April 2026

The biggest item on the agenda for the April 20, 2026 LPL Board of Control meeting is the proposed changes to the board’s bylaws regarding board member absences. You’ll recall from our post in January that according to current board bylaws, members who have missed four (4) meetings in a 12-month period are presumed to have resigned their position. You’ll also recall that in September of last year the city and parish councils passed a joint ordinance also addressing absenteeism on boards and commissions, which stated that, in the absence of specific board rules, members who miss three (3) consecutive meetings are subject to removal. 

Based on this information, it appears that the board is planning to change their own bylaws to more closely follow the current parishwide ordinance. The proposed change keeps the current board’s four meetings in a twelve month period language, but adds the ordinance’s three consecutive absences clause. It also removes the language that states the board member will have presumed to have resigned, replacing it with the ordinance’s language that the board member is instead subject to removal. 

On the face of the issue, we’re happy the board is working to come in line with the parish ordinance. It’s important to have a single set of rules in order to avoid the consequences of two sets of rules-confusion at best and lawsuits at worst. However, given that board member Daniel Kelly also missed the February meeting, bringing his grand total in the past twelve months to six meetings missed, it remains to be seen as to whether the board or the council will now take action.