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

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They know there’s a rest of the state when they do things like shoot down a tax to operate their own internal drainage system and then run to SLFPA and state agencies to demand they fund it. They definetely know there are state coffers because the hands are out without a morsel of
shame for everything.

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You are missing some info.

Lake Borne was the only levee district in SLFPA-East to provide draining and pump services. SLFPA-East constantly was taking drainage and pump tax money and using it on the new levee system. Thus, the canals were in terible shape and the pumps even worse.

Then, Lake Bornge / SLFPA-East asked for MORE money to do the things that they were supposed to be doing in the first place, and were not. The residents said no, run the pumps and drainage with that tax money, and go to the rest of SLFPA-East to get tax money to run the levee system, as the levee system protects more than just St. Bernard.

Eventually, they got to the correct answer, which was for Lake Borgne to get out of the drainage / pumps business and focus only on levees. They were transferred to the parish, along with the state kicking in a few million to cover the fact that Lake Bornge was not doing the maintenace on the pumps that they should have been doing, with the money that was dedicated to that.

After the transfer, Lake Borgne allowed their drainage tax to drop off, and the parish passed their own drainage tax, for almost TWICE AS MANY mills as the old Lake Borgne levee tax.