re: BR City Park Lakes cleanup announcement

Remember when we had to vote for this or traffic would never get better? Now it turns out we had to vote for this to buy Honor Code votes.

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That's exhorbitant for cleaning up some small shallow lakes.

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Depends on what they are doing.

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The city-parish will also put up some funds from its MovEBR tax collections

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Ex-fricking-scuse me?

Going after that sawft R crowd that swung the mayor’s race to Broome. If the race is that close it’s not a bad idea.

I wonder how the area’s drainage issues will be incorporated into the plan. Probably not at all.

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How many studies will be performed?

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STUDIES? Woah woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves now.

We need to have at least 4-5 catered luncheons at TJ Ribs, then we'll need to take at least one tax payer funded week long trip to another city across the country so we can visit their lakes. WAAAY BEFORE, we hire a black owned or LBGTQ owned firm for a study. talk about putting the cart before the horse. there's thousands of tax payer dollars to waste before any stinking study takes place.

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The city-parish will also put up some funds from its MovEBR tax collections.

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The original MoveEBR proposition includes drainage, sidewalks, and lighting. This could easily improve the lakes if they used a few bucks to improve lighting and sidewalks. Pretty sure the lakes will fall under the drainage category too.

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PROPOSITION Shall the Parish of East Baton Rouge Capital Improvements District (“District”) be authorized to levy a one-half of one percent (0.50%) sales tax (the “Sales Tax”) (an estimated $46,000,000 is reasonably expected to be collected for one entire year), for 30 years, commencing April 1, 2019, to and including March 31, 2049, and shall the proceeds thereof be used (A) (i) to construct or improve roads, including drainage projects and traffic synchronization, within the cities of Baton Rouge, Baker, Central and Zachary and the Parish of East Baton Rouge (the “Parish”), (ii) to improve existing corridors to increase mobility, including signal synchronization and sidewalks, and (iii) to construct community enhancement projects, including drainage, lights and sidewalks, within the cities of Baton Rouge, Baker, Central and Zachary and the Parish, and (B) to improve the Advanced Traffic Management Center, such improvements prioritized (i) within the Parish and Baton Rouge as described in the MovEBR Plan dated August 8, 2018, and (ii) within Baker, Zachary and Central, as determined by the applicable governing authority, and shall the aforementioned political subdivisions be authorized to fund proceeds of the Sales Tax into bonds as permitted by the laws of Louisiana?

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Never be ready in time

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It actually looks pretty cool

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Now we just wait and see if it ever actually gets far enough along to be a reality while taxes are used for other portions of this lake master plan.

In a year or two from now, once the taxes from movEBR have been used to dredge lakes and the roads/sidewalks haven't been started, the money will again be moved to another fund

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green spaces

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shite... FIELDS, I MEANT FIELDS!!

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Damn yall are an angry bunch when you dont have a clue whats going on... If, at minimum, you actually look at the sketch of the plans, you would be able to tell that these plans arent just there to get rid of weeds. They are building what looks to be bridges, connecting some of the lakes, walking paths, green spaces, and a bunch of other things. It actually looks pretty cool and should be a nice addition.

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ain't nobody got time for that. This involves JBE and SWB. Only downvotes and criticism are allowed. A similar project could happen in St. George with different names attached and this would be 20 pages of jerking off the parties heroically involved.