Board votes to keep millage rates the same
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LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish School Board voted unanimously Thursday night to keep most of its property tax rates for this year the same as 2008.
The School Board voted to keep the millage rate for their four parishwide taxes the same and will collect an additional $343,791 from the four taxes, according to documents provide by the School Board.
The millage rates for those taxes will be 3.29 mills for the parishwide constitutional tax that goes to the general fund, 7.18 mills a parishwide tax that goes to the general fund, 5 mills for a parishwide construction tax, and 7 mills for a parishwide facility maintenance tax.
Three of the board’s bonding districts also will remain at the same level as the previous year, documents show.
The reason the bonding district millages remained the same is because the assessed value of taxable property in Albany, Frost and Springfield decreased, Terry Hughes, the School Board’s business manager, told the board.
The bonding district millages include 17.76 to pay for bonds in the Albany district, 13.26 mills to pay for bonds in the Springfield district, and 54.36 mills in Frost.
The board also lowered the millage rates for four other bonding districts.
The millage rates in those districts will be 20.45 mills for Denham Springs, 11.94 mills for Walker, 31.03 mills for French Settlement and 17.10 mills for Maurepas.
The Live Oak district will be 25 mills, an increase of 3.54 mills, to cover the $30 million bond issue that voters approved in October to build a new high school, Hughes said.
Governmental agencies are required to adjust their millage rates based on the annual update of the value of assessed property in the parish.
In other business, the School Board appointed Shana White as assistant principal of Denham Springs High School.
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