re: St. George to Rely on...wait for it...Higher Taxes

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Say what? Might wanna check those "facts" again....

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Both Zachary and Central voted new taxes for their schools.

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Trash is parish - won't change
Water is parish - won't change
Police - maybe, or they may just use EBRSO

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Water/Sewer, Trash, Fire, and Police remain the same under the SG proposal. So what's the point of a new city when it doesn't even mean we'd get an ISD out of the deal? The whole parish will get to vote on an ISD, so it doesn't look likely we'd ever get that through.

Roads I guess. Zoning. And ?

So far all I see is an extra layer of bureaucracy for everything to stay the same. SG advocates, what else will I get with a city of SG to make it worth the trouble of forming a new city government?

Well, make it all about you!

Race is involved with that decision but not at the local level.

Any annexation that dilutes the strength of the minority vote is blocked by the federal government. I’d have to look up why but my guess is the VRA of 1964.


What we are seeing now is a byproduct of those interpretations of the law.

Very few residential areas have been annexed into BR since the 1970s though the population moved steadily eastward into the unincorporated areas.


As far as the future goes, IMHO an incorporated St George is about the only way that EBR Parish and the city of BR survive.

Outflow to Livingston and Ascension is huge. The only area of significant growth in EBR is Zachary and that is rapidly reaching saturation as people throw up subdivisions on every piece of open land they can find.


Unfortunately, I figure the usual gang of idiots will block St George and instead try to do something like a city income tax to “reclaim” income made by people working in BR and living in the suburbs.

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Would Baker, Central, and Zachary get to vote on that? That's a lot of like-minded people right there.

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Would they care enough to get out and vote?

BR would and the SG area would. It's not a slam dunk by any means.

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Would they care enough to get out and vote?

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Not if that's all that's on the ballot.

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BR would and the SG area would.

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SG would for sure... but how much of BR proper cares to get out and vote against it? That's really the question... I think most of them wouldn't really give a shite. Also really depends on what else is on the ballot.

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You'd get control of the 2% sales tax we pay into the General Fund.

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Which is something. What do we want to do with that money though? Since schools are a separate issue, what will that money be used to improve.

I don't need a detailed plan down to the penny, but I'd like some vision from SG on how the money would be spent. Flood mitigation (like cleaning out our creeks/bayous), what roads we'd improve, I'd assume a general uptick in maintenance for roads in general.

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Police - maybe, or they may just use EBRSO

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I can count on one hand the number of BR police I've seen in the St. George area. Mostly Sheriff's Office and occasional State Trooper.

LINK Unless they are lying.

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I don't want to pay more money for your precious little snowflake to not have to go to school with kids who, god forbid, don't look like they do. If that's what you want, either move, or pay out of YOUR pocket

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How about This instead: I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s when neighborhood schools were a great place to get an education. Property values were steady around the neighborhood schools and there was little to no crime. Bussing was forced upon these neighborhood schools and the decay began to steadily build until the schools were terrible, unsafe, and the home/property values plummeted. The racial makeup of these failed (or failing) schools has completely flipped as whites fled the neighborhoods and send their kids to private or parochial schools.

SO, you can take your “snowflake” comment and shove it right up your arse.

Signed,

Broadmoor, Belaire, Sherwood, Woodlawn, Baker

The neighborhood of Tara is still doing well but the kids in the neighborhood do not attend their own neighborhood school.