Caddo Parish Commission adopts a package of ordinances and approves $10 million limited tax bond ordinance

During its regular session the Caddo Parish Commission considered public hearings and final passage for a slate of standard ordinances and budget items, and it took specific action on a bond ordinance.

Clerk read public hearings for the 2026 operating and capital improvements budget ordinances (numbers 6568–6595) and several other ordinances, including ordinance 6596 of 2025 (an ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of not exceeding $10,000,000 in limited tax revenue bonds), amendments to the 2025 riverboat and oil and gas funds, fee schedule changes, park alcohol rules, solar farm regulations and a surplus adjudicated property sale ordinance (6601). No public speakers registered during the hearings.

Commissioner John Paul Young moved to adopt sections of ordinances en bloc; after a substitute motion the chair put the question and the clerk announced the en bloc motion carried as recorded. The commission then considered ordinance 6596 separately; Commissioner Stefan Jones moved for adoption and, after a vote, the clerk announced the motion carried with 8 in support, 1 in opposition and 3 absent.

Clerk also introduced zoning item ordinance 6603 (rezoning property at 10222 Linwood Avenue from C-2 to C-3) and ordinance 6602 (authorization to lease a flood-acquisition property at 610 Tire Road) for public hearings scheduled at the December 4 regular session.

The measures adopted en bloc and the bond ordinance will proceed according to the clerks' recording of votes; the meeting record does not attach detailed budget amounts for each ordinance in the transcript excerpts beyond the bond issuance cap referenced in ordinance 6596.