Rapides Parish

Shall Fifth Ward School District No. 51 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, continue to levy a six and ninety-seven hundredths (6.97) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $56,820 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 2013 and ending with the year 2022, 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 Forest Hill School District No. 16 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, continue to levy a seven and seven hundredths (7.07) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $42,000 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 2013 and ending with the year 2022, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, repairing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools and school related facilities, equipment and programs for said School District, said millage to represent a forty-three hundredths of a mill (.43) increase (due to reappraisal) over the 6.64 mills tax authorized to be levied through the year 2012 pursuant to an election held on July 20, 2002?

Shall Forest Hill-Cheneyville-Lecompte-Lamourie-Woodworth Consolidated School District No. 61 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, continue to levy a four and seventy-eight hundredths (4.78) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $147,920 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 2013 and ending with the year 2022, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, repairing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools and school related facilities, equipment and programs for said School District, said millage to represent a forty-eight hundredths of a mill (.48) increase (due to reappraisal) over the 4.30 mills tax authorized to be levied through the year 2012 pursuant to an election held on July 20, 2002?

Shall Glenmora School District No. 27 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, continue to levy a twelve and four hundredths (12.04) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $131,200 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 2013 and ending with the year 2022, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, repairing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools and school related facilities, equipment and programs for said School District, said millage to represent a one and one hundredths mills (1.01) increase (due to reappraisal) over the 11.03 mills tax authorized to be levied through the year 2012 pursuant to an election held on July 20, 2002?

Shall Lecompte-Lamourie-Woodworth School District No. 57 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, continue to levy a four and eighty-two hundredths (4.82) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $91,920 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 2013 and ending with the year 2022, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, repairing, improving, maintaining and/or operating schools and school related facilities, equipment and programs for said School District, said millage to represent a twenty-seven hundredths of a mill (.27) increase (due to reappraisal) over the 4.55 mills tax authorized to be levied through the year 2012 pursuant to an election held on April 5, 2003?

Shall Pineville School District No. 52 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), be authorized to incur debt and issue bonds to the amount of not exceeding Twenty Million Six Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($20,685,000), to run not exceeding twenty (20) years from date thereof, with interest at a rate not exceeding eight per centum (8%) per annum, for the purpose of (i) refunding and extending the outstanding General Obligation School Refunding Bonds, Series 2008, dated October 1, 2008 and (ii) 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, including technology equipment, software and enhancements, 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, with no increase in the estimated millage rate to be levied in the first year of issue above the 25 mills currently being levied to pay General Obligation Bonds of the District?

To prohibit the levy of new taxes or fees upon the sale or transfer of immovable property, including documentary transaction taxes or fees, or any other tax or fee, by the state or any of its political subdivisions after November 30, 2011. (November 30, 2011) (Adds Article VII, Section 2.3)