The Tangipahoa Parish School Board met in regular
session on
MEMBERS PRESENT: Robert Caves, Al Link, Carl Bardwell, Sandra Bailey-Simmons, Leonard Genco, Robert Potts, Donnie Williams and Jimmy A. Richardson, I
MEMBERS ABSENT:
It was moved by
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:
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The meeting was called to order and the roll called, with the above result.
Also
present were
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
YEAS: Mrs. Bailey-Simmons, Mr. Bardwell, Mr. Caves, Mr. Genco, Mr. Link, Mr. Potts, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Williams
NAYS: None
ABSENT:
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
Consolidated
the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of
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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:
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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
B.
C.
D.
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
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:
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19005 Hwy. 1055,
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72691 Hwy. 1061,
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72691 Hwy. 1061,
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68495 Hwy. 1054,
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Wilmer Fire Station 22115 Hwy. 10, |
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Wilmer Fire Station 22115 Hwy. 10, |
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Husser Fire Station 56292 Hwy. 445, Husser |
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TOTALS |
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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
Consolidated
the Parish of Tangipahoa, State of
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