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re: Mayor's office to consider 20% budget cut in preparation of successful St. George effort
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:40 am to GeorgeTheGreek
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:40 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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My mother’s neighborhood missed being a part of St. George by one street. frick.
I assume that’s going to drop her home’s value if this goes through?
If she's not in the BR city limits, she could petition to be annexed.
ETA: Annexed into St. George, of course.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 11:41 am
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Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:41 am to Volvagia
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Sounds like it would have been cheaper to address the community’s concerns about their local services.
They spent more time trying to annex segments to attempt to make the departure less viable than it would have to simply annex St George and work the problem.
Broome's legacy will be St. George. The movement was shaky the last time around. This time around, there were so many signatures, the parish couldn't throw out enough signatures to invalidate it without getting their asses handed to them in a lawsuit.
Those additional signatures are because of Broome and her friends. Their vehement opposition to this movement and asinine behavior is why this will pass. This is as much a middle finger to Broome and her supporters as it is a chance to better the lives of those who live in St. George.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:47 am to vistajay
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St. George's first official act better be to build a wall
Please do, we don't want the Baton Rouge Taliban coming back into our city
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:50 am to SPEEDY
The C-P budget is over 925 million dollars a year. If SG leaves they aren’t losing 180 million dollars in revenues.
They are trying to scare people. That’s what Democrats do.
They are trying to scare people. That’s what Democrats do.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:50 am to SPEEDY
Wait.
The Advocate and the paid researcher at LSU insisted that this would be a financial catastrophe for the people of St. George.
Now East Baton Rouge is preparing for a 20% budget cut?
So which is it? Is St. George a colony for Baton Rouge to exploit or is it a leach on the city of Baton Rouge?
The Advocate and the paid researcher at LSU insisted that this would be a financial catastrophe for the people of St. George.
Now East Baton Rouge is preparing for a 20% budget cut?
So which is it? Is St. George a colony for Baton Rouge to exploit or is it a leach on the city of Baton Rouge?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:50 am to ibldprplgld
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Had she worked with St. George instead of putting her priority and interest on North Baton Rudge, then she could have potentially avoided this.
Or if she had not been so opposed to establishing the ISD back when she was in the legislature, instead of pushing the notion that a separate municipality had to exist in order to have a new school district.
The St. George incorporation is a means to an end, and that end is a new school district. If it ever comes to that, that's when you're really going to see the NBR crew pull out the shady tactics.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:54 am to Tulane_STEM_ALUM
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I love this.
They shite on those in South and East of the parish.
Now they are going to get what they deserve.
And their argument against St. George was two fold:
1. It would be a crushing blow to St. George and require that they raise taxes to stratospheric levels.
2. It's racist to set up your own district.
Fast forward to 2019:
1. It turns out it will be a 20% revenue hit against EBR since St. George generates more revenue than it consumes.
2. North Baton Rouge setup their own tax district, collected revenue, and has accomplished nothing since then.
There was zero honesty in their argument against St. George.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 11:56 am
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:56 am to Brummy
That is the shittest part of trying to label them as selfish racists.
They initially came with what was to them a legitimate problem.
They were told they needed to do this by the same people who are attacking them for doing this.
That’s another democrat trope I’ve noticed: they take for granted whatever they have, and get inordinately pissed if you “work the system” to take something back or evade elements of The Plan.
They initially came with what was to them a legitimate problem.
They were told they needed to do this by the same people who are attacking them for doing this.
That’s another democrat trope I’ve noticed: they take for granted whatever they have, and get inordinately pissed if you “work the system” to take something back or evade elements of The Plan.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:15 pm to Volvagia
If SG happens, my heart goes out to all the poor zoo animals.
To clarify, the animals at the BR Zoo.
To clarify, the animals at the BR Zoo.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:22 pm to Skillet
There won’t be any left soon anyway.
The whole thing is a glorified jobs program for Baker and NBR at this point.
The whole thing is a glorified jobs program for Baker and NBR at this point.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:25 pm to SPEEDY
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If we protect public safety from the cuts – our police and fire fighters – the budgets for all remaining City-Parish departments and agencies would need to be reduced by a minimum of 45%.”
So how much does Baker, Zachary, Central get from city parish funds for their Police/Fire departments? Why would BRPD/BRFD receive funds but not the other city departments?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:27 pm to glock22josh
They don’t. Fire districts are SUPPOSED to be separate, being funded by the people who use them.
Hence unincorporated BR, Central, Zachary, and Baker having their own fire districts.
BR proper funding BRFD out of the parish general fund is their frickup, not ours.
Hence unincorporated BR, Central, Zachary, and Baker having their own fire districts.
BR proper funding BRFD out of the parish general fund is their frickup, not ours.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:28 pm to TigersSEC2010
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"breakaway"
I get so weary of this term. Nobody is breaking away from anything.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:29 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
More like “runaway”.
They don’t like it when the slaves leave the plantation without permission.
They don’t like it when the slaves leave the plantation without permission.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:32 pm to SPEEDY
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Given that budgeted amounts for debt service and constitutional mandates cannot be reduced, these numbers reveal that every City-Parish department and agency would need to be cut by a minimum of 18% across the board. If we protect public safety from the cuts – our police and fire fighters – the budgets for all remaining City-Parish departments and agencies would need to be reduced by a minimum of 45%.”
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:35 pm to fr33manator
This is what happens when you fund bread and circuses off the backs of others.
Eventually that money goes away and you either have to find a new source of money or cut back on the handouts. And neither is a popular thing.
Eventually that money goes away and you either have to find a new source of money or cut back on the handouts. And neither is a popular thing.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:39 pm to teke184
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This post was edited on 9/26/20 at 10:06 am
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:50 pm to TigersSEC2010
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1. It's not a breakaway.
The second I hear/read someone calling it a breakaway, I dismiss their opinion as biased and uninformed.
An unincorporated area trying to set up their own city is not a breakaway. It's just an incorporation effort. That area is not Baton Rouge. It's just unincorporated EBR.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:53 pm to SPEEDY
Oh lawd, how are they going to build their multi million dollar collapsing libraries?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 12:53 pm to Volvagia
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Sounds like it would have been cheaper to address the community’s concerns about their local services.
A couple of new schools would have broken a huge part of the motivation for the St. George incorporation.
Baton Rouge is starting to decline.
East Baton Rouge's growth is very slow, almost stagnant. It can still be saved.
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