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Ascension Parish Council adopts 2026 budget after targeted amendments
Summary
The Ascension Parish Council on Nov. 20 adopted the 2026 operating and capital budgets as amended, approving detailed transfers among economic-development districts, correcting prior grant allocations, and establishing departmental changes. Councilors raised questions about franchise fees, mental-health fund corrections and project management staffing.
The Ascension Parish Council voted Nov. 20 to adopt the parish’s 2026 operating and capital budgets after approving a set of staff-proposed amendments.
Council leaders and finance staff said the amended package accounted for updated assessments and sales-tax receipts that feed two economic-development districts and corrected prior entries in the Council on Aging and Lamar Dixon accounts. Finance staff summarized the numbers included in the ordinance: proposed 2026 operating revenues of $185,669,500 plus a required fund balance of $2,122,200 for a total of $187,791,700 and operating…
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