re: St. George News: L'Auberge has petitioned to be annexed into BR City Limits

What did Central take with them when they left? I am drawing a blank on their corporate tax base.

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What did Central take with them when they left? I am drawing a blank on their corporate tax base

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Also, who solved crimes there or was it like The Purge?

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EBR Sheriff

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1. You're forgetting that SG currently pays into the "general fund" , which partially funds brpd.

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I'm not forgetting it. But why you bring it up is a mystery to me. It only hurts your argument.

The city has already said it will have to reduce the number of BRPD patrol officers if the SG revenue is lost which only supports my contention that BRPD will not be patrolling outside the city limits of Baton Rouge and into a new city of St George if SG happens.

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2. BRFD is now stretched thin,

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Then why does it have the highest rating a city fire department can have for insurance purposes? C'mon, that's weak. You're starting to show your desperation by just making silly statements.

All along you have claimed the Mall and the L'Auberge casino would not be annexed. You still claim the Mall's annexation will be reversed by an appeals court based on a suit by a SG supporter. Yet you continue to claim the revenues from neither of those developments matters.

So $9 million in sales tax revenues from the Mall is lost to SG and $7 million in casino taxes are lost. That doesn't count the property taxes that SG won't be able to collect from either or the sales and hotel occupancy taxes from the casino's operations.

Yet it doesn't matter.

You can't have it both ways.

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When the petition drops, everything changes. 

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So what happens when the petition drops?

And what happens when the next major annexations are announced in a couple days?

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What did Central take with them when they left? I am drawing a blank on their corporate tax base.

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Are you referring to the Central that has already raised its school taxes where their school tax millage is now approximately 40% higher than EBR school property millage taxes.......and is asking for more at an upcoming election?

And is that the same Central who has asked voters to approve new city taxes twice and is planning on another tax election in the spring in order to build a city municipal building complex?

Is that the Central you're referring to?

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Tell us where BRPD patrols within SG, since you keep mentioning it.

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The people that live on Southpark find this statement funny.

That's a big hit for em, BR has the other casinos as well.

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They haven't been rated since the MOLA annexations. Surely you knew that.

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Today. Today. Today. Try to keep your comments relevant and quit moving the goal posts for every statement you can't refute.

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Tell us where BRPD patrols within SG, since you keep mentioning it.

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I've done that at least 5 times to answer your same questions.

I'll do it again....just one example.

based out of the Gardere area. (which is outside of the BR city limits)

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A year-long, multi-agency investigation resulted in the indictment of 28 people who allegedly participated in organized criminal activity. The indictment covers activity from 2007-2014, including murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, burglary, and narcotics trafficking. Law enforcement officers from the Baton Rouge Police Department, East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, the Louisiana State Police, the U.S. Marshal's Office, and the Administration of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, began executing warrants after the indictments were issued during the late evening on Wednesday, April 8. Those individuals were booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

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BRPD also covers the Towne Center shopping area although it technically is outside the city limits. EBPD is available to the sheriff any time the sheriff's deputies need back up or additional resources outside the BR city limits.