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Votes at a glance: Board extends superintendent contract, adopts 2025 millages and approves routine items
Summary
During its May 22 regular session the Bossier Parish School Board approved a contract extension for the superintendent, set millages for the 2025 tax roll, adopted a 2025-26 meeting schedule, and approved several committee recommendations and routine items.
The Bossier Parish School Board on May 22 approved a series of motions and routine items, including an extension of Superintendent Jason Rowland's contract, adoption of a resolution setting the 2025 millages, approval of a 2025-26 board meeting schedule and several insurance and consent items.
Key actions recorded on the transcript include: approval of minutes and agenda, adoption of millages for the 2025 tax roll, renewal recommendations from the insurance committee, approval to add a Humira biosimilar program to group insurance, approval of trip requests, adoption of the proposed 2025-26 meeting schedule, and a motion to accept legal counsel's recommendation in lieu of entering executive session on two pre-suit bus-incident claims.
Notable motions and recorded procedural details (as stated on the transcript):
- Approval of minutes of the regular session for 05/01/2025: motion by Miss Brotherton; second by Mr. Bertrand; outcome: item passes (no tally recorded in transcript).
- Approval of the agenda for the regular session of 05/22/2025: motion by Ms. Poole; second by Mr. Bertrand; outcome: passes.
- Superintendent contract extension (Item 3.01): motion by Mr. Bullard to approve the extension "as provided" with commendation of the superintendent's work; second by Mr. Bockhouse; outcome: motion passes.
- Adoption of proposed schedule of 2025-26 board meetings (Item 3.02): motion by Mr. McConaughey; second by Mr. Bertrand; outcome: passes.
- Resolution adopting millages on the 2025 tax roll (Item 3.03): the CFO read the resolution; motion by Miss Smith to accept "the general gist as presented"; second by Mr. Falting; outcome: item passes. The transcript notes the district is not asking for any roll-forward adjustments this year and referenced an assessor letter with assessed values; the full resolution text and millage keys were read aloud during the meeting.
- Insurance committee items (Item 3.04) reported by Robert Bertrand: committee-recommended renewals for crime/employee dishonesty/cyber risk and student accident insurance passed; committee recommended Humira biosimilar program and group premium adjustments (committee items reported as passed when presented to the board). Specific vote tallies were not recorded on the public transcript for these committee-originated items.
- Trip requests (Item 3.11): motion by Miss Smith; second by Mr. Bertrand; outcome: passes.
- Executive-session items involving pre-suit bus-incident claims (Items 3.12 and 3.13): the board accepted its legal counsel's recommendation in lieu of entering executive session. Motion recorded as by Miss Poole with a second by Mr. Falting; outcome: passed.
- Adjournment: motion by Mr. Bullard; second by Mr. Bertrand; outcome: motion passes.
Where the transcript did not include roll-call vote tallies, the record shows the chair announcing "Item passes" or similar phrasing; the transcript does not provide per-member yes/no records for the actions listed above.
