Hospital Service District No. 2
Parish of St. Mary · Morgan City, LA
Millage Transparency
Your tax dollars, accounted for in the open. Project by project and dollar by dollar.
Your tax dollars, accounted for in the open.
The ballot proposition approved in December 2024 sets what these funds may be used for, in these words:
“to be used to improve, maintain, operate and support hospital and other health care facilities in the District, including but not limited to repairing existing facilities, acquiring equipment, and otherwise supporting the provision of hospital services”
In plain terms:
- Facilities. Improving, maintaining, operating and repairing the hospital and other health care facilities in the District.
- Equipment. Acquiring the equipment those facilities need.
- Supporting hospital services. Otherwise supporting the provision of hospital services in the District.
A promise to our voters
In 2024, the residents of this District made a ten-year commitment to the future of healthcare in our community. The millage is expected to raise about $3,443,827 a year across the parish. After other public entities take their statutory share, roughly $3.2 million of that reaches the District each year, or about $32 million over the life of the millage. This page exists so you can always see exactly how that commitment is being honored, project by project and dollar by dollar.
Every infrastructure project & expenditure, posted hereA running list of what the District funds.
The millage began in 2025. Most of what the District has put into this hospital came earlier, from its own funds, and is listed separately below. Keeping the two apart is the point of this page. Many purchases were made through Cooperative Endeavor Agreements: Ochsner purchased and the District reimbursed. Where possible, they were made at reduced cost through the hospital's Group Purchasing Organization.
Funded by the 2024 millage
The millage is new. This is where it stands today.
Funded by the District before the millage, 2020–2024
$477,648.70 in total, spent from the District's own funds when no millage existed: $408,678.20 on equipment and the facility, $68,970.50 on community outreach and staff support.
Additional projects will be added as work moves forward. Every figure above comes from the District's own payment records.