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Tensas Parish School Board adopts 2025-26 budget and sets 2025 millage rates
Summary
At its Sept. 11 meeting in St. Joseph, the Tensas Parish School Board approved the 2025-26 budget, adopted four adjusted millage rates for 2025, and approved related budget and policy items; the recorded millage vote was unanimous among members present.
The Tensas Parish School Board approved the fiscal year 2025-26 school system budget and adopted adjusted millage rates during its Sept. 11 meeting at the Tensas Parish Material Center in St. Joseph.
President John Turner moved to adopt the 2025-26 budget and an accompanying budget resolution; Mrs. Knola Ransome seconded and the motion passed. The board also approved revisions to the 2024-25 budgets and received July and August financial statements and budget-to-actual updates; those documents were cited as attachments to the record but specific totals and line-item amounts were not read into the meeting transcript.
The board adopted four adjusted millage rates for 2025, listing millage key identifiers and mill amounts as follows: Constitutional Tax, key 1071018, 5.690 mills; Special Maintenance Tax, key 1071019, 8.830 mills; District #3 Special Maintenance Tax, key 1071024, 12.380 mills; and Parish-Wide District #3 Tax, key 1071033, 12.640 mills. The recorded vote on the millage rates was: Yeas — Jennifer Burnside, Knola Ransome, John Turner, Joseph Tarver and Esaw Turner; Nays — none; Absent — Annice Miller and George Matthews.
The meeting record also shows the board approved second readings of multiple policy revisions, identified by policy file codes in the record (for example: DJE, IFA, IFBGA, JBD, JCDAF, JDE, JGCE, JGCF). The policy files were listed on the agenda and adopted as revised to reflect recent legislative changes; the transcript does not include the text of the changes and refers to the policy files by their board identifiers.
The board approved the 2025-26 Pupil Progression Plan by motion; that plan is referenced as an attachment rather than read in full on the record. Several items in the meeting referenced attachments for detailed figures (budgets, budget resolution, and the Pupil Progression Plan); these attachments provide the numerical and programmatic detail not recited aloud.
The board adjourned after Superintendent Joyce M. Russ offered brief announcements. The record does not specify implementation steps or funding line items beyond what is documented in the attached budget materials.
