Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory has vetoed the ordinance that would increase the property tax rate of the Lafayette Regional Airport millage.
In a release about Ordinance No. PO-040-2020, Guillory said,
“I do not believe in increasing taxes without a vote of the people. While property values in Lafayette Parish have dropped since the last reassessment, the first impulse should be for government to focus upon the services that are essential to its mission and cut others, rather than to automatically impose greater property tax on our citizens. This veto is directed toward that basic principle.”
Guillory is urging the Parish Council to not override the veto, but to pass another ordinance levying the tax at the prior millage. The Mayor-President believes the Lafayette Regional Airport has enough funding to “continue to accomplish its core functions without imposing an additional tax burden.”
