Tax passes

Saturday, April 24, 2021, will go down in the history books of Evangeline Parish as the first sales tax specifically earmarked for the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office garnered adoption by the voters of the parish. The one-cent sales tax proposal received 2,512 votes in support (59 percent) and 1,772 votes against (41 percent).
An elated Sheriff Charles Guillory called the adoption a great achievement. “It has been a long overdue process,” he stated, “and we can finally move forward together in the right direction.”
As the sheriff delivered his remarks to the residents of the parish over the radio airwaves of KVPI from the clerk’s office, he pledged use the tax dollars wisely and said, “I will continue to do a great job as I have done in the last nine months.”
The first item of business, according to the sheriff, is to obtain a new parish jail. “The sooner I complete this task,” he expressed, “the sooner we will relieve precious tax dollars from housing pre-trial inmates outside the parish.”
An early indication of the fate of the sales tax proposal came from the early voting numbers which included people voting in the registrar of voter’s office and voting by mail. Sixty percent of those votes were in favor of the proposal.