East Baton Rouge Parish voters rejected all three parts of Mayor-President Sid Edwards’ Thrive tax package on Saturday, delivering a major setback to an administration that hoped the measure would ease the city-parish’s budget woes.

On Proposition 1 — the measure that would have rededicated some of the library's funding and used its savings to pay down city-parish debt — 53% of voters said no with all 331 precincts reporting. The library's rededication would have added $16.4 million to the city-parish general fund each year and paid off more than $52.4 million in debt.

As for Proposition 2 — the partial rededication of mosquito abatement's dedicated tax — 52% of voted no. And 51% voted no to the partial rededication of the Council on Aging's dedicated tax in Proposition 3. All results ar

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