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Livingston Parish finance committee reviews 2025 budget amendments, previews 2026 and flags opioid, health-unit and infrastructure items
Summary
Finance staff presented 2025 budget amendments and a line-by-line preview of the 2026 budget, noting additional opioid-abatement receipts, FEMA hazard-mitigation activity and several property acquisitions and capital purchases. Staff said a second draft will be issued before month’s end and the public hearing is scheduled for Dec. 4.
The Livingston Parish Finance Committee heard a presentation on proposed 2025 budget amendments and a preview of the 2026 budget, with staff detailing line-item changes, grant reimbursements and several one-time receipts and expenditures.
Gina Miller, senior staff accountant, told the committee that locally obligated FEMA funds already in the state pipeline have proceeded through review and finance processes and that, so far, the federal shutdown had not delayed reimbursements. “Our understanding is that FEMA funds that have already been obligated go…they go through this review process, and then they go through a finance process,” Miller said.
Staff reported September (July collections) sales-tax receipts of $2,479,851; of that total Miller said $619,962 was allocated to the parish jail fund and $1,859,889 to the road program. Year-to-date grant reimbursements as of Sept. 30 were reported at about $18,000,108, with federal reimbursements of roughly…
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