A string of new appointments were announced as the Iberia Parish School board met Wednesday evening.

The meeting served as outgoing Superintendent Dale Henderson’s final regular school board meeting before Superintendent elect Carey Laviolette takes on her new role in July.

Henderson will have a final special meeting to attend Monday, July 25, as the board seeks a replacement for the late Edwin Buford Jr.,  who died June 4.

In a unanimous vote the board chose to elect an executive committee member at large, a committee on which Buford once sat. Dan LeBlanc was chosen for a spot on the committee in his place.

The domino effect of brand new administration and the positions they leave available trickled down to the appointments of a principal, assistant principal and Title I specialist for the parish.

Elizabeth Douzart has been named Title I Instructional Specialist. She is leaving her position as assistant principal at Raintree Elementary in St. Mary Parish to fill the role. 

Also at Wednesday night’s meeting Jaimie Martin is stepping up as principal from her assistant principal role at Loreauville Elementary and Racquelle Roberts is stepping up from her role as curriculum facilitator at Jeanerette High School to become the school’s new assistant principal.

A revamped mission, vision and belief statement was voted on and approved by a board goals committee and then approved by the entire board.

Assistant Superintendents elect Heath Hulin and Jennifer Joseph said they worked with students, teachers, parents, district staff, board president, chair of the policy committee and the chairman of the principals association to make the revisions.

“We really started with what we had and tried to update it with the times and programs that we have and what a model student from Iberia Parish should look like,” Hulin said. 

The assistant superintendent elect said another goal of the revised statement was to focus on community involvement. A copy of the new statements will be hung in every school board office and school in the parish. The new statement will be available for viewing when the board launches its new website July 1.

The board also voted to approve the employment contract for the board’s general counsel Wayne Landry for Jan. 1, 2019, to Dec. 31, 2020, in the amount of $85,000.