For the purpose of acquiring a site or grounds for erecting a building and equipping it, the governing authority of any parish may submit to the taxpayers qualified to vote at a special election to be called and held in the parish or any ward thereof, a proposition to incur debt and issue negotiable bonds, within the limitations authorized by law, for the purpose of acquiring a site, erecting buildings, and equipping them as a war memorial civic center, and thereafter may issue bonds and levy and collect taxes necessary to pay and retire the bonds, should the issue be authorized at the election.