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December 23, 2010During their final meeting of 2010, and as an add-on item to their already public agenda, members of the Terrebonne Economic Development Authority Board of Commissioners selected new officers last Tuesday.
Don Hingle, one of the original TEDA members in 1999, was chosen to serve as chairman with no opposition. He will fill the position held during the past year by Matthew Armand.
Hingle is the bayou regional president of Business First Bank and said he would like to see the business development organization he now heads become more recognizable in the region.
“Not a lot of people know what TEDA does,” Hingle said. “We want to get out more to the public.”
Hingle had served as vice-chairman in 2010 and was appointed to TEDA by the South Central Industrial Association in 2005.
Investment management consultant Colin Seibert of Morgan Keegan was elected to be vice-chairman following an 8-4 vote, in which he beat board member and Tri-Parish Times publisher Darrin Guidry for the only position that had more than one person nominated.
Seibert moves to this position after having been the organization’s treasurer during 2010. His was appointment to TEDA by the Terrebonne Parish Council in 2009.
Ken Jenkins was named to become secretary. He is a systems analyst for the South Central Planning and Development Corporation and was appointed to TEDA by the Terrebonne Parish Council in August 2010. He will fill a position held by Charles Adams.
Business consultant Clarence Williams of Technical Marine Maintenance Service and Clarence Williams LLC was named to be treasurer. He takes over that office from Seibert. Williams is among the members that were appointed to TEDA by the Terrebonne Parish Council. His appointment came in 2007.
One of the first items of business for the Board of Commissioners in 2011 will be a national search for a new CEO following the dismissal this month of Mike Ferdinand from that position. A search committee was described as comprising the four new executives plus two at large board members at the discretion of the board chairman.
