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Lockport council unanimously adopts adjusted millage rate for 2024
Summary
On Sept. 24, 2024 the Lockport Town Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2024-06 setting the adjusted 2024 millage rate and Resolution 2024-07 to roll forward rates not to exceed the maximum authorized after reassessment; no public comments were offered during the hearing.
The Lockport Town Council voted unanimously Sept. 24 to adopt an adjusted millage rate for the 2024 tax year and to roll forward rates to the maximum authorized level following reassessment.
Mayor Barry Plaisance presided over the public hearing and roll-call votes. Councilwoman Bobbie Galjour moved to adopt Resolution 2024-06, which Mayor Plaisance put to a roll-call vote; councilmembers Gary Acosta, Ernest Boudreaux, Bobbie Galjour, Rodney Hartman and Tyler Detillier voted yea; there were no nays, abstentions or absences. The council then adopted Resolution 2024-07, which sets forth the adjusted millage rate and rolls forward to a rate not to exceed the maximum authorized rate for 2024; that measure also passed on a unanimous roll-call vote.
The council held a public hearing before the votes to consider levying additional or increased millage rates and to adopt the adjusted millage after reassessment. Mayor Plaisance asked for public comment three times; no members of the public spoke during the hearing. The minutes record no discussion of rate amounts or effective dates during the hearing.
Why it matters: the adopted resolutions determine the town’s property tax millage calculations for the 2024 tax year and authorize a roll-forward after reassessment. The minutes do not specify the numerical millage rates or an effective date; those details are recorded in the adopted resolutions themselves and are not printed in the meeting minutes provided.
The council’s next regular meeting is scheduled for Oct. 15, 2024.
