The following resolution was offered by Mark Furlow and seconded by Paul Cook:

RESOLUTION 2025-005

A resolution providing for canvassing the returns and declaring the results of the special election held in the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana, on Saturday, December 7, 2024, to authorize the renewal of a sales and use tax therein.

BE IT RESOLVED by the Police Jury of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the governing authority of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), that:

SECTION 1. Canvass. This Governing Authority does now proceed in open and public session to examine the official tabulations of votes cast at the special election held in the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana, on Saturday, December 7, 2024 (the “Election”), to authorize the renewal of a sales and use tax therein pursuant to the following proposition (the “Proposition”):

PROPOSITION

(SALES TAX RENEWAL)

Shall the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), be authorized to continue to levy and collect a sales and use tax of 0.5% (the “Tax”) in accordance with Louisiana law, for a period of 10 years, commencing May 1, 2025 (an estimated $880,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), with the avails and proceeds of the Tax (after paying reasonable and necessary costs and expenses of collecting and administering the Tax), to be transferred to the Claiborne Parish Hospital Service District No. 3 (the “District”) pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Parish and dedicated for the purpose of the District’s operation, maintenance and improvement of hospital facilities and equipment for the Claiborne Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as the Homer Memorial Hospital)?

This Governing Authority does further proceed to examine and canvass the returns of the Election thereof.

SECTION 2. Election Results. According to the official certified tabulation of votes cast at said Election, there was a total of 577 votes cast IN FAVOR OF the Proposition and a total of 171 votes cast AGAINST the Proposition, resulting in a majority of 406 votes cast IN FAVOR OF the Proposition. The Proposition was therefore duly CARRIED by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors voting at the Election.

SECTION 3. Promulgation of Election Result. The results of said election shall be promulgated by publication in the manner provided by law, after receipt from the Secretary of State’s office of the actual costs of the election, as required by §18:1292 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended.

SECTION 4. Declaration. The foregoing results of the Election are hereby declared by this Governing Authority and shall be published as required by law.

SECTION 5. Procès Verbal. A Procès Verbal of the canvass of the returns of the Election shall be made and a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who shall record the same in her office; another certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages in and for the Parish of Claiborne, who shall record the same in the Mortgage Records of said Parish; and another copy thereof shall be retained in the archives of this Governing Authority.

This resolution having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:

YEAS: (9) Ford, Furlow, McDaniel, Cook, Davidson, Merritt, Cooper, Dowies, and Young

NAYS: (0) None

ABSENT: (0) None

ABSTAIN; (1) Gray

And the resolution was declared adopted on this, the 8th day of January 2025.

Scott Davidson,

President

Dwayne R. Woodard,

Secretary-Treasurer

PROCÈS VERBAL OF THE CANVASS OF THE VOTES CAST AT THE SPECIAL ELECTION HELD IN THE PARISH OF CLAIBORNE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2024.

BE IT KNOWN AND REMEMBERED that on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., at its regular meeting place, the Jury Chambers of the Police Jury Complex, 507 West Main Street, Homer, Louisiana, the Police Jury of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the governing authority of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), and being the authority ordering the special election held therein on Saturday, December 7, 2024, with a quorum of the Governing Authority present and did, in open and public session, examine the official certified tabulations of votes cast at the said election, and did examine and canvass the returns of the said election, there having been submitted at said election the following proposition, to wit:

PROPOSITION

(SALES TAX RENEWAL)

Shall the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), be authorized to continue to levy and collect a sales and use tax of 0.5% (the “Tax”) in accordance with Louisiana law, for a period of 10 years, commencing May 1, 2025 (an estimated $880,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), with the avails and proceeds of the Tax (after paying reasonable and necessary costs and expenses of collecting and administering the Tax), to be transferred to the Claiborne Parish Hospital Service District No. 3 (the “District”) pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Parish and dedicated for the purpose of the District’s operation, maintenance and improvement of hospital facilities and equipment for the Claiborne Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as the Homer Memorial Hospital)?

There was found by said count and canvass that there was a total of 577 votes cast IN FAVOR OF the Proposition and a total of 171 votes cast AGAINST the Proposition, as hereinabove set forth, and it was further found and determined that there was a majority of 406 votes cast IN FAVOR OF the Proposition as hereinabove set forth.

Therefore, the Governing Authority did declare and proclaim and does hereby declare and proclaim in open and public session that the Proposition as hereinabove set forth was duly CARRIED by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors voting at the said special election held in the Parish on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

Results by precinct are available from the Secretary-Treasurer of this Governing Authority during regular business hours or via the Louisiana Secretary of State’s website (voterportal.sos.la.gov).

Exhibit “A” attached hereto and made a part of this Procès Verbal is a copy of the Notice of Special Election and proof of publication thereof.

THUS DONE AND SIGNED at Homer, Louisiana, on this, the 8th day of January, 2025.

Scott Davidson,

President

ATTEST:

Dwayne R. Woodard,

Secretary-Treasurer

EXHIBIT “A”

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

Pursuant to the provisions of a resolution adopted by the Police Jury of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the governing authority of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), on July 10, 2024, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election will be held within the Parish on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2024, and that at the said election there will be submitted to all registered voters in the Parish qualified and entitled to vote at the said election under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Louisiana and the Constitution of the United States, the following proposition, to-wit:

PROPOSITION

(SALES TAX RENEWAL)

Shall the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), be authorized to continue to levy and collect a sales and use tax of 0.5% (the “Tax”) in accordance with Louisiana law, for a period of 10 years, commencing May 1, 2025 (an estimated $880,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), with the avails and proceeds of the Tax (after paying reasonable and necessary costs and expenses of collecting and administering the Tax), to be transferred to the Claiborne Parish Hospital Service District No. 3 (the “District”) pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Parish and dedicated for the purpose of the District’s operation, maintenance and improvement of hospital facilities and equipment for the Claiborne Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as the Homer Memorial Hospital)?

Said special election will be held at each and every polling place in the Parish of Claiborne, which polls will open at seven o’clock (7:00) a.m. and close at eight o’clock (8:00) p.m., in accordance with the provisions of La. R.S. 18:541.

The polling places at the precincts in the Parish are hereby designated as the polling places at which to hold the said election, and the Commissioners-in-Charge and Commissioners, respectively, shall be those persons designated according to law.

The estimated cost of this election as determined by the Secretary of State based upon the provisions of Chapter 8-A of Title 18 and actual costs of similar elections is $4,100.

The said special election will be held in accordance with the applicable provisions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 6-A of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, and other constitutional and statutory authority, and the officers appointed to hold the said election, as provided in this Notice of Special Election, or such substitutes therefor as may be selected and designated in accordance with La. R.S. 18:1287, will make due returns thereof to said Governing Authority, and NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that the Governing Authority will meet at its regular meeting place, the Jury Chambers of the Police Jury Complex, 507 West Main Street, Homer, Louisiana, on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025, at TEN O’CLOCK (10:00) A.M., and shall then and there in open and public session proceed to examine and canvass the returns and declare the results of the said special election. All registered voters of the Parish are entitled to vote at said special election and voting machines will be used.

PROCLAMATION

I, the undersigned President of the Police Jury of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana, the governing authority of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), do hereby declare, proclaim and announce that the proposition submitted at the special election held in the Parish on Saturday, December 7, 2024, was CARRIED by a majority of the votes cast at the said special election, all as described and set out in the above Procès Verbal.

THUS DONE AND SIGNED at Homer, Louisiana, on this, the 8th day of January, 2025.

Scott, Davidson, President

STATE OF LOUISIANA

PARISH OF CLAIBORNE

I, the undersigned Secretary-Treasurer of the Police Jury of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the governing authority of the Parish of Claiborne, State of Louisiana (the “Parish”), do hereby certify that the foregoing pages constitute a true and correct copy of the proceedings and Procès Verbal made by said Governing Authority on January 8, 2025, providing for canvassing the returns and declaring the results of the special election held in the Parish on Saturday, December 7, 2024, to authorize the renewal of a sales and use tax therein.

IN FAITH WHEREOF, witness my official signature at Homer, Louisiana, on this, the 8th day of January 2025.

Dwayne R. Woodard,

Secretary-Treasurer

(January 17, 2025)

Cost of Notice: $110

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