re: How is the OT Going to Vote on THRIVE?

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I voted no on all four. Sid doesn't know what the frick he's doing. It's like we have Broome again. All he seems to care about is the hood.

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There were only three propositions.

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(Serious question). What do you think THRIVE is going to do to reduce the bloat at either of those?


They will have less to spend.

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It’s no use to argue with him, doubleb.

He thinks SG mayor Dustin Yates, Coach Edwards, Councilman Dwight Edwards and I are siding with liberals because we want to reduce funding, albeit slightly but a a good start, for 3 parish wide agencies with annual surpluses, and direct those funds to parish wide law enforcement, the sheriff and the DA.

Yet he is the one siding with liberals, Sharon Broome’s supporters, including Gary “Gravy” Chambers. They don’t want the DA nor the sheriff to have additional resources to convict & lock up street criminals in the parish. Go figure.

dragg doesn’t have the ability to think.

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Dwight Edwards

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At least get his name right, it's Dwight Hudson.

And you still don't get it. I want more. I'm on board with the reallocation of cash assets. I don't agree with a backhanded exchange of millages which do nothing to address our overall taxation rate. If you're going to continue arguing with me, you should at least get the grievance right.

I don't care what party does or doesn't support these proposed measures. If THRIVE passes my property tax bill goes up, and the shite show continues. Sid needs to start with a clean reallocation proposition and serious layoffs.

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He thinks SG mayor Dustin Yates, Coach Edwards, Councilman Dwight Edwards and I are siding with liberals because we want to reduce funding, albeit slightly but a a good start, for 3 parish wide agencies with annual surpluses, and direct those funds to parish wide law enforcement, the sheriff and the DA.

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Once again you conveniently leave out some of this money is for the City of BR.

You seem to want to fool people into thinking it’s exchanging parish wide collected taxes for parish wide problems.

Yes, some is to support parish wide issues and that’s not the problem people have with it, including me.

People don’t want library money to solve BR CITY ISSUES.

You’re being very deceptive with your arguments. Oh and also calling people stupid, dumb, etc. to try and bully your support for it.

LSURussian

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How can you be so stupid that you think even if THRIVE fails those agencies won't roll forward their millages so that your total taxes will go UP without any improvement in the DA's and Sheriff's funding, which are both parish offices.

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First of all, voting no means that the renewals for the library, COA and Mosquito abatment don't continue, meaning another vote will have to pass in order for those entities to continue to get funding.
I don't know about you, but i seriously doubt a straight up renewal of the library or COA tax will pass unless they drastically reduce the millage.

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Shall the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana (the "Parish"), be authorized to rededicate $52,400,000 to be used for Parish-wide general purposes, heretofore and hereafter received from the levy of an ad valorem tax (the "Tax") previously approved for public library purposes at an election held on October 24, 2015, and shall the Parish be further authorized to extend and rededicate the levy of said Tax at the rate of 11.1 mills on all property subject to taxation in the Parish for an additional 10 years, beginning with the year 2026, to and including the year 2035 ($67,432,500 is reasonably estimated to be collected from levying the Tax for an entire year), so that (a) proceeds heretofore and hereafter received from 8.30 mills of the Tax shall be administered by the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Board of Control and used to maintain and operate the public library system of the Parish, including collections, software, furniture, and equipment, and acquiring land and constructing new library facilities, and (b) proceeds heretofore and hereafter received from 2.80 mills of the Tax shall be used for Parish-wide general purposes (after paying reasonable and necessary expenses of collecting and administering the Tax)?

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Many of us do not want to "extend...the levy of said Tax at the rate of 11.1mills....for an additional 10 years"



Second, where does it say anything about this money being used for the DA and Sheriff's funding? We all pay a dedicated property tax for the sheriffs funding. If they need more, they need to ask the people for more, not the city/parish general fund. If we don't think they need more, then oh well. Maybe we don't want to up their funding so they can have cops making $200K+ a year by fudging overtime hours.

I've provided plenty of data with links on how this rededicated money is supposed to be used. Are you saying they aren't going to use this money where they say they are going to use it? or are you saying since they'll get this money to use on what they say, now they'll have excess funds in the city/parish budget to give to other city of BR entities? How convenient.


There should be no such thing as a City/Parish fund.
There should be a city of BR general fund, that is supported by sales tax in the city and property taxes from it's residents.
There should be a parish general fund that is supported by property taxes of all residents, and whatever other means of taxes they can collect parish wide.

The residents outside of the city of BR are tired of sharing our money with them and watching them misuse it. Thrive doesn't change that.

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I don't know about you, but i seriously doubt a straight up renewal of the library or COA tax will pass unless they drastically reduce the millage.

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Every time a tax for those agencies are put on the ballot the renewal passes almost 2 to 1.

Part of the reason that happens is they put the tax renewal proposals on an obscure date with nothing else on the ballot, including no political office contests, which means only those agencies friends, families, benefactors and employees vote in large numbers.

It's wishful thinking on your part to think otherwise.

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I've provided plenty of data with links

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Good for you but your posts are so long that they usually exceed my attention span after the second paragraph. Read the room, bro...

Everything abut this plan from Woody Jenkins and Sid is illegal! You cannot take parish funds to pay anything for the City. The parish carter needs to be rewritten in order to make this legal. They are hoping that the residents of this parish are stupid and will pass it. This is why we need to vote NO! We are not stupid and we see everything you are doing

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First of all, voting no means that the renewals for the library, COA and Mosquito abatment don't continue, meaning another vote will have to pass in order for those entities to continue to get funding

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Teddy, this is incorrect. The millages continue until their expiration date. The Library millages expires soon. The other two are down the road a bit.

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Second, where does it say anything about this money being used for the DA and Sheriff's funding?

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The plan includes additional funding for the DA.

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The residents outside of the city of BR are tired of sharing our money with them and watching them misuse it. Thrive doesn't change that.

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Yes it does. Instead of COA, the Library Board, and MARC misusing it, they intend to spend it on storm water plans, the DA, and parish debt. Sure some may go to city obligations too, but don’t say it’s all going to be misused of sacked away like it is now.

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move more money into the general fund. How are you going to vote?

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Hell naw! You know EXACTLY where those moneys will end up! B00B00 told me so.