Jackson Jambalaya

Wow. Wonder if the hippies will fall for this trick ?

According to the Ledger ...crawfish is seafood.

So if this passes, who decides on where funds are spent? Is there an over site committee ? Is there language to protect funds from going into the general fund of city?

How do these people that live in Jackson such as Belhaven and in north Jackson Fondren area afford it? I mean multiple kids in private schools they join Tennis club and Jackson CC plus have beach house or Oxford condo
I had my son last 2 years enrolled at Jackson prep
I left that school and now he’s at rankin schools but his classmates mainly lived in Jackson and that surprised me plus they had several siblings at private schools and a 2nd house in Oxford or a beach. It’s crazy I don’t get it. Nice houses ex. My Ortho doctor lives in Belhaven but I can understand how he affords it just not the others
Now they wan to pay more in taxes geez!!!

Belhaven's last gasp-

Don't be so pessimistic. The good news is they'll get to drive or stroll by all the uncollected garbage to vote to tax themselves even more.

That hamburger you are already paying 9.00 for....side of fries 3.60 and a drink 2.99 will now be 11.25 ....4.10.....and 3.25. Dogwood area eateries are charging for damn sides !!! 1.25 for a side of ranch ! And it has all gone down since the election. Fools.

Poor Poor Birkenstock Brigade.... socks and sandals crowd cutting their grass and smoking it

If you rent, guaranteed rent increase.

I can hear the city council right now. “Belhaven don’t need no money, they got they on taxes”.

Have tried searching for it Kingfish but some months back you pub'd Lumumba admitting that he viewed the CID as an opportunity to shift money elsewhere that ostensibly would otherwise be spent in Belhaven. That should be a JJ sticky, if you will, until the election.

### Metro Ad Valorem Millage Rates (2020-2021) ###

Jackson = 69.03 mils (Belhaven 'Blount's Bamboozle' CID rate)

Jackson = 63.03 mils

Canton = 56.32 mils

Edwards = 47.0 mils
Clinton = 41.49 mils

Bolton = 36.3 mils
Flora = 34.5 mils
Byram = 34.1 mils
Brandon = 33.0 mils
---> Current AVERAGE = 32.94 mils <---
Raymond = 30.72 mils

Madison = 28.8 mils
Florence = 28.4 mils
Terry = 27.85 mils
Pearl = 27.5 mils

Ridgeland = 20.03 mils
Flowood = 20.0 mils

Richland = 19.0 mils
Gluckstadt = 12.0 mils

* excludes County & School District

Does anyone really wonder what the funds would be used for?
SECURITY - SECURITY - SECURITY. Democrat thugz have made it dangerous to live there.

If I remember correctly, this additional tax was only available for cities with a population of 150,000+.
What happens to this additional tax when Jackson falls below 150,000?

Based on latest census numbers, More than 5 people are leaving Jackson each day.

@10:37 AM
Many of those 5 are actually succumbing to homocide.

Don't forget that the county will be raising the millage rate for their new jail.

I know what homicide is...kinda afraid to ask what "homocide" is.

@9:53 If you live in a nicer community in Jackson, higher rents can be a good thing. Higher property taxes discourage development of multi-family dwellings and thereby tend to discourage those who would turn the community into what the rest of Jackson has become from moving there.

There are several reasons I am totally against the CID. One was mentioned by 9:57. Lamumba has already publicly said that city funds for the area would be cut back. Another was mentioned by 9:15. Who decides on how the money will be spent? Is this even legal? I understood that the governing body was to be a neighborhood association, which we do not have in Belhaven. What we do have is a self-perpetuating group of self-appointed People who deem themselves our leaders.

Get off of I 55 at the high street exit. On the drive to the hospital, look at the run down, evacuated houses in Belhaven. And they want to voluntarily raise taxes on these houses.

12:56 Did you mean Fortification exit?

How's that Yukon XL treatin' ya these days 'burbite?

Yes, you are correct. But, I am pretty sure you don’t have to be on any particular street in “Belhaven” to witness the blight that is appearing.

1) Does the Mair have any family members who are accountants who can serve as 'Project Manager' over these funds, once commandeered, ah, collected?

2) As these are private funds under municipal control, will Shad have access to the process?

3) If 10:27's memory is correct: How many municipalities in Mississippi have 150 thousand residents?

4) Belhaven does not have a Homeowners' Association by any stretch of the definition or imagination - How is this even legal?

Used for security?
The fight between pragmatists and freethinkers on the appropriations is gonna be a gift of entertainment that keeps on givin

The guy who was interviewed on TV tonight (carjacked in January) said it will only cost him $20 per year.

He's voting for the tax.

11:26 : Oh yeah, the community center crowd . But they will want it just outside of the area. You know, where the problem really is.

Why do so many people here absolutely OBSESS on anything Jackson? Makes no sense.