BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Parish Government, along with several departments, such as the parish Library, Mosquito Abatement, and Council on Aging, must chart a new course forward after voters rejected Sid Edwards' THRIVE EBR plan.

The Mayor-President wanted to take $52 million from the library to help balance the city-parish budget. Now, the library must secure a new funding source.

"We're going to have to look at our 2026 proposed operating budget, which was already scaled back, and we're going to have to move some things around in that budget because now we're going to have to pay for a new election," EBR Assistant Library Director Mary Stein said.

Some of the repercussions of the library's vote failing could include changes to its book budget and to some program plans for th

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