Constable selected in primary

Voters in Ward 9 have selected Paul Breaux to fill the two years remaining in a term that was interrupted by the death in April of long-time Constable Floyd Trahan.

Breaux defeated Gary Trahan 937 to 822 to claim 53.27 percent of the ballots during Saturday’s primary election.

A truck driver by trade, Breaux has been actively involved as a member of the Bayou Black Fire Department and has worked as a first responder during storms and fires.

“I just want to keep up the job,” Breaux said Sunday. “I will be out patrolling and checking suspicious activity.”

Also, offering a direct line in the “yes” column, voters in Terrebonne Parish affirmed all state and local issues on Saturday’s primary election ballot.

With a count of 17,559 to 3,996 votes, disabled veterans were handed an increase in property tax exemption by 81.46 percent of active voters, from a level eliminating from taxation the first $75,000 assessed value of a home to $150,000 value level of real property.

Terrebonne Parish voters, along with ballot casters in all parishes, were offered the opportunity to approve or deny the disabled veterans’ tax exemption increase based on a legislative move in November 2010 that sent the then-proposed measure to a public vote.

Local ballot issues in Terrebonne Parish included renewal of a maintenance and operation tax of 7 mills on property tax, approximately $146,000 a year, to benefit Recreation District 3A. The final vote on this measure was 419 to 189, marking an approval rating of 68.91 percent.

Additional measures applied to the continuation of property tax millages for maintenance of road lighting districts in the parish. Results for each include:

• District 6 with 438 to 151 for 74.36 percent approval.

• District 7 with 1,001 to 312 for 76.24 percent approval.

• District 8 with 412 to 179 for 69.71 percent approval.

• District 9 with 1,115 to 429 for 72.22 percent approval.

• District 10 with 552 to 182 with 75.20 percent approval.