In St. Tammany, voters passed a $23.1 million bond package for Slidell Memorial and a 25.01 property tax renewal for Fire District #3.
The bond package will help pay for a new building at Slidell Memorial Hospital that will house seven new operating rooms. The approval of the bond issue extends by five years a property tax that was due to expire in 2036, when the current bond issue will be paid off. But under the new structure, the tax will be 6.75 mills rather than the current 7 mills that property owners in St. Tammany Parish’s Hospital District No. 2 paid.
The addition will allow Slidell Memorial to include reconstructive surgery for breast cancer patients and includes a floor of negative pressure rooms for patients with COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
Hospital officials plan to break ground at the end of the year and open the new facility in spring 2023.
