Rapides Parish

Shall Cotile School District Number 22A of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), levy a special tax of ten (10) mills on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $220,620 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the year 2009 and ending with the year 2018, for the purpose of technology equipment, programs and enhancements, including, but not limited to, computer hardware and software and audio and video equipment and programs and acquiring, constructing, repairing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools and school related facilities, equipment and programs for the District?

Shall Lecompte-Lamourie-Woodworth School District No. 57 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), incur debt and issue bonds to the amount of Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000), to run twenty (20) years from date thereof, with interest at a rate not exceeding eight per centum (8%) per annum, for the purpose of acquiring and/or improving lands for building sites and playgrounds; including construction of necessary sidewalks and streets adjacent thereto; purchasing, erecting and/or improving school buildings and other school related facilities within and for the District and acquiring the necessary equipment and furnishings therefor, title to which shall be in the public, which bonds will be general obligations of the District and will be payable from ad valorem taxes to be levied and collected in the manner provided by Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974 and statutory authority supplemental thereto?

Shall Lecompte-Lamourie-Woodworth School District No. 57 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, levy a four (4) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $70,360 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the year 2009 and ending with the year 2018, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, repairing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools and school related facilities, equipment and programs for said School District?

Shall the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana (the "Parish"), rededicate and distribute the proceeds received on and after July 1, 2009, from the levy and collection of a one percent (1%) sales and use tax authorized at an election held on September 19, 1967 (the Sales Tax) (an estimated $24,000,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), after paying the reasonable and necessary costs and expenses of collecting and administering the Sales Tax, on a percentage basis as follows: (i) 9% to Rapides Parish; (ii) 50% to the Rapides Parish School Board; (iii) 32.2293% to the City of Alexandria; (iv) 5% to the City of Pineville; (v) .5520% to the Town of Boyce; (vi) .5232% to the Town of Cheneyville; (vii) .7302% to the Town of Glenmora; (viii) .7497% to the Town of Lecompte; (ix) .1311% to the Village of McNary; (x) .1524% to the Village of Forest Hill; (xi) .1614% to the Town of Woodworth (the 1967 Recipients); and (xii) .7707% to the Town of Ball; and shall the Parish, the School Board and Alexandria continue to be authorized to expend their portions of the proceeds in the manner provided in the proposition of September 19, 1967, together with capital improvements in the case of Alexandria, and shall Alexandria and the Parish each be authorized to fund its portion of the proceeds into bonds in the manner and for the purposes permitted by the laws of Louisiana; and shall the remaining municipalities be authorized to use and expend their portions of the proceeds for any lawful corporate purpose with each of the remaining municipalities portions of the proceeds to be subject to funding into bonds in the manner provided by the laws of Louisiana, for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of capital improvements; provided, however, that any such bonds must be approved by the electors of said issuing municipality as provided in the proposition of September 19, 1967?

Shall the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana (the "Parish"), levy a one and one-half (1.5) mills tax on all property subject to taxation in said Parish for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the year 2009 and ending with the year 2018 (an estimated $888,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for the purpose of operating, maintaining and improving the Rapides Parish Coliseum?