St. Tammany voted on a public health tax. here's what voters decided.

Voters in St. Tammany Parish shot down the renewal of a public health tax Saturday, the latest tax defeat in a parish the place voters have increasingly voted “No” on tax proposals in fresh years. 

with out the tax, the parish could be plunged deeper right into a funds disaster. The parish executive estimates that it can be $7 million short on funding costs that the state of Louisiana requires the parish to cover. without the general public fitness tax, the parish will discover itself with out the $4.4 million it produces every 12 months. 

complete however unofficial returns reveal that the measure failed through a thin margin, with 51% of voters opposing the tax’s renewal. 

First handed in 1984 and renewed each 10 years considering that, the health tax helps fund mental health functions. At 1.78 mills, the proprietor of a $300,000 home would pay $forty annually, the parish referred to.

but in contemporary years, one of the public health dollars were re-appropriated to make up for the loss of other sources of income, together with a crook justice tax that introduced in hundreds of thousands and lined a large number of court and penitentiary-connected expenses. officers have time and again asked voters to approve taxes to fund the courts, penal complex and District lawyer's office; again and again, voters have shot down those requests. 

however by legislations, the parish has to fund clinical services for inmates within the parish's penal complex. So without a dedicated crook justice tax, St. Tammany used money accumulated through the public health tax to fund these functions. 

and not using a public health tax, the parish will likely have to reduce spending from one other part of its funds in order to pay for penitentiary clinical capabilities.