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[facelessjonmoon]

Can't say I'm shocked. It's time to end the faux consolidated government.

How big or difficult of a process would this be? Is it something that could realistically happen with the right support?

[Cajun Monkee]

Bankruptcy is an option. And it’s not up to the CoL to fix.

I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I don’t know about this.

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.

[Cajun Monkee]

Can't say I'm shocked. It's time to end the faux consolidated government.

I think this is going to be next to impossible.

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.

[Cajun Monkee]

And the two parish tax renewals fail in today’s election.

12 1/2 million dollars for roads, and 11 1/2 million dollars for drainage.

This is gonna hurt the city, but crippling for the parish.

[Cajun Monkee]

N/m

[RedTails]

12 1/2 million dollars for roads, and 11 1/2 million dollars for drainage.

This is gonna hurt the city, but crippling for the parish.

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.

[Cajunrunner]

12 1/2 million dollars for roads, and 11 1/2 million dollars for drainage.

This is gonna hurt the city, but crippling for the parish.

As well as the four Constitutional Amendments, in blowout fashion.

Like CajunT said, voters are ____ed and don't trust politicians right now. I, for one, welcome this new-found ____ed offness.

[Cajun Monkee]

I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I don’t know about this.

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.

Realized I had some apples I was comparing oranges to.

The clerk, the assessor, and the sheriff, I’m pretty sure are mandated by the state that parish has to provide.

Drainage and roads (among other things) will theoretically be optional.

Local government doesn’t necessarily have to provide the services, so we wouldn’t be subject to the same funding standards as the three I mentioned.

[ZoomZoom]

Realized I had some apples I was comparing oranges to.

The clerk, the assessor, and the sheriff, I’m pretty sure are mandated by the state that parish has to provide.

Drainage and roads (among other things) will theoretically be optional.

Local government doesn’t necessarily have to provide the services, so we wouldn’t be subject to the same funding standards as the three I mentioned.

You’re close to the answer.

The solution to the unincorporated areas is to make them incorporated. Small towns won’t like that, but they may be in an either or situation in a few years.

[Cajun Monkee]

You’re close to the answer.

The solution to the unincorporated areas is to make them incorporated. Small towns won’t like that, but they may be in an either or situation in a few years.

With the failure to pass those two renewals, I think they’re at that point.

I remember a previous PW worker saying that in the old days, Parish Public Works only paved a few roads and cleaned a few ditches.

They’re not even gonna be able to do that in the not too distant future.

It’s gonna suck to be in the parish