Meeting Summary

This was the St. Charles Parish Council's public budget hearing on October 28, 2025, devoted almost entirely to a line-by-line review of the proposed 2026 Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget (File No. 2025-0161). Parish President Matthew Jewell presented a $257.1 million governmental-funds budget that continues millage-rate reductions and heavy drainage/levee spending, department heads and elected officials (judges, the DA, clerk of court, sheriff, registrar of voters, etc.) answered council questions on their individual budgets, and the council approved several budget-transfer amendments, but the main budget ordinance itself was not adopted at this meeting; it remains open for further public hearings later in the week.