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Feasibility, in today's post.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As you're reading this, in the filth choked furnace rooms and dark satanic mills of the NYCEDC, acolytes of the Real Estate Industrial Complex are working feverishly on the feasibility plan for the decking of the Sunnyside Yards. Syncopated, hammers are smashing out imperfections in the armor plating of their unholy works. Armies are at work, happily consuming the roughly two million dollars which have been allocated to their studies. At the end of the process, hordes of their making will emerge from the EDC's subterranean vaults, proclaiming that a new order has been achieved, and all of New York's problems will be solved by the fruits of their labor.
Housing will be made affordable, transit and other municipal services will be abundant and available, and the children of Queens will be assured a bright future. A great darkness will be conquered, and prosperity will spread through the land. In their keeps and towers will wizards and oligarchs rejoice, for Queens will be saved by those for whom the warren of lower Manhattan is a paradise.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The grand obfuscation, of course, will arrive when the Mayor's office announces that the feasibility study of the EDC has made recommendations that City Hall must follow. The inheritors of Tammany will omit the fact that the NYCEDC, or New York City Economic Development Corporation, is not some independent or autochthonous entity. Pretense that the board of the EDC is not composed entirely of political appointees from the Mayoral and Gubernatorial mansions, or that it's ranking staffers are not in fact just awaiting their turn at either electoral or corporate fortune, will be offered.
Not mentioned either will be the fact that the current so called "Progressive" Mayor of New York City has merely adopted the policies and projects of a predecessor whom his fringe coalition demonized, and that the decking over of the Sunnyside Yards was and is the personal passion of Michael Bloomberg's "aide de camp" Daniel Doctoroff.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The coming of the darkness, an era when Sunnsyide will be referred to as "Shadowside" nears. One has been vocal about the opinion that sometime during the 21st century, at least some portion of the gargantuan rail yard found here in Western Queens will likely be decked over. The despoiled bureaucrats of Lower Manhattan have indicated to me, and others, that the decking will likely happen in three stages – a sort of creeping metastases which will begin with the section between LIC's 21st street and Queens Plaza. This is the narrowest part of the Sunnyside Yards, incidentally, a part of the project which will be cheaper to accomplish than the sections abutting Northern Blvd. and Sunnyside.
During this last Summer, a meeting with the crew of loathsome sentience who are conducting the study began with a humble narrator slamming a box of donuts down on the table in front of them. I stated "when somebody comes to my house, I serve cake." They did not know what to make of this, nor the unremitting hostility with which they were greeted. At one point during the meeting, I asked a high ranking member of the team to stop smiling, as it was freaking me out and there is absolutely nothing worth smiling about regarding this existential threat to the health and well being of Queens.
To their minds, the decking of the Sunnyside Yards represents a solution. To those of us who live in, and love, Western Queens – they are the coming of darkness and destruction, a barbarian horde sent to loot our communities and whose mission is to steal the sky and blot out the sun itself.
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A possessed train?
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Famously, your humble narrator has a somewhat encyclopedic knowledge of the location of every single hole in the fencing surrounding the Sunnyside Yards which is large enough to stick a camera lens through. The Amtrak people patch these lapses all the time, but others will just spontaneously appear. It's kind of a cat and mouse situation, but given that the Yards sit between HQ and My Beloved Creek, one spends a lot of time walking back and forth past the titan facility and I do so enjoy taking pictures of rolling stock.
One particular chunk of our national railroad infrastructure caught my eye the other day – specifically Amtrak engine 631, which seemed to be possessed or something. It's actually a bit of newish kit for them, btw. God help me for the fact that I know this.
from wikipedia
The Siemens ACS-64, or Amtrak Cities Sprinter, is an electric locomotive designed by Siemens Mobility for use in the northeastern United States. The first 70 locomotives built are to operate on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) and the Keystone Corridor, replacing the railroad's existing fleet of AEM-7 and HHP-8locomotives. The first Amtrak ACS-64 entered service in February 2014; deliveries will last until 2015. SEPTA Regional Rail will receive an additional 13 locomotives for commuter service in 2018.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Notice how its "eyes" seem to glow red with fiendish intent? How the engineering of the thing's leading edge seems to suggest angry eyes? Imagine having this thing bearing down on you while it was thundering down some lonely trackway in the woods of upstate NY. Something wicked this way comes, indeed.
It would be chilling, I would imagine, having those red demon eyes fix their gaze upon you as it races through the North East Corridor at 125 mph.
from wikipedia
The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is an electrified railway line in the Northeast megalopolis of the United States. Owned primarily by Amtrak, it runs from Boston through New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore to Washington, D.C.
The corridor is used by many Amtrak trains, including the high-speed Acela Express, intercity trains, and several long-distance trains. Most of the corridor also has frequent commuter rail service, operated by the MBTA, Shore Line East, Metro-North Railroad, New Jersey Transit, SEPTA, and MARC. Several companies run freight trains over sections of the NEC.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Amtrak's Acela Express engine 2000, in comparison, seems like it would be quite a friendly locomotive, although it's general outline is somewhat reminiscent of the Toho studios "Kaiju" monster and frequent Godzilla sparring partner that is called Mothra (while still in its larval phase, of course).
from wikipedia
The Acela is certified with a top speed of 165 mph (266 km/h) and reaches a maximum of 150 mph (241 km/h) in regular service. The Acela Express is the only service in North America that exceeds the U.S. Department of Transportation's 125 mph (201 km/h) definition of high speed rail. The Acela achieves an average speed (including stops) of 81.7 mph (131 km/h) between Washington and New York, and an average speed of 66.9 mph (108 km/h) from Washington to Boston.[68] The average speed from New York to Boston is a slightly faster 69.8 mph (112 km/h). The average speed for the entire length excluding stops is 84 mph (135 km/h). Its maximum speed limit is 150 mph (241 km/h) on three sections of track totaling 33.9 mi (55 km) in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Lamentably, there is a lack of folkloric tale telling about the various light and heavy rail lines that transit through Western Queens. Other parts of the country tell richly ornamented tales about ghost trains and haunted rail cars. Along the Metro North tracks that feed into Manhattan via the Spuyten Duyvel bridge, there are stories of a ghostly steam locomotive, for instance.
You seldom hear tell of a haunted Subway or station, although some describe the appearance of the 7 along the elevated tracks in Sunnyside with hushed voices and describe it with an air of dread expectation.
from wikipedia
On June 13, 1915, the first test train on the IRT Flushing Line ran between Grand Central and Vernon Boulevard – Jackson Avenue, followed by the start of revenue service on June 22. Over the next thirteen years, the line was extended piece by piece to its current form between Times Square and Flushing – Main Street, after the former opened on March 14, 1927. Express service started in 1917. The service on the Flushing Line east of Queensboro Plaza was shared by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation from 1912 to 1949; BMT trains were designated 9, while IRT services were designated 7 on maps only. The 7 designation was assigned to trains since the introduction of the front rollsigns on the R12 in 1948.
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Twirling, ever twirling.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The affability of recent climate has seen me visiting old haunts and novel locale alike in recent weeks, which might be described as having been a somewhat pleasurable set of experiences. That would mean, of course, that your humble narrator was actually capable of experiencing a sensation called "pleasure." A series of dull events punctuated by occasional gastro-intestinal distress, all sorts of bacterial and viral infections, and the oft bizarre actions of others is the way one such as myself describes "Life."
One bright spark in the otherwise gathering clouds of existential horror which plague me are unexpected moments of serendipity.
A train passing by can excite one endlessly, and reminds that "you have to appreciate the little things."
In my case, it's big things that go "thruuummmm thruuuuuuummmm thruuummmm" or "claaacckkclaaacckkclaaacckk" as they pass by, but I'm all 'effed up.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Good days are ones where I'm not walking to go anyplace in particular. Days when I leave the house and decide only which compass point to walk toward. For some reason, its not east that often, as that's usually looking into the light. Instinct always points my path towards water, no matter where I am. It was kind of interesting finding myself in Queens Plaza, which I used to inhabit back in 2009 and 2010 during the Queensboro Bridge Centennial period but which I mainly cross through these days on my way to someplace in Brooklyn or Hunters Point.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Luckily, Our Lady of the Pentacle had agreed to visit the Brooklyn Grange roof top farm here in Astoria with a friend of ours who subscribes to their CSA program and I tagged along. While they picked up some quality produce, I got busy with the camera. Serendipity at work, when I woke up that morning, seeing this vista overlooking the Sunnyside Yards and the Shining City of Manhattan was not on the menu.
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All of my trains are filthy.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
One has mentioned the Train Washing Station at the Sunnyside Yard before, in this post from june of last year. Recently, while walking the camera about one evening, happenstance brought me to the Train Washing Station just before sunset as a dirty locomotive arrived.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Unfortunately, all I had on me was my wide angle lens (I wasn't anticipating this sort of thing, instead, my mission for the evening had involved shooting indoors) so these shots didn't allow me to get right up next to the engine. Normally, I've got the equivalent of a 150mm with me all the time, but a humble narrator has been trying to travel a bit lighter this summer.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The photo bag has swelled out to outlandish proportion in the last year or two, with multiple lenses and strobes. One enjoys having the widest range of options, of course, but carrying ten pounds of glass across the concrete devastations wreaks havoc upon my fragile spine and aging musculature. Unless I know I'm going to need the full Monty – I leave most of it at home these days, and try to travel about with just one lens.
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There are two Newtown Creek walking tours coming up.
Saturday, July 26th, The Insalubrious Valley of the Newtown Creek
With Atlas Obscura, lunch included, click here for tickets and more info.
Sunday, July 27th, Glittering Realms
With Brooklyn Brainery, lunch included, click here for tickets and more info.
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Your motive is loco, man.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
So few places to go, no one to see. The gray frigidity has me down, lords and ladies, and it is not impossible that over the last few weeks, I've watched everything on Netflix- including a couple of episodes of "Power Rangers Jungle Fury." Playing with the cords on my hoodie, counting the floor tiles, bored. That's me. Cabin Fever, I think they call it.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Been reading lots of good stuff, including a marathon exploration of the dissimilar topics of leprosy and the genetic consequences of multi generational incest- both of which led to the Hapsburgs. None of this relates one little bit to the history of Newtown Creek nor Queens, which actually has been my intention. Little projects like mine tend to drag you down a long drill hole, and you become so focused that you lose sight of the bigger picture… which somehow includes leprosy and incest.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Its cheerier reading than I normally do during this time of year, when my google searches have historically included "stages of putrefaction of cadaver" and "common practices of yeast distillation in 19th century america." Hey, a guy gets curious about things. Its better to know something, well… some things… than to remain willfully ignorant about unpleasantries.
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Today's post shows you how to wash a dirty locomotive.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Hanging about and walking around Queens with a friend one afternoon, our path carried us up Skillman Avenue and past the gargantuan Sunnyside Yards. Luckily, something I've been trying to catch as it happens began to happen when Amtrak 934 sauntered into view.
from wikipedia
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) completed construction of the yard in 1910. At that time Sunnyside was the largest coach yard in the world, occupying 192 acres (0.78 km2) and containing 25.7 mi (41.4 km) of track. The yard served as the main train storage and service point for PRR trains serving New York City. It is connected to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan by the East River Tunnels. The Sunnyside North Yard initially had 45 tracks with a capacity of 526 cars. The South Yard had 45 tracks with a 552 car capacity.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It seems that there is an entire industrial sector for whom the manufacture and maintenance of "train washes" is a focal point. It also seems to be the case that having a shiny clean locomotive pays a dividend in terms of aerodynamic drag and that the cleaner your train is, the more efficiently it runs.
from wikipedia
The AEM-7 is a twin-cab B-B electric locomotive that is used in the United States on the Northeast Corridor between Washington DC and Boston and the Keystone Corridor between Philadelphia and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. They were built by Electro-Motive Division from 1978 to 1988. In the Boston Mechanical Department of Amtrak they are known as "Meatballs" and in the Washington Mechanical Department they are known as ASEAs since some of their major parts and components were designed in Sweden by ASEA (Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget; translation: General Swedish Electrical Inc), which merged with Brown Boveri in 1988 forming ABB. They are also referred to as "toasters" by railfans, owing to their boxy appearance.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
One is informed by railfans that once upon a time, this was a tedious task accomplished by a sizable crew of laborers, who used pole mounted brushes to clean away the grime. The "modern" system (the unit pictured is somewhat archaic by 2013 standards) is far more efficient and highly automated.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Fundamentally, its the same thing that happens when you wash your car, except for scale. The train rolls past water jets and a system of rotary brushes which chip away the patina of dead insects and grime which the train picks up during normal operation.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
This train wash is nothing new, of course, and has been on my radar for awhile. Were my methodology the same that is employed by most, I would have just lingered around this spot until I got my shots, but that's not how your humble narrator rolls.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Instead, if its not happening while I'm passing by, it might not have happened at all for all I care. You can't force Queens into revealing herself to you, instead, you must trust in serendipity and that she will position you in the right place and at the right time.
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Want to see something cool? June 2013 Walking Tours-
The Poison Cauldron– Saturday, June 15, 2013
Newtown Creek walking tour with Mitch Waxman and Atlas Obscura, tickets now on sale.
Kill Van Kull– Saturday, June 22, 2013
Staten Island walking tour with Mitch Waxman and Working Harbor Committee, tickets now on sale.
The Insalubrious Valley– Saturday, June 29, 2013
Newtown Creek walking tour with Mitch Waxman and Newtown Creek Alliance, tickets now on sale.
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– photo by Mitch Waxman
Happy Monday Newtowniverians, and a healthy one is wished for all the Brooklynites and Queensicans out there.
Today's post displays a couple of interesting shots I managed to grab before a meeting held at LaGuardia Community College for the Newtown Creek CAG.
This CAG is a sort of advisory/community group which has formed up around the edges of the EPA Superfund project. The CAG is a requirement for EPA, and they periodically convene a meeting to inform us about their activities and overall status of the process.
from epa.gov
A Superfund Community Advisory Group (CAG) is made up of members of the community and is designed to serve as the focal point for the exchange of information among the local community and EPA, the State regulatory agency, and other pertinent Federal agencies involved in cleanup of the Superfund site.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
In this meeting, during which a presentation from the NYC DEP was offered describing a forthcoming dredging project on Newtown Creek, discussion of various issues surrounding the Superfund project between Federal officials and community representatives was offered. Everyone else in the room was a lettered professional or community leader or of high professional caliber, representing every conceivable office, power, and potentate involved in the Newtown Creek story.
Then there's me, who kept on having his attention drift over to the Sunnyside Yard and the fantastic views of it at rush hour which I wasn't photographing.
from newtowncreekcag.wordpress.com
Newtown Creek CAG membership is structured on a rolling basis. The Superfund process on Newtown Creek will take many years, and interested stakeholders are encouraged to become CAG members as they learn of and want to fully participate in the process.
The CAG is designed to serve as an ongoing vehicle for information-sharing, discussion, and, where possible, consensus-building regarding decision-making related to the Newtown Creek Superfund Site. Its members represent a diverse cross-section of key stakeholder interests, including affected property owners, concerned residents, local governments, community groups, environmental groups, health experts, the business community, and others as appropriate. Requirements and responsibilities for CAG members are described in the CAG's Operating Procedures, posted in the Resources tab.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
An odd duck, even after all these years, it is so strange to think that someone like me is even allowed in the building let alone invited to participate and offer both questions for correct answering and contribute direct observations of obscure places being discussed. The folks at EPA have shared some of their early findings, which have greatly excited the scientific minded and fired the imaginations of those who imagine a "greener" city. Check out the CAG site for details.
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While some of you are getting ready for SDP, San Diego, I will not be joining you this year. Granddaughters high school graduation comes first. But wherever a group gathers to paint and shop, it's bound to be a "WONDERFUL" time. Have fun you all.
Registration for Creative Painting 2017 is ready to go and below are my two projects chosen for classes next year. I do hope to see some returning faces from my hydrangea classes last year, as COUNTRY MORNING BEAUTIES is a companion project. And these morning glories have the same palette as the hydrangeas. The second project COUNTRY RED, WHITE AND BLUE is a still life with crockery, an old graniteware bowl and blueberries. On both projects you will learn to shade and highlight without floating and learn to control your darks and lights in a much softer way. The dates for 2017 are 2/26 - 3/3. Registration is open - so hurry and be one of the first to sign up!!!!
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Baton Rouge Metro Council member Ryan Heck is continuing to rail against the city-parish's efforts to bring the Mall of Louisiana into the city limits of Baton Rouge. In a statement posted on his Facebook page late Thursday night, he accused the city of living beyond its means and feeding itself by dipping into the "cookie jar" of the unincorporated areas.
Heck told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on Thursday that city-parish officials are in talks with the mall and with Baton Rouge General Medical Center to annex their properties into the city. That move would have a major impact on the proposed incorporation of the city of St. George. The mall, currently in the unincorporated area proposed to be the new city, is a major tax revenue generator, so both the city and St. George want it in their boundaries.
In his Facebook post, Heck described five "buckets" of money in the parish: One each for the city of Baton Rouge, Baker, Central, Zachary, and East Baton Rouge Parish. The city of Baton Rouge has too many employees for its size and "can't pay for its lifestyle," so it dips annually into the "East Baton Rouge Parish" bucket and takes tens of millions of dollars, he said.
He's referring to the local services agreement between the city and parish. That agreement, signed in 1991, sets up a structure under which a percentage of money -- $52.4 million in 2014 -- is transferred from the parish's side of the budget to the city budget each year.
City-parish officials have described the agreement as an "accounting allocation." Finance Director Marsha Hanlon said in January that the city had excess revenue for many years that was used to support growth in the unincorporated areas. But as growth shifted to the unincorporated areas, the revenue from the unincorporated areas also grew and was needed to support the city. (For more on the local services agreement, click here).
William Daniel, chief administrative officer for Mayor Kip Holden's office, would not comment Friday on the annexation issues.
Heck says that the St. George effort would "relabel" the East Baton Rouge Parish bucket, preventing the city from using as much of that money.
If the city-parish annexes the mall, in an effort to put that tax revenue in the city's bucket, Heck says it would cause the St. George Fire Protection District to lose significant amounts of funding. The mall would no longer be providing tax revenue to the fire district -- but the fire district would still have to serve the same number of homes.
"It's offensive that, even with the city of Baton Rouge's hand clearly caught in the East Baton Rouge Parish cookie jar, that they would have the gall to go back for seconds," Heck wrote. "No other city in this parish has the ability to take sweaty handfuls of cash like the city of Baton Rouge does from the East Baton Rouge Parish bucket."
If St. George becomes a city and keeps some of that parish tax revenue for itself, Heck said it wouldn't be the "end of the world" -- that the city would have to reduce its expenses and "simply have to go on a diet."
"I live in the city of Baton Rouge," he said. "I love this place and I believe St. George may be the only thing to save the parish from the dysfunction that is the city of Baton Rouge."
How much revenue the city-parish would lose if St. George were to incorporate is disputed by both sides. A study by LSU researchers, commissioned by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and Baton Rouge Area Foundation, found that the incorporation would create a $53 million hit to the city-parish's general fund. That would be significant enough to force the city to cut police and fire services, opponents of the St. George effort say.
The St. George effort, however, argues that the impact would be closer to $14 million.
St. George campaign spokesman Lionel Rainey said leaders of that effort would have more to say on the annexation issue on Monday.
But he said, "we find it odd that in the same week a bill that puts a moratorium on the right for citizens in the St. George area to vote (on incorporation) passes a Senate committee, a story comes out that there's an effort by the City of Baton Rouge to annex, without a vote of the people, major retail centers in St. George."
Meanwhile, Baton Rouge General Medical Center released a statement on the topic Friday afternoon:
"This issue certainly is top of mind for many in our community and we can share that we have been approached by community members from all different perspectives and those discussions have been informative and remain private. Because of where we are located geographically with proximity to the Mall, we will continue to meet with stakeholders, citizens and leaders in the community to gain perspective on the pros and cons of how these plans would impact our patients and community. The needs of our community come first, and our mission will remain at the forefront throughout this research and discussion process. We will certainly continue to research all the details and potential impact to our patients and the many communities we serve throughout East Baton Rouge and our 9-parish region, and there has been no formal recommendation, position or decision on the issue."
Heck's entire post is below:
Buckets of money. That's the easiest way to understand the revenue streams / collection points in EBRP. Money flows into and out of these buckets.
Currently, there are 5 buckets of money.
1.) City of Baker
2.) City of Baton Rouge
3.) City of Central
4.) City of Zachary
5.) Parish of East Baton Rouge
Now, if a revenue generation occurs within any designated city line, that city gets the revenue. If a property is inside of those lines, that city gets the revenue. Inside of that city, some revenues go into the Parish of East Baton Rouge bucket. Like the library, EMS, BREC, and a few others.
When a revenue is generated OUTSIDE of a legally designated city limit, that revenue goes straight to the EBRP bucket.
Still following me?
What is actually going on is this: At the end of the year, the City of Baton Rouge is out of money. By a pretty good amount. Like 50 to 60 million dollars. As they can't go to the Baker, Central, or Zachary bucket, they go to the EBRP bucket to pay for things within the actual borders of the City of Baton Rouge. In all reality, the City of Baton Rouge can't pay for its lifestyle. It costs the city more per cop and more per fireman than any other place in the parish. We have one of the highest ratios of city workers to number of residents in the nation.
Now, I'd like to explain a little about annexation vs incorporation. Both are legal rights in our state constitution and our local plan of government. But there's a fundamental difference.
The Saint George effort isn't taking, stealing, or borrowing one inch of land from the City of Baton Rouge. They are merely seeking to incorporate areas that are currently not incorporated. Nothing actually moves. An imaginary line is drawn around a legally defined area. What they are doing is attempting to create their own bucket. Maybe more like relabel the bucket that's already theirs, ie the EBRP bucket, as that's where their taxes currently go.
Of course, if they are successful, there will still be EBRP bucket, it just won't be as full.
So we go from 5 buckets currently to 6 buckets. Only here is the rub: City of Baton Rouge won't be able to take from that big fat EBRP bucket. Most of that cash will be on the new bucket of St George, and like the other cities, that cash is off limits.
Annexation, on the other hand, is the transfer of one or more pieces of land from one area to another. Its legal, and has many beneficial uses. However, in this case, the selective annexation of certain areas has a significant impact on the well being of areas that already pay more than their fair share into the bucket.
If St George Fire loses significant amounts of revenue from this potential annexation, it will still have to deliver services to the same amount of homeowners, because the City of BR is just taking some highly selective revenue generating properties, not the proportionate amount of residences that the money pays for fire protection.
CCL, Santa Maria, Jefferson Terrace, etc... They could all see negative impacts if the annexation occurs as is.
It's offensive that even with the City of Baton Rouges' hand clearly caught in the EBRP cookie jar, that they would have the gall to go back for seconds. No other city in this parish has the ability to take sweaty handfuls of cash like the City of Baton Rouge does from the EBRP bucket.
Some would say that the incorporation of Saint George would have a negative impact on the City of Baton Rouge. They are absolutely correct. For too long, the City of BR has been spending recklessly. It needs to be more fiscally conservative. It needs to dial back the size of government.
If Baton Rouge no longer has access to the cookie jar, it will not be the end of the world. It will simply have to go on a diet. It will have to prioritize its spending. Perhaps taxes may have to be raised. Its not impossible. Maybe if we stopped writing checks to people who donate a little money to certain acronyms here in town we could balance the checkbook.
This debate began as a debate about the need for quality public schools. Its clearly now about retaining power, control, and most importantly, money.
I've worked closely with the participants of the Celtic Studios / Costco annexation, and have helped them as much as possible to come into the City of Baton Rouge, as it really makes a great deal of sense that they do so. Half of their property is inside unincorporated EBRP, and the other half in the City of Baton Rouge.
I reached out to the management of the Mall of LA several months back and let them know that I was here to represent them, and would do my best to facilitate their wishes, whether it is to stay unincorporated, or come into the City of Baton Rouge. To date, I have received ZERO input from them.
But make no mistake, the game is afoot.
I live in the City of Baton Rouge. I love this place, and I believe St George may be the only thing to save the parish from the dysfunction that is the City of BR.
How 'bout dem apples?