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[7:18] Please bow your heads. Heavenly Father, as we gather here tonight to make

[7:22] decisions that will shape our future of our community, we ask for your guidance

[7:27] and we ask for your help. Help us to rise above personal interests,

[7:31] individual agendas, and focus on what is best for the entire parish. Grant us

[7:37] courage to make hard decisions even when they are unpopular, knowing that you

[7:41] will ultimately make things right. Strengn us, Lord. Unite us for the

[7:45] common purpose to serve our fellow citizens with integrity, fairness, and

[7:50] compassion. May our work tonight reflect your will and bring a more prosperous

[7:55] salina parish. deed and all blessing we ask your son Jesus name. Amen.

[8:00] » Amen

[8:06] to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with

[8:12] liberty and justice for all.

[8:24] At this time we have our roll call. Mr. Charles Wamuse

[8:29] present Mr. Willie Morgan here. >> Mr. Warren McCrae here.

[8:32] » Mr. Ryan Bird here. >> Mr. Doug Watson here.

[8:35] » Okay. I didn't receive any public comments for Mr. President.

[8:39] » Um first order is the approval of minutes from last meeting of July 22nd,

[8:42] 2025. >> I'll second it.

[8:46] » Yes. >> Yes.

[8:51] » Yes. Okay. Yes. >> Item number two, Mr. Josh Richardson

[8:56] with Swift Fiber to speak regarding fiber build

[9:00] here.

[9:06] » Mrs. Josh, we ask that you stand right next to the mic so they'll be able to

[9:08] hear you. Okay. >> Yes, ma'am. Let me get one little pad

[9:11] out

[9:18] here. Yes, sir.

[9:23] Yeah, my Can you hear me there? Everybody hear me?

[9:26] » They can hear you. >> Uh my name is Gwen Coglin. I'm not Josh,

[9:30] but uh I'm the project manager for Swift Fiber that's going to be undertaking the

[9:35] project here in St. Helena Parish. Just overwhelmed to get started and and I've

[9:40] been across different parish meetings and all and this is one of the best

[9:44] turnouts and all which I'm glad to see. Uh each and every one of you can see and

[9:49] and know me. I'll leave numbers and all far as any problems that we have far as

[9:55] the citizens that y'all have that we come into y'all's area. Just pick up the

[10:00] phone and give me a call. We'll get it straight. Whatever we have to do far as

[10:03] the contractors that we have. Uh just excited to come into y'all's parish and

[10:08] actually get started and and as you all may not know, we are in the process of

[10:15] actually today getting rigs moved in and going to the start in the parish. I

[10:20] apologize for the council that that I hadn't been able to get up. You know,

[10:24] it's kind of a quick thing that come about. Uh but I did know about it two

[10:29] weeks ago. So, we've got we got locates called out. What that means is we've let

[10:35] water associations, which is one of the bigger problems that we have in these

[10:39] parishes. It's it's not as much USIC with the communications network, but a

[10:45] lot of times it's the water associations that don't know where their water's at

[10:49] even, you know, and giving them time to get stuff located. I've sent KMZ files,

[10:55] which means it's a mapping of actually all of our of our expected drill sites,

[11:02] which sides of the roads and and each and one of y'all I can I can get y'all

[11:07] as well, you know, if if you want to see that in the future far as stuff. But all

[11:12] excited about getting started on this. Uh I I don't talk a lot as far as the

[11:17] sales aspect of what it cost and uh but I will let you know that that from what

[11:24] I've seen it's a real affordable internet because we're going across the

[11:28] state rural American we all hopefully will get it one day. Even myself, I'm on

[11:34] Starlink now that paying undone for it that that I'm in rural America, but uh

[11:42] from what I've heard, it's real affordable with a great network behind

[11:48] uh you not only get good price and it's a good internet that you know compared

[11:52] to other suppliers that you may already have or or that you hear of out there

[11:57] that I think think you'll be well satisfied. kind of letting

[12:02] » Can you give us an idea of kind of where you're going to be starting at?

[12:05] » Yeah, that's that's exactly what I start with. We're starting today actually and

[12:10] right now we've got two design location jobs which is actually a total of

[12:15] 700,000 ft in in St. Helina Parish, which it'll be more, but uh and I

[12:22] actually had a computer that I was hoping maybe to get in and kind of show

[12:26] y'all mapping and and could actually do. So, I can get y'all set up not only with

[12:31] KMZ files, but I can get you lined up on my computer where you can go in and

[12:36] actually see the same mapping that I have as well. But, uh, we, uh, we're

[12:42] starting, we got a job that's that's actually five or six miles east of here.

[12:49] Uh, that will come right off of 55. And we're coming up to we we ain't coming up

[12:55] to the town, but we're running north then up 38. Highway 38's the center

[13:00] point of the job going all the way up to the Mississippi line.

[13:05] It'll follow all the way west then. Uh, let me get my glasses here where I can

[13:10] kind of see far description of >> Co

[13:15] 38. >> I I think so. And we picking up this

[13:19] second job there about let's see here. First job,

[13:22] same Atlanta. We'll uh

[13:28] go north close to the Mississippi line. Pine Hill Road is the northern section

[13:34] up there that we'll kind of come across. That's that's the part of y'all's

[13:38] parish. >> We'll go south to Highway 10. That's

[13:44] » par road 100. That first road that I seen today that I turned off of.

[13:52] I didn't write it down, but it was right off of 55 that we're coming into and hit

[13:57] y'all's parish. I didn't write it down. It was a gravel

[14:02] road that we started >> on 38 on 38.

[14:05] » No, sir. No, >> it's south of that 38 kind of splits

[14:09] that job. It's It's We got as much south as we do north. We coming right toward

[14:17] y'all here. And then it stops and of course we'll pick up and this second job

[14:23] is going to pick up on 38 in the northern part and go go west then.

[14:30] » So that's right. We'll actually, you know, that's 700,000 foot and we I don't

[14:36] know. I look for the design on far as stuff that'll pick up from here and and

[14:41] go on west, but that hasn't come out yet. I know y'all will get the question

[14:47] and and others, friends of y'all will actually say, "Well, we don't get it. We

[14:51] don't get it." And and I can answer that question sometimes if it's been put in

[14:57] our design by engineers. You know, I can see it and say that yes, we're coming.

[15:02] But, uh, I guess the best thing is let us get started in construction and get

[15:06] it going. Uh, we moving pretty good on it. Of course,

[15:13] a lot of that is due to our utility locates and all as well. Hopefully, you

[15:17] know that because I don't want to I had bombarded them with the total number of

[15:22] rigs. We're looking at about 20 all total from I'm gonna put four rigs on

[15:28] this western job, but there'll be around 16 rigs. It's not tomorrow that we

[15:35] slowly coming into this before locate people can get adjusted to as well as to

[15:40] where we ain't bombarding them as well. But we'll get to rolling pretty good and

[15:45] and and hopefully y'all will see progress there that all

[15:49] of this will take place, you know, pretty soon. And I've got this job

[15:53] forecasted in to around 40 something days in this 700, you know, well, this

[16:00] 400,000 ft. That's the area coming back into here as well.

[16:05] » So for the citizens that it affect, is there a way they can go online to see

[16:08] what's covered if they're covered under Swift?

[16:11] » I'm sorry. >> Can they log Can the citizens that's the

[16:14] area that is going to affect Can they log into Swift to see if they're

[16:17] actually covered? >> Is there is there a website?

[16:20] » No, ma'am. far as actually you showing the design of where it's going to be.

[16:25] » Unfortunately, not that's that's kind of what that that I mean far as with our

[16:30] engineering bunch right now. I see that that these jobs and as they let out I

[16:36] can let different ones know far as hey we are going to be covering this. This

[16:41] job hasn't come out to me yet but I see that we going to get it

[16:47] you know far as the near future. >> I have a question.

[16:51] Can I speak? >> Yes.

[16:53] » So, okay. Uh, we have uh spectrum on our end on the lower court.

[16:58] » That's right. Obviously. So, are y'all I'm hearing about the price change? I'm

[17:02] hearing about the uh compatible rates and stuff like that. So, my question to

[17:09] you is, is it going to eventually come down to

[17:12] my end as giving Spectrum uh a run for their money, too?

[17:16] » Well, that's >> I'm just

[17:19] » Yes, sir. I mean far as as us and seeing spectrum we not holding off of that. The

[17:24] biggest thing in what I guess precise far as from federal government and

[17:29] different agencies on far as where we put this is rural America with little or

[17:35] no internet. >> Yeah me.

[17:37] » Yeah. Well I can hold my hand up to that too, you

[17:43] know. Uh and and really that's we have got to those circumstances and

[17:49] have and hopefully it will to where it at least you'll have something to kind

[17:54] of combat against as far as your >> Yeah. Because you know they came in and

[17:58] said the same thing that you said compatible rates.

[18:02] » Next thing you know they jumped up on people.

[18:05] » So me asking you I mean we just got to have some people that can you know

[18:11] » we can choose from. That's right. >> Because you know, I mean, hey, I I'm

[18:15] here to ask a question for the for the people.

[18:18] » I understand. And and and I guess that's myself even where I live.

[18:23] I would love to see the same thing come to where I could go to Starlink, you

[18:27] know, which has done me a great job. >> Okay.

[18:30] » But, uh, you know, it's expensive. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people can't can't

[18:33] afford I mean, they get they have set in.

[18:35] » Exactly. Don't hold me to this uh because I'm not

[18:40] in sales and I don't do that. They probably would get on that that heard me

[18:45] quote me any kind of prices, but >> No,

[18:48] » I've even heard of $50 to $60 rates with with a

[18:53] » I can't even tell you the gigs or nothing like that that you have, but

[18:57] it's it's a real good package that they will offer. when they offered as soon as

[19:03] we get food and what I'm responsible for is the construction part

[19:09] they're quick on the process of when we get fiber placed in our duck out there.

[19:15] They're quick because they want y'all's money then at that point. So, you know,

[19:21] that they going to be coming pretty quick far as to get, you know,

[19:25] salespeople on far as what you what they got we got to offer, you know, at that

[19:30] point. So uh they will come from safe. We sell a handhole at your

[19:37] driveway. They will come then and they will they will b

[19:46] a to your house. >> Yes ma'am. It'll be fiber placed on the

[19:52] side of your home you know from from this internet.

[19:59] » Yes sir. Yes, sir. Everything on board and and uh you know they it'll actually

[20:05] be all be underground. It'll be five or two your home won't be like as far as

[20:10] what I keep thinking of is my star link. We rely on satellite.

[20:15] » You see all this will be done within 30 days.

[20:17] » Uh that's what I'm pushing to get it done. uh

[20:22] with 16 drills, you know, we average we average on on account of around 1,000

[20:28] foot a day. We'll be doing 16,000 foot, you know, a day divided into about

[20:34] 400,000 and you'll see about 40 something days, working days. Um Yes,

[20:40] sir. >> The water come, it's going to take up

[20:42] two or three weeks to locate all this water.

[20:43] » Yes, sir. Are you with the water association? Anybody else with water

[20:48] here? with me in all we'll talk and all. What

[20:52] water company are you with? If you communicated with with some of our

[20:55] drills now, >> we having trouble because we have we've

[20:58] been bombarded with so many locator and and good point. That's that's what you

[21:04] know that uh and what I like to do and I' I've talked to my contractors on this

[21:09] as far as to get with you. Uh if you do email in a bunch, this works great far

[21:14] as letting you know, hey, where these drills is going to be this certain day,

[21:19] you know, to kind of give you direction. You and I talk and all in a little while

[21:24] far as getting you up with these contractors, letting you know they do

[21:29] call in these locates and they spread out, but you don't have to worry about a

[21:34] certain section for these drills for tomorrow. And that's what that's a daily

[21:39] process that I like my contractors to do is is to communicate with you more so

[21:45] than any on far as where they going to be, where you at, and we'll get through

[21:50] this. You you one of the toughest people that

[21:54] that I know we have to deal with that we work with.

[21:59] » Go ahead. So, so just a FYI, this is the northern part of the parish mostly um in

[22:07] district one and district 6. Um this is where a lot of the five is going. So up

[22:12] in the area north part of the parish, easily

[22:16] um you know north of 38 from Tazole across to East Fishana is where this

[22:25] father is going to run. Um now I don't know if you can answer this question or

[22:28] not. So we know we have Aroff which was federally funded for those areas and we

[22:35] also have you guys be is this both deployments right now or

[22:41] is it >> be is not turned loose yet? Okay. So

[22:46] this part off >> possibly in the next couple of weeks it

[22:49] will. >> Okay.

[22:50] » Uh I'm just noticing through this bill that that there are a little be in it.

[22:57] But uh it is totally off from actually doing construction on.

[23:03] Hopefully like I said in a couple of weeks that that it'll be turned loose as

[23:07] well. You may have a road that's just a small

[23:11] section that lists as B. >> Yeah. At that point, we'll communicate

[23:16] with with the people there and let them know kind of what's going on.

[23:20] » And and we're we're doing uh GIS mapping actually in that part of Paris right now

[23:27] to try to get ahead of this to make sure we can kind of have those addresses

[23:32] mapped out so when the services start we don't have those issues. So we actually

[23:37] um in that area right now >> there so but but we could all sync up um

[23:44] at some point with the water district so we can have a a plan and I do have the

[23:49] maps. What we're going to do is kind of put example on the website so people can

[23:55] kind of see the tracks that is going in and as you update me I can update that

[24:00] and people can kind of see how the um >> what I'll do is I'll leave you my card

[24:05] too. I'll make you I'll get you lined up on what we call Oshious.

[24:08] » I have it. >> You do?

[24:10] » Yes, I have a log in everything. >> Oh, do you?

[24:13] » Yes. >> Good deal. That That's perfect.

[24:15] » Yeah. So, I can view the maps of the whole building.

[24:18] » I was wondering kind of the way you was talking on edit sound. Good deal.

[24:23] » That that'll help tremendously in far communicate with everybody on far as the

[24:27] direction and whatnot going. >> So, so we it's coming y'all. Like I say,

[24:32] we don't it's it's definitely coming. most definitely is. And I guess the

[24:36] biggest thing here as far as myself, uh, I got good contractors on it saying

[24:41] that, you know, we won't have problems or whatever. But, uh, if we do, don't

[24:47] hesitate any of y'all to contact me. I'll leave numbers here and we'll get

[24:52] straight for sure.

[24:56] » Thank you. >> Any of y'all got anything? think of

[25:05] » I'm I'm going to leave cards if that's okay on the corner of the desk and y'all

[25:10] don't hesitate to give me a call. >> And you put some on that back desk as

[25:14] well just in case any of the citizens want.

[25:16] » Sure. Sure. Well, >> thank you.

[25:20] » Yes, sir. Okay, item three on the um agenda, Miss

[25:25] Virginia Bell to present the report on RWE solar project.

[25:30] » Good evening everybody. >> Good evening.

[25:32] » Uh this is going to be my second presentation with regards to the solar

[25:36] project that's going on here in the parish. So what we're doing tonight is

[25:41] translating community into a draft CBA framework. And what that means simply is

[25:45] that we got a lot of information and we need to condense it and narrow it down.

[25:49] That's kind of what we're doing tonight. Okay. So, while we are here, um,

[25:54] community input has been gathered. There's been interviews, telephone

[25:57] interviews, there's been, um, workshops, there's been, um, stakeholders meetings,

[26:03] there's been a, uh, a lot of ways that we've gathe gathered information. And

[26:08] so, what this report showed is how this is going to translate, all this

[26:11] information that we gathered, how is this going to translate into a community

[26:14] benefit, an agreement that's going to help the entire parish? You know, how

[26:18] are we going to get the solar form company? how they're going to help us.

[26:22] So today's goal is just to report out. Okay. So uh there's been a stakeholder

[26:29] uh engagement since September of 24. We've been doing this. We've been on

[26:33] this this process. Uh the themes have been synthesized into community

[26:37] priorities. And so we're going to try to get your input on some of that tonight

[26:40] on some of those priorities. We have a draft CBA buckets that we've developed

[26:45] through feedback. We have parish leadership going to play the very

[26:49] important role because we're not going to finalize this until uh your input is

[26:54] is is uh involved with it. We and afterwards

[26:59] we're going to do consensus building workshops. That's going to be the next

[27:05] schedule events. So here are the priorities um from the draft CBA

[27:08] buckets. These are the priorities that we've gathered.

[27:12] Okay. So what we have is we have three categories. Uh you guys can see we have

[27:17] community themes, we have the CBA draft category, and then we have the partners

[27:21] because each one of these groups, these themes, we're going to need partners in

[27:25] the parish to work with us. That's the only way we're going to get it

[27:28] accomplished, that we have somebody in the parish that we've identified who can

[27:31] work with us to accomplish these goals. So one of the community things, and

[27:35] again, these are the things that the people at this workshop, 50 or 60 people

[27:38] showed up at a workshop. We ask them, what does the parish need? What do you

[27:41] want to see? somebody help us. If they're coming in here to help us, what

[27:45] do you want them to do? What's the most important thing that needs to be done

[27:48] here in Salem Parish? Okay. So, one community theme. The first community

[27:53] theme internship and apprenticeships and that category is going to fall under

[27:57] work workforce and education development and the partners will be uh the school

[28:01] Dr. Joseph. The second community theme is wellness and community life. That

[28:06] category is wellness and recreation. We're going to use local nonprofits for

[28:10] that. of course you know that we don't have a

[28:12] whole lot of local nonprofits here but uh we identified them as the partners

[28:18] emergency and broadband access the category is community access that would

[28:21] be the parish after school activities for youth youth programs we're hoping

[28:26] the local churches can help us with that uh solar specific concerns that's going

[28:30] to be the parish and Mr. bad news.

[28:36] Okay. Now to the board and this is not rhetorical. Are there specific partners

[28:40] or institutions you would recommend?

[28:45] One would be would be the town and implement in the town as well because if

[28:49] you're going to be doing something with the youth and you want to get the

[28:52] surrounding uh children involved is you have to

[28:56] incorporate the town as well. So, we want to make sure that we add the the

[29:00] town of Greensburg up to the uh to the list of partners.

[29:03] » Yes. >> Okay.

[29:05] » I would like to add um our utility companies too cuz that's I don't think

[29:09] they've been involved co or >> like we need their input as well since

[29:15] this is energy. I think they need to be at the table

[29:18] » right on side of the >> I would say Williams with the pipeline

[29:23] gas pipeline. Uh and also we need to get uh mount involved too because

[29:30] » um >> the mount of greenber

[29:34] companies >> hospital.

[29:39] » Okay. What part of the hospital >> the youth

[29:42] » what they sponsors a lot of the stuff down in

[29:46] Baton Rouge and so when you get the hospitals involved they get the health

[29:49] involved and Pennington gets involved >> and you get foundations involved.

[29:53] » Okay. So help the youth then >> and you need to put an internship.

[29:59] » Yeah, we yeah we >> so the hospital need to be involved.

[30:02] » All right, that's what we get to what what outcomes matters most to the

[30:06] parish. So let's go to the next and look at at some of those. Okay, workforce

[30:11] education program. These are the priorities ranked in order that this is

[30:15] our order. This is you know this is you you of course will determine this

[30:19] internship and apprenticeship programs. So in this um Superintendent Joseph was

[30:23] said about um trying to get some internships because again the state has

[30:27] issued another another unfunded mandate where the schools must place their

[30:33] seniors into internship programs and in a parish like St. Alina that's very

[30:37] difficult. We have no businesses here for interns to work there has to be a

[30:40] business for them to work in. Right? So we don't have that. We don't have a tax

[30:44] tax base and and we don't have businesses. We can use some of the

[30:47] governmental offices but all of them are not um really financially uh stable to

[30:52] where they can hire a lot of interns. So, you know, that's going to be a

[30:55] challenge for us the fact that it's mandatory. Our students have to have

[31:00] internships. They have to go into internships with with businesses. And

[31:03] so, um that's going to be an issue. A student scholarship support. Now, that's

[31:07] pretty easy for a partner with um developers uh Superintendent Joseph and

[31:12] President Cheney to prioritize students pursuing inter trade and technical

[31:16] degrees because everybody's not going to go to college to four-year college. So,

[31:20] we're going to need those uh those type of degrees, technical training and

[31:24] credentials. Uh potential CBA provision a partnership with the Dean Jones and

[31:29] Northshore Technical College

[31:33] for that type of training. Miss B, can I ask you? Um, I know I know we talking

[31:37] about the school here in St. Lish, but >> don't we have another school somewhere

[31:42] here on Shal about the church, bro? >> Oh, the church. I think uh uh

[31:47] » it's a monary. >> It's a monetary. They still got to get

[31:49] involved. >> I'm not saying they don't

[31:52] mean we can't leave them out. I mean, >> are they are they operational?

[31:56] » They have King Lion King.

[32:02] » Okay. I know one time they were trying to get

[32:06] » Okay. >> Okay. Okay. Um

[32:11] » technical training and credentiing. Did I say that? Potential partners, Dean

[32:15] Jones and and the technical college. And of these three, what are your

[32:18] priorities?

[32:25] » You have any right now? You want to think about that? Of course, you're

[32:27] going to get um Mr. Matthews going to email all of this information to you. I

[32:31] mean they all they all important. I mean >> just I mean

[32:35] » they are >> I mean you can't put one from the other

[32:39] I mean because you need all all three. So

[32:42] » okay thanks. >> Okay. Um now this is a wellness and

[32:47] recreation provisions a multi-use community center. So this is an idea of

[32:51] placing a community center parish office emergency uh preparedness developer

[32:56] support and build of a renovative of a multi-purpose center in Greensburg. So,

[33:01] you know, we have the one on the other end down there on Highway 16, but

[33:05] there's no really multi-purpose center or meeting place here in this area.

[33:10] » Nor District 4 nor District 4 either, right? Which is, you know,

[33:15] » one of the populated areas, you know, which

[33:19] which really again the only center 4,000t building that can hold big events

[33:24] is down way on the other end of the parish. You know, this is the potential

[33:27] suggestion for having something in this area here. A little closer. A Clarkson

[33:31] recreational space. Potential CBA provision in partnership with St. Alia

[33:35] Police jury in the parks department to develop um the Fifth W Recreation

[33:40] District's master plan. Of course, you know, we've been trying to get that

[33:42] baseball field for the longest. You know, the master if you go down there,

[33:45] you see the master plan is sitting there. If you see it, a lot of it has

[33:49] been completed, but there's still one primary section, and that's that uh

[33:53] baseball court uh community infrastructure. Um they're

[33:57] looking at some places or considering some places where you people can have

[34:01] resources. What do you need to to put an application? I know there's the library,

[34:05] but um they're talking about resources in other places where community members

[34:09] can go if they need to, you know, work on a resume, if they need to get on the

[34:13] computer, if they need resources um that that um can help them in their lives,

[34:18] you know, from for whatever area.

[34:24] Okay. Uh again with the wellness and recreation, we have community wellness

[34:28] facilities, multi-purpose center, uh St. Parish Office of Preparedness, Parks and

[34:32] Recreation, potential partners, St. Police jury, community infrastructure,

[34:36] potential partners, local nonprofits. Do you have a number one here?

[34:40] » Same thing. Well, >> same thing. Who said number two? Uh,

[34:44] parks and recreational spaces, important.

[34:52] » Okay. >> Community infrastructure. Can you

[34:54] elaborate on that? What that includes? >> Um,

[34:58] » are we talking about water? Are we talking about sew? We talking about

[35:01] roads. What are we talking about when we say infrastructure?

[35:04] » I think again that's I don't know if you we talking about elaborate on that.

[35:08] » It's whatever you guys decided you want it to be. I mean we're we're the

[35:13] developers here to listen to what you guys want. So if you want it to be

[35:18] drainage management. >> Well, we talked about it a lot in the

[35:22] meeting. So, I just wanted to kind of be more specific on it that, you know, we

[35:26] talked about water infrastructure because we still have spaces that don't

[35:30] have water in the parish. We we talked about community sewer that would save

[35:35] our residents a lot of money um in the parish. So, I just wanted to make sure

[35:40] we call them out by name so people could realize like what these benefits would

[35:45] be. >> And also, uh natural gas natural gas

[35:48] » is a is a is a plus. >> That's something you're working on.

[35:51] That's that's something I'm working on as we

[35:54] » and Mr. Lee over there. They both working because we don't have natur

[36:14] » but you got to understand too. >> Mr. President, can I speak?

[36:19] You got to understand too that it's got a lot of regulations against the uh the

[36:23] gas pipelines now. So really and truly you have to bring someone in that

[36:27] actually know exactly what they're doing now because there so many regulations

[36:30] now >> really.

[36:31] » So uh you know we I'm I'm talking to a couple of companies so we can have some

[36:36] meetings with uh Mia uh Greensburg so that we can make the right decisions on

[36:42] that part there too. So, um, >> getting getting the right

[36:46] » getting the right people to come in because it's so much regulation. I mean,

[36:49] it's going to different houses. You got to have you got to be responsible for

[36:52] any leaks or anything that happens. You understand what I'm saying? So, there's

[36:56] a process on that part, too. >> It certainly would be good to have that.

[37:02] » Okay. Uh, youth programs, educational support. uh potential CPA provision is

[37:07] to partner with the school district for youth educational organizations to

[37:10] develop this program for mentorship academic tutoring. That would be great

[37:15] if we could have some mentorships. If we can have some uh academic tutoring um

[37:19] we're offering our center we just um we just donated, thank God, some laptops

[37:24] that we're trying to get some um retired teachers to come in in the afternoons

[37:28] and help our students. you know, we we have still having major issues with with

[37:32] um scores, our student scores, they need exams and they the students need help,

[37:38] you know, because a lot of times in the homes they just don't have it. But if we

[37:42] have some place where we can get some teachers to come in after school and

[37:45] they got these computers that the kids can work on, that would be a great

[37:48] program. >> Can we home kids in that we're talking

[37:52] about partnering with the school? >> Partnering with the schools home kids in

[37:55] the parish who I mean those thankfully mine are out of school. think I'm done.

[37:59] But I mean, I still pay the same taxes to the school board. I'm not using those

[38:03] services. I don't get those services and their scholarships and all the stuff

[38:06] that comes with kids. >> I think

[38:12] other children that's >> okay. And then recreational program, uh,

[38:17] local youth serving nonprofits, uh, churches, uh, whomever is available. Um,

[38:22] again, we're so limited when it comes to, you know, these type of

[38:25] organizations here that could uh that could partner and and and create and set

[38:30] up and manage these types of programs. uh priorities. Um again, continue with

[38:35] the youth programs, educational support. Um partners with uh we do have um the um

[38:41] school and also the mayor of Greensburg um and the local library for those

[38:46] supports, recreational programs, potential partners, local youth,

[38:50] nonprofits, any priorities. >> So, I do have a question. Are we making

[38:55] a selection out of each one of the categories or do we need to compo

[39:00] compile all the three together and then choose one or the other?

[39:03] » We going to do the categories first. >> Okay. So, we need to pick one individ

[39:07] one each category and then we >> just Yeah, just prioritize. Not pick

[39:11] one. Just go which one you >> prioritize. We just want to do some

[39:14] more. >> I still think we need to add he said the

[39:18] mayor of Greensburg. I think you need to put the mayor of mouth also.

[39:22] » Okay. I mean, we got to get this about it, too.

[39:26] » Okay. We add Mayor Jardina to that one. >> Yes, ma'am.

[39:29] » All right.

[39:34] Next.

[39:37] » Okay. Consensus building workshops. So now that um we've narrowed it down this

[39:42] four uh we we need to go ahead and and start having um the groups that um

[39:47] initiated these suggestions. We want to get them together and have a consensus

[39:51] building workshop where we all agree, you know, you all agree because our

[39:55] ultimate goal is to consensus building workshop. The goal is to gather parish

[40:00] leadership and key partners and develop specific CBA provisions, specific ones.

[40:04] Now I'll pull a one pager. That's our goal is a one pager and dates. We're

[40:10] suggesting the dates if after this meeting then we're going to u put out

[40:13] some dates and maybe some polls to see um when you're available. We know that

[40:17] we have to stick to the six o'clock the evening dates. Mr. Matthews

[40:23] to benefit agree. Now this is a sample. This is what we're ultimately trying to

[40:26] get to this. All right. This is our one pager. This is a sample from I don't

[40:31] know what some state that that's done these and they ultimately this is what

[40:35] they ended up with. They condensed all of this information. Remember the first

[40:39] report in 24 how long that PowerPoint was. So I've come back this one this one

[40:43] is shorter. We condensed it. So ultimately this is what we want. We want

[40:47] this one pager ask. So it's going to look something like

[40:51] this after the consensus building workshop. Mr. methods.

[40:56] » Next steps, dates. We're going to send you some

[41:00] dates and you're going to have to suggest them to to identify partners and

[41:03] send out invitations and then uh the pilot and the industrial development

[41:07] board. Um I believe the parish working on that. U Matthews.

[41:11] » Yes. >> Uh so they're they're getting that

[41:13] together and then um that the CBA ultimately when it's done will be a part

[41:18] of that. >> Okay.

[41:20] » Another question. >> Yes. So

[41:23] » you asking us to do all this? You got a time frame on this?

[41:26] » Well, uh let's Can you go to the next slide? Okay, there you go. This is RWE's

[41:32] timeline. Um so this is kind of what their schedule looks like. This is what

[41:36] they're hoping uh to accomplish and when the dates they're hoping to accomplish

[41:40] it. And um you will see that um

[41:46] where we are right now. It says uh final investment decision RWE board 425. We

[41:53] passed that started construction 2 or 26. So we're somewhere between these

[41:57] two. This is where we are now. >> And we did receive um feedback from RW

[42:04] today on the ordinance. So we're going to go back and kind of work through that

[42:09] and hopefully get something soon so we can start that process as well.

[42:13] » Right. where you bring that ordinance to the board so that ordinance can be

[42:17] adopted. So that's what that's what we want to get to get that we get that in

[42:22] place.

[42:25] » I mean we looked at Tampaole um Parish Point

[42:30] is quite a few.

[42:35] » Yeah, we look at all of them but we want to have a St. Helena audience because

[42:39] St. Helena is like nowhere else. >> That's true. Andre, you want to add some

[42:43] points?

[42:47] » I believe you have a question, Mr. McC. >> So, don't they have a site coming up in

[42:52] um East Louisiana right now as we call I mean

[42:56] » the uh >> RW? No, I think that's Echoplexes.

[42:59] » It's EOlexes, right? >> Where's that? Oh, there's Echoplexes.

[43:02] » Okay. >> That's got the

[43:05] type. >> Okay. Thank you all.

[43:08] » Thank you.

[43:12] Item number four on the agenda is Mrs. Corman Overton is requesting an update

[43:15] on special event ordinance in reference to trail rides.

[43:19] We are in the process of setting another we have to meet again

[43:24] who is helping us with writing the ordinance. So we are in the final phase

[43:28] of it. Once we meet have another meeting we're going to have another committee

[43:31] meeting to bring it before the ordinance committee and then we'll bring it before

[43:35] the full board for introduction public hearing and then it'll go for adoption.

[43:40] Um and also what is the um what procedure are they currently using since

[43:46] the moratorum expired? What is the procedure that they're using?

[43:51] » If they have a special event, >> they don't have one. They don't have

[43:56] anything in place right now. >> They don't consider trying to put

[44:00] something in place in between the gap until it's expired. It just I mean

[44:05] anything that goes on I mean if any activity that goes on outside that you

[44:09] know that's within the law you know we do have something in place for the

[44:12] sheriff we'll go out there and regulate those things any type of criminal

[44:15] activities or like we have corn ordinances in place like if we have a

[44:20] ordinance about loudness you know loud music or where they can be at um if they

[44:24] on the highway parking rightways all those things are already in place. So,

[44:29] we have those things that are in place already that the sheriff can already go

[44:32] and implement at this time. But the other thing on there that we're going to

[44:37] bring is for a special event. We're going to it'll be presented to the

[44:40] public for you all to see. >> And what's the time frame again?

[44:45] » Hopefully, I can have something to present to you all within the next 30

[44:48] days. >> Thank you.

[44:53] » Item number five on the agenda, Mr. Trevor Collins discuss millage renewal

[44:57] for libraries.

[45:04] » Trevor Collins, Autoan Regional Library. Um,

[45:09] this isn't an action item. We're just bringing it to your attention. We'd like

[45:14] to request with your approval uh that that you consider calling the election

[45:19] on attorney, which we've we've given to you. It'll be the same millage. It's

[45:22] just just a continuation of the millillage. We would like to do one

[45:26] thing different this time uh and that's to ask uh for rededication of the funds.

[45:32] So specifically the millillage wording in the past

[45:37] hasn't explicitly listed capital work and we if we ever get the feat to do so

[45:42] we'd like to be able to build maybe a small community branch somewhere like

[45:45] Mount Pillar. Uh and that would allow us to do that. So that's really the only

[45:50] change. everything else will will stay the same as it has been. Uh the the the

[45:56] call to election would happen on September 9th. Um this is just us

[46:01] letting you know about it and requesting that you consider it.

[46:05] » Okay.

[46:08] » Item number on the six on the agenda, adopt resolution opposing the Amid River

[46:13] Basin Commission master plan regarding the building of dams and reservoirs and

[46:17] family in the parish. I'll make the motion. Second. Mr.

[46:22] » Yes. >> Mr. Morgan.

[46:23] » Yes. >> McCra.

[46:24] » Yes. >> Mr. Watson.

[46:25] » Yes. >> Item number seven, adopt resolution

[46:28] opposing carbon capture in the family in the parish. I make the motion. I second.

[46:33] » Yes. >> Yes.

[46:35] » Mrs. Mr.

[46:38] » Yes. >> Item number eight, a resolution

[46:42] declaring a state of emergency regarding fire protection and emergency medical

[46:46] services in St. S Helina Fire District Court 4 and further declaring the Selena

[46:50] Parish Police Jury to exercise interim administrative and operational control

[46:54] over said district. I make the motion. >> I miss.

[47:00] » Yes. >> Mr. Martin.

[47:02] » Yes. >> Mr. McCra.

[47:03] » Yes. Mr. W. >> Yes.

[47:05] » Okay. We will begin. This here is going to take effect immediately. Um so myself

[47:10] along with Mr. Matthews and I'm going to get with the board member Miss Overton

[47:13] so that we can u make the next steps in this transition. So, I'll be getting

[47:17] with you on tomorrow. Item number nine on the agenda,

[47:22] authorized president to sign contracts between the Division of Administration,

[47:26] Office of Community Development, and St. Helena Parish Police Jury for fiscal

[47:30] year 2024 2025 LGAP funding in the amount of $200,000 for rehabilitation

[47:36] and renovations of buildings. Amen. foot.

[47:40] » And just an FYI on this, this is where we were able to get the $100,000 that we

[47:45] weren't able to get on last year. They gave it to us on this one. So that's why

[47:49] we get 200,000 this year. >> So we're going to put it toward the

[47:52] governmental buildings, right? >> Yes. And I rece I um emailed you all a

[47:57] copy of the >> the LGAP contract.

[47:59] » Mr. Smith.

[48:01] » Yes. >> Mr. McCra.

[48:03] » Yes. >> Number 10. Authorize president to sign

[48:09] contract between the division of administration office of community

[48:12] development and san police jury for fiscal year 2024 2025 CWEF funding in

[48:19] the amount of $140,000 for portable water improvement.

[48:23] » I'll second it. >> Mr.

[48:25] » Yes. >> Yes.

[48:27] » Mr. Martin. >> Yes. Murray.

[48:29] » Yes. >> Mr.

[48:31] » Item number 11 on the agenda. Approve invoice from H. Davis Cole in the amount

[48:37] of $27,94720

[48:40] for the Sland Par Police Jury Department of Public Works building payable from

[48:44] spons received through act 776. I'll make the motion.

[48:48] » I miss

[48:54] » Mr. Ros. >> Yes.

[48:56] Item 12, approve invoice from H. Davis Cole in the amount of $11,97920

[49:04] for the Otis and Willie Matthews Road cover replacement project payable upon

[49:07] receipt of funds from disaster recovery 4611.

[49:10] » I just want to see some of the progress on that bridge and how it's coming

[49:15] together.

[49:20] » It's looking pretty good.

[49:26] Yeah, they're going they're going to do the guardrails. What next week?

[49:30] » Tomorrow. >> Tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow. So, the

[49:31] guardrails going to be installed next.

[49:43] » Mr. W. >> I make the motion.

[49:45] » I don't like it.

[49:49] » M. >> Yes.

[49:51] » Mr. >> Yes.

[49:52] » Mr. Morgan. >> Yes.

[49:54] » Mr. Yes, Mr. Watson.

[49:56] » Yes. >> Item number 13 on the agenda, approve

[50:00] test order number 11 between the Sandland Parish Police Jury and H. Davis

[50:05] Cole and Associates LLC for the Sandland Parish Flood Mitigation Project drainage

[50:10] improvements along Joseph Branch and LA Highway 10, which was damaged as a

[50:14] result of flooding during Hurricane Ida. >> So, let me let me speak on this. So this

[50:21] is um act was called it back in the 2016 flood. It was part of that application.

[50:28] Um and this is really to address the flood that happens under the hills,

[50:33] right? That's been going on for years. And so fast forwarding to 2025, one of

[50:41] the problems we had with this project that we couldn't get it moving is we

[50:44] didn't have the match money to go along with it. Um since then we've worked out

[50:49] the office of community development have a global match so the parents don't have

[50:53] to come out of pocket on anything but working with um our our parish engineer

[50:59] firm along with the states firm we were able to take this project and really

[51:03] elevate it to the next level. So what what we have the approval for right now

[51:08] is just phase one which is like $580 some thousand dollars of improvements

[51:13] but ultimately we we have funded from FEMA is close to $5 million for this. So

[51:19] so and again we don't have to spend a penny of the parish money. All this will

[51:24] be funded um 100%. So this going to help us um do some of that. Mr. Cole is here.

[51:32] he could kind of give you some of the examples of uh what we plan to do. I

[51:37] know some elevations and >> yeah, we're um we're looking at

[51:40] elevating under the hill road. There's a bridges or box there

[51:46] increase and up size and then also the channel itself go branch part of the

[51:51] funding they want us to use green infrastructure techniques. looking at

[51:56] maybe some recreational component trail.

[52:09] » So, so again, this is a drainage project. Um, but but because we know we

[52:13] have limited resource in the parish, we have tried to be creative and tie in the

[52:18] needs into whatever way we can get. Um, we we also going to be proposing some

[52:23] things later on for the fifth ward park as well that we may be able to do some

[52:29] drainage work there to help them accomplish what they're trying to do

[52:32] with those baseball fields as well and team up with them. So, we we have some

[52:37] stuff in the works that we could talk about with that on some LWI buddies.

[52:47] » Second. >> Yes.

[52:49] » Yes. Yes.

[52:52] » Mr. Watson. >> Yeah.

[52:54] » Item number 14 on the agenda to Mr. Rogers Matthews.

[52:58] » Good evening. I'm the brief um OEP report. So, right now, again, we're in

[53:03] hurricane season. Um so, we are actively monitoring everything that goes on. We

[53:08] have a couple um systems that's out there now. One they think is forming

[53:14] coming towards the east coast. Nothing that's saying is going to come to our

[53:18] area just yet, but our eyes are open. We're trying to make sure that we're

[53:23] keeping an eye on what's going on so that if we have an event, we can get out

[53:29] early and start alerting people and preparing to um just hunker down in and

[53:33] bear through it. Uh last week I attended the Brownsfield conference uh in

[53:38] Chicago. Brownsfields is something that we have a lot in Sanina Parish.

[53:43] Brownfield deals with a lot of the older buildings that were built with a vestas

[53:49] um lead paint those things in it. And so the federal government had money set

[53:54] aside to go in and rehabilitate those facilities. So one of the facilities

[54:00] that I met with um the EPA on at the conference was the Pine Grove um school.

[54:07] And so we have a couple challenges there that we have to get past, not just

[54:11] because of the vesters and lead, but because the colony of endangered bats

[54:16] that's at that thing. And so I put it on that table and let them know that, hey,

[54:21] we want to mitigate this property, but we have to deal with the bats and

[54:25] because it's a dangerous species, we have to have them migrated to another

[54:30] colony or things like that. What I'm trying to do is maybe reach out to a

[54:34] couple zoos, see if they want to maybe have a display of bats because they're

[54:38] endangered. They can have them over there. We migrate them. They'll have a

[54:41] nice environment that they can be in and then we can get in there and do the

[54:45] work. Now, once we do that, what this grant will allow us to do is to clean

[54:50] that property up, get all that contaminants out of the ground, and then

[54:54] redevelop it. We need a grocery store. We need, you know, housing. We need um

[55:00] you know child care centers, schools, and so as we mitigate these properties

[55:05] that we have, we're also looking to get money to redevelop and put things uh in

[55:10] these areas that we need. We need parks in that area. So kind of just we're just

[55:15] kind of keeping our eyes, our minds open to the possibility once we can get it

[55:19] clean, then what we could put back um that would benefit um the group. And so

[55:25] just like we did with the solar panel thing, we really need to do some SWAT

[55:29] analysis with those communities and really see what the people desires are,

[55:34] see what they want. Um, so that's all I have pretty much for the

[55:40] report. Item B is signing a renewal of Crowd Strike. Crowd Strike is what we

[55:45] use for our anti- virus, anti-malware software on our computers. Uh I don't

[55:52] know if you can remember a while back you know the system was hacked a few

[55:56] years the state had to come in take over everything and so the state did they

[56:01] came in they put firewalls in place but this last year when we did the cyber

[56:06] security study with them they put in this crowd strike software so crowd

[56:12] strike is the leading software when it comes to um security on PCs and so we're

[56:20] just signing agree to continue to use their endpoint software on our devices

[56:26] and this is not costing us anything as well.

[56:31] » I second it. >> Mr.

[56:33] » Yeah. M. >> Yes. Mr.

[56:35] » Yes. >> Yes. Mr.

[56:37] » Yeah. >> Okay. Item C is um so you know we

[56:44] attended the Nico conference in Philadelphia. Nico is the National uh

[56:49] Association of County Officials and Nico does a lot to help bring funding into uh

[56:57] not just local government but rural areas. U they lobby to um to Congress in

[57:04] Washington DC. They try to help us get bills passed that we need. um they

[57:09] helped us kind of go to Washington, meet with our senator, um Senator Cassidy and

[57:15] Congresswoman Menlo. And so they do a lot to help development get funding and

[57:20] function. They do a lot of trainings. And so I'm proud to announce that I was

[57:25] appointed for the second year to two committees with this organization. One

[57:29] is the IT standing committee. Again, it is my background. So I serve on that.

[57:35] And also I was uh appointed to the rural action caucus. Now the rural action

[57:40] caucus we meet and it's all about places like St. Helena and finding money. How

[57:46] can rural areas get money? We can't compete with big areas because we don't

[57:50] have those funds but it they help us kind of find ways to bring the money

[57:55] that you see coming into the parish is a result of you know kind of meeting and

[58:00] being on these committees. So this is just a FYI uh that I was appointed by

[58:05] the president to these two committees. >> Congratulations.

[58:10] » Thank you. Um item D. Also FYI, um myself and my deputy OP director Tony

[58:18] Melton, we attended uh disaster debris management training and you have a copy

[58:24] of our certificates for completing that training in your packet. Let me say this

[58:28] here. The biggest thing that we deal with in storms is debris. That's that's

[58:34] the big that's the biggest money that we have to put out is debris. You know,

[58:38] we're rural. We have a lot of vegetation, a lot of trees, and when

[58:42] when when it comes through, it's a lot of cleanup. We have to clean up for a

[58:47] long time. And so there's so many rules with that. If we make a mistake and do

[58:53] the wrong thing, then the parish is on the hook. They have to pay a lot of this

[58:57] money. So, we want to make sure that we keep ourselves trained and certified so

[59:02] we know how to manage it and know we're getting the best bang for our buck and

[59:06] the parish can recruit as much money as possible. And that's all I have.

[59:13] » Thank you. >> Item 15 on the agendas with the RBM

[59:16] department. A is to transfer Derek Cass from road district number three to RBM.

[59:21] And B is to hire Ricardo Patty as road district 3 labor at 1350 per hour

[59:26] effective upon passing a drug screen and physical.

[59:29] » I'll make the motion A and B. >> Second.

[59:33] » I'll second. >> Yes.

[59:36] » Yes. >> Yes.

[59:40] » Yeah. >> Item 16 on the agenda. acknowledge

[59:44] receipt of work reports as submitted by superintendent and you do have a Mr.

[59:48] Matthews does have a slide. >> So again, it just kind of like give you

[59:51] a breakdown so you can kind of see what's going on. So right now we still

[59:55] in grass cutting season. A bulk of the work that's happening uh in the

[59:59] districts is going to be around mowing. Um but we we have some other things that

[1:00:04] we're doing as well that's just as important to trying to keep the roads

[1:00:09] looking good. The cos that's a that's a big big thing. That's something that

[1:00:14] hadn't really been addressed in the past like it should have been. And right now

[1:00:19] from the beginning of the year to today, we have put over 80 new cos in the

[1:00:25] ground. What this is is this is how we have the drainage. We could go out, we

[1:00:30] could build as many roads as possible, but if the drainage is not right, that

[1:00:34] water is just going to tear that road up again. So again, we want to take a

[1:00:38] strategic approach to our roads and make sure when we build a road, it can last

[1:00:43] for 15, 20 years. We don't have to go back a year later because water has

[1:00:48] washed something away. And that happens by putting in these cos and and and

[1:00:52] recognize drainage. Drainage is a very important part of public works. Um you

[1:00:58] know, grading the the the railroads. We have that that motorbraider that we

[1:01:02] purchased. Um, that helps us keep the railroads good. Patching potholes,

[1:01:08] putting up signs. That's something that we do a lot of times. You know, we have

[1:01:11] to try to get signs replaced. Tree removal as we have these little storms

[1:01:16] that happen, you know, in the days. Trees fall down over the road. They're

[1:01:21] on side the road. And so, our crew is is is constantly going out and and dealing

[1:01:27] with this and hauling out material. But what I want to say is we have an

[1:01:32] excellent group of individuals that work in our public work department. I I think

[1:01:37] they are the the highlight of police jury right now. The work that they do is

[1:01:42] amazing. These guys go out late at night. They're clearing roadways. Um I

[1:01:48] mean they're they're putting in the work. They're working in the heat

[1:01:51] constantly. Um weed eating, picking up trash, but they get it done. We have an

[1:01:57] excellent team. um right now and you know I we we definitely need to

[1:02:02] appreciate them and the work that they do. So I just wanted to make a note of

[1:02:05] that. >> Can can I ask a question too?

[1:02:08] » Uh this is actually going toward uh Mr. Mr. Coleman that work for the sheriff

[1:02:13] department. Can we get a list of of the roads that they actually pick up so we

[1:02:17] can keep a track on what they do too? >> So he meets him and Brandon is tied

[1:02:21] together. Brandon give them a schedule where they're going to be at. They

[1:02:24] coordinate so they can kind of go and try to clean. Now, he has one crew,

[1:02:29] right? And and and we thank the sheriff for that one crew, but we still have our

[1:02:36] districts have to clean up a lot of the trash. So, so the same guys that's

[1:02:40] cutting the the grass, the same guys that's doing weed, they also have to go

[1:02:45] out there and pick up trash. I mean, they they doing it all. So, that's why I

[1:02:49] wanted to highlight them. But it's a great help that we do have the sheriff

[1:02:53] moving through and they're kind of getting some of the roads and we try to

[1:02:56] prioritize what roads may have the most trash or be long. There's like a lot of

[1:03:03] districts up in the the first district. There's a lot of long roads. It's a lot

[1:03:07] of traveling. So, we try to prioritize the road that we get their help on, but

[1:03:12] the two of them been working excellent. I just want to empas emper

[1:03:20] um it definitely helps us but >> they still have to get out there and

[1:03:24] pick up trash on the road that they can only do so much.

[1:03:26] » Okay. >> We try to get ahead of the cut crew. So

[1:03:29] we go out there pick up one cut. >> Okay.

[1:03:34] » So that's why I coordinate with public work. We get ahead of cut.

[1:03:42] We go down there. He come behind us the next day. One day, one day he was behind

[1:03:47] us.

[1:03:51] He cut behind us coming. We made it.

[1:03:58] » I get a motion and second. I'll make a motion.

[1:04:01] » I second. Mr. >> Yes.

[1:04:04] » Yes. >> M.

[1:04:05] » Yes. >> M.

[1:04:07] » Mr. >> Yes. Yes.

[1:04:09] » Item 17 of food.

[1:04:14] » Anybody know anybody who need community service?

[1:04:18] » Anybody we can use them on our >> So who we get a hold of? You

[1:04:26] » Yes.

[1:04:29] DWI something like 32 hours. My name is on the sheet.

[1:04:38] Sometime

[1:04:47] you do. >> Yeah.

[1:04:51] » I need my wife in about a month. I need my wife about

[1:05:08] Item number 17, approve requisitions as copies submitted by first agent.

[1:05:17] » I'll second it. >> Yes. to the

[1:05:22] » Mr.

[1:05:28] » Yes. >> Yes.

[1:05:30] » Okay.

[1:05:34] » What date? >> About two weeks about a week or two ago.

[1:05:38] Same thing. >> Item number 18, approve checks written

[1:05:44] after the last regular meeting in the amount of 669,53394.

[1:05:50] I'll make the motion. >> Second, Mr.

[1:05:53] » Yes. M. >> Yes.

[1:05:55] » Yes. >> Yes.

[1:05:57] » Yes. Oh yes. >> Item number 19 is to enter into

[1:06:01] executive session to discuss strategy regarding upcoming September 2025th

[1:06:05] trials in federal court litigation Antoine Jackson versus Fland Parish

[1:06:09] Police Jury. >> I

[1:06:25] I wasn't [Music]

[1:10:24] [Music]

[1:15:49] At this time, you entertain a motion to reconvene back into regular session.

[1:15:54] » I'll second it. >> Yes.

[1:15:58] » Yes. Yes. >> Yes.

[1:16:01] » Is there anything action to bring into a vote out?

[1:16:06] » No action. Okay. >> And number 20 is just an FYI. The

[1:16:10] deadline to submit item for the August 26th meeting is 12 p.m. on Monday,

[1:16:14] August 18th. And the deadline to submit for the 2026 budget is September 30th.

[1:16:19] And if there's no further business to bring before the board, Mr. President, I

[1:16:24] entertain a motion to adjourn. I'll make it.

[1:16:26] » I'll second it.

St. Helena Police Jury - Regular Session (8/12/25)

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