Voters overwhelmingly approve $17 million hospital millage

Parish voters chose to approve a measure to issue bonds aimed at financing major upgrades and improvements to St. Charles Parish Hospital.

Only 11.9% of registered voters in the parish (4,392 people) cast a ballot in yesterday’s election. 77% of them (3,402 people) approved the measure, with 23% of voters (990 people) in opposition.

The bonds will be paid by extending the current ad valorem tax at a reduced rate, which means this is not a new tax but rather a continuation of an existing one.

A passage of the proposal means a reduction in millage from current 3.16 Mills to 3.06 Mills.

 

 

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Roth has both her undergraduate and graduate degree in journalism, which she has utilized in the past as an instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University and a reporter at various newspapers and online publications. She grew up in LaPlace, where she currently resides with her husband and three daughters.

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