RAPIDES PARISH, La. (KALB) – Early voters for the June 27 Election are seeing a proposition for Poland Junior High School to renew the levy to maintain the Food Preservation Center.
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People from around Cenla come to the center and have animals like cattle and deer processed.
The maintenance fund is the same one District 55 has had for decades. Each year, the center receives around $67,000 to help pay the salaries of its workers and keep it operating.
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“The funding comes from the Rapides Parish School Board to run the facility, maintain the facility; we have state-of-the-art equipment in the facility,” said Allison Juneau, principal of Poland Junior High.
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Here are the three propositions in full:
- Poland School District Number 55 Proposition No. 1 of 3 (Millage Renewal)
- “Shall Poland School District Number 55 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the “District”), continue to levy a special tax of 4.71 mills on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $76,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2027 and ending with the year 2036, for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining and/or operating the Food Preservation Laboratory and programs in connection therewith in the District, including the payment of salaries therefor?”
- Poland School District Number 55 Proposition No. 2 of 3 (Millage Renewal)
- “Shall Poland School District Number 55 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the “District”), continue to levy a special tax of 4.17 mills on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $67,100 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2027 and ending with the year 2036, for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools in the District and facilities and programs in connection therewith?”
- Poland School District Number 55 Proposition No. 3 of 3 (Millage Renewal)
- “Shall Poland School District No. 55 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the “District”), continue to levy a special tax of 2.09 mills on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $34,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2027 and ending with the year 2036, for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining and/or operating the Food Preservation Laboratory and programs in connection therewith in the District, including payment of salaries therefor?”
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