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re: City of St. George - good or bad for the long term future of GBR area?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:00 pm to BayouBengalRubicon
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:00 pm to BayouBengalRubicon
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This doesn't fix the demographics of the schools or pull in the private school children, but the bar is set low, don't see how they couldn't incrementally improve. My kids will never see a public school in this State, nor will many others.
It works in a lot of other states. Take a city like Birmingham, for example. It's pretty analogous to Baton Rouge. The suburban areas surrounding Birmingham have really good public schools - Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook, etc. - because they created ISDs and increased property taxes to fund the schools. Increased property taxes will result in a higher average income of property owners in the ISD which typically means more functional families.
The one thing St. George is kidding itself about is not having to increase taxes though. You want a high-functioning, suburban school district, you are going to have to increase property taxes.
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:48 pm to Antonio Moss
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The one thing St. George is kidding itself about is not having to increase taxes though. You want a high-functioning, suburban school district, you are going to have to increase property taxes.
We currently pay property taxes for schools.
Is it enough to run a great system? Who knows?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:35 pm to Antonio Moss
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The one thing St. George is kidding itself about is not having to increase taxes though. You want a high-functioning, suburban school district, you are going to have to increase property taxes.
This really bothered me that they kept lying about this to the supporters, it has to increase just like it doubled in Zachary and Central. I don't necessarily think that this would of negatively affected the support either if they just would of been transparent about it. It made me think they were either liars or never made a real budget.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 5:07 pm to Antonio Moss
The City of St. George will not provide funding for a new school system - that will come from property taxes within the school district. The City of Central does not fund the Central Community School District; it is funded by property taxes collected within the school district. Central voters did approve additional property taxes to support the school system but the city of Central does not assess a property tax mileage, has not raised taxes since its incorporation and it has a budget surplus. St. George plans to use the same government model as Central.
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