BATON ROUGE - While the city-parish budget is almost always released during the first week of November, this year, it also coincides with a storied tax election. Without passage of the three-part Thrive EBR tax plan, Mayor-President Sid Edwards has said there would be budget cuts throughout the city-parish government.

The proposed city-parish budget shows which departments are expected to get staffing cuts and program cuts.

Following the overview of potential staffing and program reductions, Mayor-President Sid Edwards last week presented the proposed city-parish budget to the East Baton Rouge Metro Council, noting that each department could expect cuts of up to 12%.

Metro Council member Aaron Moak says it's a tough task to work through the budget.

"We've done an analysis of every sing

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