2010

City of Crowley – Proposition #1

Summary: To authorize the City of Crowley to levy and collect a Five (5) Mill Tax (“Renewal”) annually for a period of ten (10) years for the purpose of Street Maintenance.

Yes

City of Crowley – Proposition #2

Summary: To authorize the City of Crowley to levy and collect a Five (5) Mill Tax (“Renewal”) annually for a period of ten (10) years for the purpose of Public Building and Drainage Maintenance.

Yes

City of Crowley – Proposition #3

Summary: To authorize the City of Crowley to levy and collect a three-fourths (3/4) Mill Tax (“Renewal”) annually for a period of ten (10) years for the purpose of Maintaining Cemeteries.

Yes

First Ward Drainage District Proposition (Millage Renewal)

Summary: 10 Year, 8 Mills property tax renewal for maintenance, construction and improvement of drainage works within and for the First Ward Drainage District of the Parish of Acadia, including the acquisition of equipment therefor.

Yes

U.S. Senator – Democratic Party (Statewide)

Closed Party Primary

Neeson J. Chauvin Jr.

U.S. Senator – Republican Party (Statewide)

Closed Party Primary

Nick J. Accardo

U.S. Senator – Libertarian Party

Closed Party Primary

Anthony Gentile

Lieutenant Governor (Statewide)

James “Jim” Crowley (D)

Member of School Board – District 2

Douglas John “Doug” LaCombe (NP)

Member of School Board – District 3

Delo Hebert Jr. (O)

Member of School Board – District 6

Gene I. Daigle (D)

Mayor – City of Crowley

Greg A. Jones (R)

Mayor – Town of Church Point

Roger Boudreaux (D)

Mayor – Town of Iota

Cynthia F. “Cindy” McDaniel (O)

Mayor – Village of Estherwood

Anthony Borill (D)

Mayor – Village of Morse

Leon Clement (D)

Chief of Police – Church Point

Ronald Carrier (NP)

Chief of Police – Village of Morse

Gregory “Buddy” Guidry (D)

Alderman Ward 2A – City of Crowley

Bryan Borill (D)

Alderman Ward 2B – City of Crowley

Lyle O. Fogleman Jr. (D)

Alderman Ward 3A – City of Crowley

Vernon “Step” Martin (D)

Alderman Ward 3B – City of Crowley

Rannie “Ray” Batiste (D)

Alderman Ward 4A – City of Crowley

Lynn Baker (D)

Alderman Ward 4B – City of Crowley

Mary T. Melancon (D)

Alderman Ward 3 – City of Rayne

Gerard “Jerry” Arceneaux (R)

Alderman Ward 4 – Town of Church Point

Theresa “Teasie” Cary (D)

Alderman Ward 5 – Town of Church Point

Donald Lejeune (D)

Alderman – Town of Iota (5 to be elected)

Nicholas “Nick” Bouterie (R)

Alderman – Village of Estherwood (3 to be elected)

Donna Kay Bertrand (D)

Alderman – Village of Morse (3 to be elected)

Randall Bertrand (D)

Parish-wide Proposition (Millage Renewal)

Summary: Authority to continue a 3.18 mills tax for a period of 10 years for the purpose of maintaining roads and bridges in Acadia Parish.

Yes

Northwest Acadia Recreation District Proposition

Summary: 10 Year 4 mills property tax for acquiring, constructing, improving, maintaining, operating and/or supporting parks, playgrounds, recreation centers and other recreational facilities in Northwest Acadia Parish Recreation District, together with the necessary furnishing, equipment and programs therefor.

Yes

Acadia-Evangeline Fire Protection District Proposition (Millage Renewal)

Summary: 10 year, 1.03 mills tax renewal for constructing, maintaining and operating the Acadia-Evangeline Fire Protection District’s fire protection facilities, including the cost of obtaining water for fire protection purposes.

Yes

Fire Protection District #7 Proposition

Summary: 12 year, $50.00 parcel fee for acquiring facilities and equipment, including paying the cost of obtaining water for fire protection purposes and all purposes incidental thereto, subject to funding into bonds.

Yes

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #1

Summary: To change the legislature to odd/even years

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #2

Summary: To change Homeland Security to unclassified.

For

Lieutenant Governor (Statewide)

“Jay” Dardenne (R)

United States Senator (Statewide)

Michael Karlton Brown (NP)

Acadia Parish School Board – District 2 (Run-off)

Douglas John “Douglas” LaCombe (NP)

Chief of Police – Church Point (Run-off)

Ronald Carrier (NP)

Fourth Ward Drainage District No. 1 Proposition (Millage Renewal)

Summary: 10 year ad valorem tax of six & thirty-two-one-hundredths (6.32) mills on property subject to taxation situated in the District for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, maintaining and operating gravity drainage works within and for the said District.

Yes

Egan Drainage District No. 1 Proposition (Millage Renewal)

Summary: 10 year ad valorem tax of seven (7) mills on property subject to taxation situated in the District for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, maintaining and operating gravity drainage works within and for the said district.

Yes

City of Crowley Proposition No. 1 (Millage Renewal)

Summary: To authorize the City of Crowley to levy and collect a Five (5) mill Tax (“Renewal”) annually for a period of ten (10) years for the purpose of Street Maintenance.

Yes

City of Crowley Proposition No. 2 (Millage Renewal)

Summary: To authorize the City of Crowley to levy and collect a Five (5) mill Tax (“Renewal”) annually for a period of ten (10) years for the purpose of Public Building and Drainage Maintenance.

Yes

City of Crowley Proposition No. 3 (Millage Renewal)

Summary: To authorize the City of Crowley to levy and collect a three-fourths (3/4) mill Tax (“Renewal”) annually for a period of ten (10) years for the purpose of maintaining cemeteries.

Yes

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #1

Summary: To provide that nay salary increase enacted by law for certain state elected officials, including statewide elected officials, members of the legislature, not be implemented until a subsequent term of office.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #2

Summary: To decrease the amount of taxes retained by the state on the severance of natural resources, other than sulphur, lignite, and timber, and to increase the maximum amount of such revenues which are remitted to the parish governing authority from where the severance occurs, to be implemented in the event that the official forecast of severance tax revenues for any fiscal year includes an estimate for severance tax collections which will exceed that actually collected by the state in Fiscal Year 2009-2009; to change the annual maximum amount to be remitted to a parish governing authority from eight hundred fifty thousand dollars to one million eight hundred fifty thousand for the first fiscal year of implementation, which amount would increase to two million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars for the following and subsequent fiscal years; to provide for annual adjustment of the maximum amounts in accordance with the consumer price index; to require that of the revenues received by a parish governing authority under these provisions, that portion which is in excess of the amount of such revenues received in Fiscal Year 2011-2012 be used within the parish for the same purposes as monies received from the Parish Transportation Fund; to require that of the severance taxes and royalty revenues retained by the state from activity on state lands within the Atchafalaya Basin, up to ten million dollars per year be deposited into a special fund created in the state treasury to be known as the Atchafalaya Basin Conservation Fund; to provide that monies in this fund be used exclusively for conservations, improvement, and management of the Atchafalaya Basin in accordance with formal state and federal plans; to require legislative approval for and specific limitations on the use of monies appropriated from the fund.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #3

Summary: To exempt from ad valorem tax, in addition to the homestead exemption, the next seventy-five thousand dollars of value of property which is owned and occupied by a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of one hundred percent; to authorize the exemption to apply to the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran if the exemption was in effect on the property prior to the death of the veteran and the surviving spouse remains the owner of the property; to require the taxing authority to absorb any decrease in the total amount of ad valorem taxes collected as a result of this exemption; to prohibit the exemption from creating any additional tax liability for other property taxpayers; to prohibit implementation of the exemption from triggering reappraisal of property or adjustment of millages; provides that the exemption shall only extend and apply if established through an election called by the local governing authority and approved by a majority of the registered voters in an election held for that purpose.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #4

Summary: To provide that the power of a taxing authority with a governing authority which is not elected to increase millage rates without voter approval after reappraisal, which is presently limited by the prior year’s maximum millage rate, be further limited by the prior year’s maximum millage rate, be further limited to annual increases which do not exceed two and one-half percent of the property tax collections for the immediately preceding calendar year; to exclude from such restriction taxing authorities which are special fire protection or fire department districts or ports, port harbor, and terminal districts, and millages levied by certain levee districts under authority granted by the Constitution of Louisiana.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #5

Summary: To authorize continuation of the homestead exemption and the special assessment level for a homestead that has been destroyed or is uninhabitable due to a disaster for two years if the homeowner’s claim for damages is pending in a formal appeal process with a governmental agency or program offering assistance for repairing or rebuilding homes damaged by the disaster or if a homeowner has a damage claim filed and pending against the insurer of the property; to authorize an assessor to grant up to three additional one-year extensions of the continuation of the homestead exemption and the special assessment level as prescribed by law.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #6

Summary: To require a two-thirds vote of the elected members of each house of the legislature to enact any benefit provision for members of a Louisiana public retirement system if the provisions has an actuarial cost.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #7

Summary: To provide relative to the bidding process for ad valorem property tax sales by authorizing a bidder at a tax sale to bid down the existing five percent penalty in increments of one-tenth of one percent; to require the payment of penalties by a bidder at ad valorem property tax sales; to require the payment of interest, penalties, and costs by a taxpayer who is delinquent on the payment of taxes.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #8

Summary: Provides that property expropriated for the public purpose of removing a threat to public health or safety caused by the existing use or disuse of the property shall not be subject to the requirement of offering the property back to the original owner who allowed the property to become a threat to public health or safety or to the requirement of public sale.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #9

Summary: To provide that, in civil matters only, when a court of appeal is to modify or reverse an administrative agency determination in a workers’ compensation claim and one judge dissents, the case shall be reargued before a panel of at least five judges prior to rendition of judgment, and majority shall concur to render judgment.

For

Proposed Constitutional Amendment #10

Summary: To permit criminal defendants, except in capital cases, to waive their right to a trial by jury no later than forty-five days prior to the trial date.

For