001You okay? Okay. >> School board meeting. An individual speaker to speak on agenda item must prior to the meeting and will be allowed three minutes to speak on the agenda item prior to the schoolboard discussion of the agenda item. I'd like to also remind everybody that this is live stream right above what I just read. I will now call to order the Jefferson Parish School Board agenda meeting. Uh Miss Sure. >> Mr. Arloff, Mr. Brook House, >> Mr. Dobson, Mr. Dudley, Mr. Fry, Miss Jones, Miss Paul here, >> Miss Summer here, Mr. Patterson here, Mr. Petri, Mr. here. >> Mr. Ber here, >> you do have a forum, sir. And I've had no request for public comments. >> Thank you. I will now call Miss Sarah, the Elton Elementary School teacher of the year for
002the prayer and Miss Blair Majio, Elton Elementary School student of the year, to do the pledge. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the blessing of this holiday season and for the opportunity to serve our students, families, and community. Guide our thoughts and decisions with wisdom, patience, and unity. May the spirit of Christmas fill us with kindness, hope, and gratitude. Bless our schools, our community, and each person here. May we leave today encouraged, renewed, and ready to continue serving with hearts full of hope. In your name we pray. Amen. to the flag of the United States of America. I got a motion by motion by any discussion. We'll go to vote. All in favor say I. All oppose motion passes. I need a motion to vote topics. I got a motion by Mr. Walker, a second
003by Mr. Bar. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we'll go to vote. All in favor say I. All opposed. I motion passes. Now recent I'd like to welcome Elton Elementary School principal, Miss Katie Mag. >> Good morning school. We are truly honored to host you all here today. We are so proud to show you all of our donations and new school construction projects. Our school is so much part of your building. We are an absolute family. We are grateful for the opportunity to share our wins at the New York and the work that we each and every day with you all. As we gather during the season, we want to extend our warmest wishes to you and wish you all a very merry Christmas and happy holidays. May the season bring you joy, peace, and a
004renewed sense of purpose to all. Thank you for being here and your continuing to work for us and listen our students. Before we begin the official school board meeting, I have a few more guests I would like to bring some Christmas cheer. Please welcome our first grade students with their teachers, Miss Rainor and Miss Britney Reagan. They will be performing today the cinjun 12 days of Christmas and the snow school. day. On the second day of Christmas, my grand me on the first day. Hey, baby. I guess On the seventh day of Christmas, on the 66. Eight bottles and hot sauce. Seven secret. Excuse me. Day of Christmas. Eight. Seven. Six. 11. 6 + 6 Okay. Hello. Thank you. three. Great job. Thank you to Miss Bley and this community for letting us students and
005for all we hope you all enjoy going to school with our family this morning and they continue following the school areas and this will also be provided. Thank you. All right. Two of the best ones and we have only 12 students, all of those scored perfectly on their lead. That is amazing. That means every single question on a very long test. So what we're really supplies and I just want to say you all here today makes all of us as an education you inspire us better. So even though even though school us high school fifth grader in the corner had [laughter] a perfect score These are you can put one in. Put one in the yard. other side. We also have parents. There you go. Another is going up. JC High School purpose score in
006math. So this month we do All that elementary I don't want all the students here. This is called metal coin on there. So we give that don't get them out there. We give them students does something extra special and sometimes it takes courage going south. They are like they elementary school jazz. Perfect score. This student elementary school You want to take a picture for this? Okay. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I'm a Anybody Thank you all different. Back to my podium. Development director apologize again for your last name. If anybody doesn't know the one that's free and accent so I invited her to come today and I'll have to say I'm not out of shape. I just think with the the cold that everybody has the series that I have to follow all those students but
007it makes me very excited knowing that we do have a very bright and a very good workforce coming up and all the students perfect their test and I know the hard work that it takes to do that school years but for those who don't know me my name is Cesy Oliver and I'm the new I would say newly appointed but I've been in my position for six months now the parish economic development director I recently graduated with bachelor's in a business and I'm currently working on a masters in a education and extension and I'm very excited to be here. For those of you that don't know what economic development is, my job is to attract and improve the specific development here in Jeff Davis Parish and try to make sure that they have everything they
008need to succeed. And I come to work with the school board, our police, all of our tax offices this year as well to make sure that they all the businesses are getting extend all the tax credits that they have to have as well as making sure that they're doing to make Parish a better place. This challenge is very difficult capable of getting business to come today. I just want to be here right away. It's very difficult. Well, we do we have been seeing a boom with LG industries within places to lay down to put products and other things while they build back their facilities and that's been a huge progress. We're starting to do that as well as we'll try and get more business property sites that are certified sites which Louisiana development department they
009have identified those sites as true business ready sites have done a bunch of due diligence to make sure that those sites have been surveys and checkation or anything property during make sure that those lands are ready for some kind of commercial development and we're now working with territory not to get those sites from agriculture to industrial because that's an issue we've been noticing that businesses don't want to come and develop that is not as far over community like ours to ask them because a lot of people are scared to see their go but as someone do not ever want to see our farmers do it go away what we have to find we have to dive side bears with this problem that we're seeing in agriculture today. But what the most important thing for me
010is like I'm trying to help make sure that we're growing our tax base because as you all know our tax schools and grow our schools and also recruit people to stay in Jeff Parish. We've seen a loud migration in the state, not only in the parish, but in the state of Louisiana for people moving away because they don't have jobs. And I want to make sure that we're keeping our workforce here because we do have quality workforce there, but a lot of them at home. So, I want to make sure we're recruiting businesses so that others have to look forward to working a back. A very big thing of mine is I wanted to go because I didn't like the hustle and bustle of city life and I wanted to be able to be a
011great city. Does anybody have any questions? And something else I'd like to is of all the workforce development that the state department has put out. I actually this past semester and we created our whole workforce development and just got modernized and I want to come to the school board one once it's completely ready to start that so that we can put in place the workforce development program that the state would like everyone to have by 2030 as well as to get students with the hands-on experience as they're going through high school to go where they go to college or if they don't want to go to college and take that career aspect. has any questions. >> [laughter] >> If anybody would have a question, I was going down very like in October slowest down and
012then it was the holidays. I have had a couple phone calls this last week with all projects that they're wanting to meet with after the year. So, I'm thinking to roll into it be a very busy hopefully year >> and whenever you talked about they're trying to do the pre certain blocks. How is that going? I know it's a future meeting you brought that up to. We actually just recently our first site I site in Lson was just 500 it's a little over 570 acres that was deemed by the state industrial we just got it zone light industrial going to our next site and but I've actually since got approved through just posted on newspapers and being posted online and stuff I've had tons of landers reach out to me wanting to get their zone
013so they can in there as well. >> Yes. I'm not talking about people want to sell or we just had it resounded. It actually just passed last Wednesday. So it hasn't been bright but I've talked to our regionals. So I'm not local. We have regionals. actually being in Wish both our region and Lake Charles regional development and I told both of them and with the holidays but now hopefully after they say to start pushing back we have a meeting in February with site consultants to be able to sell those properties as well >> thank you >> yes thank you so All right, guys. I will now turn back over to John Hall of the 2026. >> Okay, we're going to open up the floor now for nominations for school board president. Have any nominations? >>
014All right. So, I have a formal motion by nomination cease. Okay, we have a motion by Mr. Phil and who second. Okay. Okay, I have a motion to receive nomination by Charles and seconded by All right. So, we have a we have got a motion and a second that motion cease. Any board discussion? All in favor of that nomination cease say I. I opposed. Okay. Motion has passed. So we have a motion on the floor to nominate Grave Patterson or president. Any board discussion. All in favor of Mr. Grave Patterson as president say I. I. >> All oppose. Motion carried. Congrat Congratulations Mr. President. Turn it over to your turn for life. The floor is open now for nomination for school board vice president. >> I nominate a legend. I have a I have a
015nomination for Miss Paul second. I have a second by Mr. Russell Walker. Any other nominations? >> Will I have a motion to cease? I have a second by Russell Walker. receives nomination. You have a motion to second the nomination. Any board discussion hearing? None. We'll go to a vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. Second. Motion passes. So we have a motion on the floor to nominate the quality for vice president. Any board discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. >> I motion passes. He wants to know why. >> [laughter] >> Yes. >> I guess four years. >> Four years. >> Yes. and two years. [laughter] >> There you go. >> All righty guys, we will now turn the board over to the finance committee. Okay, we have a several
016recommendation from the finance committee. Grant commission accept the following renovations. Jennings high school Coca-Cola bottling company $25,000 to baseball funds be used for new scoreboard. Jennings and Alumni Association $16,000 funds to be used as following girls softball $3,500 for umpire and travel expenses and field material. Tennis program, $1,000 for uniform maintenance and training equipment. Boys and girls track program, $2,000. Track swipes and equipment. Swim program, $800. Food fees, meat entry fees, and state passes. The golf program, $1,400. Horse and fees. Boys and girls basketball, $3,000. Travel expenses. Shoes and Walmart gear. Powerlifting $500. That's for meat entry fees and travel expenses. Expenses. Coach styles $2,800. Cheer $500 for travel expenses. Jazz, $500 for travel expenses. The Jennings Tennis Boosters Club, $2,000 funds to be used towards help with the tennis gallons and balls of water.
017James 49th Club $3,148.96 funds to be used towards cleat order Junior League and Lake Charles $1,985.84 funds to be used for STEM robotics programs. James War Center of Excellence a Grant and $40,000 plus used towards the upgrade of camera and security systems. Our Savior's Church of James $300 funds to be used for SWPBIS for well dazzle repair funds to be used for expenses $3,234 and another one of $500. Provincial home builders LLC $2,500 to be used for football bus rental expenses. Snow Le Express $700 uh funds per year expenses and nitrogals $599 plus the use of special education expenses. I got a motion by Mr. Arsenal a second by Mr. Bry any boarding session hearing none we'll go to a vote all in favor say I. >> All oppose I have the motion pass. uh
018consider grant permissions to director of the software program solutions at a cost of 20,95 second by the summer amendment. Any more discussion hearing? None. We will go to a vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. The motion passes for the 2526 fiscal year. the director of finance and our account to prepare and execute all necessary codes and entries required to complete the first year and I got a motion by Mr. Arsenal is second by some. Any more discussion? >> Yes. I ask a vote. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose. Eyes have. Motion passes. And that will conclude our >> Thank you, sir. We will go to insurance. Uh report buildings and grounds committee buildings policy Mr. Russell Walker report 16 section. >> Thank you, sir. Mr. >> Uh legis board
019no report. Long range planning adoption no report food service committee would be something. Of course. Thank you. All righty, guys. That concludes all the votes. We will now turn it over to Miss Amber, our text in the last election. We have 1,94 which is 79,000 over the same month last year. Year to date, we're at 4 million $41,000. 236,000 open to the conference again texted me about it. We were actually over capacity. So anybody else downrations just let you know for the rest of the Christmas holiday is their checks on Christmas shopping. So we can make each number. >> All right, guys. business consideration of approving the following as nonpractice approaches for 2025 2026 motion by all second by any more discussion we will now go to vote all in favor say I >> all
020oppose we have a motion Second by motion passes. Number two, consideration of naming the following section. I got a motion by Mr. Arsenal, a second by Mission. >> All any board discussion hearing? None. We will go to vote. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Consider to approve the following early childhood communication network funding request for public funding. I got a motion by summer a second by teachers. Any board discussion hearing? None. We will now go a vote. All in favor say I. >> All opposed. I motion passes. Consideration of approving a resolution provided for the returns. I got a motion by Mr. Phil. >> A second by Miss Any more discussion hearing? None. We'll go to a vote. All in favor say I. I. >> All opposed?
021I second. Motion passes. Number five, consider adopting the ordinance providing the leg of dependent affairs of Jeff Davis. >> A motion by Arsenal. >> Second. >> A second by Mr. Paul. Any board discussion? >> Yes. So, have we decided or when will we decide how we're gonna do that as far as like credentials or >> have we decided when we're going to decide that? >> We have. This is I haven't talked about it. >> Okay. >> So, we have not decided anything too. I mean, I would definitely have to either decide what we're going to put it on >> so we can start discussions on exactly how >> Yeah. discussion on >> so we can just do it. Just to make everybody know about that, it does start on April 1st of 2026. If any
022businesses or anything like that, just make sure start collecting sales tax the extra on April 1st. >> Huh? >> We will send. >> Okay. Thank you. I've already got a couple of them reached out. I just wanted to make sure everybody knows, you know, because [clears throat] >> that's what >> that's any more further discussion hearing. Those vote all in favor say I. I >> oppose. Eyes have it. Motion passes. We have a couple offormational relative to the fame of Bernardine Martin Welsh Elementary School teacher retired in 1993 but three templated service maintenance and warehouse AC tech retired in 2023 but 10 years of service. We'll go ahead and it's the fourth annual 2026 Special Olympics Young event will be held on January 5th, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Jenny's High School
023Gymnastics for able to help out. >> Let Miss Debbie know comments next month we're going to have a lot of policies coming through from legislation. of uh just get ready for a lot of policies and these are all things that have and and I'd like to just mention because we we we had this after our last holding but we do have our teachers of the year and support staff of the year that was uh that was announced within our board meeting I would like to announce the names and where they So we'll start off with uh support persons of the year. So Miss Anetta Jones, she's Jeff Davis Elementary support person of the year. Then we have Mr. Keshan Lions. He is Jeff Davis Parish Middle School support person of the year. We have uh
024Ben High School support person of the year. We have Miss Shannon Mr. and Miss Miss Shannon. Going into teacher of the year, we have Miss Heather Hanks. She is our Jeff Parish elementary teacher of the year. And we have Miss Alexis Parker. Uh she is our middle school teacher of the year. And we have Miss GD. Ed, uh, Jeff Parish High School teacher of the year. Um, we we went to the school that supplied them with, you know, the the the award and uh, ladders with plants and that. So, we kind of that's how we do things. You just walk into their class and and surprise them. And uh, Miss Ed was like hyperventilating. But I remember I didn't know how to say it personally. Um and also so this is a great they go
025on to the next level this competition. Um I would like to thank Miss She goes through this on a lot. It it is uh beyond what any [clears throat] of the hus can imagine [laughter] because she has to make sure that she has procedures in place. She has to make sure the schools are aware of the timing and then just preparation for these levels like what do you do? How do you do it? So um and and she's currently working with these teachers to go on to the next level. So the fun I just want to say thank you. >> Thank you. We have a principal here. >> We're here at her school year. We uh we we announced that uh two month uh not this month but last month and we did the same
026thing. We uh we surprised on it. Matter of fact, I think we did too. All right. At the same time, I had a professional development meeting. We had some certificates he needed. So anyway, we're very very proud of all these deployers and one student. >> Okay. Last thing I have is uh I wanted to welcome Mr. G. Mr. G is our our confidant. He's a close friend of mine. We text each other. I don't know if it's every day, very close, but during hunting season, it's a lot more frequent. So, anyways, he represents [clears throat] all of us and and so uh we're going to start seeing him in more of an active role coming up this year and I want to thank him for always looking out for us as a board. I want
027to say this. Uh first of all, when I first started going to the disparities, there were very few ladies represented here and it's good to see ladies and the leaders. Uh also everything is positive here. Uh y'all have a lot of great recognitions of your students. Uh a lot of positive things and so many school boards are strictly business. And I think that recognizing people that do good, recognizing businesses, bringing in the the uh the representatives like the economic development and also the little things you do like running through these schoolboard meetings as efficiently as you do. That tells your public, hey, we've got our stuff together. When you come to some of the boards, I sit through where they're talking and arguing. can't if they can say I know that today is Thursday if
028I have a split vote on it. So I commend y'all the way you do business. I I look forward to working with you and the good thing is you don't have to work with me very much because your leadership takes care of business. So anyway, thank y'all so much. >> Thank superintendent. [laughter] Can I get a motion? I got a motion by hear all in favor? I >> follow your guest.