Public meetings on second phase of Green Light Plan to be held

BATON ROUGE – A series of nine public meetings will be held in November and December for the next phase on the Green Light Plan.The Green Light Plan proposal calls for a parish-wide, 5-mill property tax over 30 years to fund an estimated $452-million in road and street improvements. An estimated $260 million of the project funding would come from bond sales and the other $192 million would come in the form of pay-as-you-go revenue.The Green Light Plan property tax would free up the exi