BATON ROUGE — Mayor-President Sid Edwards' plan to balance the city-parish books with library funds and tax revenue from two other agencies failed across the board Saturday night.

His Thrive EBR plan, laid out in three tax renewals across East Baton Rouge Parish, would have relied on money from traditionally independent agencies to cover a budget shortfall. Voters weren't having it.

With all of the parish's 331 precincts reporting unofficial results, the plan to take $52 million from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library fell by a 53-47 margin. Tapping the Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control agency lost 52-48, and taking money from the Council of Aging failed 51-49.

Edwards had initially proposed having the parish take library funds directly, but an outcry led him and the Metro Council

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