BATON ROUGE - East Baton Rouge Parish Library Director Katrina Stokes says they are looking to bring a new tax proposition before the Metro Council in January.

"It will be a clean, simple proposition that states the millage will go directly to the library for the next ten years," she said.

Stokes says if they can get a new tax proposition on the June 2026 ballot and it passes, the library will be able to collect revenue for the fiscal year 2026.

"We have to decide on what millage rates we will request going forward on the proposition," Stokes said.

During Thursday night's East Baton Rouge Library Board of Control meeting, some expressed their decision to vote against the Thrive tax proposition, which would've allowed 52 million dollars of the library's funding collected through the mil

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