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NOTICE OF
SPECIAL ELECTION
Pursuant to the provisions of a resolution adopted by the Police Jury of the Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana, on December 18, 2025, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election will be held in the District on Saturday, June 27, 2026, and that at the said election, there will be submitted to all registered voters of the District qualified and entitled to vote at the said election under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Louisiana, and the Constitution and Laws of the United States, the following Proposition, to wit:
SEWERAGE DISTRICT NO. ELEVEN OF WARDS THREE
AND EIGHT
TAX RENEWAL
Shall Sewerage District No. Eleven of Wards Three and Eight of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (the District) be authorized to renew, levy, and collect a special 9-mill tax on all property subject to taxation in the District for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with January 1, 2028, and ending December 31, 2037, with collections from the renewed levy estimated to be $227,590 for one entire year, for the purpose of operating and maintaining the Districts sewerage facilities?
A portion of the monies collected shall be remitted to certain state and statewide retirement systems in the manner required by law.
The said special election will be held at the following polling places, which are all of the regular voting precincts in the District, and the election officials appointed to serve at the following polling places in the District in accordance with Section 1286 of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (La.R.S. 18:1286), shall be and are hereby appointed to serve as the election officials for this special election:
(NOTE: ONLY THOSE REGISTERED VOTERS IN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING PRECINCTS WHO RESIDE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SEWERAGE DISTRICT NO. ELEVEN OF WARDS THREE AND EIGHT OF CALCASIEU PARISH, LOUISIANA, SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE ON THE PROPOSITION.)
PRECINCT POLLING PLACE
361 (portion) SOWELA Regional Training Center, 3749 Senator J. Bennett Johnston Avenue, Lake Charles - 70615
861W (portion) Ward Eight Fire Protection District No. Two Fire Station, 3395 Manchester Road, Iowa - 70647
The polls will be opened at seven oclock (7:00) A.M. and will be closed at eight oclock (8:00) P.M., in compliance with the provisions of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. Voting machines shall be used in the conduct of the election.
The special election will be held in accordance with the provisions of the Louisiana Election Code, and the officers appointed to hold the said election, pursuant to La.R.S. 18:1286, or such substitutes therefor as may be selected and designated in compliance with the Louisiana Election Code, will make due returns thereof to the Clerk of Court of the Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana, and to the Police Jury of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
In accordance with La. R.S. 18:1285(A)(1)(a)(v), the estimated costs to hold the election will be $10,300.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that said Police Jury will meet at its regular meeting place in the Police Jury Meeting Room in the Parish Government Building, located at 1015 Pithon Street, Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at 5:30 P.M., and will then and there in open and public session examine and count the votes, examine and canvass the returns and declare the majority of the votes of the qualified electors of the District, voting in said election. All registered voters in the District are entitled to vote at said special election, and assessed valuations shall not be voted.
THUS PASSED AND ADOPTED at Lake Charles, Louisiana, on this, the 18th day of December, 2025.
/s/ Judd Bares
Judd Bares, President
/s/ Jennifer R. WallaceJennifer R. Wallace,
Parish Secretary
STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF
CALCASIEU
I, JENNIFER R. WALLACE, do hereby certify that I am the duly qualified and acting Parish Secretary of the Police Jury of the Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana, the governing authority of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
I further certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of an excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of said Police Jury held on December 18, 2025, and of a resolution adopted at said meeting, as said minutes and resolution appear officially of record in my possession.
IN FAITH WHEREOF, witness my official signature and the impress of the official seal of the Police Jury of the Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana, on this 18th day of December, 2025.
/s/ Jennifer R. Wallace
Jennifer R. Wallace,
Parish Secretary
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Notice Cost- $520.00