Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said Monday there’s “not really” anything he can do to expedite the post-election process in November that would help Lincoln Parish property tax bills go out earlier than anticipated.
At its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, the Lincoln Parish Library Board of Control discussed a few “misconceptions” members have heard among the public about the upcoming vote on renewing the property tax that funds almost all of the library’s operations.
A year after property values across the parish were reassessed in 2020, some local taxing authorities have made small changes to their ad valorem tax millages this summer, while others have held their rates steady.
The Lincoln Parish School Board will fulfill a year-old campaign promise next month as it begins using funds from its newest sales tax to help the sheriff ’s office pay for a security presence at each school campus.
This fall Lincoln Parish poll-goers will get to weigh in on a statewide constitutional amendment that would kickstart the process of centralizing the collection of sales taxes in Louisiana under one roof.
Last week most of the Lincoln Parish Library’s new “liaison committees” gave their first reports to the library Board of Control since they were formed in late March.
