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Beauregard Parish School Board approves final 2025 budget revision, authorizes $100,000 grant request for DeRidder Elementary pavement
Summary
The board approved a final budget revision for year ending 2025, authorized the superintendent to sign paperwork to request a $100,000 state grant for DeRidder Elementary pavement (Act 461 of 2025), and approved bond-fund allocations for athletics, parking and technology.
The Beauregard Parish School Board on Oct. 9 approved a final budget revision for the 2025 fiscal year, authorized a state grant request for DeRidder Elementary pavement, approved targeted uses of remaining 2023 bond funds and voted to enter an executive session to review the superintendent's evaluation.
Board members voted by voice on a series of routine and programmatic items. A motion to adopt the final budget revision for year ending 2025 was moved by Mister Bowman and seconded by Mister Rivers; the chair recorded no nays and the motion passed. The board then considered a resolution authorizing the superintendent to sign all documents necessary to request grant funding for pavement at DeRidder Elementary. The resolution states that DeRidder Elementary is eligible for assistance of $100,000 through Act 461 of the 2025 regular legislative session of the Louisiana Legislature. The resolution was approved following a motion by Mister Bowman and a second recorded on the public record.
The finance committee presented three recommendations as a single or "global" motion and the board approved all three items by voice vote. The approved allocations from remaining 2023 bond funds are: $150,000 for DHS athletic facilities; $125,000 for the Pinewood Elementary parking lot; and $100,000 to purchase Chromebooks and associated smart cords for student technology needs.
The board then voted to go into executive session under La. R.S. 42:17 to receive a compilation of the superintendent’s evaluation results; the motion to enter executive session was seconded on the record by Mister Shirley and passed by voice vote. The board did not return to open session within the provided transcript.
Next steps: staff were authorized to complete and sign the grant paperwork necessary to request the $100,000 for pavement after the project is complete per the resolution language; the executive session will address the superintendent evaluation as announced on the record.
