Lafayette Parish voters will decide in two separate fall elections whether to renew parish-wide property taxes that help fund schools, Vermilionville and keeping the river clean, and road maintenance and public health.
The millage renewals that help fund the Lafayette Parish School System and Bayou Vermilion District will appear on the Oct. 11 ballot and the millages that help fund Lafayette Consolidated Government will appear on the Nov. 15 ballot.
Representatives from all three groups spoke at a panel hosted by the Lafayette League of Women Voters Wednesday and stressed the importance of renewing the millages.
What do the four millages fund?
Lafayette voters will decide whether to renew four separate millages. These millages have to be renewed by voters every 10 years for agencies to continue collecting the funding…