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Terrebonne board approves 2026-27 calendar, banking resolution and budgets
Summary
The Terrebonne Parish School Board on March 3 approved the 2026-27 calendar, a banking and investment resolution, revised 2025-26 budgets and a proclamation recognizing March 19, 2026 as Retired Teachers Day; motions passed with no objections recorded.
At its March 3 meeting, the Terrebonne Parish School Board approved several routine but consequential items including the 2026-27 school calendar, a banking and investment resolution, revised 2025-26 budgets, and a proclamation recognizing March 19, 2026 as Retired Teachers Day.
The calendar the board ratified sets employee start dates on Aug. 3, 2026 and student start dates on Aug. 5, 2026; students' last day is listed as May 25, 2027 and teachers' last day as May 26, 2027. The calendar also lists observed holidays (Labor Day; fall break Oct. 15-16, 2026; Election Day Nov. 3, 2026; Thanksgiving Nov. 23-27, 2026; winter break Dec. 21, 2026–Jan. 1, 2027; Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18, 2027; Mardi Gras Feb. 8-12, 2027; and spring break March 26–April 2, 2027) and identifies potential makeup days if needed.
The board adopted a banking and investment resolution authorizing the board president and superintendent to jointly exercise signature authority over board demand deposit accounts and to update signatories when officers change.
On finance matters, the Finance, Insurance and Section 16 Lands Committee recommended and the board approved revised budgets for the 2025-26 fiscal year covering the general operating fund, the child nutrition fund, multiple sales-tax funds and special revenue funds; the board also approved the original disaster recovery fund budget for 2025-26. Committee reports indicated December tax receipts showed a 4.74% increase compared with December 2024.
All motions reported in the meeting record passed with no objections or public opposition noted; roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript for these items.
