re: The Metro Council declared war on the unincorporated area tonight

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Good take sir, I think the city thing has taken the emphasis away from the school situation.

And I think Rainey/White have become issues instead of the merits of the city and the school ISD.

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The problem is...how do you get rid of a volunteer? I don't know him personally, but this Norm Browning seems like a good guy. Maybe he can step up? Maybe Reps Greene, Hunter, Ponti or Foil should step up and take Bodi White's place as the elected official pushing this?

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If the Mall of Louisiana is incorporated into St. George, the local sales taxes go ONLY to the St. George city limits.

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Not true. All sales taxes are paid to the Parish and City Treasurer according to the Sales and Use Tax Report. LINK And the distribution of sales tax revenue can be seen here. LINK The change from the recent annexations is that the Parish government loses 2% of sales tax revenue and the City of Baton Rouge government gains 2% of sales from the annexed properties. If those properties had been incorporated into St. George then St. George would have been entitled to the 2% of sales. In all cases the Parish gets 3% of the sales for schools, roads and sewers.

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My reply wasn't to your post.

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I recognize that.

It doesn't make your post any less dishonest.

My point is that there has been a very coordinated effort to prevent St. George from voting on this incorporation. Do you disagree with that?

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You can keep attempting to bastardize my reply to novabill all you want, but it won't work.

He accused other posters of wanting to deny SG residents the right to vote on incorporation if they got the required number of signatures. I asked him to support his accusation by providing a link.

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I really don't feel like going in circles.

Do you agree with this:

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My point is that there has been a very coordinated effort to prevent St. George from voting on this incorporation.

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Not true. All sales taxes are paid to the Parish and City Treasurer according to the Sales and Use Tax Report. LINK And the distribution of sales tax revenue can be seen here. LINK The change from the recent annexations is that the Parish government loses 2% of sales tax revenue and the City of Baton Rouge government gains 2% of sales from the annexed properties. If those properties had been incorporated into St. George then St. George would have been entitled to the 2% of sales. In all cases the Parish gets 3% of the sales for schools, roads and sewers.

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When I said local sales tax, I meant the 2% that goes to the parish general fund. If SG gets their own Schools, the parish would also lose that 2% school portion as well.

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Regarding Rainey's lies about the petition being invalid but then admitting he lied about it, I'd be pretty pissed if I was one of the SG residents who spoke at the public hearing yesterday whose main argument to the council was the annexation would invalidate the petition only to learn minutes latter I should not have trusted the SG leaders' word on that.

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Exactly this. SG people should be outraged at the lies they are getting fed.

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The problem is...how do you get rid of a volunteer? I don't know him personally, but this Norm Browning seems like a good guy. Maybe he can step up? Maybe Reps Greene, Hunter, Ponti or Foil should step up and take Bodi White's place as the elected official pushing this?

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I am not involved in the inner workings of the committee, but like from the outside looking in you can see defects in their presentation and in their strategy.

But remember, the grassroots of SG are not politicians; yet they are being opposed by politicians who are supported by tax dollars.

Kip has a spokesperson, researchers, assistants on the public payroll to do his work. They are networked via groups like the LMA. They talk to legislators on a regular basis to get things passed. They have the backing of large money people downtown.

There is no doubt these people have made mistakes, but comparing their efforts to the efforts of the city of BR isn't fair; but as you and I know it is what it is and it isn't going to change. It has to be overcome.

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If SG gets their own Schools, the parish would also lose that 2% school portion as well.

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That is a second hypothetical that you did not specify in your prior post. If St. George established a separate school district it would make sense that such a school district would get the 2% tax on sales since the school district would be replacing the EBRPSS for the incorporated area. This would be an issue of a St. George school district did not cover the same territory as the area incorporated. If the areas covered are the same, then it shouldn't be an issue.

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That is a second hypothetical that you did not specify in your prior post. If St. George established a separate school district it would make sense that such a school district would get the 2% tax on sales since the school district would be replacing the EBRPSS for the incorporated area. This would be an issue of a St. George school district did not cover the same territory as the area incorporated. If the areas covered are the same, then it shouldn't be an issue.

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Correct.

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I think SG people are well capable of recognizing what is really going on here.

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Show me where the Better Together group has lied. Show me where the Metro Council has blatantly lied.

The only thing that has been over board is the one Facebook post by Delgado. Other than that, they have not lied like Rainey has.

I don't know why you think the annexation yesterday was done to stop the petition. The only side to say that would happen was Rainey. Then he said it wouldn't. Why are you listening to this nonsense still?