2025-05-10T10:01:54-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 010927490 TECHE PROJECT TECH 3372444645 PO BOX 165 Arnaudville LA 705120165 Patricia Holland Secretary 3372774645 2025-05-10 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Patricia Holland PO BOX 165 Arrnaudville LA 705120165 52533 0 X TECHEPROJECT.ORG X 2010 LA WORK TO ENHANCE THE ECOLOGY OF BAYOU TECHE AND TO BUILD AND MANAGE THE BAYOU TECHE PADDLE TRAIL, A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECOGNIZED NATIONAL WATER TRAIL, FOR TRAIL BASED TOURISM IN THE FIFTEEN COMMUNITIES ALONG BAYOU TECHE. 9 9 0 130 0 0 106486 52533 0 0 0 0 0 0 106486 52533 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 188 107935 35683 107935 35683 -1449 16850 44712 62350 0 0 44712 62350 WORK TO ENHANCE THE ECOLOGY OF THE BAYOU TECHE WATERSHED. TO ENCOURAGE RECREATIONAL USE OF BAYOU TECHE BY BUILDING A FIRST CLASS PADDLE TRAIL WITH ACCESS DOCKS IN ALL FIFTEEN TOWNS ALONG THE BAYOU. TO WORK WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO PROMOTE TRAIL BASED TOURISM AND ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE BAYOU TECHE CORRIDOR 0 0 13228 0 17366 PROMOTED THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF BAYOU TECHE: HOSTED THE 12TH ANNUAL SHAKE YOUR TRAIL FEATHER PADDLE PARADE AND FESTIVAL WITH OVER 250 ATTENDEES ENJOYING THE LIVE MUSIC AND PADDLE EXCURSION. LOCAL CAJUN MUSICIANS ENTERTAINED PADDLERS IN OUR ANNUAL BAYOU TECHE PADDLE PARADE. THE TECHE PROJECT HOSTED OUR ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP BANQUET IN ARNAUDVILLE AT NUNU ARTS AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE WITH OVER 130 ATTENDEES. A CULTURAL PRESENTATION PERTAINING TO THE EVOLUTION OF ARTWORK INSPIRED BY BAYOU TECHE WAS GIVEN. WE REPRESENTED THE TECHE PROJECT AND OUR MISSION AT SEVERAL EVENTS. WE ALSO GAVE PRESENTATIONS ABOUT OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE GOALS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS. 544 620 Enhancing the ecology of Bayou Teche: We took part in the spring Love the Boot campaign by cleaning trailhead parks at our dock sites. We also hosted a clean up day at various sites on the bayou and periodically pulled trash with boats to account for over 60 tons of trash in the past 14 years. We partnered with the Iris Conservation Initiative to plant irises at our paddle trail dock sites. We gave guidance to interested parties regarding wood duck nest box management. We have 60 participants in our program to rear ducks along the bayou, and are hatching over 800 ducklings annually. We hosted a youth workshop (Geaux Paddle) in June of 2024 with the goal of getting kids paddling on the bayou and teaching them about riparian ecology. We plan to continue this workshop each summer. 0 0 21250 Encouraging Recreational Use on Bayou Teche: The Bayou Teche National Paddle Trail infrastructure was completed at the end of 2023, however, we plan to continue our work to add features to improve paddle trail usage into the future. Now that installation work is completed, we have shifted to promotion. In 2024, we got the Bayou Teche National Paddle Trail listed on the national trail finder platform, ALLTrails. We also worked with local governments and tourism offices to post information including our paddle trail maps and paddle trail planning tool that gives guidance to potential users about what to see and do for 1-day and weekend paddle excursions. In 2024, we worked with local outfitter, Wanderlust rentals to assist their proposal to install passive kayak kiosk rental stations at our dock sites and hope to have the first station installed in the summer of 2025. 0 0 0 13772 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 9 9 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 LA X X Thomas Holland 3372774636 PO BOX 165 Arnaudville LA 705120165 X Erin Bass administrative assistant 20.00 0 X 23004 0 0 Patti Holland Council member/ Secretary/Exucitive Director 25.00 X X 0 0 0 Dane Thibodeaux council Member 1 X 0 0 0 Brent Miller Council Member/Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Eric Martin Council Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 MARGARET SIMOM COUNCIL MEMBER 1 0 X 0 0 0 GREG GUIDROZ COUNCIL MEMBER 1 0 X 0 0 0 JIMMY GRAVOIS COUNCIL MEMBER 1 0 X 0 0 0 ALEX GUILLORY COUNCIL MEMBER 1 0 X 0 0 0 Conni Castille President 1 X 0 0 0 Thomas Holland Bookkeeper 3 0 X 0 0 0 23004 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4795 6778 0 23750 17210 0 52533 0 0 0 0 0 6778 0 52533 0 0 0 25629 5625 20004 0 182 182 510 390 120 538 538 564 500 64 365 148 217 1615 835 780 Supplies 3590 3590 0 0 meetings 148 148 0 0 bank fees 282 94 0 188 Fabrication 2260 2260 0 0 0 35683 13772 21723 188 44712 62350 44712 62350 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 44712 62350 44712 62350 44712 62350 X 16850 0 0 0 0 788 X 0 0 0 X 173568 131423 99536 106486 52533 563546 173568 131423 99536 106486 52533 563546 563546 563546 0 1 1 X Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 the TECHE Project has non voting membeers Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b committies do not have the athority to act on behalf of the governing body Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990 is made available to all committee members for review before submission. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 the governing documents, conflict of interest public, and financial statements were not made available to the general publicduring the 2024 tax year. the form 990Ez for 2015 and form 990 for years 2016 to 2023 were available online Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 uncsshed checks to vendors in prior years