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BOARD MEMBER COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES

 

 

The St. Martin Parish School Board shall provide an expense allowance and provide for expense reimbursement for its members in accordance with state law.  School Board members shall also 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.  Reimbursement shall be at the same rate paid to elected state officials.

 

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 the time and place where the meeting is to be held to consider the expense allowance in the official journal of the School Board on at least two (2) separate days during the fifteen (15) days immediately preceding such meeting.

 

Revised:  August, 2004

Revised:  May, 2007

 

 

Ref:    Constitution of Louisiana, Art. VIII, Sec. 8 (a)

La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:56, 17:81

Board minutes, 5-5-04, 2-26-07, 6-6-07

 

St. Martin Parish School Board