Shane Marler | Livingston Parish Council District 1 Candidate

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to
local leaders of the podcast. This is

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our Listening Up Livingston edition and the
guys that are sitting across from me.

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Mister Shame Marler is running for parish
council, sir, so we're gonna talk

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all about that today. What district
are you running in? District one,

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which is Jeff ARD's current district.
Got you, He's running for parish president.

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So I wasn't going to run against
Jeff just does a fine job,

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and I wasn't going to run against
him. So since he's moving up,

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I figured it, Hey, I
could step up and help try to make

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a change. You get our Paris
together, very good, very good.

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And so before we get into kind
of you know what changes you hopefully can

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bring to the council, I want
to talk a little bit about your history

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here in Livingston, Paris. Were
you were you born in this area?

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Now? I was actually born in
Baton Rouge, Okay, North Baton Rouge

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to be specific. Got you,
I was probably seven, we moved to

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Central Okay. I lived in Central
till I was eighteen, and I moved

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out here in nineteen eighty eight.
Got you moved to denthalm yep. And

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I've been out here ever since.
Yeah, I see that's thirty plus years

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you've been out in this area.
What do you do now for a living

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and how do you make your way
in life? So I'm a general contractor.

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I was a union I and worker
back when I was younger. Yeah,

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I traveled. I worked to East
Coast and Midwest and got in when

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a demolition company did a lot of
demolition work. Okay, really frugal with

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my money. I mean I grew
up poor. Sure when my dad always

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talking to be frugal with my money, and he said today, how much

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you make, how much you save? And that's always just stuck with me.

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Okay, got you. So when
I was off working, I saved

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money and I lived in amble home
and in an area. And as I

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saved money, it was a bunch
of older people lived there. Well,

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I would go, you know,
I was friends with all of them.

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Sure, hey we're you know,
our family don't love whatever. You know

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how old people get. So I
would buy their places with them living in

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them, pay them the money and
when they look, when you die,

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it's mine and until then it's yours. And yeah, and I bought that's

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how I started. So, look, I own several properties. Now yeah,

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a lot of properties actually, but
it's been a good blessing, let

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me say it that way. Yea. But now, so I'm a general

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contractor. I have commercial residential license. I mainly build custom homes for people.

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You have your lot, Hey,
Shane, I got plans or I

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need plans. I want to I
want you to build me a house.

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Yeah, And I come and I
price it out, and we get through

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the process and I build you a
nice home, very good, very good,

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and dream homes and some absolutely races. I'm sure my sluggan for my

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businesses come home. The quality very
good and love it, love it.

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Sluggans are important. People don't realize
how important a slugan is, but they

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matter. And you know, you, how did you get into that from

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iron work? And did it just
kind of fall in your lap or it

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didn't. So my dad and my
uncles were all iron workers, and we'd

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go to the union hall for the
meetings once a month. Yeah, right

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where it's at, and look,
I'd see them old guys. I thought

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they were old. You know,
I was in my twenties. It's probably

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sixty. And they all hunched over
walking in there, and I'm like,

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what's wrong with them? Like,
you know, just I was young and

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didn't you know, I was strong
and didn't really understand what they had been

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through in their life. Now that
I'm older, I know exactly what was

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wrong. Their back and neck was
war out from being an iron worker.

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Yeah. So, around thirty years
old, I realized, man, this

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is a young man's game. Is
I can't keep doing this? Yeah?

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So, and I was traveling.
I wasn't married. I didn't get married

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till I was thirty and traveling as
a single man's game. Okay, you

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can't be married and drag a family
around the country because you Pennsylvania today,

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Boston tomorrow or whatever. You can't
do that, right. So when I

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got married, I come here locally
to work, but there wasn't any structural

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iron work to do here. He
was a maintenance person. Yeah, and

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looking, I'm not a maintenance person
at a planet. I didn't like being

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around the chemicals, right, So
look, I took a pay cut and

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went to work for cocks Cave.
Yeah. Like I was making thirty dollars

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an hour. I went to make
ten dollars an hour when I started.

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But it's what I had to do, that's right. So and looking no

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time at all. If I would
have known when I was eighteen what I

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knew when I went to work at
Cox, I'd went to work at Cox

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instead of ironwork, Right, that's
the best gig in town, a cable

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company. And I'm not advocating cocks
or whoever, but look, it's an

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easy job. Yeah, but the
hard work I've done in my life to

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go do that. And it's all
young kids. I'm like, look,

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I better sucked this job up for
the rest of your life. This is

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a gravy train. Absolutely. So
I've worked at Cox. I was cabled

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installer and I got to be a
service tech. Then I got in and

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I was locator, Like you called
eight one one of the market lines.

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Well, I got in with That's
all I did. Was located at cable

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lines for and it was four of
us. We all had certain areas.

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Yeah. Well I realized that,
man, everybody's calling this new houses.

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Yeah, so I was at a
new house. I mean I was at

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a new house every day, but
I would go to the same house six

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times during the process. Yeah.
So just so happened lakes at Finnwood and

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walker across from off a Duff road. I bought a lot. Friend of

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mine was a builder's dad is a
building with best friends. He said,

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you come, come build your house
and there I'll help you build it.

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I'll tell you how to build it. So that's how I got started building

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houses. And I built a personal
house for me and I'm like, still

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worked the cocks building houses. So
I built a house and I bought a

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lot behind it. Yeah, so
lived in this house, built another house,

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got my builder's license, because you
know, you can't build houses and

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have them for sell with our license. It's the law, right, So

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I when got my residential builder's license, didn't have my commercial license. In

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have my residential license. And the
way I started, I would live in

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one, have one going, have
them both for sale, and never not

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happened that they bought the one we
always lived in. Yeah, we moved

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six times in one year. Well
and look at a point my wife said,

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look tired of moving and it had
gotten so bad that I would sell

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furniture, shower curtains, everything but
our personal clothes. I would sell with

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a house. Yeah, and that's
just how I would go. And look,

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they would buy the one we were
in because it was decorated. They

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could see it, right the one
I'm building a lot of people don't have

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the vision to see it, so
they would always buy the one we were

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in. We would negotiate, Hey, I need six weeks and I'm would

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move into the other one. Yeah, And it was just a process.

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And finally, while I said,
look I'm tired of moving, they were

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great. So I kicked out one
of my tents and the trailer that me

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and my wife lived in when we
first got married, and we moved back

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into that trailer for two years.
And this was right around Katrain And look,

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I was still building houses. Yeah, and look, Cox had kind

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of got in corporate corporate America on
me, and I I just look,

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you know what, I'm gonna build
houses for a living. Yeah, And

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that's where I went. So started
building houses. And then you know,

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you have to do continual education and
this kind of stuff, so the way

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around. And look, not that
it would cost me anything else with vendors

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to give it to you, but
it's the time aspect of it. Like

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I didn't have I don't even I
don't even know the requirements anymore, because

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well, I believe it or not. I used to teach architects. Uh

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see, well I would teach classes
for them to get see credits. A

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lot of them were designed related and
in interior design related. But yeah,

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it's it's something in order to keep
up with your license that you have to

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do. And they were free classes. But it was an opportunity time for

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me to pitch myself as well,
you know, when I was in that

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career. So what I did as
I got my commercial license, because if

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you're a commercial contractor, this is
how kind of messed up the system is.

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As a residential contractor, you have
to have general liability, workers comp

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insurance. As a commercial contractor,
you don't have to have the general liability

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or the workers comp and they you
don't have to do continuing education and it

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precludes the residential side. So I
got it cost me a hundred dollars a

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year from my commercial license, But
that hundred dollars to me is worked not

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having to go spend half a day
or a full day doing their education classes.

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Yeah, so that's how I got
my commercial license. And look it

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progressed to where I do a lot
of work in East Feliciana, And look

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I've gotten in up there. It's
a different niche of people up there,

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and they're real close knitted and once
you once, once you earned their trust,

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man, they're going to refer you
to everyone. Yeah, and that's

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what kind of happened. And I
do small commercial up there. I do

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a little small commercial here, but
I don't really push my commercial side as

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much as I could. I mean, I'm a one man's show and I've

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learned that I could do a lot
of things. But I really enjoy building

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houses and for me to be really
good because I'm I'm I'm very specific on

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detail things to be to be the
person I am, I can't do thirteen

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different things. Yeah, I Look, I have a real estate license because

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I list my houses that I build. But I don't if you call me

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up and say, hey, I'm
looking for a house to buy, man,

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I'm probably not gonna I'm I'm gonna
refer you to someone. I'm not

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gonna try to sell you a real
estate Yeah, I'm I save the listing

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aspect of listing a new home is
the reason I have a real estate license.

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And look, I do those continue
with education classes, but I can

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do them online at doing at the
end of the year and just blow them

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out the way. So I am
a real estate agent, residential and commercial

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builder, and a landlord own multiple
rental properties. Now yeah, very good,

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very good. And at some point
you decide you're gonna run for counseling,

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and so let's let's kind of get
into that. And I guess the

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first question right out the gate would
be why run for counseling? Why it

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seems like you're a busy guy.
You got you know, as my wife

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would put it, you know,
she used to tell me, you need

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another thing to do, like I
hold you head that's absolutely and uh so

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why why add that to your plate? And look, I had a lot

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of people asked me when I told
them that I was gonna run. They

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said, man, why do you
want this headache? Yeah? I mean,

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are you crazy? And we know
you're crazy, but sure, are

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you really this crazy? So you
know, I go to the council meetings.

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I'm engaged. I know what's going
on in my parish and look,

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I look at a lot of the
things that's going on, and look,

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there's a lot of good things to
can't current council that they do? Sure

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we are, we are under the
home rule charter. Now we're not a

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police jury system anymore. Right,
And look, it's real hard being a

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council member when you have a constituent
call you, hey, my coverts backed

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up and I got water when it
rains. My house is fixing a flood.

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It's real hard for that council person
not to want to go out there

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and unplug their covert. That's right. And that used to be kind of

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what happened when it was a police
jury says that's that's a police jury job.

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Now it was the Home Rule Charters
DPW's job. Yeah. Now,

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look they may be backed up,
busy, it may be a six week

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wait, I don't I don't know
all the logistics of DPW's aspect. And

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look, I'm just using a covert
part as an example. But the council

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is really supposed to create the laws. Okay. I'm sitting in the audience

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looking at the agenda and watching what's
going on, and look, there's some

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great councilmen there are. I feel
that I can do as good a job,

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probably better, because I'm gonna I'm
gonna tell you, hey, this

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is what this is the problems we
have, and I'm gonna spell them out.

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Look, drainage is a main problem
we have in this parish. You

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polled ten people, eleven of them
is gonna tell you, hey, we

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have a drainage problem. Yeah.
I mean, look, it's just what

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it is. We have funding for
drainage, it's just not being appropriated correctly.

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So I was chairman of the Liveston
Parish Community Drainage Board. So that

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was we had the mayor of all
of any Miss McCanns I believe her name,

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she's a great woman, had it. And look, it was like

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eight or nine as we have some
uh gravity drainage district members on the board,

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and look, we came up with
several really good ideas. Hey we're

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gonna be able to do Look,
and we didn't have any authority to do

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anything. We were just a body
to come up with ideas to help provide

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a solution. Sure, this was
around seventy seventeen or eighteen in that timeframe.

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We're not one you're on the timeframe, but in that area. So

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we had the Watershed Initiatives people come
and look, they gave a great presentation.

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I learned a lot, you know, a lot of the water we

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have here and lives in Parish,
and it comes from other states, comes

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from all the way up in Mississippi
River all the way to the end.

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It does, and it at ice
melts and down it comes correct and look,

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it's it's it's very intristed in every
stream and canal and creek. The

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Watershed Initiative people they have those labeled
and look and I didn't realize this until

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they came and shared it with us. Yeah, and it's almost unbelieves.

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It's really too much to comprehend.
But here in Louisiana, you know,

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we're our own country per se.
You know, we're on a Napoleonic law.

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We're not under the laws as every
other state. But you know,

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we think a certain way with the
way we do things. So when you

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have how the state people showing you
watershed initiative, we're not always receptive to

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hearing things that could help fix our
problems. Now, look, it's a

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state level problem with the funding a
lot of it. I don't have to

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fix for that. Yeah, here
in Livingston Parish, I think the parish

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should have a covered program that they
own the coverts, they provide the covert,

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put the covert in. Don't let
me as a build or don't let

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me, as a homeowner when I'm
building a home go out and put a

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covert in a ditch because you're supposed
to have an elevation shot, they supposed

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to come inspect. None of that
happens. I can put a covert in

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a ditch, not get a permit
and look and it may get checked,

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it may not cover, maybe the
right elevation may not be. But that's

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affecting could it could affect hundreds of
houses upstream. Sure, I'm sure you've

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heard this. I remember on Linda
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digging people's coverts out. Hey,
you gotta buy a cover. Well,

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I can't afford a covert. People
were saying, Well, if you don't

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have, if you don't pay for
one and have it here, we're gonna

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digg your driveway out. Gotta have
drainage. Oh look, that's when you

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buy a piece of property. You
owner from You own from iron steak to

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iron steak, and the ditch is
always on the outside of the iron steak,

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close to the roasty. You don't
own that ditch. How do you

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own that calvert? Yeah, you
know, without that culvert coming in and

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out of your house. Your house
is you can't use it, right,

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So how so technically why should I
pay property taxes on something I can't use?

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Yeah, So for me, the
parish should have a covert program.

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Car hits a covert tears it up. That ain't the homeowners fault. If

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it was set property. Car hits
it tears it up at A parish should

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come and replace that. They should. They should mandate concrete carvers, should

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mandate them go go anywhere that's curb
and gutter. It's usually I'm talking about

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old neighborhood. It's kind the worse
teara they're concrete colverts. They don't deteriorate,

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they don't degrade. They're there.
A lot of the problem down South

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Malapaw area, French Settlement. Man, it drains down there hadn't been a

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dressed in forty years. And back
then they used to use the corrugated metal.

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Well. Look I had some of
them with some properties that's thirty years

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old. Man. Over that time
I was having drainage issues, so I

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dug them up. I dug them
up. No, Look, I couldn't

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even find them. They had rotted, just centiged fall apart. So down

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south, which for me, I
guess being in construction business, it makes

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plenty of sense. But I guess
if somebody didn't know, Like if I

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got a puddle of water to my
yard, I'm not gonna go at that

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puddle the high you know where the
puddles out. I didn't go to my

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ditch. I'm gonna start at my
ditch and cut up to make that water

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drain. My point being, why
don't we start south and clean the ditches

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and come north? Yea, to
make the water drain. I look Lake

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Malapaul, me at River Blind River, they all have issues. They silt

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it in. That's that's getting addressed. That's going to help us tremendously.

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Yeah, but we have to get
the people's ditches to drain into the Koyo

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creeks and in these places to get
it to the aim at river where can

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get out. Absolutely, and you
know there's there's a lot, there's a

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lot of moving parts to that.
Even even from the aspect of the luck

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the average citisen just taking ownership of
I can tell you there's there's very few

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people in this world I hate,
but I hate a litterer. I see

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you throw trash out of your car. That's what I think. You you're

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trash. Uh, you're you're basically
crapping on your own community, for lack

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of a better term. And enough
of that happens that goes in those culverts,

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that goes in those ditches, they
clog up the ditches. Uh.

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You know, there's a lot of
issues with this parish. Look, I've

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been screaming for years. We you
know the fact that we don't have a

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hazardous material drive here once a year
where people can bring their leftover paint and

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they can bring the refrigerators, and
they can bring that are broken, they

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can bring all these things, batteries, all these things that you see dumped

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in these fields. Until we have
that, you're gonna have some problems.

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I looked at it way back in
the day as the biggest issue with drainage

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long term and how to how to
really help it long term is the start

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at the beginning, and starting at
the beginning is the dumping problem and these

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people throwing things in these ditches.
There's ways to accomplish that. Look,

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I was in paint business for twenty
five years. My number one question I

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got, where do I put my
leftover paint? I can't throw it away.

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How do I dispose of it?
Now, with water based paint,

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you can, you can dry it
out. Even oil base you can dry

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out. They make products, But
you can't just throw wet paint in your

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garbage. So what do people do? They dump it in a ditch somewhere

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and throw it out of their car, and that clogs up the ditches and

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that creates a lot of issue as
well. So the size of the culverts

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matter, all of those things.
And and it's a program that that at

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some point needs to get an instituted
because there's nothing here. There's no hazmat

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drive in Livingston, Paris and look
it's it's not even hazmatt per se.

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We need parish wide trash, bulk
trash pick up absolutely. So like Walker,

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my mom and dad live in Walker. Just say they got some limbs

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that fall at their house, and
you cut some limbs on a tree,

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addressed to flower beds, whatever,
you can, put it at the road,

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call the city, they come pick
it up. Yeah, that's part

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that's already included in what you pay
for garbage. Yeah. Now, look,

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our parish, I believe, used
to have bulk parish trash pick up

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one of the things if I'm elected, councilmen, we need to have that

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because just what you said about the
paint or whatever, think about it.

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You see couches, you see mattresses. Guess what, they go into the

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ditch, okay, and they plug
up the culverts or they burn them,

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correct, and something else that happens. And look, it's just it's the

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like when we had the flood,
people put all their debris in the ditches.

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Yep, so I mean, or
it floated there too, I mean,

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you know, but when people were
gutting their houses, that's the place

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they had to put it. Now, look, I'm not condemning that by

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any means, but the public needs
to be educated tremendously on how to prevent

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some of the issues we have with
our drainage. Yeah. Now, look

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a beach blow up ball that gets
blown out of your swimming pool that you're

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playing in the pool, it gets
blown out in the front yard. Look

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I have seen multitudes of those stop
off corbor. Oh absolutely, And look

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yeah that's just how you go pick
the ball about out the ditch. But

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some people that doesn't even resonate with
them that that's gonna plug up my ditch.

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Yeah, So it's an education process
that we need to help our parish

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d and look, we have to
become one parish. We got to quit

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being the east side, west side, north and south. We have to

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become one parish and focus on the
drainage as a whole parish. Right,

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you know, I agree with all
that, and that's it. Those are

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great policies to definitely put in a
plane and something that you would bring to

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the table because you have experience with
that and you you worked on that when

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you were on that drainage board that
you mentioned. Absolutely, but you can

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only do so much. You're you
know, you bring that to maybe a

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council and you just say here,
here's what we've come up with, and

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then it's up to them to enact
that. And so I definitely applaud you

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for throwing your hat in there and
saying, hey, I want to be

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part of the solution because that's important. Now let's talk about more torriums for

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a minute. Always a great subject. You know initially they look, they

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did this a year ago. They
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sixty day deal. They came up
with what I thought was a pretty good

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personally, what I thought was a
pretty good UH ordinance, which was what

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they called one twenty five, which
made UH, you know, building a

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lot stricter from a from a standpoint
of preventing future floods and and trying to

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help with drainage and and things like
that. And I thought it was well

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thought out. I thought they put
it together well, and most importantly,

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I thought the builders UH could look
at that and they could have a roadmap

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of what they needed to do and
all the all that they've asked is that

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they know the rules. And look, the home Builders Association of Greater Baton

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Rouge I actually worked with the council. Yeah, on the one twenty five

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ordinance. Yeah, and look it's
an ordinance set man, it's up here.

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Of it has to be done to
where it was at. Yes,

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I mean it's it's really almost unachievable. I mean it can be achieved,

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don't get me wrong, but it's
not just haphazardly happening. Right. So

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there's only one neighborhood and it's not
completely finished. That's under the new one

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twenty five ordinance. Yeah, it's
up in Watson And look, I want

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to say it's on two acres and
it's got a lake that's almost an acre

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that's the requirement of it. Yeah, so I'm not opposed to a moratorium.

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With everything that's going on here in
Liveston Parish. The new moratorium that

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we're under, I had a problem
with that because it didn't they did not

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identify, Hey, these are the
problems are wanting to fix. This is

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how we're going to fix them,
and this is how long it's gonna take

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this And you just for me,
you just hit the nail on the head.

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And I'll go out and say it. I said this on a podcast.

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I just didn't. I'll say it
again. If you need a year

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to fix that problem, you don't
need to be a council member, you

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don't need to be a counselmer.
It takes you a year to solve that

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problem. You don't need to be
a council member. You need to do

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something else because that you're dragging your
feet. There's a solution. First of

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all, I think one twenty five
was fine the way it was. I

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think it would have fixed a lot
of the issues. And I get it,

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we want to get things zoned and
we want to take a little break,

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and I get that you need a
year that you know when Jeff Ard,

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who recently introduced Incidentally, folks,
if you if you haven't caught up

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on this, they turned down the
year long moratorium. Well, the council

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passed it, the parish president then
vetoed it, and they did not have

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enough votes to override his veto,
so they came up. Jeff r came

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up with another what I would call
more reasonable plan, which was, hey,

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one hundred and sixty days. Two
reasons I like that Number One,

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it's shorter, you get the pause, you need to get zoning in place,

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and you can work with that Villavasso, which is the planner. But

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what I also liked about that is
if you came into the council in January,

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you don't have to then live by
a previous council's rules. If you

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felt like, hey, we need
longer on this, you could vote and

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and take longer extended. But I
think a lot of the council that did

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approve Jeff's plan liked it because hey, we don't want to impose our stuff

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on a new council. They're coming
in here and they can make that decision.

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So that's another thing I liked about
the plan it gives. It'll actually

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end in February, which is about
a month after that new council would tell

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take over and get their feet under
them, because let's talk about this,

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there's gonna be a lot of new
council. Absolutely only three spots or you

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know, as of now, only
three seats are still being I guess fought

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for or whatever. And there's no
guarantee those people will all be voted in.

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You know, maybe they will,
maybe they won't. Assuming they did,

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you still have five six new council
members. So look, I can

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see a lot from experience. I've
been board of director member, I've been

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chairman of nonprofit associations, which runs
similar to a council. It's all Robert

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rules of order and looks. But
by the time, like when you serve

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first vice chair, our second vice
chair, first vice chair, then chairman.

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Well, when you're in there as
chairman, it's for one year on

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these boards, yeah, but your
second vice chair first, so you're three

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years in and look, three quarter
the way into being the chairman, you

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finally the light bulb goes off and
you figure out what's really happening. Yeah,

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so bout the time you figure out
what's happening up. It's time for

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you to leave, that's right.
So with having all new people there,

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we need we need to retain someone
that's been there. Yeah. So hey,

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no, this is how we need
to do things, because you're gonna

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be like a deer in the headlights
up there. And look, even if

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I get elected, I'm not gonna
know every procedural Well, nobody nobody will.

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I mean even guys that have been
in there eight years now don't know.

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You know, you don't. Nobody
knows everything correct. And and but

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what you do bring to the table
that's unique is the majority of what they

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do is construction related, a lot
of it correct in your construction guy.

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Yeah, that's a big difference between
someone you know that's not or has no

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experience in construction, because they have
to learn even the most elementary of things.

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You already know that. And look, and I think this, and

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I've thought this for a long time
now, going all the way up to

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our federal government. I think anyone
that's in an elected position should have have

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to have been a successful small business
owner. Amen, because until you got

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to say, I have employees and
I have to pay them Friday Okay,

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if I don't pay them Friday,
they're not gonna be here money to work.

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And look, if you've got plans
to go camping over the weekend and

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it's up to paying your workers are
going camping, you better not go camping,

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all right, by paying your workers
and not paying yourself. Correct,

407
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:45.640
it's been I've been in that corson
you know. Those are those are real

408
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:52.279
life decisions that puts the rub or
two the road in reality. So as

409
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.920
so the government people we have at
I'm use the federal government because they're out

410
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:02.559
of control with the way they spend
money. Sure, so they don't spend

411
00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:07.400
it like it's their business. They're
running. They just got a blank check

412
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.839
book. Yeah, you know,
it's like they all saying, Oh,

413
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.440
I got checks, I got plenty
of money. I write you a check.

414
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.680
Yeah, well with a small business, guess what, you can write

415
00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.559
that check. But you better go
have money in the bank. Yeah,

416
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:23.039
it's going to cost you. And
that's why I think that it's very important

417
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.000
that people have their heart in the
right place when they run for any office.

418
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.599
Look, treat it like it's yours. Treat it like it's your business.

419
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.480
If you were to get into office
or any anybody else that's running I

420
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:41.160
would tell them treat it like it's
yours. It's your your small business,

421
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:47.839
and you know that way, your
decisions are always going to be weighted towards

422
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:51.720
the you know, the right thing
to do. And I say successful small

423
00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.200
business. Yeah, there's a lot
of people that are in business. Yeah

424
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.359
that as its us. Yeah,
that's right. They live, they live,

425
00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:01.640
they mismanage your money truck and look
the end a business owner in today's

426
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:07.640
world, it's tough, very tough. Look, I've worked for a company

427
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.240
for twenty five years and I'll shout
him out faroky in paint, and I'll

428
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:14.480
tell you one thing about it.
It's one hundred and five year old family

429
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:17.279
in business. And what I learned
from them over those twenty five years,

430
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:22.079
more than anything else, was how
to manage money in business. And they

431
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:27.960
frugal. Now they're frugal, but
they run an amazing business. They're debt

432
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:32.079
free, and and I learned a
lot, and I credited to my survival

433
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:36.920
and what I was doing with my
second life, I guess you could say,

434
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.519
but very important to do that in
government, and it's not done enough.

435
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:45.559
You're absolutely right, it's looked at
as other people's money and look OPM

436
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.920
or whatever. The first ten years
I was in business, I didn't go

437
00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:53.319
on vacation. Yeah, I had
a ten year old truck. Yeah.

438
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:58.000
I was just frugal with my money
because I had to be. I mean,

439
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.519
I was having a shuffle of money. Everybody thinks, hey, you're

440
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.079
a builder man, you're making a
killing. Yeah. I work on about

441
00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.880
an eight percent margin. Yeah is
what I work on. I look,

442
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:13.200
that's unheard of and any other businesses
out there, right, I mean,

443
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.559
and to be honest, if it
wasn't for my rental properties, yeah,

444
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:20.720
I wouldn't build a build a builder. Yeah, I'm not a big developer.

445
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.720
I don't do these big neighborhoods.
I mean I build homes homes.

446
00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:30.039
Yeah, I'm not a tract builder, and I don't develop neighborhoods now.

447
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:32.799
Look, I've done small developments,
three or four lots. I'm not a

448
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:38.960
developer. I enjoy building custom homes
that hey, I build you a home.

449
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:44.400
I've never advertised one time to sell
a home. Yeah. The people

450
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.039
I build houses for refer me.
I haven't been in business twenty five years

451
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:57.119
building bad homes or being a bad
builder. Now, look, because all

452
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.920
it takes is two bad customers and
I might a building really solutely. Yeah.

453
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:05.680
So I mean it's a testament to
what I do. That's right to

454
00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.440
be in business for as long as
I've been a business, and look,

455
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:12.760
I still have a successful business.
Sure, And look I'm not gonna quit

456
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.360
building houses. I'm not building houses
until I die. Sure I enjoy doing

457
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:22.440
it. Yeah, I'm giving people
the most expensive thing they'll ever buy.

458
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:27.199
I take pride in what I do
and it's something they can enjoy and pass

459
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.719
down out their kids. Absolutely,
I agree, one hundred percent. And

460
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:35.880
and it brings a unique, a
unique bit of experience to the council.

461
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.840
Now you've been out there, you've
kind of been campaigning, telling people who

462
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:43.400
you are, getting, making yourself
accessible. What would you say the biggest

463
00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:46.519
concern is from the people that you
talk to. So look, it's two

464
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:51.360
concerns. So first one we've already
talked about is drainage yea. And look

465
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:58.079
there's animal control that I've been hearing
a lot. I have to I don't

466
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:00.639
have a specific plan for control.
I know, I know some of the

467
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:07.159
municipalities have it. We need parish
wide animal control. Yeah, and I

468
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:13.760
agree, And I haven't gotten the
parish budget to look at it to break

469
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.239
the Hey, where where could we, you know, find some money for

470
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.760
animal control. I'm sure because look, I've I've looked at big budgets as

471
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:30.599
well in my career. I'm sure
there's somewhere we could find room to have

472
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:35.440
parish wide animal control. I mean
yeah. And you know one thing that

473
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:39.920
really shocks people is the expense of
those programs are you know, they're millions

474
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:45.000
They're literally millions of dollars, which
surprised me. I well, I'm thinking

475
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.320
on a hundred grand, you know
what, you built a few stalls inside.

476
00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:51.960
Now there's a lot more to that. And and I just did the

477
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.360
the spang and neutering and shot keep
up that you have to do. It

478
00:35:55.480 --> 00:36:02.079
is expensive. The great thing about
where we're at now as a as a

479
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:07.239
as a technology base in the world
is those grants are easier to find.

480
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.079
So you know, even if you
can have someone dig through there and just

481
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:15.679
find that money, find a grant
with a low match or something like that

482
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:20.159
with animal control, wouldn't surprise me
if there's some out there. But it's

483
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:24.880
gonna take some digging and and look, it's it's also important communication between your

484
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:32.559
representatives, your senators, and your
parish council to me is vital. Jeff

485
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.960
talked about that on his podcast It
You know, we've got to get back

486
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:44.639
to communicating with our reps and our
senators because they're the ones that know those

487
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.639
grants before anyone else. They're the
ones that get presented with them. And

488
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:51.880
if you have no communication there,
you may not know they even exist.

489
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.519
If you don't ask, there's so
many of them, your rep may not

490
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:59.920
bring that up to you or your
senators. So h something that I'm glad

491
00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:02.199
you brought up animal control because that's
I've heard a lot of that as well,

492
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:07.840
traffic and drainage and animal control.
And look, we we do have

493
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.559
to getting back to that moratorium.
We have a moratorium. And look,

494
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:15.760
once again, there wasn't Hey,
this is what we're gonna fix, this

495
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:16.599
is how we're gonna do it,
and this is how long. They did

496
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:21.559
put a time frame on it.
But the first two parameters they didn't really

497
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:25.599
address. Yeah, you know,
they're we gotta get zoning and then we

498
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:31.559
got to get planning. Okay,
So I think mister villa Vasso maybe should

499
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:36.920
have said hey, and look not
to get any great detail with anything that

500
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.800
he's given out. But look,
these are the things that we're going to

501
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:45.000
do in this more tourm that we
have. And look, just he had

502
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:49.440
to sell hisself to the council when
they hired him. So what did he

503
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:53.440
sell hisself on? Why Why hasn't
that been addressed to the public at one

504
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:57.519
of the meetings? Yeah, and
look, and I think that would well

505
00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:00.039
that falls under communication, right,
but that would ease a lot of concern.

506
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.480
I like, what what, I
don't know anything about him, and

507
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:12.880
I don't I've heard I've heard you
know, and I agree with you.

508
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:16.159
I have not. I don't know
anything about him personally. I have heard

509
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:22.159
from several different people that that firm
is top notch and and I believe that,

510
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.000
and I think it's that's great,
And I think at the end of

511
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:29.920
the day, working with a planner
needed to be done, especially when you

512
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:35.840
had such a issue the first time
around with District five and their maps and

513
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:38.880
they were all messed up and it
messed zoning up for everybody in my opinion

514
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:45.199
because of that, Uh, you
know, thank god, where we are

515
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:50.559
working with somebody that hopefully can help
speed up that process and fix that process

516
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:57.559
communicate that I own I personally own
someome property and his zoned R one right

517
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.320
now new zoning R one. I
want to say it's one acre lots,

518
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:07.440
they're half acre lots and it's owned
ARE one and then in the same are

519
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:13.320
one es only there's an industrial zoning
in the same subdivision, like it's just

520
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.800
an older neighborhood. So I don't
know how all. I don't know how

521
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.480
this was done. I don't know
if somebody just got a map and started

522
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:24.519
using a highlighter and and and look
at an aerial like you know, yeah,

523
00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:28.880
what's there now, Well, there's
houses are now this needs to be

524
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:35.320
residential. But I don't know how
they cleared that completely. But I know

525
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:39.239
from from my personal experience of what
I own, it's not zoned properly.

526
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:44.119
Yeah, I don't know the channels
to challenge at Yeah, you know,

527
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:49.960
well, and I'll say that I
know with Tracy Gerlinhouse who was someone that

528
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:54.840
that was always a proponent of zoning
was very important part of his platform.

529
00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:59.880
Uh. I know when they were
in the zoning process, he would hold

530
00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:02.079
me meetings and he would say,
hey, look we're gonna have a town

531
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:07.360
hall here we're gonna have the zoning
map up. If you go to this

532
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:12.320
meeting and you don't think it should
be zoned this, get with me and

533
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.079
I can change you. You know. So, I thought that was a

534
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:22.360
great manner or way of communicating and
getting the public out and involved. I

535
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:28.719
think communication is an important aspect.
If nothing else, you could be doing

536
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:31.039
all the right things, But you're
putting the public's mind of these which at

537
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:34.840
the end of the day. So
who you're working for and these guys,

538
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:39.360
look, y'all councilmen make like fourteen
hundred bucks a month or something like that.

539
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:42.960
It is peanut, Peanut, you're
not doing it for the month.

540
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.559
You're not doing it. Look,
you're not getting kicked backs from anybody.

541
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:50.519
Yeah. Look, I hear everybody
saying I want to getting paid. Well,

542
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.159
I wouldn't like to know how to
getting paid. Yeah, I don't

543
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:59.480
believe that they are. Yeah,
I've never seen anybody. Yeah, you

544
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:04.199
know, everybody I'll have there.
There's always people out there that are gonna

545
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.679
create a conspiracy. And and uh, if it's not somebody new, they're

546
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:12.519
the enemy. You know, it
doesn't matter how much good they've done.

547
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:16.599
Uh, they're they're the enemy because
they're not new, right. And you

548
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:20.679
know that's what Facebook, the Facebook
world has done. It's kept a lot

549
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:24.119
of good people from running absolutely for
office because they don't want to put up

550
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:28.280
with it. Look, I've gotten
a lot of flag for being a builder.

551
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.039
I've been you know, I'm sure
I'm a cookie cutter builder. I'm

552
00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:34.639
this, I'm not. And look, meanwhile, they're living in the house

553
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:38.800
somebody built, right. Look,
I'm a Christian person and God's blessed me

554
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:44.719
with everything that I have. Okay, And I have thought, man,

555
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:49.840
why am I doing this recently?
Like why am I having to hear this

556
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:53.039
now? You know? My kids
are on social media? My kids see

557
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.559
this, right, you know.
And I asked a guy, another person

558
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.519
who's running in a different district.
Look, he's been brutal with me,

559
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:02.199
and I call him up. I
said, look, I have a question

560
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:07.000
for you. If you win and
I win, are you gonna work with

561
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:12.559
me as a councilman to solve to
make us one parish? And he said,

562
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.599
well, I have the people I'm
gonna work with already. I'm like,

563
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.760
well, I mean, okay,
great, but we have to get

564
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:23.960
we have to be united as a
parish because right now, we are different

565
00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:30.320
in our parish. We have thirteen
or fourteen different taxing zones. Yeah,

566
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.559
just think about that. Why why
do we have it? And look,

567
00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:37.199
it's it's a voted tax, don't
get me wrong. But it also shows

568
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:44.000
that everybody's grabbing for money. If
we was one parish, one tax,

569
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:47.519
and it got dispersed because look at
people in the South that's not being taxed.

570
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:52.000
They come to Bass pro spend their
money, they do, but the

571
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.159
money they get spent where they live. But that's where they're making it.

572
00:42:54.320 --> 00:43:00.360
Yeah, I mean, well,
and that's right, and uh, that's

573
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:04.719
a that's a real tough one.
It is, because the other side of

574
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:08.400
that is you'll see something like a
neighborhood get proposed in for a settlement and

575
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:15.480
that neighborhood is maybe three hundred houses
or something, pick a number, and

576
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:17.320
the residents say, no, well, you don't want that out here.

577
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.320
But the amount of tax dollars,
if that would bring in, would bring

578
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.880
in so much money for their schools, It would bring in so much money

579
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:29.559
for these was not big enough.
And it looks right, and I've heard

580
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:34.679
all of this, but look what
people aren't realizing with those roofs every ten

581
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:38.000
years a census comes out. I
Look, a lot of people don't fill

582
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.719
out a census, but it's very
important to fill out the census. And

583
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.960
if everyone in that new neighborhood filled
out their census, they would get federal

584
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:53.280
money. Yeah. Oh, she
would help improve their schools. Yeah.

585
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:58.480
And look, and it may take
ten years, but if you if you

586
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.000
don't have the growth, you don't
get the funding. You won't get the

587
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:07.199
funding. And so it's also worth
mentioning that not everybody that moves in that

588
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.679
subdivision has kids. Not everybody that
moves in that subdivision has kids of school

589
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:16.679
age. The average subdivision h you
know, five hundred houses. It takes

590
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:22.519
years and years to build that.
If you're the fastest builder in the world,

591
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.079
you're not. You're not building and
selling more than one hundred a year.

592
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.280
So if you and if you're doing
that, you're doing good. You

593
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.239
may even sell the lots, but
you're not gonna have all that complained.

594
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:40.159
Everybody's moved in in any sort of
near timeframe a house like subdivision like Deer

595
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:45.679
Run, I mean, you're talking
about fifteen years before that would be completed,

596
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:50.119
I would think. So that's what
people act like that's coming in tomorrow.

597
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:54.320
It's not the schools will catch up
all of that stuff. The infrastructure

598
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.719
will catch up eventually. Is it
behind right now? Yes, because we

599
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:01.679
saw it insane amount of growth.
But you know the traffic. I live

600
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:06.840
in Denham Springs, I travel to
Watson. It takes me twenty minutes,

601
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.599
I mean middle of the day.
It looks you get it back and reach.

602
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:14.280
You can't get from sinking to airline
in twenty minutes, right. But

603
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:17.800
look, something that most people don't
probably even realize is that when you're going

604
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.199
from Denham to Watson, you're on
a state highway. Yeah, I on

605
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:28.199
a parish right, right, So
that's not the parish's responsibility, if that

606
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:30.000
makes any sense, that's right.
I know the average person I am in

607
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:34.159
Liveston parishes, I need to call
a parish, make traffic better. Get

608
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.559
the light scene. That isn't the
parish red light, that's the state.

609
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Yeah. Look, we all know
how the state is. Yeah, the

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state can't walk into bubble gone,
right, and we all look, we

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all complain about it, but you
know, there's there's been a lot of

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good things come out of that.
There's a lot of money for infrastructure right

613
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now, that is coming through the
pipeline and so those things hopefully will will

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address themselves. So I actually made
a copy of our most recent agenda for

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Livingstone Parishes Council. This will be
a lot of the things you'll be doing

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should you get voted into office.
Uh. And this is from the agenda

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from September fourteenth, so pretty recent. One of the things they did Roger

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Wilder, he's running for state Rep. There was an introduction by Aaron Santa

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for of him. U. Then
they went through the U and they adopted

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the minutes of the meeting, which
is typical stuff the Parish President's report.

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They adopted a resolution for a National
Rail Safety Week. They adopted a resolution

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to merge precincts. Jared Andrews from
the Resistrar of Voters. Uh. And

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that's something important for all of you
folks to take note of. Make sure

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what precinct you vote in this go
round. Because they had merged from precincts

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some had too many people, some
didn't have enough people, so they merged

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those two. Has cut down on
how many people they need to manage these

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facilities. So that was that was
adopted. Let's see, they did a

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servitude revocation dealing with servitudes, you
know, something that you do a lot

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as as council people. Uh.
They extended the twelve month moratorium on the

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Class six injection wells. Yeah,
the carbon capture stuff. So they had

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a year long moratorium on that.
They extended that. I think it was

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one hundred and twenty days, so
another four months as well. That was

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that was asked for by Shane mac. They adopted a resolution to an name

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an unnamed road that happens a lot, you know, you get these unnamed

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roads. So these folks are some
of the things. And you can see

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we're running the gamut here, everything
from proclamations to introducing political uh candidates,

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to adopting minor subdivisions. All of
these things taken place. And look,

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and I haven't looked at that waiver. I was at the prior meeting and

639
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I didn't take note. I want
to say, there was eighteen agenda items

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on the meeting I was at,
and something that just it caught my attention

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and I marked it. There was
nine waivers that were giving out of eighteen

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agenda items. Yeah. So for
me as a council person, if the

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goal would be not to have so
if I'm there making laws, are my

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laws not sufficient? Are they overburdensome? Why are we having to give the

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waivers? Yeah, you know that
would be something that I would try to

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look at and try to, you
know, not have to give so many

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waivers. I mean, that's right, and that's ad. It's waivers well,

648
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and that's right, and it's a
it's a living document sort of speak.

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So when you make when you make
law, you create legislation like one

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twenty five that we talked about.
As you go along, you will learn

651
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and you will have to adjust maybe
certain things in that and that's okay.

652
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But one of the ways to tell
that is if you're constantly having to do

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the waivers, Well, if we've
given two hundred waivers in the last six

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months on this same issue, maybe
we need to look at changing this issue

655
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and look at a lot of advantiship
in our council is a knee jerk reaction

656
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to something that has happened. It
goes back to the planning part. We

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one hundred percent need a professional planner. Council members, they're not none of

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us, none of them, none
of us may include it. I'm not

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a planner, okay, I need
a professional to help me with that.

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Look, that's hiring someone as a
great great start. Yeah, gotta have

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the planning and look, it's got
to be smart planning and smart growth.

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We have a tremendous opportunity here within
a state twelve. It's a corridor.

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Yeah, Liveston Parish has a bunch
of undeveloped land on each side of it.

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Look, we could draw in tremendous
industry which would generate revenue for us

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well. And that's and I think
that's one of the things that our friends

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and Essention Paris who have done right. And look, it's a lot of

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industry there, but ascension. To
be fair, they had the Mississippi River

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and those chemical plants are surefineries whatever. They may not be refineries, it's

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chemical plants. Yea. They that
Essential Parish is a wealthy parish, absolutely

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just because of the industry that's there. Liveston Parish didn't have that so much.

671
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I's right. The average person that
lives in Essention Parish, you know,

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they work in a plant, they're
an operator and they're making one hundred

673
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and sixty grand plus turnarounds. And
you and I both worked at Luck.

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I was a pipe fitter helper.
Uh, grind it on pipe until I

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figured out I didn't want to do
it anymore. Those guys on the day

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they drive in their parish to go
to a cention, they don't leave the

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parish to go to work. Yeah, most people in Livingston Parish East Baton

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Region bed room community. And and
look, my goal has always been since

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you know, my mid thirties,
probably was one day I want to do

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something to help Livingston Parish become a
not a bedroom community. I want people

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to work and play here and live
here. And uh, and that that's

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been a personal goal for myself.
I think that's a personal goal for a

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lot of people because we can.
We've got some great things. It's a

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tremendous parish. We've got to admit
river. We have the Tickfall River.

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Yeah, it's Look, the great
fish potential here is tremendous. We have

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to get the planning and get the
vision, amen, brother vision, and

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Livingston Parish can really be And look, it is a place people want to

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come now, but it could really
be flourishing. And look, it won't

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take a whole lot of work.
It's gonna take work, don't get me

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wrong. But with just a little
bit of vision and the smart planning livest

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in Paris can be really something.
People are really proud. We won't be

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Hey, that's the lives in Paris. Man. That's a bunch of written.

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Next, yeah, everybody's jokes.
That's right. And uh and look,

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so we want to remind you again, mister Samar. First of all,

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thank you for coming today, for
having me. Really enjoyed talking.

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We can talk about that for hours. Early voting, folks, starts September

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thirtieth. Your district is District one
one, District one, so Shane Marler

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District one. Look for him.
If you like what you heard out of

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him today, give him the vote. Give him the vote absolutely again.

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Early voting September thirty. If that
runs for one week, and then October

701
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fourteenth is election. That gonna be
a busy election day. So if you

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can early vote, do it.
Because we got a good Nottorial election.

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We've got all your local stuff.
Sheriff's election is that day, so there's

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a lot going on. If you
can make it to early vote, please

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do so. But whatever you do, just vote, vote, vote,

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let your voice be heard. That's
look one of the we're the most wonderful

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country and all of mankind, and
I believe that the biggest reason for that

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is our voting, and hopefully we'll
keep it that way. So thank you

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again for coming on, yes,
sir, thank you for having me.

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Until next time, I'm Jim Chapman
reminding you love your community, support local

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business, and keep leading. Thank
you very much,