<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Which districts in Calcasieu Parish have voted to roll their millages forward?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Taxing authorities that have said they plan to roll their millages forward, according to the Calcasieu Parish Tax Assessor’s Office:</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Ward 4 Fire Protection District 4 will roll its maintenance millage forward from an adjusted rate of 7.95 mills to a rate of 8.65 mills.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">The Carlyss Fire Department will roll its construction and maintenance millage forward from an adjusted rate of 8.17 mills to a rate of 8.5 mills; it will also roll forward its maintenance and operations millage from an adjusted rate of 6.25 mills to 6.5 mills.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Wards 6 and 4 Waterworks District 7 will roll forward its maintenance millage from an adjusted rate of 5.81 mills to a rate of 5.94 mills.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">The city of Westlake will roll forward its general alimony millage from an adjusted rate of 6.33 mills to a rate of 6.4 mills. The city will also implement two 10-mill voter-approved taxes for the fire and police departments.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">As The Informer noted earlier in the month, the Louisiana Constitution requires parish tax assessors to reappraise property at least once every four years.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">After reassessments, taxing authorities must adjust their millage rates — either up or down — so that the amount of money they collect from property owners remains unchanged from the previous year.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">If the rates fall ?because of a rise in property values, the taxing authorities may roll their rates forward with a two-thirds vote of their board members.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.calcasieuassessor.org; www.latax.state.la.us.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">Uniform policy list contained error</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">In Thursday’s paper there are lists of requirements for dress code for Calcasieu Parish and other parishes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">However, for Calcasieu Parish only girls are required to wear socks or hose. This is discrimination.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Why is this, and who made this decision? I’m a grandmother, and I just don’t like this. If girls have to wear them, then boys should wear them.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Boys do indeed have to wear socks.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The sentence that appeared in the Back to School section lacked critical elements — parentheses — that would have prevented reader confusion and misunderstanding.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">From Thursday’s section: “Socks or stockings for girls are required.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">From the Calcasieu Parish school system’s uniform guidelines: “Socks (or stockings for girls) are required.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.cpsb.org.</span>

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