Orleans Parish

Shall the City of New Orleans renew the Kingswood Subdivision Improvement District parcel fee on each parcel of taxable real property in the Kingswood Subdivision Improvement District which is comprised of that area within the following boundaries: the I-10 Service Road, the West right-of-way line of Kingswood Subdivision, the center line of the Morrison Canal, and the center line of the Vincent Canal, in the amount of and not exceeding $240.00 for a period of and not exceeding eight (8) years, beginning January 1, 2015 and ending December 31, 2022, which fee is estimated to generate approximately $65,500 annually, to be used exclusively for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the beautification, security, and overall betterment of the Kingswood Subdivision Improvement District, except a 1% City collection fee, and if used for additional law enforcement personnel and their services, such personnel and services shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of personnel and services provided by the New Orleans Police Department?

Shall the City renew the Lake Oaks Subdivision Improvement District fee on each land parcel in Lake Oaks Subdivision Improvement District (LOSID) (from northeast corner of New York Street and Elysian Fields, north to northwest corner of Lot 20, Block 5 of Lake Oaks Subdivision; then right angle to the midpoint of Elysian Fields; then north 1,603'; then right angle toward northwest corner of Square Three; then 232' to Lake Oaks Parkway; then along Lake Oaks Parkway's north right-of-way to northeast corner of Lake Oaks Subdivision; then south to Leon C. Simon's midpoint; then west 593'; then along midline of St. Roch toward New York Street; then west to east line of Block 6; then along the southside of the alleyway (south of Lots 1-10, Block 6 and Lots 1-10, Block 5) to the east right-of-way of Elysian Fields); in the amount of not exceeding $400.00 for not exceeding four years beginning 1/1/15 and ending 12/31/18, which fee is estimated to generate approximately $110,000 annually, to be used exclusively to promote the security, beautification and overall betterment of LOSID, except 1% City collection fee, which additional security shall be supplemental to personnel/services provided by the New Orleans Police Department?

Shall the City of New Orleans renew the special annual fee, called the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District fee, on each parcel of land in the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District, excluding Lots 1B, 1C, and 1D (which district is comprised of that area of the City of New Orleans located between Morrison Road on the north, the Lawrence Drainage Canal on the west, the I-10 Service Road on the south, and on the east by a line approximately two hundred feet west of the west line of Crowder Road), in an amount of three hundred dollars ($300) for three (3) years beginning on January 1, 2015 and ending on December 31, 2017, which fee is estimated to generate approximately $52,200 per year, to be used solely and exclusively to promote and encourage the security, beautification and overall betterment of the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District as determined and managed by the Board of Commissioners of the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District, except a 1% City collection fee, which additional security shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of personnel and services provided in the district by the New Orleans Police Department?

Shall the City of New Orleans levy a special annual fee, called the Lakeview Crime Prevention District fee, on each and every improved and unimproved parcel of land in the Lakeview Crime Prevention District (which district is comprised of the area of the City of New Orleans within and including the following perimeter streets and avenues: commencing at the corner of City Park Avenue and Orleans Avenue, then west on City Park Avenue to the Pontchartrain Expressway, then north to Veterans Memorial Boulevard, then west to the 17th Street Canal, then north to Lake Pontchartrain, then east to West End Boulevard, then south to Robert E. Lee Boulevard, then east to Orleans Avenue, and then south to City Park Avenue and the point of beginning) in an amount not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for twelve (12) years beginning January 1, 2015 and ending December 31, 2026, which fee is estimated to generate approximately $875,000 per year, to be used to aid in crime prevention and to add to the security of district residents by providing for an increase in the presence of law enforcement personnel in the district?

Shall the City of New Orleans renew the Milneburg Neighborhood Improvement District parcel fee on each land parcel (including condominium parcels) in the Milneburg Neighborhood Improvement District (which is comprised of that area within the following perimeter: Mexico Street, St. Roch Avenue, Elysian Fields Avenue, and Filmore Avenue), in the amount of and not exceeding $200.00 for a period of and not exceeding four (4) years, beginning January 1, 2015 and ending December 31, 2018, which fee is estimated to generate approximately $95,200 annually, to be used exclusively for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the beautification, security, and overall betterment of the District, except a 1% City collection fee, and if used for additional law enforcement personnel and their services, such personnel and services shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of personnel and services provided by the New Orleans Police Department?

Shall the City of New Orleans renew the special annual fee, called the Oak Island Neighborhood Improvement District fee, on each improved parcel of land in the Oak Island Neighborhood Improvement District (Michoud Blvd., from Adventure Dr. to Expedition Dr. (both sides), to Explorer Ave., to Voyageur Dr. and Voyageur Ct. (both sides), to Horizon Dr. (both sides) to Pierre Ct. (both sides); also Michoud Blvd; to W. Cavelier Dr. (both sides), to Trapper Ct. (both sides), to St. Marie Ct. (both sides) and N. Cavelier Dr. (both sides)), except parcels whose owners qualified for the special assessment level provided by Louisiana Constitution Article VII, Section 18(G)(1), in the amount of and not exceeding one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), for four (4) years beginning on January 1, 2015 and ending on December 31, 2018, which fee is estimated to generate approximately $45,000 per year, to be used solely and exclusively to promote and encourage the security, beautification and overall betterment of Oak Island Neighborhood Improvement District, except a 1% City collection fee, which additional security shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of personnel and services provided in the district by the New Orleans Police Department?

Shall City Charter Sections 3-102 and 4-201 be amended, effective June 1, 2018, to read as follows: Section 3-102. Number and Terms of Councilmembers. The Council shall consist of seven members, of whom five shall be elected from districts, one from the City at-Large as Councilmember-at-Large, Division "1" and one from the City at-Large as Councilmember-at-Large, Division "2", each to be voted on as separate offices. The terms of councilmembers shall be four years beginning the second Monday in January next following their election except that a councilmember elected to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired term. The two Councilmember-at-Large offices shall not be considered to be new or different offices for purposes of Section 3-105(3) herein. Section 4-201. Election and Term. The electors of the City shall elect a Mayor at an election to be held in accordance with the election laws of the State. The Mayor shall take office on the second Monday in January and every four years thereafter following election. A person who has served as Mayor for more than one and one-half terms in two consecutive terms shall not be eligible for election as Mayor for the succeeding term?

Shall Sections 6-308(1) and 6-308(5)(b) of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans relative to written contracts to which the City is a party be amended, effective January 1, 2015: (1) to require that the executive branch competitive selection process for professional services contracts involve a selection committee, composed of at least three (3) individuals from local government except the Mayor, possessing relevant subject matter expertise, to review and evaluate proposals and make selections in meetings noticed and open to the public, and that the committee's records shall be public; (2) to allow the Mayor to authorize, by executive order, exceptions to such competitive selection process resulting from emergencies that pose a threat to public health, safety, and welfare, as authorized by law; (3) to require that the City establish and maintain a program to encourage disadvantaged business enterprises to participate in City contracts; and (4) to allow, with the Mayor's authorization, the Chief Administrative Officer instead of the Director of Finance to sign such contracts on the City's behalf?

Shall the Law Enforcement District of the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana (the "District"), levy a special tax of not exceeding 2.9 mills on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $9,073,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2015 and ending with the year 2024, with said millage levied each year to be reduced by the millage rate levied that year for the District's currently outstanding General Obligation Bonds, for the purpose of providing additional funding for the District and the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, including the operation, maintenance and upkeep of jails and related facilities?

Do you support an amendment to authorize the legislature to create the Louisiana Medical Assistance Trust Fund, for the payment of Medicaid reimbursement to the health care provider groups paying fees into the fund? (Adds Article VII, Section 10.14)

Do you support an amendment to create the Hospital Stabilization Fund to stabilize and protect Medicaid reimbursements for health care services by depositing assessments paid by hospitals, as authorized by the legislature, into a fund to support Louisiana hospital reimbursement? (Adds Article VII, Section 10.13)

Do you support an amendment allowing an authorized agent of a tax collector to assist in the tax sale process, including the sale of property for delinquent taxes and that the fee charged by the authorized agent be included within the costs that the collector can recover in the tax sale? (Amends Article VII, Section 25(A)(1) and (E))

Do you support an amendment to authorize the investment of public funds to capitalize a state infrastructure bank and the loan, pledge, guarantee, or donation of public funds by a state infrastructure bank for eligible transportation projects? (Amends Article VII, Section 14(B))

Do you support an amendment to remove the constitutional requirement that a judge retire upon attaining the age of seventy or, if his seventieth birthday occurs during his term, that he retire upon completion of that term? (Amends Article V, Section 23)

Do you support an amendment to authorize the governing authority of Orleans Parish to increase the annual millage rate levied for fire and police protection, to require that the revenue from the fire and police millages be used for fire and police protection service enhancements, and to require that any increase be approved by the voters of Orleans Parish? (Amends Article VI, Section 26(E))

Do you support an amendment to provide that the homesteads of veterans with a service-connected disability rating of one hundred percent unemployability or totally disabled by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and their surviving spouses, shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation for up to one hundred fifty thousand dollars, and that a parishwide vote shall not be required to implement this change in qualification for the exemption? (Amends Article VII, Section 21(K)(1) and (3))

Do you support an amendment to establish the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state treasury by depositing in to the fund monies that have been received by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in the form of grants, donations, or other assistance to provide funding for programs dedicated to managing an artificial reef system, the wild seafood certification program, and inshore fisheries habitat enhancement projects? (Adds Article VII, Section 10.11)

Do you support an amendment to exclude owners who are permanently totally disabled from the requirement that they annually certify to the assessor the amount of their adjusted gross income in order to receive the Special Assessment Level on their residences for property tax purposes? (Amends Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(iv))

Do you support an amendment providing for an eighteen-month redemption period in any parish other than Orleans, for vacant property sold at tax sale which is blighted or abandoned? (Effective January 1, 2015) (Adds Article VII, Section 25(B)(3))

Do you support an amendment to change the maximum number of departments in the executive branch of state government from twenty to twenty-one? (Amends Article IV, Section 1(B))

Do you support an amendment to require that two members of the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission be electors from parishes located north of the parishes of Beauregard, Allen, Evangeline, Avoyelles, and Pointe Coupee? (Amends Article IX, Section 7(A))

Do you support an amendment to authorize the governing authority of the city of New Orleans to sell at a price fixed by the legislature property located in the Lower Ninth Ward of the city of New Orleans? (Amends Article VII, Section (14)(B))

Do you support an amendment to provide that legislation relative to tax rebates, tax incentives, and tax abatements may not be introduced or considered by the legislature in a regular session held in an even-numbered year? (Amends Article III, Section 2(A)(3)(b) and (4)(b)(introductory paragraph))