re: St. George Movement is Back!

I think if St. George Movement had waited to do this now the first time it would be a slam dunk. I think they probably blew their wad early.

Just move to Zachary, Central, Livingston or Ascension. That is really the only option if you cannot do the Magnet or Private School route.

It's a little weird really... the city limits cut my neighborhood in half, so I would be in St. George, but the house next to me (or maybe it's the one after them) is in Baton Rouge.

Is it going to make my property taxes go down? if yes, then i'm all for it. if no, then i'm against it.

It sounds pointless to push it around better schools. No one is taking their kid out of St. George, or PBS and sending them to a public school. The neighborhoods aren't changing. The kids that attend the public school aren't changing. How is having a different school board going to make the school better if nothing changes about the students that attend the school?

If they were to build a brand new school, and said only kids that live within Airline/Pecue/Highland can attend, including Santa Maria and CCL, then i'd consider sending my kid to a public school in Louisiana. But that school already exists. It's called St. George Catholic.

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Is it going to make my property taxes go down?

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Adding a new layer of government below the existing City/Parish government is not going to lower taxes.

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Adding a new layer of government below the existing City/Parish government is not going to lower taxes.

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Not to mention new schools aren't going to build themselves.

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Look for the city limits of Baton Rouge to expand again.

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Nope. According to recent changes in the law, once a petition for incorporation is in place NO annexation can occur

Gravy is already melting!


Gravy Chambers
12 mins ·
“St. George” folks dropped an interesting video today. Mayor Broome, city leaders, and most importantly citizens of this community the answer is simple on this St. George issue. Let the facts remain true, creating a new city and claiming that will save our parish is a lie. The choices of those THEY elected help with the decline of this community. They have the majority on the council and therefor they have had equal control of the destiny of this parish. The truth is, too many of the people who support the “St.George movement” are simply not interested in a city that is majority black. For many of them, the idea of blacks being the majority, and in control of leadership is scary. Their solutions are fabricated with lies, because a new city WILL raise taxes. A new city, will hurt this parish not help it. The reason a new city won’t help the parish is the same reason Central, Baker, and Zachary haven’t helped the parish.

Guess what? If the kids in EBR schools aren’t doing better, that still hurts a “St. George” city. Because they can’t build a Trump border wall and keep people out. All of our issues will remain our issues if we don’t fix the root problem which is inequity. Nearly all the problems we have stem from inequities. There is data to prove that, on so many different levels.

I encourage you all to be vigilant and ready, because if we are really going to save this community killing the “city of St. George” effort has to be a priority.

#ImIn

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I think it's up to the governor's discretion if he allows incorporation. I don't see Edwards going with it.

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Absolutely incorrect. Petition goes in front of the people. Petitioners have a certain number of days to gather signatures of people who would live in the incorporated area. When their time is up or they believe they have enough signatures in favor, the petitioners file the signatures with the registrar of votes. The registrar of voters tallies the signatures and if the signatures are found to be valid and the petitioners have all the proper paperwork and have met the requirements of the law, the registrar issues a certification to the governor that the petition is valid, proper, and has the correct number of signatures. The governor then again makes sure that all of the petition is in order and if it is, the governor is bound by law to call a special election for the area that is trying to incorporate. If enough people vote for incorporation, they become a city as of the date spelled out in the election.

At NO point can the governor decide to do whatever the frick he wants. All he can do is try to say the petitioners didn't follow the prescriptions of law exactly and toss the petition out on a technicality, but if the petition is proper and he tried to pull a fast one, there would be attorneys coming out of the woodwork to slap his dick in the dirt for trying to circumvent the law.