With budget surplus approved, Baton Rouge officials dream of more fresh food, less crime

BR spending money wisely lol

Let this sink in EBRP residents paid $250,000 for a grocery store to be required to only carry 17 linear ft of fresh fruit in NBR. That a bargain at $14,705 a linear ft.
Kathy Saloy, the credit union’s vice president of community and economic development, said their program requires that stores they finance to dedicate at least 17 linear square feet to fresh produce. She said inspectors check monthly to ensure stores are following the rules


Hey the liberal councilwoman from Southdowns mentioned St George in regards to you guessed it a $300,000 budget to study Government efficiency.

Metro Councilwoman Barbara Freiberg emphasized that the efficiency initiative is more than a study, and said the implementation of government efficiencies is “absolutely necessary.”

“We as a city have had quite a bit of criticism lately about spending in city government, particularly by St. George, and I don’t know if we’ve had good answers,” she said, adding that the efficiency plan should help to track city-parish spending and to understand whether any of it is out of whack. Really come on BR is the true efficiency of government according to BRAC, better together, and LSU professors who spoke out against the St George Budget!

City courts and BRPD aid using parish funding for cars and new finger print ID equipment.

The budget surplus will also spend: $740,000 on new police vehicles; $500,000 on a stormwater management plan; $300,000 on a government efficiency initiative; $110,000 for Truce, the next iteration of the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination program; $50,000 on the lobbying contract for a firm in Washington, D.C.; and $50,000 for fingerprint ID equipment at City Court.


Yeah, BR spending money quicker than a teenager that has mom and dad’s credit card for the first time hanging out with friends!