Iberia Parish Council approves salary changes, amends president pay
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The council amended the 2025 general fund to correct and set the parish president’s salary and approved salary increases for the clerk and assistant clerks, citing the Home Rule Charter and budget line-item adjustments.
The Iberia Parish Council on Nov. 19 amended the 2025 general fund to adjust the parish president’s annual salary and approved a package of pay increases for the clerk and assistant clerks.
Council members debated a corrected total for resolution 2:77 before adopting an amendment read aloud by Scott Rosslyn that set the parish president’s salary at $188,383.05 (with related benefit adjustments). The amendment and the main motion carried after a machine/voice vote.
Council also passed separate resolutions increasing the clerk of council’s pay grade (resolution 2:78) to $72,609.75, assistant clerk I (2:79) to $48,120.88 and assistant clerk II (2:80) to $36,927.80; sponsors said the changes conform to section 2-10 of the Iberia Parish Home Rule Charter.
Members who spoke during debate emphasized the charter-driven nature of the adjustments and noted prior discussion at earlier meetings. The council recorded no itemized individual vote tallies in the public transcript; chairs instructed members to vote by voting machine.
The council said the increases will be funded from the general fund or from previously identified fund-balance line items and treated as budgeted adjustments under the charter. The measures carry forward existing administrative pay-grade structure and were approved during the meeting.