TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS

 

August 5, 2003

 

            The Tangipahoa Parish School Board met in regular session on Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 6:30 p.m., in the School Board Meeting Room, School Board Office, 59656 Puleston Road, Amite, Louisiana, with President Robert Caves, Presiding.

 

MEMBERS PRESENT:           Robert Caves,  Al Link,  Carl Bardwell, Sandra Bailey-Simmons, Leonard Genco, Robert Potts,  Donnie Williams and  Jimmy A. Richardson, I

 

MEMBERS ABSENT:             Maxine Dixon

                                               

Steven Bob-Semple, a 2003 graduate from Hammond High School, gave the invocation and led the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Superintendent Joseph introduced special guests - Ms. Debbie Brown, District PTA President, and Chris Collier, Region II Director of the State PTA.

 

President Caves recognized former Ponchatoula High School Principal, Mr. A.J. Bodker.

 

It was moved by Mr. Genco, seconded by Mrs. Bailey-Simmons, to approve the Board Minutes of July 15, 2003, as distributed. Hearing no objection, the motion was adopted, with Ms. Dixon absent.

 

            The Parish School Board for the Parish of Tangipahoa, the governing authority of Consolidated School District No. 116 (“Sumner”) of the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana, met in regular session, at 6:30 o’clock p.m., Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at the regular meeting place of said School Board, the School Board office, 59656 Puleston Road, Amite, Louisiana, pursuant to notice duly posted in the manner required by law, with the following members in attendance:

 

 

 

Present

 

Absent

Robert Caves, President

x

 

 

Carl Bardwell

x

 

 

Al Link

x

 

 

Sandra Simmons

x

 

 

Maxine Dixon

 

 

     x

Robert Potts

x

 

 

Leonard Genco

x

 

 

Jimmy Richardson

      x

 

 

Donnie Williams, Sr.

x

 

 

 

 

            The meeting was called to order and the roll called, with the above result.

 

            Also present were Louis Joseph, Superintendent of Schools and Secretary of the School Board, and Mark Kolwe, Assistant Superintendent of Administration and Finance.

 

            The President then announced that the next item on the agenda was to adopt a resolution canvassing the returns and proclaiming the result of a special election in Consolidated School District No. 116 of the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana, on the proposition to issue $3,400,000 of general obligation bonds for the purpose of constructing and acquiring a new middle school and additions and improvements to existing school buildings.  Thereupon, the

 

President called for public comment on the said resolution in compliance with L.R.S. 42:5.1.  After everyone wishing to speak had been heard and full discussion and deliberation, and having considered and disposed of all public comments, the following resolution was offered by Mr. Potts, seconded by Mr. Genco, and adopted by the following vote:

 

YEAS:             Mrs. Bailey-Simmons, Mr. Bardwell, Mr. Caves, Mr. Genco, Mr. Link, Mr. Potts, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Williams

 

NAYS: None

 

ABSENT:        Ms. Dixon

 

RESOLUTION

 

A Resolution providing for canvassing the returns, adopting a proces verbal of and proclaiming the result of a special election held July 19, 2003 in Consolidated School District No. 116 of the Parish of Tangipahoa,  State of Louisiana on a proposition to authorize the issuance of $3,400,000 of general obligation bonds within said School District.

 

            BE IT RESOLVED by the Parish School Board for the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the governing authority of Consolidated School District No. 116 (the “District”), as follows:

            SECTION 1.  Canvass.  The Governing Authority does now proceed in open and public session to examine the official tabulation of votes cast in the election held in the District on Saturday, July 19, 2003, on the proposition to authorize the issuance of  $3,400,000 of general obligation bonds of the District for the purpose of constructing and acquiring a new middle school and additions and improvements to existing school buildings within the District; said election having been held under the authority of the Louisiana Election Code and Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974, Sub-Part A, Part III, Chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, and other constitutional and statutory authority.

            SECTION 2.  Proces Verbal.  A Proces Verbal of the canvass of the returns of said election shall be made; a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who shall record the same in his office; another certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages in and for the Parish of Tangipahoa, who shall record the same in the Mortgage records of said Parish; and another copy thereof shall be retained in the archives of this Governing Authority.

 

SECTION 3.  Publication of Proces Verbal.  The Proces Verbal shall be published one time in the official journal of the Governing Authority, the Hammond Daily Star, which is published daily in the City of Hammond, and has a general circulation within the District.

Consolidated School District No. 116 of

the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana

 

 

 

Louis Joseph, Secretary

 

Robert Caves, President

 

PROCES VERBAL

 

            BE IT KNOWN AND REMEMBERED that on Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 6:30 o’clock p.m., the Parish School Board for the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the governing authority of Consolidated School District No. 116 of the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana (the “District”), and the being authority ordering and calling the election held in the District on Saturday, July 19, 2003, met in regular session, at is regular meeting place, the School Board Office, 59656 Puleston Road, Amite, Louisiana, with the following members present:

 

 

Present

 

Absent

Robert Caves, President

x

 

 

Carl Bardwell

x

 

 

Al Link

x

 

 

Sandra Simmons

x

 

 

Maxine Dixon

 

 

       x

Robert Potts

x

 

 

Leonard Genco

x

 

 

Jimmy Richardson

      x

 

 

Donnie Williams, Sr.

x

 

 

 

did in open and public session examine the official, certified tabulations of votes cast in the said election, and did examine and canvass the returns of the said election, there having been submitted to the voters at the election the following proposition:

 

PROPOSITION

 

SUMMARY: AUTHORITY TO ISSUE $3,400,000, 20-YEAR, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO PAY A PORTION OF THE COST OF CONSTRUCT­ING AND ACQUIRING A NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL ON AN EXISTING SITE ADJACENT TO SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL, AND FOR CONSTRUCTING AND ACQUIRING RENOVATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE TRACK AND GYMNASIUM OF SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL, RE-ROOFING BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES OF CHES­BROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, AND REMOVING AND DISPOSING OF OLD FLOORS AND ROOFS AND INSTALLATION OF NEW ROOF AND FLOORS OF SPRINGCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYM.

 

Shall Consolidated School District No. 116 of the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana (the “District”), incur debt and issue bonds in the amount of $3,400,000 to run twenty (20) years from the date thereof, with interest at a rate not to exceed

eight percent (8%) per annum, for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, acquiring, erecting and/or improving school buildings and other school related facilities within and for the District and acquiring the necessary equipment and furnishings therefor, including, but not limited to:

 

 

A.                 New Middle School – construct and acquire a new middle school on existing site

            adjacent to Sumner High School, site work;

 

B.                 Sumner High School – renovate and improve track and gymnasium;

 

C.                 Chesbrough Elementary School – re-roof buildings and facilities;

 

D.                 Springcreek Elementary School gym – removal and disposal of old floors and roof

                        and installation of new roof and new floors;

 

title to which shall be in the public; which bonds will be general obligations of the District and will be payable from ad valorem taxes to be levied and collected in the manner provided by Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974 and statutory authority supplemental thereto?

 

            There was found by said count and canvass that the following votes had been cast at the said election IN FAVOR OF and AGAINST, respectively, the Proposition as hereinabove set forth at the following polling places:

 

Precinct

 

Precinct Name and Location

 

For

 

Against

 

102

 

Kentwood Fire Department

19005 Hwy. 1055, Kentwood

 

 

99

 

 

13 

 

104

 

Spring Creek Elementary School

72691 Hwy. 1061, Kentwood

 

 

61

 

 

17 

 

104A

 

Spring Creek Elementary School

72691 Hwy. 1061, Kentwood

 

 

27

 

 

9

 

106

 

Chesbrough Elementary School

68495 Hwy. 1054, Kentwood

 

 

65

 

 

12

 

106A (part)

 

Chesbrough Elementary School

68495 Hwy. 1054, Kentwood

 

 

21

 

 

15

 

106B (part)

 

Loranger High School Gym

19404 Hyatt St., Loranger

 

 

  0

 

 

  0

 

108

 

Wilmer Fire Station

22115 Hwy. 10, Kentwood

 

 

61

 

 

10

 

110

 

Wilmer Fire Station

22115 Hwy. 10, Kentwood

 

 

40

 

 

  7

 

114 (part)

 

Loranger High School

19404 Hyatt St., Kentwood

 

 

12

 

 

10

 

116 (part)

 

Husser Fire Station

56292 Hwy. 445, Husser

 

 

1

 

 

0

 

 

 

Absentees

 

 

2

 

 

6

 

 

 

TOTALS

 

 

389

 

 

99

 

The polling places above specified being the only polling places designated at which to hold the said election, it was therefore shown that there was a total of 389 votes cast IN FAVOR of the Proposition, and a total of 99 votes cast AGAINST the Proposition as set forth hereinabove.  Therefore, the Governing Authority did declare and proclaim, and does hereby declare and proclaim, in open and public session that the Proposition hereinabove set forth was duly CARRIED by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors voting in said election in the District on July 19, 2003.

            THUS DONE AND EXECUTED in open and public session by the Parish School Board for the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana, the governing authority of Consolidated School District No. 116 of the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana, on this 5th day of August, 2003.

Consolidated School District No. 116 of

the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of Louisiana

 

 

 

 

Louis Joseph, Secretary

 

Robert Caves, President

 

 

 

 

Carl Bardwell

 

Al Link

 

 

 

 

Sandra Simmons