Bankruptcy is an option. And it’s not up to the CoL to fix.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
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Bankruptcy is an option. And it’s not up to the CoL to fix.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
You mean like the Parish Government at one time?Quote:
Originally Posted by ZoomZoom
Yup. The average voter that thought consolidation meant funds combined so they voted for this mess didn’t do their homework.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
Technically, the two should never be in the same account, or “legally” misappropriated. But…
Can't say I'm shocked. It's time to end the faux consolidated government.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZoomZoom
Goodness knows "consolidated government" has been anything but...Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginCajun77
A lot of money was spent in the early 90's to better connect Congress beyond downtown directly to the Thruway. Now on a road diet so that taxpayer funded progress was undone. Now the City is proposing a road diet for another major arterial roadway, Johnston St.? This makes no sense whatsoever. Beautify it, repair sidewalks, improve lighting and cross walks, OK but don't go crazy. These major arteries need to move traffic, not reduce lanes.
How big or difficult of a process would this be? Is it something that could realistically happen with the right support?Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginCajun77
I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I don’t know about this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZoomZoom
Remember a couple years ago, we voted down a parish tax renewal which revenues were to go to Parish functions: the clerk, the assessor, the sheriff.
When LCG was looking at the lost revenues, the argument was just that: “hey, those are parish functions, and we can’t use city dollars to pay for those parish functions.”
I think a court stepped in and said “not so fast, my friend.”
LCG is in fact the parish and LCG has revenue that will be used to pay for those functions.
I don’t know if they cared where the revenues came from or where the expenditures were going
It was LCG‘s responsibility.
I think this is going to be next to impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginCajun77
Remember a couple years ago when the smarks muscled through the charter changes creating two councils: one city council and one parish council?.
Prior to this, we had one 9 person consolidated council that would vote on things as a single body. And a super majority was six out of nine votes.
Well, with the creation of this new two council system, now you have two votes
And a vote to de consolidate would have to go through BOTH councils.
And here’s the kicker:
Since the super majority is 2/3, in our new way of doing things, you would need 4 out of five members from each body to vote in the affirmative
One body could approve it, but if only three of the five does, it fails.
The city is not in a good position.
12 1/2 million dollars for roads, and 11 1/2 million dollars for drainage.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZoomZoom
This is gonna hurt the city, but crippling for the parish.
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And then local residents are going to be on KATC/KLFY/KADN crying and looking for someone to blame when their home floods or the roads are in terrible condition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajun Monkee