Philip Rodgers, who represents District 3 on the Bossier Parish Police Jury, has been elected president of the public body for the 2024 term. Rodgers was elected Wednesday to the top spot at the opening of the jury’s inaugural meeting of the new year.

Rodgers was elected to his second term on the police jury in October, 2023.

Picked to serve as Vice President was Glenn Benton, the District 2 member who was  appointed to the police jury in May, 2007 to fill an unexpired term and has served uninterrupted since that time.

Three new members received the oath of office Wednesday, joining nine incumbents for the new year. Taking their first vows were Pam Glorioso, District 9; Julian Darby, District 10; and Kevin Sutton, District 12. Glorioso and Sutton defeated incumbents while Julian Darby won the seat held for nearly four decades by his brother, Jerome Darby, who did not seek reelection.

Jury members also voted another one-year term for parish administrator Butch Ford, handing him another extension since his appointment in 2022. Receiving two-year appointments were parish secretary (interim) Megan Ramos and parish treasurer Staci Fernandez.

Wednesday’s meeting also saw jury members adopt a pair of resolutions ordering elections later this year for millage tax renewals. One special election to be held parish-wide will seek to renew a 7.57 mill tax for operating the Bossier Parish Library System.

Millage revenue is the only funding source for equipping, maintaining and operating seven public library facilities plus a history center. Bossier Parish voters barely approved a renewal of the 10-year library tax in 2014 by 444 votes.

A second resolution approved holding an election in the Cypress-Black Bayou Recreation and Water Conversation District on Saturday, April 27. That election will seek to renew a 1.54 mill tax funding operations at the Cypress-Black Bayou facilities.