re: Budget comparisons between St George & other Louisiana cities

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I agree. But they can still choose who they go with.

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Can they? If the matter comes up for a vote, and it passes across the entire area - the entire area becomes incorporated - even if pockets within the area are solidly against it. Is that not correct?

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By an accident of geography, the Mall of Louisiana and Perkins Rowe are in the SG area.

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That isn't true, the proposed city of St. George is made up of two fire districts, St. George and East Side.

These developments happen to be located in the St. George Fire District pointing out how the city of BR uses these big developments to fuel the general fund and not provide them with fire service.

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If those are removed from SG, there is no city of SG. The majority of the funds the supporters claim they have for SG comes just from the sales taxes from that Bluebonnet corridor. A quick fact: 30% of the total amount of the net sales taxes collected in EBR available to local government comes from just the Mall of Louisiana. (That was in a news article about 3 weeks ago. And no, I don't feel like finding the link.)

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Maybe the city should have done the logical thing and annexed these areas years ago. Whose fault is that?

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It's SALES taxes, not PROPERTY taxes that funds local government in Louisiana.

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Wrong, both sales taxes and property taxes along with fees, licenses, etc. fund local governments. They all play a big role.

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Maybe the city should have done the logical thing and annexed these areas years ago. Whose fault is that?

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Considering the city doesn't actually have its own government, its not the city's.

Its the Parish's. A vote to annex an area into BR has to be approved through Parish government, meaning all residents of the Parish get a say - not just the city and the proposed area of annexation.

Does anyone have that link that LSURussian was talking about, that said that the city council conceded to SG demands, but SG refused? I want to read the article. I apparently, didn't catch it, or maybe i did, and i didn't get the same thing out of it that Russian did.

I'd appreciate a mature adult providing me with a simple link so i can read the article for myself and make up my own decision. Like grown ups do.

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I'd appreciate a mature adult

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Wrong board.

That ordinance would not have killed anyone. I told Smokie he had the appearance of a conflict of interest and he should have let another CP council member introduce that ordinance, but Smokie is hard headed. He knew he didn't have a direct financial interest in the ordinance, he was just trying to help out some of his fellow restaurant owner friends downtown.

Some downtown restaurant owners approached him and complained about those mobile food vendors parking on property next to their restaurant. When they called the police, the vendors would just tell the police they had the property owner's permission to park there even though they had no evidence they had the property owner's permission. In many cases they didn't have the property owner's permission. The property owners didn't even know their property was being used by the food trucks. The police's hands were tied who to believe.

All the ordinance would have done was require the vendors to carry written permission by the property owners where the food trucks parked in order to show the police they had permission.

Those trucks were not a direct competitor with either of Smokie's restaurants, neither of which are in the downtown area, which is where the mobile food vendors were setting up.

As far as the link you want...
Front page of today's Advocate online. It's not that hard to find.

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hat said that the city council conceded to SG demands, but SG refused?

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Stop putting your own convoluted spin on what I've written.

I said SG people are saying the CP council does not listen to them, ignores them, bullies them, etc.

I said just yesterday the CP council shot down two proposals that were directed against SG which the SG supporters opposed.

I provided the link above. Read the article.

Seriously, you are getting to be just as bad as spidey.

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Stop putting your own convoluted spin on what I've written.

I said SG people are saying the CP council does not listen to them, ignores them, bullies them, etc.

I said just yesterday the CP council shot down two proposals that were directed against SG which the SG supporters opposed.

I provided the link above. Read the article.

Seriously, you are getting to be just as bad as spidey.

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1) I misinterpreted what you were saying in this post

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You are not aware of the two SG issues aimed at hurting SG on the agenda yesterday that the CP council shot down?

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2. you said

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I said just yesterday the CP council shot down two proposals that were directed against SG which the SG supporters opposed.

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But before the vote, Metro Council members John Delgado, C. Denise Marcelle and Donna Collins-Lewis each offered a nomination from the floor to be considered: Bradley Ricks, Bradley Dutruch and John W. Scott.

Ultimately, the council failed to garner a majority for any candidates and deferred the nominations to the next meeting.

Mayor Pro Tem Chandler Loupe said during the meeting that the “well-orchestrated event” was an attempted coup by some council members to replace St. George fire commissioners with Baton Rouge supporters.

“Everybody sitting up here knows exactly what you’re doing,” a visibly annoyed Loupe to the council. “You’re trying to get Baton Rouge Fire (Department) to take over the St. George Fire Department.”

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So yes, what you said was correct. But the 3 that are in favor of this, are the three that are vocal opponents of this, and each has introduced their own asinine ideas to further "punish" SG residents. Again, the city council is not doing itself any favors by having these wackos propose asinine things, and then have them shot down before a vote happesn. It also doesn't help that they are VERY vocal about their ideas, and have the backing of Kip.

You see, this is why i wanted a link. So i can read about it myself.

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The item outlined which parts of the budget came from the city of Baton Rouge and which parts came from the unincorporated parts of the parish.

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Also, this says a lot for both sides. If i'm reading this correctly, then this states that the local government doesn't already know how much money comes from the unincorporated areas.

Doesn't this kind of spell out that no one knows for sure, what BR would be losing and what SG would be gaining? Kind of eludes that all other talk is speculation at this point.

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If anything, the lack of "where does it come from" increases the lack of credibility of the SG organizers who claim to know where their taxes would come from.

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It equally decreases the credibility of those saying how much St. George would need is different from what they say.

The fact is, no one knows the taxes paid into or coming out of the EBR Parish government (like i stated earlier) in terms of unincorporated areas vs. city proper BR. To claim so, is kind of asinine at this point, don't you think? At least until the actual breakdown of funds are divulged to the public then NO ONE knows.