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WBR Parish Council meets Thursday July 24 at 5:30 PM with six major zoning changes on the agenda — including residential land converting to agricultural warehousing and farm land becoming a housing development in Brusly. Fire Board meets at 5:00 PM.
July 23, 2025
Brusly negotiated Spinks Construction's $93,706 change order down to $70,000 — then voted 3-1 to approve it, contingent on Water Sector covering 70%. The lone dissenting vote: the contractor breached contract and should be held to it.
July 23, 2025
WBR Parish Council threatened to cut the Council on Aging's millage unless it spends down its $5.4 million fund balance — while budget documents show the parish itself sits on over $54 million in reserves across all departments, including a Criminal Court with 11.3 years of operating reserves.
July 07, 2025
Freedom rings loudest when citizens stay informed and hold their leaders accountable. A Fourth of July message from WBR Independent to West Baton Rouge Parish.
July 04, 2025
An Addis resident's letter to The Advocate calling out WBR Parish for reactive governance landed in the middle of WBR Independent's own documented pattern of the same thing — from flood rescues to emergency water alerts issued only after the crisis had already started.
June 11, 2025
https://www.wbrindependent.com/addis-residents-demand-action-on-chronic-flooding-at-heated-town-meeting/
June 05, 2025
Announcing the Launch of WBRIndependent.com West Baton Rouge Parish is growing. Changing. Making decisions that will shape our communities for decades. But too often, those decisions happen quietly — in meetings few attend, with language few understand, and consequences that few realize until it’s too late. That doesn’t
May 05, 2025
