2006

Fire Protection District No. 10 Proposition (Parcel Fee)

Summary: 10 Year, $50.00 parcel fee for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, maintaining and operating fire protection facilities and equipment, including paying the cost of obtaining water for fire protection purposes, the salaries of firemen and all purposes incidental thereto, subject to funding into bonds.

Yes

Second Ward Gravity Drainage District No. 1 Proposition

Summary: 10 Year, 10 mills property tax for constructing, improving, maintaining and operating drainage works for the district.

Yes

Secretary of State (Statewide)

Mary Chehardy (R)

Commissioner of Insurance (Statewide)

James David Cain (R)

Member of School Board – District 2

Lyle C. Johnson (D)

Member of School Board – District 7

Donald Amy (D)

Member of School Board – District 8

Robert McManus (D)

Mayor – City of Crowley

“Greg” Jones (R)

Mayor – Town of Church Point

Roger Boudreaux (D)

Mayor – Village of Mermentau

David W. Fruge (D)

Mayor – Village of Morse

Leon Clement (D)

Mayor – City of Eunice (Multi-parish)

E. Lynn LeJeune (D)

Mayor – Town of Basile (Multi-parish)

John “J.J.” Jenkins (D)

Chief of Police – City of Eunice (Multi-parish)

Ronald Dies (D)

Chief of Police – Town of Duson (Multi-parish)

Scott Gary (R)

Chief of Police – City of Rayne

John W. “Piggy” Arceneaux (R)

Chief of Police – Town of Church Point

Ronald Carrier (O)

Chief of Police – Village of Estherwood

James R. Burnett Sr. (O)

Chief of Police – Village of Morse

Roger Lafosse (D)

Alderman Ward 1 – City of Rayne

Romel Charles (R)

Alderman Ward 1 – Town of Church Point

Mel Green (R)

Alderman Ward 2 Division A – City of Crowley

James M. Buatt (D)

Alderman Ward 2 Division B – City of Crowley

Lyle O. Fogleman Jr. (D)

Alderman Ward 2 – Town of Church Point

Kevin “Hobie” Fontenot (R)

Alderman Ward 3 – City of Eunice (Multi-parish)

Chawana V. Fontenot (R)

Alderman Ward 3 – City of Rayne

Gerard “Jerry” Arceneaux (R)

Alderman Ward 3 Division A – City of Crowley

Nelson J. Arceneaux (D)

Alderman Ward 3 Division B – City of Crowley

Cliff “Mutt” Augustine (D)

Alderman Ward 3 – Town of Church Point

Ray A. Doucet (D)

Alderman Ward 4 Division A – City of Crowley

Elliot Dore

Alderman Ward 4 Division B – City of Crowley

Mary Melancon (D)

Alderman District 4 – Town of Basile (Multi-parish)

Frank Ceasar Sr. (D)

Alderman Ward 4 – Town of Church Point

Theresa “Teasie” Cary (D)

Alderman Ward 5 – Town of Church Point

Toby L. Leger (O)

Alderman – Town of Iota (5)

Kevin Dwayne Dietz (R)

Alderman – Village of Estherwood (3)

Anthony Borill (D)

Alderman – Village of Mermentau (3)

Troy Cormier (D)

Alderman – Village of Morse (3)

“Chris” Badeaux (D)

Alderman – Town of Duson (Multi-parish) 5 to be elected

Gerald Alleman (D)

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #1

Summary: To change the name from the Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Fund to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund; to provide that the eligible federal revenues received by the state generated from Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activity shall be credited used only for purposes of coastal wetlands conservation, coastal restoration, hurricane protection, and infrastructure directly impacted by coastal wetland losses.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #2

Summary: Requires twenty percent of the proceeds of tobacco securitization to be deposited in the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund, with a portion to be used for barrier island stabilization and preservation, and repeals the Louisiana Coastal Restoration Fund.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #3

Summary: To authorize the legislature to establish regional flood protection authorities and provide for its governing authority, powers, duties, and functions, for the governing authority of levee districts within the territorial jurisdiction of the regional authority, and authorizing ad valorem taxes subject to voter approval.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #4

Summary: To provide that compensation paid for the taking of, or loss or damage to, property rights affected by the construction, enlargement, improvement, or modification of hurricane protection projects, including mitigation related thereto, shall be limited to the compensation required by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution; to provide an exception for the taking of buildings or structures destroyed or damaged by an event for which a presidential declaration of major disaster or emergency was issued, if the taking occurs within three years of such event; and to authorize the legislature by law to provide procedures and definitions for these requirements.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #5

Summary: To prohibit the expropriation of property by the state or a political subdivision of the state for predominant use by or transfer to a private person or entity under certain circumstances; to define “public purposes” relative to the expropriation of property; to provide exceptions for the operation of public ports and airports and for the expropriation of property for industrial development purposes; and to provide for items included in just compensation to be paid to the owner of the expropriated property.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #6

Summary: To prohibit, except in limited instances, the transfer or lease of property expropriated by the state or its political subdivisions to any person without first offering the property to the original owner; to provide that unused expropriated property be declared surplus property to be first offered to the original owner prior to sale to the general public by competitive bid.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #7

Summary: To authorize the investment in equities of up to thirty-five percent of the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #8

Summary: To authorize the continuation of the homestead exemption and the special assessment level where the homestead had been destroyed or is uninhabitable due to a declared disaster or emergency.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #9

Summary: To provide that no law, unless enacted by two-thirds of the elected members of each house of the legislature, requiring increased expenditures for any purpose shall be applicable to any city, parish, or other local public school board until approved by school board resolution or until, and as long as, the legislature appropriates funds to the school board for the purpose and only to the extent and amount of such funds or until a law provides for a local source of revenue to the school board for the purpose and the school board is authorized to levy and collect such revenue and only to the extent and amount of such revenue; and to provide for exceptions to such prohibition on increasing the financial burden of city, parish, and other local public school boards.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #10

Summary: To authorize the investment in stocks of up to thirty-five percent of the state-funded permanently endowed funds of public or private colleges and universities.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #11

Summary: To extend the homestead exemption to property owned by a revocable trust, in addition to the existing application to property owned by an irrevocable trust.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #12

Summary: To provide for the filling of vacancies in the lieutenant governor’s office and other statewide elective offices; to provide that in more than one year remains in the term, the person nominated by the governor and confirmed by the legislature to serve as lieutenant governor or the first assistant in other statewide elected offices, shall fill the vacancy only until the office can be filled at the next regular statewide or congressional election or until the governor is required to call a special election.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #13

Summary: To provide that a person shall have been admitted to the practice of law for ten years preceding election to the supreme court or a court of appeals and for eight years preceding election to a district court, family court, parish court, or court having solely juvenile jurisdiction; and to decrease the requirement that a person be domiciled in the respective district, circuit, or parish from two years to one year preceding election. Effective January 1, 2008, and applicable to any person who is elected to the office of judge on and after January 1, 2008.

For

City of Eunice Proposition – Millage (Multi-parish)

Summary: 10 year, 14.48 mills property tax for payment of salaries for all city employees, with the exception of elected officials, appointed officials, part-time employees and all executive officials with a yearly salary of $28,000 and above.

Yes

U.S. Representative 7th District (Multi-parish)

Charles W. Boustany, Jr.

Member of School Board – District 2

Lyle C. Johnson (D)

Mayor – City of Crowley

“Greg” Jones (R)

Chief of Police – City of Eunice (Multi-parish)

Ronald Dies (D)

Chief of Police – City of Rayne

Chief of Police – Town of Church Point

Ronald Carrier (O)

Chief of Police – Village of Estherwood

Alderman Ward 1 – Town of Church Point

Mel Green (R)

Alderman Ward 2 Division B – City of Crowley

Lyle O. Fogleman Jr. (D)

Alderman Ward 5 – Town of Church Point

Toby L. Leger (O)

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #1

Summary: To extend the special assessment level to homesteads owned and occupied by any person with a service-connected disability rating of fifty percent or more and by certain members of the armed forces of the United States or members of the Louisiana National Guard killed or missing in action or who were prisoners of war, and to any person designated as permanently totally disabled, subject to other conditions and requirements provided under the present constitution, and to require annual certification of eligibility by persons under sixty-five years of age who have qualified and received the special assessment level.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #2

Summary: To increase the maximum amount of the severance tax imposed and collected by the state on natural resources, other than sulphur, lignite, and timber, which is remitted to the parish governing authority where the severance occurs from seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to eight hundred fifty thousand dollars effective July 1, 2007, and provides that this maximum amount be increased to reflect the increase in the Consumer Price Index beginning July 1, 2008.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #3

Summary: To exempt from ad valorem property tax medical equipment leased for a term exceeding five years to a nonprofit corporation or association which owns or operates a small, rural hospital and if the equipment is used solely for health care purposes at the hospital; to provide that “small, rural hospital” shall mean a hospital which meets all of the following criteria: 1. It has less than fifty Medicare-licensed acute care beds. 2. It is located in a municipality with a population of less than ten thousand which has been classified as an area with a shortage of health manpower by the United States Health Service.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #4

Summary: Exempts motor vehicles from municipal ad valorem taxes and removes language that authorizes a municipal governing authority or a district thereof to impose ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #5

Summary: To exempt consigned art from ad valorem property tax; that is, all artworks such as sculptures, glass works, paintings, drawings, signed and numbered posters, photographs, mixed media, collages, or any other item which would be considered as the material result of a creative endeavor.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #6

Summary: To authorize the legislature to enact laws establishing new judgeships of district courts as new divisions having limited or specialized jurisdiction within the territorial jurisdiction of the district court and subject matter jurisdiction over family or juvenile matters as provided by law.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #7

Summary: To provide for a single tax assessor in Orleans Parish to be elected at the same time as the municipal officers of New Orleans.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #8

Summary: To grant the Central community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted parishes for purposes of Article VIII, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana, including purposes related to the minimum foundation program, funding for certain school books and instructional materials, and the raising of certain local revenues for the support of elementary and secondary schools.

For