re: City of St. George - good or bad for the long term future of GBR area?

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According to the list of parish wide millages;

St. George residents don't pay for CATS, that's funded by Baton Rouge and Baker property taxes and federal grants, not the general fund. It was renewed last year so that's not going away anytime soon.

COA is funded by a parish wide property tax and grants, so their funding won't be affected by St. George incorporation either.

Unless I'm completely wrong about this (always a possibility) St. George incorporation won't do shite to cut funds from the bloated budgets of CATS, BREC, COA, etc. (departments/organizations with a dedicated funding souce.) The cuts will have to come from this list (general fund expenditures).

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BR City has been siphoning around $50 million annually in tax revenue from the unincorporated areas to help fund BRPD and BRFD. That lost revenue is going to have to be made up somewhere - potentially by cutting nonessential programs like CATS.