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The City of Abbeville is on schedule to end the 2017 calender year in decent shape, when it comes to sales tax collection.
The city’s budget is down three percent as the year comes to a close.
Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza said, with all things considered, he is happy with only being down three percent.
“That is not bad in my opinion,” Piazza said.
The city collects around $3.8 million a year from sales tax collection. If the city is down three percent, that equals to about $114,000 for the year.

Five months into the fiscal year, the Vermilion Parish School District sales tax collection is holding steady, according to school district’s CFO Phil Sellers.
The school district is showing a 1.6 percent decline in sales tax revenue compared to this time last year.
After you do the math, that’s a total of $80,000 less than a year ago
“I will take that,” said Sellers.
The school district normally collects $7.5 to $8 million a year in sales tax. If the trend continues, the school board will be down only $200,000 at the end of the fiscal year.

On the night of Dec. 19 at approximately 7:31 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department responded to a shooting in the area of Kibbe and Vernon Streets.
Upon the officers’ arrival, they observed a young male (14) suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was alert and gave the officers the identity of the subject who shot him. Due to the severity of the wounds, the victim was immediately transported to Abbeville General Hospital for treatment. After stabilizing the victim, he was transported to a hospital in Lafayette. There the victim succumbed to his injuries and passed away.