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re: Budget comparisons between St George & other Louisiana cities
Posted on 1/8/14 at 12:54 pm to LSURussian
Posted on 1/8/14 at 12:54 pm to LSURussian
If SG was to go through, am I wrong to assume that of the taxes I pay to EPR, a percentage of those taxes would still go to EBR and the other percentage would go to SG? Or would all of my parish taxes stay the same and I would have to pay new taxes to SG? Does this question even make sense? ![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/IconLOL.gif)
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Posted on 1/8/14 at 1:07 pm to sec13rowBBseat28
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Does this question even make sense?
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I know the garbage collection services are paid for partly (because the EBR general fund subsidizes some garbage collection services) by a parish wide monthly garbage fee included with the water bill from Baton Rouge Water, Co. The same for the sewer fees.
The question I have is are those fees somehow based on a combined volume or can they stand alone regardless of the volume? The garbage collection is privatized using Waste Management (I believe) to collect household garbage, recyclables and debris.
If SG were to form its own city would the garbage rates remain the same for them or would Waste Management (or whoever) want to negotiate a separate fee structure based on the spread out geographical area (85 sq miles, which is larger than the city limits of Baton Rouge, 79 sq miles) of St George?
The sewer fees are a bigger mystery to me. EBR is under an EPA consent decree to upgrade the sewer collection and processing system and the sewer collection fees to pay for the upgrade at set by the city parish council. How would a new SG governing body handle sewer fees and would the EBR city parish council allow SG fees to be the same as the city residents' fees? I don't know the answer to that.
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