EBR DA Hillar Moore wants to raise your property taxes.

The DA is trying to get a 4 mill 20 year tax added to your property tax bill to:

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address what he calls unsustainable caseloads and trouble hiring enough prosecutors.

Moore said that the proposed property tax "will not only generate the additional funds my Office so desperately needs, but will also provide for more dedicated and consistent funding, which will remove politics from the management of the office."

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SWB was going to cut the budget of the City-Parish office by 5% so that she could use that money to fund the city of BR. So moving parish wide money to fund the city just like she was doing with St. George's money:

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East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome proposed a 2025 budget cut of $40 million. If approved, it would have meant a 5% reduction in city-parish funding for the District Attorney's Office.

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And of course this would be on a May ballot when very few people vote.

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If approved, the measure would add 4 mills to parish property tax bills for 20 years. A mill is $1 of tax on each $1,000 of taxable property.

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The DA believes that it will raise $20MM. Of course he left off the part that the assessor's office updates that property values every 4 years so by the 20th year it will be closer to $30MM - so more than he is selling it as, just like the library and BREC do.

The Advocate