April 18, 2025 • 15 mins
Jody Purvis, the Superintendent of Livingston Parish Public Schools Joined Jim Chapman of Local Leaders the Podcast Louisiana as we discussed the importance of an upcoming renewal on the May 3rd ballot supported by the parish for nearly 70 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Local Leaders the podcast
and we have a guest today, first time on Local
Leaders and Podcasts. I'm gonna let him introduce himself and
then we're going to talk about what he's here for.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, Jody Purvis, the living some Paris Public School superintendent,
and I'm looking forward to having some great discussion this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Absolutely, we're gonna be talking about I don't know if
I call it everybody's favorite subject, milages. We've got a
renewal on the ballot coming up on the May third ballot,
and we're here to discuss that. There's been a lot
of talk about it and we want to get some
facts straight and put some things out there as to
(00:42):
what you can expect with this milage. So I guess
first let's get into the history of this millage.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, yeah, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This is our seven mil maintenance tax, our millage. This
is a millage that's been on the book since about
the nineteen fifties, so it's been renewed every ten years,
so over seventy years being renewed. And this is a
strictly our day to day maintenance millage. So this is
the millage that is used for those just those day
(01:13):
to day repairs that's needed in order for us to
have an environment that's conducive for kids for their education
as well as a safe environment for our students.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And I would imagine there's quite a bit of day
to day maintenance it goes on at schools. And for
the listeners out there, think about it. Think about when
you were in high school, middle school, if you can
remember elementary school. That's way far back for me, but
I can somewhat remember it. Things break, especially when kids
are involved. They're just not as careful as us adults,
(01:43):
and so i'd imagine that takes a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It does.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So I usually try to think of it in comparison
to my home. So at my home, you know, I
have my family, I'll have friends over, and I'm maintaining
my home for that. And you know, it's not having
incredible amount.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Of foot traffic and visitors in.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But each day we're opening our sites to over twenty
eight thousand individuals. That is a lot of traffic.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Lot of restroom use, that is a lot of square
footage to keep cooled into having working condition. Because we
have over five hundred and sixty buildings that's in our
district and we're maintaining four point three million square foot
of buildings.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Wow, that's massive.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So when you think of it like that, I mean,
I think that comparison is what helps you think of Okay, well,
this is not just a small amount of maintenance. This
is a large amount.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, it really is. And you know, when you sit
and think about it, there are several schools in the
district that are over twenty years old, some of them
over forty years old, and they're not new buildings. And
of course as these buildings age, things break easier. You've
got to swap things out because newer technology has come out,
(03:06):
maybe that you need those sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It is, and it really varies from campus to campus
based on the.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Age of those facilities.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
We have facilities that are dating back to nineteen eleven
is our oldest facility, all the way into our a
few of our current facilities that was rebuilt after the flood.
So we have a you know, a variety of ages,
which makes it tough when you're talking about how you
(03:36):
maintain those and how much maintenance is required at each
of those sites. And so it does vary, and I
think you. You know, you hit touched on this earlier.
When we're talking about students, that's a little different than
when we just have adults.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Students are you know, sometimes they're not as.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Careful, but we have to make sure that we're maintaining
regardless of what's going on in those camps, just to
make sure it's safe.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The common things like air conditioners breaking, drainage issues, Clocked
toilets absolutely, you know, as much should hate to talk
about it. It's common in schools, that is for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And actually, you know you mentioned clocked toilets. At one
point I said, when we were discussing you know what
this would look like, I said, maybe, well I should
get the number of toilets from every campus and show
you know how massive that number is. And yeah, we
didn't really do that, but when you think about it,
we have a large number of work orders that comes
in for plumbing. So last a year we had about
(04:40):
right at eleven hundred work orders that was placed in
just for clogged toilets and then or plumbing issues. And
then for our ac our HVAC systems, we had over
fifteen hundred work orders come in.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Wow, So that's just kind of to show.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The numbers, but when you're spread over fifty sites across
this pair, you have a lot of that's a lot
of ground to keep up.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That is a lot of grind to keep up. And
I can only imagine the amount of paint, you know,
just just paint peeling off, and you've got to repair
it and repaint over it, and you got to buy
that material. And that's where this millage is going. One
thing that is important to mention is this is a
dedicated millage.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Absolutely, yes, sir, this is dedicated strictly to maintenance. And
this is for that day to day maintenance and for
the small projects under one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So any project that we do or work order.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's put in if it is the cost is under
one hundred thousand, and it's for maintenance.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
This is the fun where it where it comes out of.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And typically we spend about eleven is expected to spend
about eleven million for our maintenance this year, and this
particular millage generates about six million, so you know we're
already about a five million deficit expected for that particular.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Fund, where then we have to use.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The second sales tax to backfill that account.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
To make up the difference there.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's also important to mention this isn't a new millage.
This is a renewal. So how long has roughly has
that been on the bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's been about seventy years and so it's been from
the nineteen fifties, and so this is strictly a renewal.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
This is not a new millage.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
This will not be where you would see an additional
millage when you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Your list of millages.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
This is a renewal, and a vote yes for this
millage will not increase the number of meals that's being paid.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Relative to the state. Let's talk about the size of
Livingston Parish's school system.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So we are one of the larger districts in Louisiana.
We're actually the eighth largest district in Louisiana. And you know,
the thing that I that I'm proud to say is
that we are the eighth largest. However, we are the
number tenth in the ranking. So we're in that top
ten ranking for performance in the state. And then when
(07:16):
we think about that part, just to take it a
little bit further, in that top ten in performance, we
spend the least amount per pupil on our expenditures. So
we are trying to make sure that we're efficient in
our spending. Our per pupil expenditure is about twelve thousand
(07:37):
per student. The state average is about fifteen thousand per student.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And several of those, yes, sir, and several of the
school other districts that's in that top ten are spending
twenty thousand per pupil or even twenty eight thousand per
pupil compared to Livingston Paris spending about twelve thousand her
pupil each year.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Good, good stewards of the people's money. Absolutely, that's what
I see. Let me ask you as well, So it's
going to be on the ballot. What if it were
not to pass, what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, I mean, this is a critical millage for day
to day repairs. And if this is not successful in
the renewal, and you know it's been renewed for seventy
seventy years, If this was not successfully renewed, the funding
for this particular maintenance, these day to day maintenance would.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Have to come from a different account.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And when those which would be of the second sales
tax account. And so there's already things allocated to that
second sales account. So then you're having to determine and
make some hard decisions on what are you going to
do because you've lost the six million dollars from that
(08:59):
budget and you know it. Sometimes it's very difficult when
you look at public entities and the way budgeting works
for public entities, because a lot of times it's easy
to think, okay, where you're you know, you have a
four hundred million dollar budget, so why can't you just
pull from this account or that account? And we're talking
about a public entity and you're talking about the millages.
(09:23):
Those millages are passed, and they're passed for a specific purpose.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And you can't change that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
The vote of the people when they voted and passed that,
they voted for it to be for a specific purpose,
and you have to guarantee that it's spent for that
specific purpose.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's right, it's ear marked and exact. Personally, I think
that a community thrives when they have two things, a
great police department, a great sheriff's department, uh low crime,
and phenomenal schools. That's where they thrive. Those are the
two keys to a growing communit unity into a successful
(10:02):
community so just consider that.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And I think that's a good point for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And you know, as a parent and had a child
that recently graduated from our system, it was he received
a quality education in a public school system, where others
that may be attending private school or living in a
parish where the public school.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Is not quite as strong as Livising is.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But that may be tough. But for us, we are fortunate.
We are we have a high performing district. We have
a supportive community because yes, the school system is high performing,
but if we didn't have that community's support, we would struggle.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It would be much much more.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Difficult because it doesn't take it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We can't do it alone.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We have to have this support from our parents, the
support from our community because as a team, we're all
working together. That's where our support comes from, and that's
what makes us strong.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I agree with that one hundred percent. And three I
put three through Livings to parish public schools all of
LSU now that were fully prepared and they're doing great
in college. And that told me something right there, but
more than anything else. And you know, I'm not going
to pick on other parishes, but I have friends in
other parishes and their kids go to private school, and
(11:23):
the reason they go to private school is because the
public schools there are just not on par in their opinion,
and we didn't have to do that here. I said.
A lot of money, Jeddie Purvis, I tell.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You, and I think that's what keeps our Parish the
you know, solid like it is, is having a system
that attracts individuals from the outside and keeps those individuals
here because they're here, and then they're able to use
some of the funds that maybe they were going to
(11:56):
have to pay some of that tuition and another entity
they're able to use that toward a house node or whatever.
So I think that's it's a huge benefit to keep
that and maintain that strong school system.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yes, I agree, And if you need more information, I've
got some flyers that I'm going to post on the
Local Leaders of Podcasts facebook page that really break down
in detail what we talked about today and look important
dates that we want to give you give them the
(12:30):
early voting dates and the election date for.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
This absolutely, the early voting is the nineteenth through the
twenty sixth of April, and I'm going to urge you
to take advantage of that because We never know what's
going to happen on voting on the actual election day,
which is May third, but there's you know, sometimes those
weekends are busy and we get caught up. So we're
(12:55):
going to encourage you to take advantage of that early
voting April nineteenth through April twenty six, yep.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And then election day May third, But don't wait till
then right early. If you'll remember the last election, we
had it rained like crazy on election day and it
kept some people from the polls. So do it when
it's convenient that week of early voting, and you'll get
it out the way. We need as many people to
vote as possible. Let your voice be hears.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yes sir.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And look, the other thing is we encourage you.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
We encourage our listeners and the supporters in our Paris
to if you have questions, reach out to us. I
know there's lots of information out there on social media
or on different platforms. I would encourage you to reach
out directly to us with questions and not just rely
on some of those comments that you know, who knows
(13:48):
if those are actually facts. I am offering and extending
the opportunity for individuals in my office to answer whatever questions.
I'm offering for individuals too. Even if we have to
schedule appointments to show some information, we encourage that because
I want to make sure that we are informing the
(14:11):
voters so that they can make the decision that they
feel is the correct decision. But I want them to
be able to do that having the actual facts.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, I agree one hundred percent. So thank you
so much for coming on. Look, let me tell you
real quick. I appreciate the work you're doing. I appreciate
the work that the school board is doing. I couldn't
imagine having to do that. That takes a special person,
I believe, and y'all are doing a great job. I'm
(14:39):
proud of our schools here, so thank you for that.
I know I speak for a lot of people when
I say we appreciate it. I know y'all don't get
told that you know a lot, nor do you look
to get told that. So I'm gonna tell you, y'all
are doing great work. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
We appreciate y'all. We appreciate the support.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And I've said this every time I stood in front
of my staff as well as our school administrators and
any many parents.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It is an honor for me to do this.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It is something that I absolutely love and because I
love Livingston Parish. I'm a product of Livingston Parish and
I want Livingston Paris to continue to thrive.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Couldn't think any better way to end this episode than that,
So thank y'all for listening. Any questions, reach out to them,
like the Superintendent, Jeddie Purvis said, and until next time,
I'm Jim Chapman for local leaders and podcasts reminding you
love your community, support local business and local schools and
keep elating. Thank you very much,
Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Local Leaders the podcast
and we have a guest today, first time on Local
Leaders and Podcasts. I'm gonna let him introduce himself and
then we're going to talk about what he's here for.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, Jody Purvis, the living some Paris Public School superintendent,
and I'm looking forward to having some great discussion this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Absolutely, we're gonna be talking about I don't know if
I call it everybody's favorite subject, milages. We've got a
renewal on the ballot coming up on the May third ballot,
and we're here to discuss that. There's been a lot
of talk about it and we want to get some
facts straight and put some things out there as to
(00:42):
what you can expect with this milage. So I guess
first let's get into the history of this millage.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, yeah, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This is our seven mil maintenance tax, our millage. This
is a millage that's been on the book since about
the nineteen fifties, so it's been renewed every ten years,
so over seventy years being renewed. And this is a
strictly our day to day maintenance millage. So this is
the millage that is used for those just those day
(01:13):
to day repairs that's needed in order for us to
have an environment that's conducive for kids for their education
as well as a safe environment for our students.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And I would imagine there's quite a bit of day
to day maintenance it goes on at schools. And for
the listeners out there, think about it. Think about when
you were in high school, middle school, if you can
remember elementary school. That's way far back for me, but
I can somewhat remember it. Things break, especially when kids
are involved. They're just not as careful as us adults,
(01:43):
and so i'd imagine that takes a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It does.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So I usually try to think of it in comparison
to my home. So at my home, you know, I
have my family, I'll have friends over, and I'm maintaining
my home for that. And you know, it's not having
incredible amount.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Of foot traffic and visitors in.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But each day we're opening our sites to over twenty
eight thousand individuals. That is a lot of traffic.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Lot of restroom use, that is a lot of square
footage to keep cooled into having working condition. Because we
have over five hundred and sixty buildings that's in our
district and we're maintaining four point three million square foot
of buildings.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Wow, that's massive.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So when you think of it like that, I mean,
I think that comparison is what helps you think of Okay, well,
this is not just a small amount of maintenance. This
is a large amount.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, it really is. And you know, when you sit
and think about it, there are several schools in the
district that are over twenty years old, some of them
over forty years old, and they're not new buildings. And
of course as these buildings age, things break easier. You've
got to swap things out because newer technology has come out,
(03:06):
maybe that you need those sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It is, and it really varies from campus to campus
based on the.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Age of those facilities.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
We have facilities that are dating back to nineteen eleven
is our oldest facility, all the way into our a
few of our current facilities that was rebuilt after the flood.
So we have a you know, a variety of ages,
which makes it tough when you're talking about how you
(03:36):
maintain those and how much maintenance is required at each
of those sites. And so it does vary, and I
think you. You know, you hit touched on this earlier.
When we're talking about students, that's a little different than
when we just have adults.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Students are you know, sometimes they're not as.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Careful, but we have to make sure that we're maintaining
regardless of what's going on in those camps, just to
make sure it's safe.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The common things like air conditioners breaking, drainage issues, Clocked
toilets absolutely, you know, as much should hate to talk
about it. It's common in schools, that is for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And actually, you know you mentioned clocked toilets. At one
point I said, when we were discussing you know what
this would look like, I said, maybe, well I should
get the number of toilets from every campus and show
you know how massive that number is. And yeah, we
didn't really do that, but when you think about it,
we have a large number of work orders that comes
in for plumbing. So last a year we had about
(04:40):
right at eleven hundred work orders that was placed in
just for clogged toilets and then or plumbing issues. And
then for our ac our HVAC systems, we had over
fifteen hundred work orders come in.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Wow, So that's just kind of to show.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The numbers, but when you're spread over fifty sites across
this pair, you have a lot of that's a lot
of ground to keep up.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That is a lot of grind to keep up. And
I can only imagine the amount of paint, you know,
just just paint peeling off, and you've got to repair
it and repaint over it, and you got to buy
that material. And that's where this millage is going. One
thing that is important to mention is this is a
dedicated millage.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Absolutely, yes, sir, this is dedicated strictly to maintenance. And
this is for that day to day maintenance and for
the small projects under one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So any project that we do or work order.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's put in if it is the cost is under
one hundred thousand, and it's for maintenance.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
This is the fun where it where it comes out of.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And typically we spend about eleven is expected to spend
about eleven million for our maintenance this year, and this
particular millage generates about six million, so you know we're
already about a five million deficit expected for that particular.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Fund, where then we have to use.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The second sales tax to backfill that account.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
To make up the difference there.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's also important to mention this isn't a new millage.
This is a renewal. So how long has roughly has
that been on the bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's been about seventy years and so it's been from
the nineteen fifties, and so this is strictly a renewal.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
This is not a new millage.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
This will not be where you would see an additional
millage when you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Your list of millages.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
This is a renewal, and a vote yes for this
millage will not increase the number of meals that's being paid.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Relative to the state. Let's talk about the size of
Livingston Parish's school system.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So we are one of the larger districts in Louisiana.
We're actually the eighth largest district in Louisiana. And you know,
the thing that I that I'm proud to say is
that we are the eighth largest. However, we are the
number tenth in the ranking. So we're in that top
ten ranking for performance in the state. And then when
(07:16):
we think about that part, just to take it a
little bit further, in that top ten in performance, we
spend the least amount per pupil on our expenditures. So
we are trying to make sure that we're efficient in
our spending. Our per pupil expenditure is about twelve thousand
(07:37):
per student. The state average is about fifteen thousand per student.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And several of those, yes, sir, and several of the
school other districts that's in that top ten are spending
twenty thousand per pupil or even twenty eight thousand per
pupil compared to Livingston Paris spending about twelve thousand her
pupil each year.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Good, good stewards of the people's money. Absolutely, that's what
I see. Let me ask you as well, So it's
going to be on the ballot. What if it were
not to pass, what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, I mean, this is a critical millage for day
to day repairs. And if this is not successful in
the renewal, and you know it's been renewed for seventy
seventy years, If this was not successfully renewed, the funding
for this particular maintenance, these day to day maintenance would.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Have to come from a different account.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And when those which would be of the second sales
tax account. And so there's already things allocated to that
second sales account. So then you're having to determine and
make some hard decisions on what are you going to
do because you've lost the six million dollars from that
(08:59):
budget and you know it. Sometimes it's very difficult when
you look at public entities and the way budgeting works
for public entities, because a lot of times it's easy
to think, okay, where you're you know, you have a
four hundred million dollar budget, so why can't you just
pull from this account or that account? And we're talking
about a public entity and you're talking about the millages.
(09:23):
Those millages are passed, and they're passed for a specific purpose.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And you can't change that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
The vote of the people when they voted and passed that,
they voted for it to be for a specific purpose,
and you have to guarantee that it's spent for that
specific purpose.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's right, it's ear marked and exact. Personally, I think
that a community thrives when they have two things, a
great police department, a great sheriff's department, uh low crime,
and phenomenal schools. That's where they thrive. Those are the
two keys to a growing communit unity into a successful
(10:02):
community so just consider that.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And I think that's a good point for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And you know, as a parent and had a child
that recently graduated from our system, it was he received
a quality education in a public school system, where others
that may be attending private school or living in a
parish where the public school.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Is not quite as strong as Livising is.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But that may be tough. But for us, we are fortunate.
We are we have a high performing district. We have
a supportive community because yes, the school system is high performing,
but if we didn't have that community's support, we would struggle.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It would be much much more.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Difficult because it doesn't take it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We can't do it alone.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We have to have this support from our parents, the
support from our community because as a team, we're all
working together. That's where our support comes from, and that's
what makes us strong.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I agree with that one hundred percent. And three I
put three through Livings to parish public schools all of
LSU now that were fully prepared and they're doing great
in college. And that told me something right there, but
more than anything else. And you know, I'm not going
to pick on other parishes, but I have friends in
other parishes and their kids go to private school, and
(11:23):
the reason they go to private school is because the
public schools there are just not on par in their opinion,
and we didn't have to do that here. I said.
A lot of money, Jeddie Purvis, I tell.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You, and I think that's what keeps our Parish the
you know, solid like it is, is having a system
that attracts individuals from the outside and keeps those individuals
here because they're here, and then they're able to use
some of the funds that maybe they were going to
(11:56):
have to pay some of that tuition and another entity
they're able to use that toward a house node or whatever.
So I think that's it's a huge benefit to keep
that and maintain that strong school system.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yes, I agree, And if you need more information, I've
got some flyers that I'm going to post on the
Local Leaders of Podcasts facebook page that really break down
in detail what we talked about today and look important
dates that we want to give you give them the
(12:30):
early voting dates and the election date for.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
This absolutely, the early voting is the nineteenth through the
twenty sixth of April, and I'm going to urge you
to take advantage of that because We never know what's
going to happen on voting on the actual election day,
which is May third, but there's you know, sometimes those
weekends are busy and we get caught up. So we're
(12:55):
going to encourage you to take advantage of that early
voting April nineteenth through April twenty six, yep.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And then election day May third, But don't wait till
then right early. If you'll remember the last election, we
had it rained like crazy on election day and it
kept some people from the polls. So do it when
it's convenient that week of early voting, and you'll get
it out the way. We need as many people to
vote as possible. Let your voice be hears.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yes sir.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And look, the other thing is we encourage you.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
We encourage our listeners and the supporters in our Paris
to if you have questions, reach out to us. I
know there's lots of information out there on social media
or on different platforms. I would encourage you to reach
out directly to us with questions and not just rely
on some of those comments that you know, who knows
(13:48):
if those are actually facts. I am offering and extending
the opportunity for individuals in my office to answer whatever questions.
I'm offering for individuals too. Even if we have to
schedule appointments to show some information, we encourage that because
I want to make sure that we are informing the
(14:11):
voters so that they can make the decision that they
feel is the correct decision. But I want them to
be able to do that having the actual facts.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, I agree one hundred percent. So thank you
so much for coming on. Look, let me tell you
real quick. I appreciate the work you're doing. I appreciate
the work that the school board is doing. I couldn't
imagine having to do that. That takes a special person,
I believe, and y'all are doing a great job. I'm
(14:39):
proud of our schools here, so thank you for that.
I know I speak for a lot of people when
I say we appreciate it. I know y'all don't get
told that you know a lot, nor do you look
to get told that. So I'm gonna tell you, y'all
are doing great work. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
We appreciate y'all. We appreciate the support.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And I've said this every time I stood in front
of my staff as well as our school administrators and
any many parents.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It is an honor for me to do this.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It is something that I absolutely love and because I
love Livingston Parish. I'm a product of Livingston Parish and
I want Livingston Paris to continue to thrive.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Couldn't think any better way to end this episode than that,
So thank y'all for listening. Any questions, reach out to them,
like the Superintendent, Jeddie Purvis said, and until next time,
I'm Jim Chapman for local leaders and podcasts reminding you
love your community, support local business and local schools and
keep elating. Thank you very much,
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