I agree dean should follow wma rules and that would fix everything and also no tree blinds on public land it would force people to do more work and people these days are lazy and will decide to just not go if they have to build a blind

Just finished my last phone conference with each board member. Looks like the votes are there to accomplish my objective. I hope there's enough time between now and opening day to implement whatever new policy they vote on.

Buying votes. Com

Fuckin "progressives"...

Someone got a big floating blind forsale on craigslist in breaux bridge for 6000. Looks like a Henderson blind.

After dean buys that blind he'll be backtracking and claiming his spot

Here are the proposed new regulations providing two options:

RESOLUTION
OF THE
ST. MARTIN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD
RELATIVE TO
WATERFOWL HUNTING REGULATIONS FOR SECTION 16 PROPERTY NEAR HENDERSON, LOUISIANA
*********************************************************************
NOW BE IT RESOLVED by the St. Martin Parish School Board that it hereby adopts the following waterfowl hunting regulations for its Section 16 property situated in the Atchafalaya spillway near Henderson, Louisiana:
1. All hunters (16 years of age and older) are required to have on their person a photo identification verifying age.
2. All Hunters must have firearms unloaded at all times while traveling within the area while in a vessel under mechanical power. Loaded is defined as shells or cartridges in the gun’s chamber, magazine, or cylinder.
3. Waterfowl hunting after 2:00 p.m. is prohibited.
4. Only portable blinds may be used. Blinds must be removed from the property at the end of each day.
5. All hunters must obtain and possess at all times on the property, valid and current hunting licenses and safety certifications issued and required by the proper state, federal and local authorities.
6. The following activities are prohibited:
a. The use or possession of alcoholic beverages
b. Overnight mooring of houseboats / staying overnight or arriving early in any boat to hold a hunting spot for others.
c. Use of airboats.
d. Unattended decoys and equipment on the water.
e. Construction or hunting from a permanent blind.
f. Leave a blind on the property over night.
g. Baiting, hunting over bait, or the possession of bait, salt, or ingestible attractant while on the property at anytime.
7. Hunting spots shall be secured by the first arriving hunter or group of hunters in one vessel. No hunter or group of hunters shall set up closer than 200 yards from other hunting spots. Only hunters arriving at the hunting spot first may hunt it. Anyone arriving later must secure a separate spot.
8. All permanent floating blinds currently situated on the property shall be removed prior to the start of the 2014-2015 waterfowl hunting season.
8. All persons hunting shall have in their possession a copy of these regulations which may be downloaded from the St. Martin Parish School Board website.

NOTE: This resolution prohibits permanent blinds.

RESOLUTION
OF THE
ST. MARTIN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD
RELATIVE TO
WATERFOWL HUNTING REGULATIONS FOR SECTION 16 PROPERTY NEAR HENDERSON, LOUISIANA
*********************************************************************
NOW BE IT RESOLVED by the St. Martin Parish School Board that it hereby adopts the following waterfowl hunting regulations for its Section 16 property situated in the Atchafalaya spillway near Henderson, Louisiana:
1. All hunters (16 years of age and older) are required to have on their person a photo identification verifying age.
2. All Hunters must have firearms unloaded at all times while traveling within the area while in a vessel under mechanical power. Loaded is defined as shells or cartridges in the gun’s chamber, magazine, or cylinder.
3. Waterfowl hunting after 2:00 p.m. is prohibited.
5. All hunters must obtain and possess at all times on the property, valid and current hunting licenses and safety certifications issued and required by the proper state, federal and local authorities.
6. The following activities are prohibited:
a. The use or possession of alcoholic beverages
b. Overnight mooring of houseboats / staying overnight or arriving early in any boat to hold a hunting spot for others.
c. Use of airboats.
d. Unattended decoys and equipment on the water.
e. Baiting, hunting over bait, or the possession of bait, salt, or ingestible attractant while on the property at anytime.
f. Leave decoys on the property over night.
g. Baiting, hunting over bait, or the possession of bait, salt, or ingestible attractant while on the property at anytime.
7. Hunting spots shall be secured by the first arriving hunter or group of hunters in one vessel. No hunter or group of hunters shall set up closer than 200 yards from other hunting spots. Only hunters arriving at the hunting spot first may hunt it. Anyone arriving later must secure a separate spot.
8. There shall be no construction of permanent stationary or floating blinds after the date of the adoption of these regulations. With respect to those floating blinds currently in place, no person shall claim the exclusive use or right to hunt them. The first arriving hunter shall be entitled to hunt the blind and there shall be no interference or intimidation from others arriving later. After the 2014-2014 waterfowl season concludes, those floating permanent blinds shall be removed within 10 days after waterfowl season closes and they shall not be replaced.
9. All persons hunting shall have in their possession a copy of these regulations which may be downloaded from the St. Martin Parish School Board website.


NOTE: This resolution permits permanent floating blinds only for the 2014-2015 season, prohibits construction or placement of new ones after the date of adoption of the resolution, and further provides that they shall be removed within 10 days after the wate

No POSESSION of alcohol??? As in, you can't even have beer (or honey whiskey in your case) iced down in the boat while you're hunting?! That's not America!

Two proposed amendments:

Mr chairman,
I move to amend the previous proposal by striking out prohibited use of airboats in clause 6 line "C".

****************


Mr chairman,

I move to amend the proposal previously stated by striking out each article, clause, and line and replace with "F.U. Dean Guidry".

Yall check out 6.b no arriving early in a boat to hold a spot...what is defined as early? 5am? 3am? Dguidry gonna make that call? There's some other sneaky wording in places, like why add the clause concerning baiting when it's already ILLEGAL. Seems redundant to laws already in place and intended to add fluff to make it sound like other places allow it or you're concerned about looking like your motive are much more innocent than they are. Lawyers <_<

What sort of penalty is imposed for breaking a school board rule? If I get caught with booze, do I get detention?

Why ban airboats? Seriously?

Yea we have a ban on airboats where I hunt. I really pisses me off when I see the damn biologists runnin all over the place with airboats! Bullshit

Dean I won't be able to get lil Dean with the airboat when he's stuck.

Mud boats do more damage than airboats.

I agree with the premise that nobody should be allowed to have a "private " blind on public land. But you have screwed all the people that have done things right and leased property from the School Board since they won't be allowed to hunt in comfort on their leases You will not be a very popular person and your name is a matter of public record in the minutes of the meetings where you spoke.

It's not my fight and I wish you good luck. You may have gotten the resolution passed but you might not get the results you were hoping for out in da swamp...

Just my random thoughts.
Big Hutch

I would like to add no mudmotors if airboats are not allowed.

Surface drives nowadays are just as noisy as an AB

He's probably the guy that is gonna shoot holes in your boat this season....

With just a little digging and legal research I discovered that relative to the St. Martin Parish School Boards Section 16 public land, hunting leases or rights must be bid out. The James Buillard hunting lease on the other Section 16 property in the parish was not bid out!!! Interesting find incidental to my research.

§1212. Lands which may be leased; purposes; leases of sixteenth section lands for agricultural purposes; negotiation of surface leases of school lands; negotiation of leases by certain public benefit corporations; negotiation of leases for administering buildings designated as historic landmarks

A. Any lessor may, through its governing authority, lease for trapping, grazing, hunting, agricultural, and any other legitimate purposes, including, except in the parishes of Livingston, Tangipahoa, St. Helena, St. Tammany, and Washington, removal from the land of subterranean water, or other such substances, other than for oil, gas, or other mineral purposes and development, any lands of which the lessor has title, custody, or possession, and the lessor may at its option lease the land on a share basis in accordance with such terms and conditions as the governing authority deems to be to the best interest of the lessor.

B.(1) Whenever the school boards in Vermilion, West Baton Rouge, Cameron, Calcasieu, Acadia, and Concordia parishes lease any sixteenth section lands of which they have title, custody, or possession on a share basis for the agricultural purpose of planting, cultivating, growing, and harvesting any agricultural crop, they shall not be required to advertise for and receive bids as hereinafter provided for in this Part for other leases.

(2) They are hereby authorized to enter into leases and to renegotiate present leases to include such terms and conditions which allow the leasing of those lands for hunting; however, the lease or sublease shall contain provisions which require a portion of the rentals to be paid directly to the school board in consideration of the privilege of hunting on school board lands. The portion of the rentals to be paid directly to the school board shall be an amount agreed upon by the school board and the original lessee.

(3) Any other provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, the rentals or other income derived from any such leases shall not be considered as general fund receipts to the school board so as to reduce or otherwise affect the share such school board receives from funds appropriated to the state public school fund for distribution to it on a per educable basis.

C. Whenever the school board in St. Martin Parish leases any sixteenth section lands of which it has title, custody or possession on a share basis for the agricultural purpose of planting, cultivating, growing and harvesting any agricultural crop, it shall not be required to advertise for and receive bids as hereinafter provided for in this part for other leases.

D. The school board of the parish of Lafayette or the school board within any parish with a population of not less than forty-two thousand nor more than forty-five thousand persons according to the latest federal decennial census is authorized to negotiate for the surface lease of any lands to which it has title, custody or possession to any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity without the necessity of advertising for and receiving bids.

E. The school board of Evangeline Parish is authorized to lease any sixteenth section lands of which it has title, custody or possession to any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity without the necessity of advertising for and receiving bids.

F. Whenever the school board in Acadia Parish negotiates for the surface lease of any sixteenth section lands of which it has title, custody or possession or any other lands of which it has title, custody or possession, on a share basis for the agricultural purpose of planting, cultivating, growing and harvesting any agricultural crop, it shall not be required to advertise for and receive bids as hereinafter provided for in this Part for other leases. Any other provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, the rentals or other income derived from the lease of sixteenth section lands shall not be considered as general fund receipts to the school board so as to reduce or otherwise affect the share such school board receives from funds appropriated to the state public school funds for distribution to it on a per educable basis.

The leases may be made on either a cash or share basis.

G. Whenever a public benefit corporation formed by the city of New Orleans or Orleans Parish, through its chief executive officer for the purposes of owning, leasing, developing, and operating properties owned by the public benefit corporation or the political subdivision, leases any property owned by the public benefit corporation or the political subdivision, such public benefit corporation shall not be required to advertise for and receive bids as hereinafter provided for in this Part for other leases. Such leases entered into shall provide for a fair and equitable return of revenue to the public benefit corporation or political subdivision.

H. In parishes with populations in excess of four hundred seventy-five thousand and in municipalities which were founded prior to 1750, whenever any public board or commission formed by a political subdivision of the state administers a building owned by it or by the political subdivision which created it, which building is located in an historic district and designated an historic landmark, such board or commission shall not be required to advertise for and receive bids for leases of such buildings as provided for in this Part for other leases. However, such leases shall be negotiated for and executed according to the terms and conditions as follows:

(1) Such board or commission, in making its decision in the negotiation of each lease shall determine:

(a) The financial qualifications of the applicants.

(b) The compatibility of the proposed lease with the historic integrity, structure and safety of the property.

(c) The impact of the proposed lease on the historic character of the neighborhood in which the properties are located.

(d) The fair market rental price based upon other comparable properties.

(2) Such leases shall provide for a fair and equitable return of revenue to the board based upon the fair market rental price.

I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the town of Berwick is authorized to negotiate for and to lease any lands to which it has title, or of which it has custody or possession, to any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity without the necessity of advertising for and receiving bids. Any such lease entered into shall provide for a fair and equitable return of revenue to the town of Berwick.

J. The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the lease of space in buildings or improvements located on land to which a parish or municipality has title to any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity, when such space is located in a building designated as a community center or used for the benefit of area residents if, as part of the conditions of such lease, the person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity is required to provide health or social services to the area residents at a reduced rate or free of charge.

K. The school board of Bienville Parish is authorized to lease any sixteenth section lands of which it has title, custody, or possession to any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity without the necessity of advertising for and receiving bids. All proceeds from the lease, less expenses, shall be used for the support of the schools located in Bienville Parish in furtherance of the purpose of the dedication of the sixteenth section lands by the United States by acts of Congress of April 21, 1806, and March 3, 1811, to the territories of Orleans and Louisiana in anticipation of statehood. The Bienville Parish School Board shall reserve to the state all of the mineral rights and minerals in accordance with law.

L. The Natchitoches Parish School Board, without the necessity of advertising for and receiving bids, is authorized to lease to Waterworks District No. 2 of Natchitoches Parish for ten thousand dollars one acre of land in Section 16, Township 8 North, Range 7 West in Natchitoches Parish for a term of ninety-nine years for the purpose of drilling a well to obtain water to be distributed to the customers of the waterworks district and to grant to such district a right-of-way up to thirty feet wide from Louisiana Highway No. 478 to the leased property on which the well is located provided each of the following conditions is met:

(1) Waterworks District No. 2 of Natchitoches Parish enters into the necessary agreements with the Natchitoches Parish School Board to hold the school board harmless from all losses or damages resulting from the acts or omissions, or both, of Waterworks District No. 2 and to indemnify the school board against all such losses or damages resulting from such acts or omissions, or both, of the district.

(2) Waterworks District No. 2 of Natchitoches Parish enters into the necessary agreements with the Natchitoches Parish School Board to restore to its pre-lease condition at the expense of the waterworks district any property located outside the boundaries of the leased property that is damaged by the waterworks district or by others acting on behalf of the district.

Amended by Acts 1964, No. 319, §1; 1968, No. 384, §1; Acts 1974, No. 179, §1; Acts 1974, No. 569, §§1, 2; Acts 1975, No. 428, §1; Acts 1975, No. 717, §1; Acts 1976, No. 693, §1; Acts 1977, No. 460, §§1, 2; Acts 1981, No. 622, §1; Acts 1983, No. 509, §1, eff. July 7, 1983; Acts 1983, No. 706, §1; Acts 1984, No. 510, §1; Acts 1991, No. 289, §13; Acts 1991, No. 899, §1; Acts 1993, No. 742, §1, eff. June 22, 1993; Acts 1999, No. 353, §1; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 129, §1, eff. April 19, 2000; Acts 2003, No. 389, §1; Acts 2006, No. 306, §1, eff. June 8, 2006; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 37, §1; Acts 2012, No. 785, §1, eff. June 13, 2012.

Yeah, if you could just answer the question, that'd be great!

^ thanks for the info.

You can view my appearance and the discussion of the issue before the school board at the following link. It starts at 1:14:45. Those of you not from around here will get a good dose of cajun accent from the board members.

http://68.228.8.8/videos/video/175/

It's says error.

Can't open on my iphone. Sorry.

Dean you might won't to post a guard at y i urged camp :lol::lol:

My son and his mean lab, Rex, are in residence at my camp. But I doubt any thing will happen. We will work out a happy compromise for everyone.