Financial Report Details $22M In Salary Budgeted Expenses For Caddo Parish

By Emilee Calametti | The Center Square (The Center Square) – The Caddo Parish financial report details for August allocated budgets for salaries totaling over $22 million this year throughout all funds.The report groups salaries by department...

NOT TIT FOR TAT, BUT NEW TIF FOR OLD TIF--A DEEP DIVE INTO CURRENT TIF AND PROPOSED NEW DOWNTOWN TIF

A TIF district is a Tax Increment Financing tool utilized to fund  public improvements by capturing an increase in property tax or sales tax revenue in a defined geographic district. Local government establishes a baseline for property taxes or sales taxes.

CAN CADDO ADMINISTRATION/COMMISSION BE TRUSTED ON KEY COMPONENTS OF PROPOSED PICKLEBALL COMPLEX

This Thursday the Caddo Commission is scheduled to vote on the proposed $10 million pickleball complex.

Commissioner Burrell Reading Proclamation

ANOTHER UNAUTHORIZED CADDO COMMISSION PROCLAMATION RESOLUTION

Seemingly so.

MASSIVE HAUL IN MOORETOWN BLOCK BY BLOCK SWEEP BY VOLUNTEERS, PUBLIC WORKS AND PROPERTY STANDARDS

Goodness, Shreveport's Mooretown neighborhood should now be as clean as a whistle as far as trash, debris, junk, old tires, tree limbs and leaves, abandoned appliances and building materials, dead animal and you name it.The combined efforts of Shreveport's Public Works, Property Standards and...

CADDO COMMISSION HAMMERS AMAZON ON TAX ASSESSMENT APPEAL

The Caddo Commission met Friday Sept. 12 as the Tax Board of Review.The purpose of the meeting was to decide appeals by Caddo tax payers who objected to the assessment of their properties by the Caddo Parish Tax Assessor.The agenda listed nine  companies who had appealed their assessment.

CADDO COMMISSION EXPECTED TO APPROVE SETTLEMENT WITH LOUISIANA AG TODAY

The Caddo Commission meets today for its administrative conference.

WILL THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND CADDO COMMISSION SETTLE PENDING LITIGATION

The pleadings filed in the Louisiana Attorney General's litigation against the Caddo Commission and the seven Democrat Commissioners by both sides read like a legal soap opera.For  legal eagles, its good drama to digest, discuss and debate.For the private attorneys representing the seven Democrats...

TWO NEW "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT" PROJECTS TO BE VOTED ON IN NEXT TWO WEEKS

The term "economic development" is used to justify many governmental actions.In reality, economic development occurs every day that a business opens its doors or adds a new product line.  Projections of income to be generated by new economic development projects are just that--educated guesses.