A step in a plan to fund government incentives for creation of a startup automobile manufacturer in northeast Louisiana will be decided by voters Saturday. The city governments of Monroe and West Monroe, along with the Ouachita Parish Police Jury, want voters to approve a property tax increase to fund $12.8 million of a $15 million local incentive for V-Vehicle Co., which has plans to create 1,400 jobs. V-Vehicle plans to renovate the idle Guide Corp. plant, which employed hundreds producing headlights before the company went out of business in 2006. The company is also in line to receive $67 million in state incentives.
Voters to judge tax that would help fund auto plant
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