re: EBR Mayor Edwards proposes 33% reduction in government workforce, excluding police & fire

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If Baton Rouge had a mayor with any sense St George would still be Baton Rouge.

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StG was never in or a part of the city of Baton Rouge. It was an unincorporated area in East Baton Rouge.

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Instead of giving St George residents a vote in the mayor’s race, the city fought and sued St George.

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Unless something has changed the mayor is the mayor-president of the consolidated metro/parish govt with all registered voters in EBR allowed to vote in the mayor-president elections.

That’s how Broome could take the 2% Sales tax from the area as the parish controls 2% of sales tax going to parish general fund if area is not incorporated (incorporated cities gain control of that 2% for their govts). It came in as EBR funds collected from that area and was spent inside the city of BR to help cover the city’s shortages to its general fund for services specific to the city.

It was always about using the 2% sales tax revenue collected in the voter approved boundaries of StG for the city of BR.

The BR metro govt was set up when most of EBR outside of the city was rural and sparsely populated. BR kept its same boundaries as before and was basically allowed to run the show due to having the biggest population & tax base in the parish at the time. Keeping its boundaries separate also allowed it to tax and spend for additional services available only in BR and not parish wide.

New Orleans and Orleans parish did it differently and made their boundaries coterminous to basically become a parish wide city.