FILE:  BBBE

Cf:  DJD

 

BOARD MEMBER COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES

 

 

The Lafayette Parish School Board shall provide a monthly expense allowance for its members in accordance with state law and at a rate set by the School Board.  Each member of the School Board shall receive $800.00 per month and the President shall receive $900.00 per month.  In addition, School Board members shall be authorized to receive reimbursement for mileage going to and from meetings as well as reimbursement for actual travel and related expenses outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the School Board while on official School Board business, all in accordance with School Board policy DJD, Expense Reimbursements.

 

Any action decreasing the compensation for School Board members shall not take effect during the term for which they were elected.  Any action increasing the compensation for School Board members shall require a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the total membership.  Before any action is taken, however, the School Board shall advertise in the official journal of the Board the time and place of a meeting to consider the expense allowance.  The advertisement shall appear on at least two (2) separate days during the fifteen (15) days immediately preceding such meeting.

 

Adopted:  August 1, 1973

Revised:  June 4, 1986

Revised:  May 1, 1974

Revised:  April 19, 1989

Revised:  September 12, 1975

Revised:  November 7, 1990

Revised:  November, 1975

Revised:  December 17, 1997

Revised:  April 18, 1979

Revised:  August 19, 1998

Revised:  October 15, 1980

Revised:  April 17, 2013

Revised:  March 19, 1986

Revised:  July 1, 2015

Revised:  May 21, 1986

 

 

 

Ref:    Constitution of Louisiana, Art. VI, Sec. 12, Art. VIII, Sec. 8, Art. X, Sec. 23

La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §17:56

Board minutes, 8-7-73, 5-1-74, 9-12-75, 11-75, 4-18-79, 10-15-80, 3-19-86, 5-21-86, 6-4-86, 4-19-89, 11-7-90, 12-17-97, 8-19-98, 4-17-13, 7-1-15

 

Lafayette Parish School Board