re: From the parish… Meraux Foundation cuts ties with St Bernard EDF over container port

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It’s down the road people complaining that they’re not getting theirs…

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Real talk here.

Down da road is mostly rural and/or poor (Sylvia Blvd and South Lake are exceptions). They are paying the same level of taxes as up da road and want the same services.

But... it's much more expensive to provide the same services, per capita, to a rural area.

The issue with the fire stations has made this clear. They want the same response time, because they "pay the same in taxes". Well, really, 1) no they don't, they pay the same millage (about... actually it's a hair more) but they don't pay the same total tax. and 2) People are more spread out and it's not feasible to have paid firestations servicing so few residents to be able to have same response times.

I've often felt that everything past the Violet canal needs to move to a volunteer FD or maybe a hybrid. Let all the shrimper baws down there put lights on their F250s and go fight fires. They would probably love the adventure...

Same with the schools. They want to open St B back as a HS, and they say they are ok with St B not having the facilites / options that CHS has, but no one actually believes them.

Before the storm, the up da road people could support the down da road people, but with the population only getting back to 2/3rds and not really growing anymore, that can't happen today.