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re: Spanish Town parade could leave Baton Rouge amid city-parish budget cuts
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:07 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:07 pm to UptownJoeBrown
I didnt think it is possible but in some ways BR is more dysfunctional than New Orleans
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Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:10 pm to BU Bear In BR
quote:why not just cross out the middle man and ask the tax payers to donate to the charities.
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
What a dumb statement. “Please fund our parade so we can use our money to give to charity!”
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:29 pm to Capitalist
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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.
Such a lazy argument.
Everyone pays the 1.5% street and sewer sales tax (except on some food and prescriptions that no one pays it on).
There are parish property taxes, usage fees, permit fees, licensing fees, gaming, state funds, and Fed funding for certain projects or covid allocations which account for over 40% of the parish general fund revenue.
BR has its own city courts, police, city prosecutor’s office, city clerks, city constable, and many other services and expenses specific to the city that should not have had shortages covered by the parish sales tax in unincorporated areas. BR also benefits when parish fund events inside the city of BR with the additional city sales tax revenue brought in.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:40 pm to Dantheman504
Why is Spanish Town so reluctant to reduce the amount it sends to charity in order to cover its own security costs?
Maybe we should investigate the connections of Spanish Town leadership to these charities. There might be no connection at all. But we should make sure.
Maybe we should investigate the connections of Spanish Town leadership to these charities. There might be no connection at all. But we should make sure.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:41 pm to BU Bear In BR
Never been to this parade in my life, but it's pretty pathetic if the city can't come up with $50k. I've seen go fund me raise more than that.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:41 pm to ronniep1
Your post was far too rational for this forum, sir.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:50 pm to BU Bear In BR
Could leave? Haha. Where exactly would they go?
Each float pays $1000 more for entry into the parade and magically they have security that isn’t paid for by taxpayers. It’s not rocket science.
Each float pays $1000 more for entry into the parade and magically they have security that isn’t paid for by taxpayers. It’s not rocket science.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:50 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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the city-parish has paid for security for the parade for the past 45 years.
How much sales tax revenue will the City of Baton Rouge lose in just one day by not providing security for a parade.
Lots of food and alcohol sold on those days.
Just sayin'
Posted on 12/4/25 at 12:51 pm to Capitalist
Posted on 12/4/25 at 1:16 pm to BU Bear In BR
I was involved a little with Spanishtown via a Krewe in the early 2000s. Every year the parade bought and donated barricades to the parish and police. No one knows where the barricades are, sold lost, stolen. Now the parish wants money.
I was not aware that they ever did not pay for the police either. EBR is going cut their nose off here and will end up with no parades.
Zachary, Central and St. G going to feast on the utter failure that Broome and the McCollister/Manship/lipsey cabal. Welcome to Detroit of the south.
Everything the St. G organizers said about EBR was correct.
I was not aware that they ever did not pay for the police either. EBR is going cut their nose off here and will end up with no parades.
Zachary, Central and St. G going to feast on the utter failure that Broome and the McCollister/Manship/lipsey cabal. Welcome to Detroit of the south.
Everything the St. G organizers said about EBR was correct.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 1:24 pm to F1y0n7h3W4LL
Just cut out the city-provided security for LSU games and keep the Mardi Gras parades, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Live After Five, Blues Fest, etc.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 1:26 pm to Dantheman504
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Sounds like they need to send 50k-75k less to their charities and non profits this year.
How much money in sales tax does the city parish reap off the parades running downtown?
The parades may not have covered the cost of the security but the parish made bank in sales tax. Revenue.
And they sold all the barricades or did something corrupt with them.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 1:34 pm to winkchance
quote:
How much money in sales tax does the city parish reap off the parades running downtown?
The parades may not have covered the cost of the security but the parish made bank in sales tax. Revenue.
And they sold all the barricades or did something corrupt with them.
What's going on here is targeting things people will get upset about to manipulate the public.
Be honest about where the budget problems are and why.
Someone told me the Department of Public Works is out of funds... well, that's an important department if people value things like roads and sewage. How did it get to that point, exactly? Who would vote against a millage to directly fund the Department of Public Works?
Posted on 12/4/25 at 2:51 pm to Capitalist
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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.
Ma'am, please close your legs. Your pussy stinks.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 3:00 pm to BU Bear In BR
Where would they threaten to move it?
Posted on 12/4/25 at 3:47 pm to BU Bear In BR
quote:
Spanish Town parade could leave Baton Rouge amid city-parish budget cuts
Good riddance. NOLA has openings.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 3:48 pm to winkchance
quote:
How much money in sales tax does the city parish reap off the parades running downtown?
State gets 5% city gets the rest. None goes directly to the police budget so the department relies on the mayor to reimburse out of the general fund for these events.
I question the financial impact local events truly have when food is tax exempt. Even if a parade brings 5 million that’s still only 250k in local tax and I would guess that half that 5 million would be food so now your at 125k When you put 75k for police overtime it’s 50k Not sure DPWs clean up fee.
But as far as the city goes it’s probably a financial push.
The benefit really goes to local merchants who profit off selling the food, gas, hotel rooms etc. also having and keeping traditions is important.
I’m sure a go fund me could raise the fees to pay for security if they went that route.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 3:53 pm to Capitalist
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Blame City of St. George
Blame Kip and Broome, they're to blame
Posted on 12/4/25 at 4:14 pm to BU Bear In BR
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Spanish Town parade could leave Baton Rouge
The parade is nothing if it doesn't roll down Spanish Town Road. Most of the fun of Spanish Town Parade are the day-long parties within Spanish Town itself.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 4:39 pm to BottomlandBrew
Have all the business along the route and benefit from the parade pitch in to cover the $50-75k.
If there’s a raising canes along the route that’s open ask Mr billionaire to fund it.
Have all the churches in BR pay property tax for one yr.
There’s endless ways to fund this. And F the organization director for loosely threatening to move the parade
If there’s a raising canes along the route that’s open ask Mr billionaire to fund it.
Have all the churches in BR pay property tax for one yr.
There’s endless ways to fund this. And F the organization director for loosely threatening to move the parade
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