PORT ALLEN -- In West Baton Rouge Parish, all four parish-wide items on the November ballot passed on Saturday, Nov. 15.

Two of those ballot items had previously failed during the March 29 election earlier this year. Those were tax rate renewals for drainage and the parish library.

The drainage tax renewal rate is 7.2 mills for 10 years. With its passage, the parish drainage department says its approach will not change, and that it will also allow it to take on some additional projects that were banking on the millage passing.

"Things like on the northern end of the parish, the second phase of the Bayou Stumpy project, things like the Cline ditch on the northern part of our parish," WBR Parish President Jason Manola said.

The Bayou Stumpy project aims to clean out, widen, and deepen 1.

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