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Ouachita Parish School Board votes at a glance: budget, meal prices, insurance and appointments
Summary
The Ouachita Parish School Board on May 20 approved an operating budget amendment, raised visitor meal prices, renewed insurance while declining uninsured motorist coverage, adopted its 2025 ad valorem millage and approved several personnel and procurement items. Most motions passed unanimously; one member recused on an architect appointment.
The Ouachita Parish School Board on May 20, 2025, approved a series of routine and policy items including a fiscal-year operating budget amendment, an increase in visitor meal prices, an insurance renewal with uninsured motorist coverage declined, and adoption of the annual ad valorem millage for the 2025 tax roll. Multiple personnel appointments and several procurement actions also received board approval.
The actions were procedural but affect daily operations at schools across Ouachita Parish, including meal pricing, facility projects and the district's operating budget for 2024–25.
Key votes and outcomes
- Approval of minutes for the May 13 meeting — motion carried (unanimous).
- Amendment and approval of the meeting agenda — motion carried (unanimous).
- Personnel appointments announced in the personnel report (retirements and successor appointments) — accepted by the board (unanimous).
- Insurance renewal: board voted to approve the district's insurance package and to decline uninsured motorist coverage — motion carried (unanimous).
- Manual operating budget amendment No. 1 for fiscal year 2024–25 — approved (unanimous).
- Increase to visitor meal prices (breakfast to $4, lunch to $6) — approved (unanimous).
- Adoption of ad valorem tax millage for the 2025 tax roll for East Ouachita Parish School District (36 mills; constitutional millage 5.18; maintenance & operations 24.15) — adopted (unanimous).
- Appointment of the Ouachita Citizen as the district's official journal for 2025–26 — approved (unanimous).
- Authorization to bid on various large equipment and shelving for several schools — approved (unanimous).
- Approval to purchase property (listed on the agenda as property on Full Register Street; exact, recorded address not specified in the meeting packet) — approved (unanimous).
- Appointment of TBA as architect of record for the East Side bond projects — approved; one board member recused from that vote.
Board members and staff indicated most items were routine follow-ups to committee work or previously noticed hearings. Several motions passed by voice vote with no recorded opposition.
The board adjourned after handling the scheduled business and reminders about upcoming events and facility punch-list work.
