally) included: Veterans Memorial District Board appointment of Jimmy Dean Truitt (open, close and appoint; vote 9–0); reappointment to the Houma Public Trust (motion to reappoint — vote 9–0); reappointments and appointments to multiple recreation and fire-district boards (motions recorded and passed on votes of 9–0 for each item listed on the agenda). The meeting transcript records a sequence of open/close/appoint motions and 9–0 recorded tallies across the several named boards and districts presented, including (but not limited to) Bay Cane Fire Protection, Bayou Blue Fire Protection, Shriever Fire Protection, Fire District No. 4, Fire District No. 7, Fire District No. 8, Fire District No. 9 and Fire District No. 10.
Votes at a glance (selected, as recorded in the transcript): - Approve minutes of Nov. 20, 2024 — mover: Councilmember Harding; second: Charles Clair; vote: 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Approve accounts payable list for 12/16/2024 — mover: Councilmember Pleasure; second: Charles Clair; vote: 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Accept and ratify Public Services Committee minutes (Dec. 16, 2024) — mover: Jeff Babin; vote: 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Accept and ratify Community Development and Planning Committee minutes (Dec. 16, 2024) — mover: Candice Chauvin; vote: 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Approve street-light installations/removals — vote: 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Appoint Jimmy Dean Truitt to Veterans Memorial District Board — vote: 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Reappoint John Abare to Houma Public Trust (and other listed reappointments to boards and fire districts) — votes: 9 ayes, 0 nays each.
Why this matters: The unanimous votes move a slate of administrative and appointment business forward, keeping multiple local boards and service districts staffed and allowing routine parish operations to proceed. Several council members flagged the need for follow-up coordination on street-light pole locations and a longer fiscal discussion on state tax changes presented earlier.
Ending note: The council closed the meeting after a series of community announcements and a reminder to check on elderly neighbors during cold weather.
