Rural St. Landry Parish residents who travel rough roads or those with drainage problems can take comfort this morning in the passage of a 1-mill, 10-year property tax to fund parish jail maintenance and operations.
Some St. Landry Parish Council members warned that if the tax failed money used for road and drainage work would be shifted to operate and maintain the jail. The tax is expected to raise $671,000 annually.
The tax passed with 54% of the 5,380 votes cast in the election Saturday. Turnout, according to the state secretary of state website, was a 8.%.
The jail tax renewal failed in a November 2019 election with 53% of the 25,970 voters casting “No” votes.
In another tax election, a 20-mill, 10-year property tax in the Bayou Plaquemine Gavity Drainage District 12 passed with 66% of the 175 votes cast. The tax projected to raise $200,000 a year.
Other St. Landry Parish results include:
— Luke Letlow won 60% of the 2,627 votes cast in the race for the 5th Congressional District U.S. representative seat. Also running was Lance Harris. Forty of the parish’s 92 precincts voted the election. Letlow won the election districtwide with 62% of the 79,306 votes cast.
— Jamie Huval won 70% of the 326 votes cast in the parish in the race for Republican State Central Committee election to defeat Rose Knott. Huval won the seat with 62% of the 965 votes cast district wide.
— A proposal to allow out-of-state residents to serve on public post-secondary education boar of supervisors failed in the parish with 62% of the 5,380 voting saying “no.” The proposition also failed in the state with only 24% of the 504,307 votes cast voting “no.”
