Many, LA 71449
June 30, 2016
The Parish School Board met to conduct a Public Hearing on Proposed General Fund and Special Revenue Fund Budgets for 2016-2017 on June 29, 2015, at 5:45 P.M. at the regular meeting place of said Board with the following members present: Terrell D. Snelling, President, James R. Martin, Vice President, Roderick Davis, Spencer Faust, William D. Garcie, Daron Chandler, Dr. Leah Byles and Donald H. Remedies
Absent: Dale Skinner
At 5:45 p.m. the Public Hearing on Proposed General Fund and Special Revenue Fund Budgets for 2016-2017 began.
There were no public comments during the Public Comment Period.
The Public Hearing was adjourned.
At 6:00 p.m. the regular meeting of the Board began with a Call to Order by President Terrell D. Snelling, and the Invocation was offered. The Pledge of Allegiance was rendered and the President welcomed the visitors.
On motion by Donald H. Remedies and seconded by James R. Martin, it was carried to approve the Consent Agenda as follows:
ยท Approval and Adoption of June 13, 2016, Minutes, as Signed.
A Review of the Budget Message and Supplementary Information for the Sabine Parish School Board Annual Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 was conducted by Rodney Wilson, Director of Business Services.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
The following resolution was offered by Roderick Davis and seconded by James R. Martin:
A resolution adopting, finalizing and implementing the Annual Operating Budget of the Sabine Parish School Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016 and ending June 30, 2017.
WHEREAS, Dr. Sara Ebarb, in her capacity as chief administrative officer of the Sabine Parish School Board prepared, with the assistance of Rodney Wilson, Director of Business Services, a proposed General Fund and Special Revenue Fund Budgets for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016 and ending June 30, 2017, which was accompanied by a budget adoption resolution; and
WHEREAS, the proposed General Fund and Special Revenue Fund Budgets as shown in the Annual Operating Budget document after the budget adoption resolution shows the revenues itemized by source and the expenditures itemized by function as required by Louisiana R.S. 39:1305; and
WHEREAS, the accompanying budget adoption resolution have been submitted to this School Board for review and consideration; and
WHEREAS, notice of a public hearing on the proposed Annual Operating Budget, notice of the availability of the proposed budgets for review at such hearing and a general summary of the proposed budgets have been timely published in The Sabine Index; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing on the proposed Annual Operating Budget has now been reviewed and considered; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the School Board that the proposed Annual Operating Budget is hereby approved, adopted, and finalized subject to the following changes.
1. None
2. None
3. None
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary-Treasurer of the School Board, Dr. Sara Ebarb, or her successor, is hereby authorized and in her sole discretion, to make such changes within the various budget classifications as she may deem necessary provided that any reallocation of funds affecting in excess of five percent (5%) of the projected revenue collections must be approved in advance by action of the School Board at a meeting duly noticed and convened.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Superintendent of the School Board, Dr. Sara Ebarb, or her successor, in her capacity as chief administrative officer of the School Board, is hereby directed to advise the School Board in writing when:
1. Total revenues collections & other sources plus projected revenues & other sources for the remainder of the year, within a fund are failing to meet total budgeted revenues & other sources by five percent (5%) or more.
2. Total expenditures & other uses plus projected expenditures & other uses for the remainder of the year, within a fund, are exceeding the total budgeted expenditures & other uses by five percent (5%) or more, or
3. The actual beginning fund balance, within a fund, fails to meet the estimated beginning fund balance by five percent (5%) or more, and the fund balance is being used to fund current year expenditures.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary-Treasurer of the School Board, Dr. Sara Ebarb, or her successor, shall certify completion of all actions required by Louisiana R.S. 39:1306 by publishing a notice of the minutes of the meeting in The Sabine Index.
This Resolution having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
YEAS: Dr. Leah Byles, Daron Chandler, William D. Garcie, Spencer Faust, Donald H. Remedies, Terrell D. Snelling, James R. Martin, Roderick Davis
NAYS: None
ABSTAINING: None
ABSENT: Dale Skinner
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.
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Terrell D. Snelling, President
Attest:
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Sara P. Ebarb, EdD, Secretary