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re: Spanish Town parade could leave Baton Rouge amid city-parish budget cuts
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:10 am to BU Bear In BR
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:10 am to BU Bear In BR
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the city-parish has paid for security for the parade for the past 45 years.
WTF?!
Shut that shite down!!!!!
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Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:13 am to SantaFe
If you mean deconsolidate the city/parish model I would imagine that would require a statewide vote.
The problem with liquidation is once you sell everything you are in the exact same position but with fewer assets.
I think there are large areas of The City of Baton Rouge that haven’t had reassessments for property tax. The houses fall under homestead exemption therefore they don’t contribute. A fair assessment will bring the proper money in, but then a large voter base will be disgruntled. I imagine that’s why it hasn’t been done
The problem with liquidation is once you sell everything you are in the exact same position but with fewer assets.
I think there are large areas of The City of Baton Rouge that haven’t had reassessments for property tax. The houses fall under homestead exemption therefore they don’t contribute. A fair assessment will bring the proper money in, but then a large voter base will be disgruntled. I imagine that’s why it hasn’t been done
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:13 am to Capitalist
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Blame City of St. George.
frick you and your thieving City of BR bastards. And frick your parade with my tax dollars.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:15 am to nicholastiger
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How do the other Mardi Gras parades pay for security?
The young fella that was elected mayor in Bogalusa questioned the local parade group on this. Don’t get me wrong, this fella is a dirtbag, but he wasn’t wrong about the carnival crew. Somehow the guy that started MCCA it went from being a fireman back in the 70s to fabulously wealthy.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:15 am to BU Bear In BR
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the city-parish has paid for security for the parade for the past 45 years.
Might be in the minority here, but I feel like these organizations should have to pay their own security. The city should only be issuing the permits
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:15 am to Capitalist
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Parade leaders estimate they would need between $50,000 and $75,000 to cover security on their own. They say they don’t have the funding because the money raised each year goes directly to charities and nonprofits, which they say is central to the parade’s mission.
So basically the parade forces the taxpayers to donate $50K-75K? How considerate of them.
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Blame City of St. George.
This entire movement is a cluster frick. Instead of my tax money funding essential services throughout East Baton Rouge Parish to fund security, police protection, court system, District Attorney, roads, and essential services to have a parade, it is now going to this cluster frick that has confiscated our property and has made it part of their mandatory H.O.A. and has no clue what they are doing.
We can say good bye to all of Downtown Baton Rouge Events and St. Patrick's Parade too. We now all live in our separate little Nazi Villages in East Baton Rouge Parish, instead of being one happy parish. Sieg Heil.
This Crap started with City of Central.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:16 am to BU Bear In BR
I still have hope for Sid but he trusted the wrong people in selling thrive. He should’ve hung the library and aging council out to dry. They knew if it didn’t pass these cuts were possible.. they just wanted to reframe the message in their cost structures without actually taking the money away yet. The one thing you can’t do as a mayor is to be known as the guy who says no to cultural traditions. They should’ve already been in discussions with all the potentially affected organizations and should’ve presented a coordinated plan instead of threatening their demise
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:19 am to BU Bear In BR
This parade is scheduled a year ahead, however the police are ALL ON OVERTIME. Really 1/4-1/3 of residents attend, simply shift police.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:31 am to Beer did clam
And the BR city police have pensions based on including OT. The piggy banks of St George and parish wide collected taxes say “frick you BR!”
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 10:32 am
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:41 am to BU Bear In BR
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Parade leaders estimate they would need between $50,000 and $75,000 to cover security on their own. They say they don’t have the funding because the money raised each year goes directly to charities and nonprofits, which they say is central to the parade’s mission.
Sounds like they need to send 50k-75k less to their charities and non profits this year.
They have funding, its not anyone else's fault that they chose to spend it this way. Maybe cover your overhead and then donate to charity/ non profits.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 10:45 am
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:46 am to Dantheman504
It’s simple math. The parade brings in roughly $5 million in revenue not inluding the balls and pre parties. So the tax income far out ways the expense to the city. And charities get a healthy cash injection. Canceling the parade would result in a net loss to the city and it would lose one of the few fun things it does well. Seems like a simple answer to me.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:51 am to bott18240
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Canceling the parade would result in a net loss to the city and it would lose one of the few fun things it does well. Seems like a simple answer to me.
1 option is to not donate to charity for a year and pick back up next year. The other option is to cancel the parade and not be able to ever send another dollar to charity.
Good people can be terrible business owners because of shite like this.
Re evaluate your overhead, adjust the costs, figure out how much you can donate for free without actually hurting your business.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 10:59 am to Capitalist
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This Crap started with City of Central.
Nah, it started with the NBR rot that has consumed all the city resources and provides zero benefit to the other half of the city.
Delete NBR from the equation and this never becomes a topic of conversation
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:04 am to BU Bear In BR
I hear the Libraries have a few extra dollars. Maybe a new tax prop to tap their coffers to pay for parade security will pass.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:10 am to BU Bear In BR
So Mayor Sid's legacy will be killing Spanish Town. Well done, coach
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:11 am to Capitalist
frick off
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:24 am to Capitalist
This crap, as you say, didn't start with Central, but with the Louisiana Legislature. 20-ish years ago, Central tried to form its own school system to escape the terrible EBR school system. When Central's proposal came to the legislature, lawmakers used the argument "they're not even a city" to deny the request, even though incorporation is not a constitutional requirement. Upon receiving this response, Central said, "Hold my beer, we'll be back shortly." So a new city, and eventually, a new school system were formed.
St George, to their credit, skipped the delay, and argument, of "they're not even a city," and went straight to incorporation. Now when St George proposes its own school system, the legislature will have no reason to say "no."
I don't blame parents, whether in Central or St George, for wanting the best for their children's education, and taking steps to make it happen.
We'll never know what may have been, but if the legislature had not taken the chicken $hit approach in refusing Central's school system, choosing instead to protect EBR's sacred, sacrosanct, and failing system, this entire budget fiasco might have been avoided.
Please direct your anger or dissatisfaction in the right direction . . .
St George, to their credit, skipped the delay, and argument, of "they're not even a city," and went straight to incorporation. Now when St George proposes its own school system, the legislature will have no reason to say "no."
I don't blame parents, whether in Central or St George, for wanting the best for their children's education, and taking steps to make it happen.
We'll never know what may have been, but if the legislature had not taken the chicken $hit approach in refusing Central's school system, choosing instead to protect EBR's sacred, sacrosanct, and failing system, this entire budget fiasco might have been avoided.
Please direct your anger or dissatisfaction in the right direction . . .
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:45 am to Capitalist
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Blame City of St. George.
Your lord and savior MOP was a pile of shite and the world is better with her gone.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:50 am to Capitalist
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This Crap started with City of Central.
I believe Baker went first. 2003. Central in 2005.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 11:56 am to beerJeep
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Your lord and savior MOP was a pile of shite and the world is better with her gone.
For those that don’t know, MOP is Mary Olive Pierson. One of the anti-St George lawyers. I think she was a pile of shite too.
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