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Bossier Parish board approves insurance renewals, coverage changes and audits recommended by insurance committee
Summary
During the Sept. 4 meeting the board approved the insurance committee’s recommendations: one-year renewals of liability and specified coverages, rejection of uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage for district autos, approval of EQIP administrator bids, a dependent audit to begin January 2026 and a benefit modification plan.
The Bossier Parish School Board on Sept. 4 accepted a slate of recommendations from its insurance committee, approving one-year renewals, a coverage rejection for district vehicles and several administrative insurance actions.
Interim insurance committee chairman Glenn Bullard reported the committee met with members Eric Falsing and Kenneth Wiggins and that ex officio members President Newman and Miss Poole were present. Bullard summarized the committee’s six recommendations and the board voted on each item during the meeting.
The board approved renewing the district’s liability insurance package for one year, covering auto liability, general liability (including employee benefits liability and incremental incidental law enforcement liability), errors and omissions liability including employment practices liability and abuse liability, as recommended by the committee.
On the automobile policy, the board voted to reject uninsured/underinsured motorist bodily injury and property damage coverage for the policy period Sept. 20, 2025, to Sept. 20, 2026, and authorized Chief Financial Officer Nisha Bamberg to sign the rejection on the board’s behalf. Committee member Eric Falsing read the motion into the record.
Other votes included renewing auto physical damage insurance for driver-education vehicles as required by the board’s lease with Red River Motor Company LLC; approving bids for administration of the Employer Group Waiver Program (EGWP/EQIP) for the district’s employer-group prescription/benefit program; approving a dependent-audit to begin in January 2026; and approving a benefit modification plan as presented. Bullard said the committee approved the recommendations unanimously in committee; the board then voted to accept them on the floor.
Board discussion at the time was procedural and limited to committee report presentation; no public opposition or substantive amendments were recorded in the meeting transcript. Several motions were presented by the committee and then voted on; specific roll-call tallies were not read into the record during the meeting, though the chair noted each item “passed out of committee” and the board vote was recorded as passing.
Votes at a glance - Renew liability insurance package (auto liability; general liability including employee benefits; incremental incidental law enforcement liability; errors & omissions including employment practices and abuse liability): Approved. - Reject uninsured/underinsured motorist bodily injury and property damage coverage for automobile policy; authorize CFO to sign rejection for policy period 09/20/2025–09/20/2026: Approved. - Renew auto physical damage insurance for driver-education autos per lease with Red River Motor Company LLC: Approved. - Approve Employer Group Waiver Program (EGWP/EQIP) administrator bids: Approved. - Approve dependent audit to begin January 2026: Approved. - Approve benefit modification plan as presented: Approved.
Bullard closed the report by noting he served as interim chair in the absence of the committee’s regular chair, who is recovering from illness.
