Rapides Parish

Shall Cotile School District Number 22A of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), continue to levy a three and four hundredths (3.04) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $83,000 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 2014 and ending with the year 2023, 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 Fire Protection District No. 2 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), levy and collect a special ad valorem tax of fifteen and fifty-two hundredths (15.52) mills (the "Tax") on all the property subject to taxation within the confines of the District (an estimated $3,900,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the Tax for an entire year), beginning with the year 2012 and ending with the year 2021, to be used for the purposes of acquiring, constructing, improving, maintaining or operating fire protection and emergency medical service facilities, vehicles and equipment, including both movable and immovable property, that are to be used to provide fire protection and medical services in the District, the Tax to be levied in lieu of a fifteen and fifty-two hundredths (15.52) mills fire tax authorized to be levied through the year 2021 pursuant to an election held on October 2, 2010 (the "2010 Tax"), with the proceeds collected under the 2010 Tax being hereby rededicated for the purposes set forth above?

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 $162,000 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-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 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 the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana (the "Parish"), incur debt and issue not exceeding Twenty-Three Million Dollars ($23,000,000) of general obligation bonds to the amount not exceeding twenty (20) years from date thereof, with interest at a rate or rates not exceeding seven per centum (7%) per annum, to be sold at par, premium or discount, for the purpose of constructing and acquiring improvements and additions to, and renovating and repairing, the Rapides Parish Coliseum, including the necessary equipment, land and furnishings therefor, title to which shall be in the public, which bonds will be general obligations of the Parish 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 an estimated 2.75 mills to be levied in the first year of issue to pay said bonds; and shall said Parish levy a one (1) mill tax on all the property subject to taxation in said Parish (an estimated $650,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 20 years, beginning with the year 2013 and ending with the year 2032, for the purpose of improving, maintaining and operating the coliseum?

Shall the Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana (the "Parish"), continue to levy and collect a special ad valorem tax of seven and eight-hundredths (7.08) mills on all property subject to taxation in the Parish, for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the year 2014 and ending with the year 2023 (an estimated $4,600,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for the purpose of improving, constructing, maintaining and operating the Rapides Parish Library and its branches, title to which is, and shall be, in the public?

"LOCAL OPTION ELECTION Within Rapides Parish School District: Shall the number of terms of office that any member of the school board may serve be limited to three consecutive four-year terms?"

Shall Rigolette School District Number 11 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), continue to levy a special tax of three (3) mills on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $285,000 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 2014 and ending with the year 2023, 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?

Shall Fire Protection District No. 2 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), levy and collect a special tax of sixteen and thirty-one hundredths (16.31) mills (the "tax") on all the property subject to taxation within the confines of Service Area No. 1 of the District (an estimated $350,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), beginning with the year 2012 and ending with the year 2020, to be used for the purposes of acquiring, constructing, improving, maintaining and operating fire protection and emergency medical service facilities and other fire fighting or emergency medical service equipment, the tax to be levied in lieu of a sixteen and thirty-one hundredths (16.31) mills fire tax authorized to be levied through the year 2020 pursuant to an election held on May 2, 2009 (the "2009 tax"), with the proceeds collected under the 2009 tax being hereby rededicated for the purposes set forth above?

Shall Sixth Ward School District Number 58 of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (the "District"), continue to levy a twelve and eighty-six hundredths (12.86) mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in said School District (an estimated $82,000 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 2014 and ending with the year 2023, 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 thirty-three hundredths of a mill (.33) increase (due to reappraisal) over the 12.53 mills tax authorized to be levied through the year 2013 pursuant to an election held on October 4, 2003?

Do you support an amendment to prohibit monies in the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly from being used or appropriated for other purposes when adjustments are made to eliminate a state deficit? (Adds Article VII, Section 10(F)(4)(g))

Do you support an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Louisiana to provide that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right and any restriction of that right requires the highest standard of review by a court? (Amends Article I, Section 11)

Do you support an amendment to require legislation effecting any change to laws concerning retirement systems for public employees that is to be prefiled to be filed no later than forty-five days before the start of a regular legislative session and to require the completion of public notice requirements regarding legislation effecting such a change no later than sixty days before introduction of the bill? (Amends Article III, Section 2(A)(2), Article X, Section 29(C), and Article XIII, Section 1(A))

Do you support an amendment to exempt from ad valorem taxation, in addition to the homestead exemption, the next seventy-five thousand dollars of value of property owned and occupied by the spouse of a deceased veteran with a service-connected disability rating of one hundred percent who passed away prior to the enactment of the exemption? (Effective January 1, 2013)(Amends Article VII, Section 21(K)(1))

Do you support an amendment to provide for the forfeiture of public retirement benefits by any public servant who is convicted of a felony associated with and committed during his public service? (Adds Article X, Section 29(G))

Do you support an amendment to authorize the granting of ad valorem tax exemption contracts by the city of New Iberia for property annexed by the city after January 1, 2013? (Adds Article VII, Section 21(L))

Do you support an amendment, relative to the membership of constitutional boards and commissions that have members who are selected from congressional districts, to retain the existing number of members and to provide for implementation of membership from reapportioned congressional districts by filling vacancies first from under-represented districts and then from the state at large? (Amends Article VIII, Sections 5(B)(1), 6(B)(1), and 7(B)(1) and Article X, Sections 3(A) and 43(A); Adds Article VIII, Section 8(D))

Do you support an amendment to authorize the granting of ad valorem tax exemption contracts by the Board of Commerce and Industry for businesses located in parishes which have chosen to participate in a program established for the granting of such contracts? (Effective January 1, 2013) (Adds Article VII, Section 21(L))

Do you support an amendment to provide that no law relative to the creation of a special district, the primary purpose of which includes aiding in crime prevention and security by providing for an increased presence of law enforcement personnel in the district or otherwise promoting and encouraging security in the district, shall be enacted unless three separate notices of the proposed law are published at least thirty days prior to introduction of the bill, which notice shall set forth the substance of the proposed law and whether the governing authority of the special district would be authorized to impose and collect a parcel fee within the district, whether the parcel fee will be imposed or may be increased without an election, and the maximum amount of such fee? (Amends Article III, Section 13)