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New Iberia firefighters ask council to put local sales-tax proposal on March 2025 ballot to raise firefighter pay
Summary
Representatives of the New Iberia Fire Department told the council the department has lost personnel and starting pay has not increased since 2003; they asked the council to place a sales‑use tax measure on the ballot in March 2025 to raise base pay and stabilize staffing.
Captain Zachary Ball, president of the New Iberia Firefighters Association, asked the City Council to place a sales-and-use-tax proposal on the March 2025 ballot to increase firefighter base pay and shore up department hiring and retention.
Ball told the council the department’s starting pay has not increased since 2003 and the city has lost more than a dozen members in the last 18 months, many…
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