Drainage District 2-A sets Nov. 9 hearing on 2027 maintenance budget

Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 2-A has scheduled a public hearing on its proposed 2027 Maintenance Fund Budget for Monday, Nov. 9, at 5:30 p.m. at the Vermilion Parish Library’s Kaplan branch, 815 N. Cushing Ave.

The published hearing notice tells residents when and where to attend, but it does not include the proposed budget’s revenue, spending, fund-balance or project figures. That makes the hearing itself—or a budget packet released before it—the place to compare the proposal with the district’s recent public financial record.

The district’s 2024 financial report includes a General Fund budgetary comparison schedule reporting $484,059 in actual revenue against a $425,968 budget. The same schedule reports $325,599 in actual expenditures, including $279,386 for drainage and $46,213 in capital outlay, against a $316,342 expenditure budget. It lists an ending fund balance of $1,167,289, $48,834 above the final budget figure.

Those schedule figures require an important assurance limit. The independent accountant says the report’s basic financial statements received a review, which is substantially less in scope than an audit, and the accountant expresses no audit opinion. The accountant separately says the required supplementary budgetary comparison information on pages 23 and 24 was not audited, reviewed or compiled, and that no opinion, conclusion or assurance is provided on it. The schedule figures are therefore useful management-supplied historical context, not audited amounts and not the unpublished 2027 proposal.

District minutes for Oct. 12, 2026 separately say the board accepted a treasurer’s report showing $224,402.89 in the maintenance fund. The minutes do not explain whether that number is cash, a particular account or an accounting fund balance, so it should not be treated as directly comparable with the 2024 schedule’s ending fund-balance figure. A useful question for the hearing is how the district reconciles those measures and what amount is available for 2027 work.

An unsigned April 15 Police Jury record says the jury approved Resolution 2026-R-08 consenting to the district holding a June 27 election on renewal of its 18.26-mill property tax for 2027 through 2036, estimated at $527,700 a year for drainage works. The record says the district planned a separate April 20 resolution to call the election; the jury’s consent did not itself call or place the measure on the ballot. The unsigned record is also not evidence that voters approved the renewal. Residents can ask whether the proposed 2027 budget assumes renewal revenue, what happens if it is unavailable, and which maintenance or capital projects depend on it.

Other concrete questions include which canals or drainage structures are prioritized, how much is reserved for emergencies, whether planned capital work is competitively procured, and how the final adopted budget will be posted after the hearing. The notice announces a hearing only; this report does not infer adoption from the scheduled date.