?NOTICE TO VOTERS
OF TAX ELECTION
To the qualified electors of Hackberry Fire Protection District No. One (“District”) of Cameron Parish, State of Louisiana:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 10th day of April, 2024, the Parish Police Jury of the Parish of Cameron, State of Louisiana (the “Police Jury”), ordered that an election be held in the Hackberry Fire Protection District No. One on Tuesday, the 5th day of November, 2024, for the purpose of submitting to all qualified electors of the District the following proposition:
RENEWAL
PROPOSITION No. 1
Shall Hackberry Fire Protection District No. One of Cameron Parish Louisiana (“District”), be authorized to renew a levied tax of four and seventy-one hundredths (4.71) mills on the dollar of assessed valuation on all property subject to taxation in said District, for a period of ten (10) years, commencing with the year 2025 and ending with the year 2034, with collections from the levy of the tax estimated to be $608,646 for one entire year, for the purposes of operating and maintaining said District’s fire protection facilities, and paying the cost of obtaining water for fire protection purposes, including charges for fire hydrant rentals and service within said District?
A portion of the monies collected shall be remitted to certain state and statewide retirement systems in the manner required by law.
Said election will be held at all polling place which is situated within the boundaries of the District of Cameron Parish, Louisiana. All registered voters in each of the following precincts shall be eligible to vote on the proposition:
PRECINCT, POLLING PLACE
04 (Part) Hackberry Community Center, 980 Main Street, Hackberry
The polls will be open at six (6:00) o’clock a.m. and shall remain open until not later than eight (8:00) o’clock p.m. The said election will be held substantially by the general election laws of the State of Louisiana, except that the election is called and shall be conducted, canvassed, and promulgated, and notice thereof given in accordance with the procedures outlined in Chapter 6-A of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended. The officials appointed to hold the election or such substitutes therefor as may be selected, designated, and sworn in compliance with Sections 1286 through 1289 of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, will make due returns thereof to the Police Jury. Voting machines will be used in the conduct of the election. All qualified electors of the District will be entitled to vote. No voter shall be required to sign a ballot or vote assessed valuation of property.
Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 2nd of December, 2024 at eleven (11:00) o’clock a.m., the Police Jury will meet in open and public session at the regular meeting place of the Police Jury, 148 Smith Circle, Cameron, Louisiana, and will, then and there, examine and canvass the returns and declare the result of said election.
The cost to conduct and canvass the returns of the election provided for herein is estimated to be $225.00 by the Louisiana Secretary of State.
THUS DONE AND SIGNED in Cameron, Louisiana, by authority of a resolution adopted by the Police Jury on the 10th day of April 2024.
ATTEST:
/s/ Ronald Nunez
RONALD NUNEZ, President
/s/ Mary B. Carroll
MARY B. CARROLL,
Secretary
RUN: Aug. 22, 29, Sept. 5, 12 (Au 50)