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Tangipahoa sheriff asks voters to approve 3/4-cent sales tax to boost pay, hire deputies
Summary
Sheriff Gerald Sticker presented a plan at the Oct. 14 council meeting asking voters to approve a 10-year, 0.75% sales tax on the Nov. 15 ballot to raise starting pay, add sworn and civilian positions and improve retention after months of staffing shortfalls.
Sheriff Gerald Sticker told the Tangipahoa Parish Council on Oct. 14 that he will ask voters on Nov. 15 to approve a 10-year, three-quarter cent sales tax to increase pay and expand the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Sticker said the sheriff’s office is short-staffed across patrol, communications, school resource officers and corrections, and that the agency currently has about 53 open positions. “At the time the printing of this public publication, we have 53 openings,” Sticker said. “We are shorthanded everywhere.”
The sheriff told the council the office raised starting pay to $18.25 per hour after internal reallocations but remains below neighboring agencies. If approved, the measure would…
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