On Tuesday, September 17th, the Jackson Parish Police Jury held a Special Called Meeting at the Charles H. Garrett Community Center in Jonesboro. Attending the special session was Amy Magee, Sheketia Combs, Tarneshala “Niki” Cowans, Regina Rowe and Secretary/Treasurer Nia Evans. Absent was Todd Culpepper, Lewis Chatham and Keith Burris.

Once the meeting was called to order by Vice President Magee and the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance took place, a motion was made and agreed to for an additional agenda item to be added to the two that were already stated.

A call for Public Comments was then made to which there was no response leading to the four panel members voting by a 4 Yea to 0 Nay roll call count to uphold and affirm the 2024 tax assessment as presented.

This was followed by a second roll call vote of 4-0 to adopt the 2024 Tax Millage Resolution which called for a total millage of 27.57 mills to be approved as stated below.

Resolution

Be it resolved, that the following millage(s) are hereby levied on the 202 tax roll on all property subject to taxation by the Jackson Parish Police Jury:

General Alimony 5.90 mills
Roads & Bridges 5.60 mills
Roads, Asphalt, Paving 4.87 mills
Recreation District 5.07 mills
Health Unit 0.88 mills
Library & Bookmobile 5.25 mills

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the proper administrative officials of the Parish of Jackson, State of Louisiana, be and they are hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to spread said taxes, as hereinabove set forth, upon the assessment roll of said Parish for the year 2024, and to make collection of the taxes imposed for and on behalf of the taxing authority, according to law, and that the taxes herein levied shall become a permanent lien and privilege on all property subject to taxation as herein set forth, and collection of thereof shall be enforceable in the manner provided by law.

The foregoing resolution was read in full, the roll was called on the adoption thereof, and the resolution was adopted by the following votes:
District 1 – Absent, District 2 – Absent, District 3 – Yea, District 4 – Yea, District 5 – Yea, District 6 – Yea, District 7 – Absent

YEAS: 4
NAYS: 0
ABSTAINED:
ABSENT: 3

CERTIFICATE

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of the resolution adopted at the board meeting held on September, 17, 2024, at which meeting a quorum was present and voting.

Jonesboro, Louisiana, this 18th day of September 2024

Nia Evans

In final action the added agenda item of approving FMLA for Ms. Katherine Lester was agreed upon.