re: St. George: BTR: 1st ‘taxes will go up’ Now ‘brace for cuts’

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that will require a parish AND state vote

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Both of which will easily pass. Most of the people in the parish understand the effectiveness of ISDs and the state has never turned one down that I recall because most voters outside the area will just see a local community looking to improve itself.

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None of this happens with split.

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What split?

Correct the areas left out had a low number of signatures on the petition.

As far as Parish services
The city would have to provide

- Garbage (could piggy back on the existing contract or rebid it). The citizens or enduser pays for this not the city and tacked on Bill. Now in the original contract similar to EBRP contract if you read it the cans were original charged in the service fee. After x amount of years the cans were paid for and city parish owns the cans. That enduser cost not a city cost.

- City roads most would be inside subdivisions which are not serviced or maintained that well as we speak.

- drainage - not well maintained at this point.
I am putting money on a monkeys uncle could do a better job contracting this out than DPW.

- maintenance of cutting the side of parish roads. Most roads right of wats in our area that need cutting are state roads or Parish roads not maintenance well as we speak.
Right now DPW lacks the equipment due to theft to keep up with the maintenance in the parish. Contract it out and let the contractors deal with equipment theft and hiring temp labor.

- Police dept
We could have a chief and pay the sheriff or start our own dept. That up to the voters.

- City court
Right now 9th JDC handles our cases and some cases they will still handle. City court would be setup for minor violations such as speeding tickets if issued by police dept and not the sheriff.

- City Hall

- constables office provide security to city court, issue warrants for city court, and yes they can issue citations inside the city limits.

Things we already pay for and would still have as these are parish items.
- animal control
- mosquitoe control
- EMS
- DPW on parish maintained items
- district attorney office
-district court
- council on aging
- library
- brec
- school board
- clerk or court

Things we probably pay for and do not receive as the parish and city budget come from the same pot.

I have no problem not paying for these services which I do not receive due to I do not live within the city limits of BR. If BR wants these services they need to pay more taxes to keep them. The parish budget should not be affected if these City of BR services need more money.

- BRPD
-BRFD
- BR City court
- city attorneys office
- constables office
- CAT’s
(This is not stray cats hanging around this house even though similar. They both suck up money. Atleast stray cats provide a service keeping rodents, snakes, and other animal populations down. CATs just sucks up your money.)

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that Louisiana can get it $hit together in terms of leadership.

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BR just elected SWB. She’s not fit to run a daycare.
That was the tipping point for a lot of folks. There aren’t enough folks to cancel out the black vote anymore.

Wait’ll St. George goes through. You’ll have idiots like Gravy winning city elections.

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effectively the argument is that a city government is INSANELY expensive

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But the problem is SG pay ad if they are in the city, but we don’t get city services.

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None of this happens with split.

What split?

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Sorry, incorporation

You act like these areas are underdeveloped due to racism and not because being there is a REALLY bad plan economically.

Besides the obvious issues of little disposable income and security / pilferage issues, there is the problem that this area loves to hold up businesses for handouts / pay increases when the amount of business done there doesn’t justify it.


Know why you can’t get a grocery store in NBR? Because you have fricking idiots picketing the ones that were there demanding higher wages.

And when those supermarkets pull out, the fricking idiots cheer and yell “We won!”

There should be some excess, yes. I think the current estimate is 12mm.

the opponents of StG are just using the following arguments

1. grandiose, emotionally-backed terms
2. misdirection and dishonest arguments to confuse the various types of government involved

i don't live in BR so i wasn't up to speed until yesterday, but this is the primary, current issue: the City of BR is effectively stealing money from the unincorporated areas. the opponents of StG are effectively trying to turn "parish" spending into "City of BR" spending and are loosely using terms to confuse it all for a rhetorical slight of hand (you see this with the various "split" language or the "StG and BR are effectively the same city" argument)

since each incorporated area collects/keeps the 2% sales tax, that money won't be "stolen" from the City of BR. however, the City of BR has been living high on the hog from the collections from the unincorporated areas (that will become StG), thus, the CITY (not parish) is going to have budgetary issues

there may be a slight increase in taxes in the StG area to fund certain, minor duplicitous services, but they won't be anything major

now the real issue is the EBR School Board, who will be utterly fricked if an ISD is formed in StG, HOWEVER, that's not the argument up for debate at this time