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Board approves property insurance renewal, vehicle coverage, Ashner wellness agreement and revised budgets
Summary
The St. Charles Parish School Board approved a set of business items including a property insurance renewal with a reported 31% rate decrease, an automobile physical-damage renewal (1.9% premium increase), a month-to-month Ashner digital medicine wellness contract (approved 6–2), revised fiscal-year 2026 budgets, and a resolution delegating authority over school bank accounts to the CFO.
At its March meeting the St. Charles Parish School Board approved multiple business items: a property-insurance renewal, automobile physical-damage coverage for older fleet vehicles, a month-to-month employee-wellness agreement with Ashner digital medicine, revised fiscal-year 2026 budgets and a resolution authorizing the chief financial officer to approve signers and open or close school and center bank accounts.
Property insurance renewal: Board members reported that Riverland/Relation Insurance secured a favorable renewal with a stated 31% rate decrease and the board approved a contract listed in the record at 3,939,714. Board members thanked agency representatives for the lower rates.
Automobile physical damage: The board approved renewal of automobile physical damage coverage to protect the district’s fleet, including buses from model year 2017 or older; the coverage was described as carrying a 1.9% premium increase and would take effect May 1, 2026. The transcript includes a cost figure shown as “$110,39” that is unclear in the record and is marked not specified in meeting materials.
Ashner digital medicine: The board approved a month-to-month agreement with Ashner to support employees managing hypertension and diabetes and asked the superintendent to have broker USI provide a comparison of Ashner and UMR at a future board retreat. The motion to approve the agreement passed and the vote was later recorded as 6–2; Mr. Smith is recorded in the transcript as voting no.
Budgets and banking resolution: Citing LA Revised Statute 39.13.10, the board adopted revised budgets for the general fund, special revenue funds, debt service, capital projects and the lunch fund because variances required revision. The board also approved a resolution authorizing the chief financial officer (Adam Neighbors, effective March 23, 2026) to change authorized signers for school accounts and to open or close accounts on behalf of the board.
All listed business items were moved and seconded as recorded in the meeting and were adopted by the board; where the transcript records a unanimous passage it is noted, and where a specific tally appears in the record it is reported above.
