re: How can we fix Baton Rouge?

want to see something crazy? these are the salaries of public service workers in BR

LINK

what's even crazier?

look at this lisa olson EMS employee info:



Why do they have a vehicle allowance of 5k a month?

Open Data BR

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Why do they have a vehicle allowance of 5k a month?

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Without opening this report and perusing it, I'm going to assume that's annually... $400.00 a month seems reasonable, but again, I didn't look at the report.

El Salvador's president would have it fixed in a week.

Spot on. Total failure of the “families” raising these criminals and the churches in these neighborhoods that are more focused on political action to supposedly help with their problems and the money they get from doing so rather than reaching out and ministering to the hearts and minds of these kids to prove to them there is a better way out.

Same as everywhere else: It starts at home. Massively incentivize nuclear families and marriage, and severely cut the incentives we currently have for single mother households.

We are doing the exact opposite.

All the rest of the shite mentioned is just throwing more government at the problem. So many of yall have got to get rid of that boomer mindset. The government will not fix the most sacred government of them all - the family.

M 65 Atomic cannon

Judicial reforms at the legislature to reduce judge’s discretion on setting low/no bails for violent crime.

Police start arresting way more violent and property criminals.

Huge reform at permitting office so that businesses can get every permit they need in one shot, quickly, with full transparency. Permitting delays absolutely throttle upstart businesses.

Massively change commercial zoning to reduce or eliminate parking minimums.

Reduce the amount of single family home zoning.

Return to true neighborhood schools with actual discipline and consequences for unruly students. No students pass the 4th grade unless they can read. For students who are already past that who cannot read, they’re sent to an alternative school that focuses exclusively on literacy until they can read and write at grade level. Then they can return to their old school.

Massive infrastructure plan to connect surface streets to increase redundancy.

5 lane highway 30 from downtown to wherever the plaquemine bridge could go.

4 or 5 lane perkins to highland.

Completely redesign the entire highland/perkins/i-10 interchange kerfuffle.

Eliminate open container laws.

Cease all “traps” for enforcing window tint, seatbelts, inspection stickers, speeding under 10 mph, etc. Those are only levied when already pulled over for something more serious.

Divert ticket revenue and receipts from seized property auctions from police departments revenues to road fund. All police funding should come from dedicated millages.

Fire CATS and subcontract out mass transit services to Tiger Trails or to a private bus service.

Audit BREC, Council on Aging, and the libraries. Explore reducing dedicated millages.

Re-consolidate DPW so roads, drainage, drinking water, utilities, and sewer all talk to each other.

Create councils of volunteer organizations to meet monthly to discuss collaboration with the government on specific issues. For example, have representatives from BREC sit down with the various athletic clubs. Have DPW sit down with organizations like keep tiger town beautiful to discuss cleaning up litter or with the kayakers to discuss cleaning out bayous.

Consolidate BRPD into EBR Sheriff.

Explore expanding BRFD to the entire parish and absorbing St. George FD.

That should be a good start.

KingBob, do you live in CCLA and you are (or were) in civil construction?

Better street / highway and interstate lighting. Need BRIGHT WHITE lamps that work! Half of these antiquated, cheap Amber lights never work. Anyone walked LSU’s campus at night?

This alter again??