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You keep using words like shadow, deceptive and deceitful. I do not understand where you get this from. It looks as though th school board looked at options to get enough money to get the 10% raise. After talking with tax assessor and sales tax it looked as though sales tax is the only way. The EFID board looks at it and decides whether to as for a sales tax and how much of one. They decided in order to get the 10% raise it would take a 1% sales tax. I don’t have a bunch of insider information but that seems pretty simple.

It’s apparent you don’t understand the power the state grants EFIDs due to being for a district in a state of emergency in regards to its facilities. Just asking for a tax and assigning one purpose like pay raise can be done without an EFID. It’s overkill for a pay raise and possibly not actually following the law in first place.

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A.(1)(a) The legislature finds and determines that a state of emergency exists in many of the public elementary and secondary schools of the respective parish and municipal school systems in the state with respect to the condition of school buildings and school-related facilities, that the technology capabilities in such public elementary and secondary schools are insufficient for the education of the children of this state, and that these and other conditions and factors are detrimental to the learning environment of the children of this state and, in certain instances, may be detrimental to their welfare and safety.
(b) The legislature further finds that these conditions are in urgent need of being addressed and remedied and that additional local funding is desirable and essential to these ends if the children of this state are to be competitive in the work force of the twenty-first century and in the development of sustainable economic activity in this state.
(c) The legislature further finds that the scope of these problems and other problems facing such parish and municipal school boards may exceed the present means available to such parish and municipal school boards.
(2) As a result of the foregoing, the legislature determines it essential and necessary to create special taxing districts to be known as educational facilities improvement districts and authorize them:
(a) To provide a source of revenue to enable the districts to engage in cooperative endeavors with parish and municipal school boards within their territorial boundaries for the purpose of assisting such parish and municipal school boards: in purchasing, constructing, or improving school buildings and other school-related facilities, including construction of necessary sidewalks and streets adjacent thereto; in acquiring necessary or desirable equipment and furnishings therefor, inclusive of technology and computer equipment and software; in repairing, maintaining, and rehabilitating existing school-related facilities, including the mitigation or prevention of hazardous conditions therein or demolition thereof; in acquiring or improving lands for building sites, playgrounds, and other school-related areas, title to which shall be vested in the public; and in maintaining such facilities.
(b) To provide funding for other matters for which school boards are authorized by law to expend funds.
(c) Generally to assist such school boards experiencing financial difficulties regarding capital facilities or other needs.

Either it’s been set up by parish school board to act out it’s intended purpose above using it’s granted power “as a body corporate and politic and as a political subdivision of the state with full corporate powers” or it’s a completely ignorant misuse of the law in an attempt to work around state limits on increases to sales tax which should in itself be a sign about sales tax being maxed out for most of parish.

If it’s the former than based on words of school board to public they are hiding the true reason and nature of its creation which with its power is basically a shadow board. If it’s the later than the entire board and Sup are clueless and reckless as to what they created (seeing it fell for email scam this might be possible), need to shut it down now, and then find a correct and legal way to raise local revenue on its own accord.

This post was edited on 3/30/23 at 11:46 am