Voters handily OK three tax measures

Lafourche Parish voters went to the polls on Saturday to fill several elective positions and to vote on three tax renewals.

Golden Meadow voters resoundingly elected Randy Chiasson as the town’s new police chief with 88 percent of the vote. Challenger Jared Doucet received 46 votes of the 372 cast.

In Thibodaux, Beau Brooks won a close race over Lloyd Badeaux for the city’s councilman at large, seat D position, gaining 48 percent of the vote. Tommy Lasseigne picked up 9 percent.

Bennett Arceneaux won 55 percent of the vote against Ernest Boudreaux for justice of the peace, 3rd Justice of the Peace Court, while Carl Doucet easily was elected constable of the 4th Justice of the Peace Court with 82 percent of the vote over Riley Griffin.

The tax propositions passed handily. Voters in Law Enforcement Sub-District No. 1 renewed a half-cent sales tax for 10 years for prison maintenance that brings in $2 million yearly. Sixty-six percent of voters approved the measure.

With 63 percent of ballots cast, voters in Hospital Service District No. 2 renewed a two-mill property tax for 10 years that is expected to generate $145,000 annually.

Voters in the Fifth Ward Gravity Drainage District No. 5 renewed a 4.62-mill property tax for drainage maintenance with 60 percent of voters approving the measure.

The tax is expected to generate $159,000 yearly, according to parish officials.