Election Notice

The election for two tax rededication propositions is Saturday, March 26, at all 56 precincts across Evangeline Parish.
Because of the election, the Sunday, March 27, edition of the Ville Platte Gazette will be not be printed until all precincts have reported. As a result, delivery will be delayed.
The first proposition for a library millage rededication is as follows: Shall the Parish of Evangeline, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), be authorized to rededicate the proceeds heretofore or hereafter received by the Parish from the levy and collection of a 5.21 mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in the Parish, authorized pursuant to that tax proposition approved at an election held on April 30, 2011, (the “Tax”) (an estimated $1,105,954 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the Tax for an entire year), to be levied through the year 2027, for the following purposes: .62 mills for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, improving, operating and maintaining law enforcement facilities and criminal justice operations in the Parish?
The other proposition for a health unit millage rededication is as follows: Shall the Parish of Evangeline, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), be authorized to rededicate the proceeds of $1,250,000 heretofore received by the Parish from the levy and collection of a two and seven-hundredths (2.07) mill tax on all property subject to taxation within the District, authorized pursuant to that tax proposition approved at an election held on March 25, 2017, (the “Tax”), for a period of ten (10) years, beginning on January 1, 2018, and ending with the year 2027 (the estimated amount reasonably expected to be collected from the levy of the Tax for one entire year being $439,070), for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, improving, operating, maintaining law enforcement facilities and criminal court operations in the Parish?