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Iberia Parish Council approves batch of 2026 budget ordinances, personnel pay adjustments and multiple board appointments
Summary
At its Nov. 19 meeting the Iberia Parish Council introduced and approved a slate of 2026 budget ordinances, adopted an amended salary adjustment for the parish president, confirmed multiple board appointments and passed routine consent items, the council said.
The Iberia Parish Council on Nov. 19 introduced and approved a long series of 2026 fund budgets and passed a package of personnel adjustments and board appointments.
The council opened the meeting and moved the agenda through a consent calendar that included approval of minutes from Nov. 12 and a congratulatory resolution for Byrd Arisbury. Several nominations and reappointments were approved for parish boards and commissions, including tourist commission seats and children-and-youth planning board positions. "Thank you for coming," Chair said during the appointment votes.
Council members debated and approved an amendment to Resolution 2-77 correcting salary totals and adjusting the parish president's annual salary. Councilman Scott Rossonne read the amendment as printed in the packet, which set the parish president's fiscal-year 2025 salary at $188,383.05 and adjusted related line items; the amendment passed and the main motion subsequently carried.
The clerk read a long series of ordinances to adopt 2026 budgets for the general fund and numerous special funds, including road-district maintenance funds, drainage, public library, fire protection, public building maintenance, opioid abatement, HUD Section 8 housing choice voucher program, drug court, bond redemption, capital improvements through 2030 and others. The ordinances were presented for public hearing and adoption.
Several other resolutions passed on unanimous or recorded votes during the meeting, including a request that the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission consider designating Spanish Lake as a wildlife management area.
Council members framed the budget and salary votes as routine and driven by charter requirements. Councilman Napier said the charter dictates how those salary averages are calculated; a colleague added, "it's in the charter," and members proceeded to vote.
What happens next: many of the ordinances were introduced for public hearing and adoption; the council scheduled its next meeting for Dec. 10, 2025, at 6 p.m. and flagged follow-up budget work in the consolidated budget process for the coming weeks.
