March 13, 2025
(COVINGTON, LA, March 12, 2025) — The St. Tammany CHAMBERPAC, a nonpartisan political action committee affiliated with the St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce, recently voted to support the St. Tammany Parish Government’s Sales Tax District 3’s two-cent sales tax rededication and extension initiative on the March 29, 2025, election ballot.
If passed, a portion of the existing two-cent sales tax will provide continued funding for the Parish’s criminal justice operations, including the District Attorney’s Office and the 22nd Judicial District Court.
“This is not a new tax or a tax increase. It is simply an attempt to restructure our parish’s tax system, allowing the ability to use it to fund critical needs such as our criminal justice system, roads and drainage,” stated Scott Delacroix, 2025 CHAMBERPAC Board Chair.
“The decision made by our board followed lengthy discussions with many of our elected officials, including Parish President Mike Cooper, Parish Council Chair Joe Impastato, Parish Council Vice Chair Jeff Corbin, District Attorney Collin Sims, Sheriff Randy Smith and Chief Judge Alan Zaunbrecher. We feel it is critical to our parish’s quality of life to support public safety and we encourage voters to vote yes to expand the use of this existing tax.”
“If this unified and valid attempt to get voter approval to release a portion of existing funds to pay for the state-mandated costs of our criminal justice system fails, it will be catastrophic as all other attempts to fund these legitimate safety and security costs have failed in our parish.”
Since this sales tax is only collected in the unincorporated areas of the parish, only those residents not within a municipality’s city limits will cast their ballots. To determine if this proposal is on your specific ballot, you may visit the Secretary of State’s website at sos.la.gov.
St. Tammany CHAMBERPAC also supports a yes vote on all four of the Constitutional Amendments that will be on the statewide ballot.
Amendment 1 will grant the Louisiana Supreme Court to discipline out-of-state lawyers for unethical legal practices within the state, as well as give the Legislature the ability to create specialty courts not limited to parish and judicial district boundaries.
Amendment 2 will rewrite large portions of the state constitution that will lower the maximum rate of income tax, increase tax deductions for citizens over 65, allow local governments to reduce property taxes on business inventory, provide a permanent teacher salary increase by requiring a surplus payment to teacher retirement debt and will allow the merger of state savings accounts.
Amendment 3 will provide the Legislature the authority to determine which felony crimes, when committed by a person under the age of 17, may be transferred for criminal prosecution as an adult.
Amendment 4 will change the timing requirements for filling judicial vacancies so that special elections coincide with the regular elections calendar.
“The CHAMBERPAC encourages voters to visit Public Affairs Research Council’s website (parlouisiana.org) for more information on the proposed constitutional amendments, including an educational review to better understand the proposed changes,” said Delacroix. “And as always, we encourage citizens to exercise their right to vote in this and all elections.”