When you see a public official talking about a windfall,

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CATS CEO Bob Mirabito is headed to the transit system’s attorney's office this afternoon to pick up a check for $950,000—dedicated tax money for CATS that has been sitting in an escrow account but was freed up earlier this month when the Louisiana Supreme Court refused to hear a 2012 case challenging the constitutionality of the 10.6-mill CATS property tax. "It is a windfall," says Mirabito, who adds he had not previously budgeted the tax revenue. "We don't know yet what we are going to do with it but we have lots of needs

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