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re: Livingston Parish 1% tax for teacher raises fails to pass
Posted on 3/30/23 at 9:28 am to OweO
Posted on 3/30/23 at 9:28 am to OweO
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Why didn't the school system, the teachers, etc work harder to get people to the polls?
Their efforts backfired. Multiple coworkers with kids in the school district were getting robocalls about going to vote "Yes" for the 1% tax on a daily/weekly basis leading up to the ballot.
LPPS wanted an off-cycle ballot to put the measure on so that most people wouldn't vote and they hoped for a push of "Yes" votes.
In the 2022 election for US Senator/Representative, there were 43K votes tabbed in Livingston Parish, the ballot March 25th for this tax.... only 17K votes.
Their recent mismanagement of funds ($2M lost in a scam) and the already high taxes in the parish (9.45%-10.45%), pushed people to show up at the polls to vote "No" and that outweighed the "Yes" votes the school system expected to get them a "W".
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Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:59 am to ModernCajun
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and the already high taxes in the parish (9.45%-10.45%)
That’s the thing I don’t get about this whole fiasco. I keep seeing that LP schools are underfunded compared to other parishes, but sales taxes in LP are already high compared to other parishes. AND that existing sales tax revenue is increasing rapidly due to inflation.
Are the property millages for schools just really low in Livingston Parish? If so, why aren’t they addressing that instead of adding a 20 year sales tax, which has potential for considerable unintended consequences in terms of economic activity and investment?
I’m trying to find information/documentation on whatever analyses were done by the EFID in support of the proposal. I’m actually kind of surprised at how difficult it is to find anything other than statements in the media. Interestingly, the “Livingston 1 Cent” website is already shut down. The news releases about the EFID appear to have been scrubbed from the Livingston Parish School Board website as well.
The whole thing, including the reaction to losing the vote, just seems strange to me.
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