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School leaders, board “cautiously optimistic” about city’s settlement offer in tax-skimming lawsuit
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The Lens
The Orleans Parish School Board will meet Monday morning to consider a settlement offer from the city of New Orleans in a six-year-old legal battle over property taxes.
School leaders hope to add money to their strained coffers, though they don’t yet know the offer’s details, they said.
Last fall, shortly after the district disclosed a $36 million financial deficit, the city and school board announced that they’d settled a long-lingering tax-skimming lawsuit.
Katie Baudouin, school board president, did not share details of the city’s proposal with The Lens.
You can watch and listen live to Monday’s school board meeting at 11 a.m.
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