Voters to decide millage issues Saturday

All Lafourche Parish voters have a $48.840 million Lafourche Parish School Board bond issue proposal on the ballot Saturday, while voters in parts of the Summerfield and Bayou Black areas of Terrebonne Parish will decide on a 2.5-mill property tax increase to fund Recreation District No. 9.

Also, voters in the Village East Fire Protection District, near the Prospect Boulevard bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway in Houma, have a 15-mill property tax renewal on the ballot Saturday.

The school board bond would fund the third phase of a renovation and maintenance project for all elementary, middle and high schools in Lafourche Parish.

The money would pay for general building repairs, furnishings, repainting schools and construction or repair of sidewalks and parking lots.

In addition, the bond money would pay to build a cafeteria at Thibodaux Elementary, which does not have one currently, and to construct a centralized vocational career center in the Mathews-Lockport area.

The Lafourche Parish Registrar of Voters (307 W. Fourth St. in Thibodaux) is displaying the parish’s new voting machines in the registrar’s office.

“The new machines were first used last July,” said the office’s Administration Coordinator Jackie Gravois, “but many voters have not used them. They can come in and try them.”

Polls in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Precincts 67, 68, 69A, 69F, 69N, 82, 83, and 85 in Recreation District No. 9 in Terrebonne Parish will be voting to raise the property millage tax from 10 mills to 12.5 mills.

Precincts 29,31, 32, 33, 46, 52, and 88 in the Village East Fire Protection District will vote on the millage renewal.

Instead of the Village East School, the polling place for precinct 32 will be the Village East Fire Station (100 Development St. in Houma).

The parking lot of the school is being repaired, making it impossible to get in the building, said Parish Registrar Linda Rodrigue.