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 Lafayette Parish

PARISH LIBRARY PROPOSITION
To continue a 10-year, 1.61-mill property tax, estimated to generate $1,866,000 a year.
PARISH JUVENILE DETENTION PROPOSITION
To continue a 10-year, 1.17 mill property tax, estimated to $1,356,000 a year, for juvenile detention and rehabilitation.
CITY OF LAFAYETTE STREETS AND ROADS PROPOSITION
To continue a 10-year, 1.29-mill property tax, estimated to generate $1,169,000 a year, to maintain public streets and alleys.
CITY OF LAFAYETTE RECREATION PROPOSITION
To continue a 10-year, 1.92-mill property tax, estimated to generate $1,740,000 a year.

Acadia Parish

PARISHWIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT DISTRICT PROPOSITION
To levy a five-year, 9-mill property tax, estimated to generate $1,906,371 a year, for additional funding to include (a) salaries and benefits of deputies, (b) acquiring, operating and maintaining vehicles and communications equipment, and (c) operations and training.

CHURCH POINT PROPOSITION

To levy a 1-cent sales and use tax, estimated to generate $550,000 a year, for any lawful corporate purpose, including senior citizen programs and capital improvements. The tax would replace a 7-mill property tax levied for general purposes.
FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 3, PROPOSITION NO. 1
To levy a 10-year, annual $25 per parcel fee, estimated to generate $18,000 a year. (Portions of the Evangeline and T-Mamou communities.)
FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 3, PROPOSITION NO. 2
To continue a 10-year, 5.13-mill property tax, estimated to generate $185,711 a year. (Portions of the Evangeline and T-Mamou communities.)

Evangeline Parish

WARD 1 SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSITION
To issue $21.5 million in 30-year bonds, to be repaid with property tax revenue, for school construction and improvements, as set forth by the parish School Board on April 9. (Ville Platte, Tate Cove area, Chataignier and Belaire Cove.)

St. Landry Parish


MELVILLE PROPOSITION
To continue for 10 years the 1-cent sales and use tax, estimated to generate $74,000 a year and subject to bonded debt, dedicated for fire and police protection, including the operation and maintenance of the Fire Department rescue unit, building and maintaining streets, and paying general operating expenses.
FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 6 PROPOSITION
To renew a 10-year, 4.86-mill property tax, estimated to generate $125,500 a year. (Rural areas from the Sword-Savoy community west to Eunice.)

St. Mary Parish


WARDS 1-4, 7 & 10 SALES TAX DISTRICT PROPOSITION
To continue the three-tenths of a percent sales and use tax, estimated to generate $600,000 a year and subject to bonded debt, to be disbursed monthly to Franklin, Baldwin and the parish on a per-capita basis for: (1) Franklin police, fire and volunteer fire departments, including supplementing the salaries of municipal employees of such departments, and capital improvement for such purposes; (2) Baldwin public works or capital improvements; and (3) parish street lighting and other parish public works or capital improvements. (The western half of the parish from the Iberia-St. Mary parish line to Calumet Cut.)

Vermilion Parish


HOSPITAL SALES TAX DISTRICT NO. 2 PROPOSITION
To levy a ‰ percent sales and use tax, estimated to generate $1.5 million a year and subject to bonded debt, for emergency-room operations and hospital buildings and equipment for Abbeville General Hospital and related facilities. (Parishwide, excluding Gueydan and a portion of Kaplan.)


Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:16 PM
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