re: St. George Responds to Economist Study

City of BR has a bloated Government.
Look at the senior staff.

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Remember the present mayor wants a city manager to do her job.

Meanwhile they have how many people on her senior staff.
- chief administration officer who ran for mayor and lost. No prior public service experience
- assistant chief admin (3 positions)
-chief communications officer
- chief service officer
-director, mayors healthy city initiative LGTBQ Liaison ( we really need one of these)
-federal state grants coordinator
(We need someone to screw up and lose grants)

-community centers
6 community centers
( let’s see how much these cost to operate)

-constables office across the street from the headquarters. We got to keep them in dare vehicles when that could be contracted to the sheriffs office. If EBRP metro council trying to get rid of duplication of services this would be a dept you could contract out to the sheriff.

That just some of the City of BR Waste.
Seems like BR is really responsible in blowing through money while basic services are lacking.

We need one of them.

We also need community centers for everyone with one person on staff.

That seems like responsible government when Brec duplicates this by having gymns inside the city with daytime staff.

City of BR idea of responsibility.
We need constable all with new dodge chargers that say Dare and an office across the street from a main office like they have downtown.

Or

Responsible.
We can contract this out with the sheriffs office which does this already and save money.

If we do the responsible thing we would not have cool Dare dodge chargers driving around town.

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If we do the responsible thing we would not have cool Dare dodge chargers driving around town.

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Nothing to do with local tax money.

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That's easy because I find nothing wrong with it now. A

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Nothing wrong with the crime rate or education system? Really? Nothing at all?

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don't like I'd rather help making it better than running away from it because I happen to live on the right side of town

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Soooo keeping the status quo of the middle class fleeing the parish, which results in less tax dollars. Which results in more problems....

Or try to fix the problems and try to stem the exodus And keep the tax dollars in the parish

Truly a “mindbreaking” decision I tell ya.

I never understood why we have BREC parks and community centers run by the city or why Kips had to build city parks Downtown with ornamental stage when we had BREC building parks too.

The CP operating budget is approaching a Billion dollars a year.
It's bloated, and full of bureaucrats.

Where are we meeting to get our St. George OG's for Life tattoos?

I would also like to know what DPW doing about drainage and cleaning out main bayous along with neighborhood ditches, ditches along parish roads which will still be the parishes responsibility, and main bayous.

Right now dpw has a shotgun approach.
If you complain they will clean your ditch while the ones around you are still clogged in areas with ditches.

They have not announced any plan to hit neighborhood by neighborhood with ditches and clean them all out so they all work.

Seems like EBRPDPW has no plan almost 2 years after a major flood. This shows the government is not working for us.

Richard’s Disposal provides our garbage service in this area. They are a subcontractor to Republic Services who is the contractor and their service is very poor.

DPW was too lazy to bid out the newest 10 yr contract in March of 2018. A dept worker said Republic Services does a good job right after apologizing for the lack of service in my area. That shows they are out of touch with the citizens in this area.

Second.
If there is enough money to for a contractor to pay a subcontractor, Richard’s Disposal who is presently doing the job DPW did not do a good job finding the best value for us.

I bet we will come out with cheaper rates if we put our garbage service out to bid.

Biggest advantage to becoming a city is we will see our tax dollars stay in this area.

We also will drive our Dare constable cars which the city of BR seems to handout like candy over to his house to get tattoos.

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You do understand that DARE is not a locally funded program, right?

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And no tax dollars went from EBR Parish tax payers to buy the cars?

It's all free right? I bet the Feds fly mechanics in to fix the cars too. J bet the Feds even give our people gas cards.

You have to do govt. work.

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magildachunks

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