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File #: 2025-0161    Version: Name: Adopt appropriation of Funds for the St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2026
Type: Ordinance Status: Public Hearing
File created: 9/22/2025 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 10/30/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: An ordinance to approve and adopt the appropriation of Funds for the St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2026.
Sponsors: Matthew Jewell, Department of Finance
Indexes: Budget, Finance (Dept. of)
Attachments: 1. 2025-0161 CALENDAR OF OFFICIAL ACTION FOR 2026 BUDGET, 2. 2025-0161 Correspondence 06.05.2025, 3. 2025-0161 2026 Requested Exhibit A&B, 4. Executive Summary 10.02.2025, 5. 2026 Proposed Annual Budget, 6. hearing-date-2026-, 7. 2026 COUNCIL BUDGET - BOOKMARKED, 8. 2026 BUDGET DATA - BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, 9. 2026 Budget Amendments

2025-0161

INTRODUCED BY:                     MATTHEW JEWELL, PARISH PRESIDENT

(DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE)

ORDINANCE NO.  __________

Title

An ordinance to approve and adopt the appropriation of Funds for the St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2026.

Body

WHEREAS,                     in accordance with Article V, Section B of the St. Charles Parish Home Rule Charter and Louisiana Local Government Budget Act (R.S. 39:1301 et. seq.) the Parish President has submitted the St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 to the St Charles Parish Council to wit:

                                                               Section I                                          General Fund

                                                               Section II                                          Special Revenue Funds (9)

                                                               Section III                                          Debt Service Funds (6)

                                                               Section IV                                          Capital Projects Funds (4)

                                                               Section V                                          Enterprise Funds (3)

WHEREAS,                     in accordance with Article V, Section C of the St. Charles Parish Home Rule Charter, the Parish President has submitted a Budget Message to the St. Charles Parish Council; and,

WHEREAS,                     the Parish Council has taken under advisement the study of the Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget.

THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION I.                     That in accordance with Article V, Sections D and E of the St. Charles Parish Home Rule Charter and with the Louisiana Local Government Budget Act (R.S. 39:1301 et. seq.), the St. Charles Parish Council does hereby ordain to adopt the 2026 St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget attached hereto and made a part hereof and identified herewith as "Exhibit A" and “Exhibit B”, to become effective January 1, 2026.

SECTION II.                     That said budget shall become effective January 1, 2026.

The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:

 

 

 

 

And the ordinance was declared adopted this ______ day of ___________, 2025.  The provisions of this Ordinance shall become effective January 1, 2026.

 

 

CHAIRMAN:                                                                                                                               

SECRETARY:                                                                                                                               

DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:                                                                                     

APPROVED :                       DISAPPROVED:                                           

 

PARISH PRESIDENT:                                                                                                          

RETD/SECRETARY:                                                                                                           

AT:                        RECD BY: