re: Does anyone know what happens to St. George students who want to stay in EBRSS schools?

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If so, that means your SG official is flat out lying to its citizens.

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SG officials didn’t lie. They answered a question (according to your friends) that they couldn’t answer. If all they said was nothing would change I’d be surprised. But I’ve been surprised before.

Only EBRSS can answer the question as to what they may or may not do for children living in SG that complete 5th or 8th grade in s special program . SG can’t answer that and you know it.

Tell your friends to stick with the sure thing. Vote the status quo. It’s in their best interests it seems and hope it works out and EBR stays vital.

That’s what I would tell them if I were you.

I’m voting yes because I want what’s better for my new city. I’m not voting yes for today, but for tomorrow. I’m a capitalist and I believe competition makes us all better. SG will compete for kids. That can only benefit everyone here.

I’m not trying to be rude, but I really don’t think you understand the intricacies of what’s going on. It’s hard to make guarantees on things like this when East Baton Rouge school system is going to continue the legal warfare that has been going on between St. George and Baton Rouge.

With the Louisiana Supreme Court upholding the vote and decision, the official incorporation date, revert back to the original vote. This means that Baton Rouge owes St. George a couple hundred million dollars. They don’t have that money. So they’ll be doing whatever they can from a legal perspective to mitigate that. Hence, why all of this is going to play out with lawyers in a courtroom.

You called the St. George representatives liars, but I’m of the opinion you cant trust the Baton Rouge representatives. We’ve already seen that they will do shady shite to hold on to whatever money they can. That includes petitioning larger businesses that are in St. George to request an annexation and offering incentives for doing so. But even some of the big supporters of Better Together have given up on that silly notion and moved on. Richard Lispey is a great example. He publicly advocated against St. George, then requested his business be annexed. Fast forward 5 years and he is building a brand new state of the art facility in the heart of St. George and working with St. George leaders.

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Are you from Baton Rouge?

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I will include the part of quote you left out

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Your view is BR centric. I used to live in BR proper, still co-own a property in BR proper, and I am pro-StG and pro StG school district. I see both as what’s best for the entire community and my property in BR.

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you're trying to mansplain shite to people that have lived in this area for decades while you have to go find the road on a map!

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Are you a female? You use the term mansplain a lot, but then you also offered to mansplain to me which seemed a little gay.

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Yes it is. You are so caught up in minutia details and trying to find a "gotcha" about a very small fraction of a road going into another zip code that you completely missed the actual projects that I referenced and entire point of the reference.

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No you pivoted from talking tax money from what is now StG being used to fund the city of BR to focusing on 1 of 4 zip codes to lower the population being discussed and to focus on 2 roads funded by the parish not specific taxes collected for the city of BR.

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You're absolutely fricking right my view is Baton Rouge centric. Why? I grew up in 70817 and as far as I'm concerned I grew up in Baton Rouge!

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But you didn’t grow up in the city of Baton Rouge. Maybe you can claim growing up in the post office’s mailing addresses that use(d) Baton Rouge in the address for unincorporated areas of the parish. You have that going for your memories.

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No one gave a shite about where the city limits were or weren't until 2013 when they tried to form the SE BATON ROUGE Independent School District.

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BS at a minimum the BR police cared, and of course the city of BR was getting the sales tax from the proposed SE Baton Rouge school district without having to offer up city specific services. BR started to care because the money from the sales tax in the area was no longer going to help the city of BR first if a city was formed out of that unincorporated area to make a better case for forming an independent school district to the legislature. As a state Senator Broome pushed the forming a city first angle as helping the school district’s cause, and then she became mayor/president…

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In my opinion the only people in the parish that can say they aren't getting their fair share of project are those living in the rural areas north of Central and Zachary. You know the areas that currently look like 70817 did 40 years ago.

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Yet the metro parish govt including city of BR specific expenditures had a mini-budget crisis when it lost StG sales tax revenue. The court cases proved the StG area was contributing more in sales tax than they cost the parish govt in services.

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The true irony is that most of infrastructure projects today are paid via sales tax so every Tom, Dick, and Harry that spends money in EBR is paying for these projects regardless of where they live.

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People living in the unincorporated area that is now the city of StG were de facto paying taxes to the city of BR while inside the “StG” area and also directly to the city of BR while inside the city for all those jobs and so on that you mentioned. Their tax contributions to BR are even greater than revenue collected within the future StG unincorporated area.

Also, at link below you can see on the top row that BR also flipped that 2% parish sales tax to a 2% city tax like StG has done. StG is also still contributing same % for the street/ sewerage sales tax, the same % sales tax to school board of EBR, and the same % sales tax to the EBR school board EFID as the city of BR does. The latter 2 along with property taxes for schools are what the EBRSS is concerned about because the StG area costs them less than the taxes they receive from the area.

You will also find that the entire parish regardless of incorporation has 1.5% points of the sales tax going to streets / sewage.

https://www.brla.gov/DocumentCenter/View/22062/Sales-and-Use-Tax-Rates-Effective-October-2025-PDF

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quote:Weren't you a big proponent of "Better Together" when St George succeeded in breaking away? Still a little salty about that? Just to clarify for others St George did not break away from BR as it was never part of the city of BR or break away from EBR parish as it is still very much in it and still paying taxes that are supposed to fund parish projects as well as to the sheriff and for now to the EBR school board.

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Sorry about that wording, forgot that St George didn't actually "break away" other than break free from the fiscal bondage that the City of Baton Rouge subjected it to. Baton Rouge used St George as a tax colony for years. This was fiscal slavery that Better Together supporters were wanting to continue indefinitely. A few years in, we can see how much Baton Rouge needed to be subsidized by St George as they can't balance the budget and are facing large cuts. It seems that St George wasn't "Better Together"

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I'm done with conversation. You proved my point- The I pay this and I pay for that BS is fricking stupid. 70% of the revenue in the parish comes from sales tax. Nobody knows who is paying for what because we are all spending our money all over the parish/metro area regardless if its spent in St George, Baton Rouge, Baker, Central, Zachary or Scotlandville.

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Thanks, you make up stuff and get called out in it, that isn’t conversation.

Thats the difference between Richard Lipsey and you, he can make a choice to actively oppose an issue because he believes it isn’t in the best interest of his business or personal interests and then support it when the issue is approved by the majority by increasing the tax revenue and jobs in St. George by building his new facility on Highland Road.
I haven’t done anything close to what Mr. Linsey has done & paid to improve EBRP, Baton Rouge & now St. George. Have you?

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And remind me; how do you know when a politician is lying?

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Yes, that would be “when his/her lips are moving”!

Both of my boys attended magnet school or gifted and talented school at some point. One is a successful Nurse Anesthetist and the other holds two Engineering degrees, and works for a major Defense corporation, yet my wife and I (both intelligent and well educated) are still fighting for a quality education for all children in St. George, not just the select few who win the lottery. We also understand that the basis for a successful community is a quality education system. You really understand nothing. This just further confirms that assessment.

Congrats, enjoy your failing status quo