2024-12-04 CPC Special Session

The Caddo Parish Commission held a special session on December 4, 2024, primarily to discuss and adopt the 2025 operating and capital improvements budgets. Key procurement-related discussions focused on budget allocations for personnel positions, including debates over the inclusion or exclusion of a marketing coordinator, parks technician, and a proposed economic development coordinator. Commissioner erson proposed amending the budget to remove the marketing coordinator and fund an economic development coordinator position at $100,000 from the general fund, but this motion failed to pass with a 6-6 vote. Ultimately, the commission approved the original budget ordinance 6477 through 6504, including a $144,000 direct appropriation from the Eddie Jones Housing Trust Fund to the Grace Community project, and retained all administration-proposed positions. The commission also discussed procedural rules for budget adoption and the process for future budget amendments, emphasizing that new positions could be added through amendments in 2025 after further committee discussions. No new positions were created during this session, and the budget was adopted as proposed by the administration.