Votes at a glance: Terrebonne Parish committee approves contracts, budget amendments and local actions
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Summary
The Terrebonne Parish Budget and Finance Committee and the Community Development & Planning Committee approved a series of routine contracts, budget‑and‑capital amendments and local orders, including acceptance of construction work, introduction of ordinances, condemnation actions and a Head Start corrective action plan.
Terrebonne Parish committees approved a set of routine procurement and local government actions, introducing ordinances and adopting resolutions across public works, finance and community development items.
The meeting record shows votes on multiple agenda items, including contract amendments, warehouse inventory awards, vehicle purchases, acceptance of construction work, an introduced bond resolution (debated separately), an introduced floodplain ordinance amendment, a lease authorization, budget and capital amendments and Community Development actions on properties and Head Start program corrective actions.
Key votes and actions (as recorded in the meeting transcript) - Item 1: Resolution authorizing Amendment No. 1 to the GIS Engineering LLC agreement for semi‑annual groundwater monitoring at Ashland Sanitary Landfill (solid waste permit DD-109-0127/PD-004). Moved by Danny Babin; second recorded. Vote recorded as 8‑0. Outcome: approved.
- Item 2: Award WHSE‑24 — purchase of new electrical material for warehouse inventory (six‑month requirements contract). Moved by Kim Chauvin; second by Carl Champagne/Charles Champagne recorded. Vote recorded as 9‑0. Outcome: approved.
- Item 3: Approve state‑contract purchase of three trucks for the Houma Police Department. Moved by Danny Babin; second Kim Chauvin. Vote recorded as 9‑0. Outcome: approved.
- Item 4: Award fuel contract (25‑FUEL‑20) for gasoline, on‑road diesel and off‑road diesel. Moved by Kim Chauvin; second recorded. Vote recorded as 9‑0. Outcome: approved.
- Item 5: Acceptance of work performed by Lowland Construction Co., Inc., per certificate of partial/substantial completion for project 17‑DRA‑42 (Duquesne Pump Station). Motion passed; vote recorded as 9‑0 in the meeting sequence. Outcome: accepted.
- Item 6: Resolution to seek preliminary approval to issue public improvement revenue bonds (agenda language read). The item was debated and amended by a substitute motion; see separate article for substantive debate and the substitute vote (substitute amendment passed 5‑4). The transcript does not show a separate final recorded vote on the fully amended resolution within the same block.
- Item 7: Introduce ordinance to amend Chapter 9 (floodplain ordinance) relative to variances for nonresidential structures below base flood elevation; public hearing set for Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. Moved by Danny Babin; second by John Amity/Kim Chauvin. Vote recorded 9‑0. Outcome: ordinance introduced; public hearing set.
- Item 8: Introduce ordinance to authorize lease of property at 7910 Main Street, Houma, to Hancock Whitney Bank; public hearing set for Aug. 27, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. Moved by Danny Babin; second Kim Chauvin. Vote recorded 9‑0. Outcome: ordinance introduced; public hearing set.
- Item 9: Introduce ordinance to amend the 2025 adopted operating budget and 5‑year capital budget (multiple line items): animal shelter $14,500; Facility Planning & Control — Hollywood/Val Lehi Roundabout $710,000; CDBG/Housing and Human Services annex $2,300,000. Moved by Carl Harding; second Clyde Hamner. Vote recorded in sequence; item introduced and public hearing set for Aug. 27, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
Community Development & Planning committee votes (same meeting packet) - Rescind condemnation order adopted April 15, 2025 for the residential structure at 216 Saint Malo Street (owner: R and J Rental LLC). Motion moved and seconded; motion passed (vote recorded on the block). Outcome: condemnation rescinded.
- Amend condemnation order adopted April 29, 2025 for residential structure at 6806 Shrimpers Road (owners Jack James Berg and Dora Mae Soleil Berg): extend deadline to repair/demolish/remove from July 29, 2025 to Sept. 29, 2025. Moved by Danny Babin; second by Pledger. Vote recorded; motion passed.
- Resolution approving Terrebonne Parish Head Start policy and procedures revisions and a corrective action plan required to meet Head Start performance standards (in response to an incident of a child left unsupervised). Moved by Carl Harding; second by Clyde Hamner. Vote recorded 9‑0. Outcome: approved. Diane Powell (Head Start representative) spoke about the corrective action plan and said the program had implemented the required steps.
Votes reflected in the transcript are the official record of the committee meeting; where a recorded vote count appeared in the transcript it is included above. Where the transcript shows a substitute or amendment vote, the action and result are listed separately. If a mover/second name was not clearly audible in the transcript, the record above lists the action and the recorded outcome without attributing the motion to a possibly misheard name.
Sources: meeting transcript of the Terrebonne Parish Budget & Finance Committee and the Community Development & Planning Committee meeting.
For further detail: the committee indicated that budget amendments and capital projects tied to any bond proceeds will be presented later as formal budget amendments if and when proceeds are realized.
