Annie Lovell
January 28, 2008January 30
January 30, 2008The Lafourche Parish Council adopted salary adjustments last week for three non-civil service employees with the Lafourche Parish Head Start Program.
“The teachers’ salary increases are calculated based on the salary scale for Head Start instructors. They each have different degrees and different levels of experience, which determines what their new hourly rates will be,” said parish Human Resources Manager Kristy Chiasson.
Barbara Wise, Mary Cortez and Troyelene Wallace obtained additional early childhood education degrees in December of 2007, said Head Start Director Martha Babin.
The pay hike will give them a 3.8 percent or (50 cents hourly) salary increase.
Chiasson said all non-civil service employee salary adjustments have to go before the parish council for approval. In the past, the council would adjust the salaries once the certification was achieved.
However, Babin recommended that the salaries be adjusted twice a year, once in January and again in July.
“The salary increases have to go before two boards – the parish council and the Head Start Policy Committee. We want to have a set time to adjust the salary schedules for the end of the fall and spring semesters,” she said.
The funds for the pay increase will come from the federal Head Start grant.
Chiasson said the grant also pays for teachers to obtain additional certifications.
In other business, the parish council also appropriated 2007 revenue money to perform repairs on a rental playing field in Recreation District 4.
; appropriated additional funds for the Upper Larose Pump Station project; and reduced the drainage servitude agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Troy Gilfour and the parish government.
• Accepted the Crossing North Subdivision into the parish.
• Approved a resolution for a contract with St. Martin Group LLC to provide consulting services to the parish government and planning commission for 2008.
• Approved a resolution authorizing Parish President Charlotte Randolph to sign, execute and administer an Act of Transfer and Acceptance Development for a portion of Delta Farm Road, Louisiana Highway 657.
• Approved a resolution for a cooperative agreement between parish government for the use of a South Central Planning and Development Commission’s pictometry database in 2008.
• Approved a resolution for a cooperative endeavor agreement for parish government to provide funding for the 2008 Operations and Capital Expense of the Lafourche Parish Council on Aging, Inc.
• Approved a resolution requesting that the parish administration meet with the mayor of Golden Meadow to hire an engineer to begin work on the streets in Golden Meadow to be funded by Road Sales Tax District 2.
• Appointed Alvin Landry to the Fire Protection District No. 1 Board.
• Appointed Rodney Gautreaux and Ernest Boudreaux to the Fire District No. 7 Board.
• Approved a resolution for an Intergovernmental Agreement between the parish government and the parish sheriff’s office, city of Thibodaux, town of Lockport and town of Golden Meadow for the Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter.
• Approved a resolution allowing the Lafourche Parish Office of Community Action to purchase a truck under state contract for the weatherization program.
• Approved a resolution accepting the low bid of Trane U.S., Inc. in the amount of $56,028 for the replacement of the chiller system in the historic Courthouse building in Thibodaux
• Approved a resolution to support the parish government’s grant application with the state of Louisiana, Governor’s Office of Rural Development, and Parish Bridge Repair Program.
• Approved a Letter of Commitment/Agreement between state of Louisiana, Governor’s Office of Rural Development and the parish government for the 2007-08 Parish Bridge Repair Program.
