According to a Together Baton Rouge Report's ITEP Search Tool , the industrial tax exemptions in St Bernard Parish could afford us to
keep our fire stations open. Our budgets might change such that we could also give
our school board employees and teachers a long awaited pay raise, and continue to
fully fund all of our parish pension’s obligations, without being asked for more sales and property taxes.
We could fund drinking water improvements, along with
improvements to roads and bridges, pedestrian cross walks, fishing
piers, drainage and sewerage improvements, grass cutting and canal maintenance,
books for our libraries, art and stem initiatives, recycling and composting, farm
to table initiatives, bicycle and walking paths, public transportation, healthcare
access, workforce development, free adult lifetime learning courses, senior citizen
outreach, parks and recreation programs, criminal justice reforms and re-entry programs, affordable housing, and on and on.
Instead of increasing property tax mileages, those dollars from
exemptions could fully fund the intended municipal services. Instead of the
Lake Borgne Basin Levee District refusing to do their job because residents
voted down a tax increase, the LBBLD property tax mileage could be lowered, while
increasing services. https://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/07/st_bernard_doesnt_have_to_acce.html
Some of the other tax dollars which we do pay are used to
fund projects like the St Bernard Economic Development board which seeks to
place a container yard in the N P Trist Middle School neighborhood, and its
operator, Port of Orleans, would not pay property taxes. https://canthecontainers.com/
Come on St Bernard, we can do better than this. Our
community would also benefit if more and more parish workers and school board
employees returned from the north shore and actually lived in St Bernard Parish
and contributed to our economy base. The public sector in St Bernard Parish is
said to be the larger employer: fire department, sheriff department, school
board and teachers, parish government workers, public works employees, state
judicial court, justice of peace, constables, lake borgne basin levee
employees, St Bernard Port, St Bernard Parish Hospital, etc. And then there are
all the out of parish (sometimes out of state) workers at the large
industrialized plants which are the benefactors of all these exemptions. Our community would benefit greatly if the majority of
all these jobs were actually domiciled jobs.
Here’s a partial list of St Bernard Parish exemptions
according to the report, and the number of actual jobs loss or created by these
costly subsidies:
American Sugar Refining Inc. | (St Bernard)
7415 Peters Road
Arabi, LA 70032
Arabi, LA 70032
# exemptions: 15
# of years with ITEP (of last 20): 19
1st year receiving ITEP (post-1997): 1999
Most recent year receiving ITEP: 2014
COST OF EXEMPTIONS: $5.7 M
NEW JOBS PROJECTED: 35
ACTUAL JOBS RESULT: -110
SUBSIDY PER JOB: $5,716,632 for a
loss of 110 jobs
Year 1 of ITEP, # of jobs: 446
Most recent year, # of jobs: 336
PARISH SUBSIDY RANK: 3
STATE SUBSIDY RANK: 244
TYPE: Company
Rain CII Carbon, LLC | (St Bernard)
700 Coke Plant Rd
Chalmette, LA 70043
Chalmette, LA 70043
# exemptions: 19
# of years with ITEP (of last 20): 18
1st year receiving ITEP (post-1997): 2000
Most recent year receiving ITEP: 2016
COST OF EXEMPTIONS: $4.8 M
NEW JOBS PROJECTED: 10
ACTUAL JOBS RESULT: 1
SUBSIDY PER JOB: $4,771,185 per job
created
Year 1 of ITEP, # of jobs: 36
Most recent year, # of jobs: 37
PARISH SUBSIDY RANK: 4
STATE SUBSIDY RANK: 262
TYPE: Company
PBF Holding Company, LLC | (St Bernard) (dba Chalmette
Refining)
500 W Saint
Bernard Hwy
Chalmette, LA 70043
Chalmette, LA 70043
# exemptions: 57
# of years with ITEP (of last 20): 19
1st year receiving ITEP (post-1997): 1999
Most recent year receiving ITEP: 2017
COST OF EXEMPTIONS: $115.3 M
NEW JOBS PROJECTED: 60
ACTUAL JOBS RESULT: -71
SUBSIDY PER JOB: $115,320,991 for a loss of 71 jobs
Year 1 of ITEP, # of jobs: 570
Most recent year, # of jobs: 499
PARISH SUBSIDY RANK: 1
STATE SUBSIDY RANK: 33
TYPE: Company
Valero Refining - Meraux LLC | (St Bernard)
2500 E Saint
Bernard Hwy
Meraux, LA 70075
Meraux, LA 70075
# exemptions: 4
# of years with ITEP (of last 20): 14
1st year receiving ITEP (post-1997): 2004
Most recent year receiving ITEP: 2015
COST OF EXEMPTIONS: $88.7 M
NEW JOBS PROJECTED: 21
ACTUAL JOBS RESULT: 41
SUBSIDY PER JOB: $2,163,844 per job
created
Year 1 of ITEP, # of jobs: 236
Most recent year, # of jobs: 277
PARISH SUBSIDY RANK: 2
STATE SUBSIDY RANK: 42
TYPE: Company
St Bernard: Parish Report
St Bernard Parish,
LA
# exemptions: 119
# companies receiving ITEPs: 10
COST OF EXEMPTIONS: $221.3 M
NEW JOBS PROJECTED: 293
ACTUAL JOBS RESULT: loss of 408 jobs
SUBSIDY PER JOB: $221.3 M for a loss
of 408 jobs
TOTAL PROPERTY TAX COLLECTIONS IN 2016: $45.1 M
LOST REVENUE TO ITEP IN 2017: $12.8 M
ITEP AS % OF PROPERTY TAXES COLLECTED: 28%
LOST REVENUE FOR –
School district: $3.7 M
Sheriff: $2.8 M
Fire: $2.5 M
Parish & other entities: $1.2 M
Library Taxes: $336.2 K
Health: $783.2 K
Parks & Rec: $197.2 K
Roads: $277.1 K
Levee: $1.0 M
Drainage: 0
TYPE: Parish
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