 | Mike Polito | mpolito@mappbuilt.com |
 | Wade Evans | Wade.evans@central-la.gov |
 | David McDavid | dmcdavid@cityofzachary.org |
 | Collis Temple, III | ct3pfssnsd@gmail.com |
 | Dr. Murelle Harrison | Murelle_harrison@subr.edu |
 | Dustin Yates | yates@stgeorgela.gov |
 | Joseph “Marshall” Ortego | morteg9@lsu.edu |
 | Lon Vicknair | lvicknair@brla.gov |
 | Carl Stages | cstages@cox.net |
 | Sid Edwards (EBR Mayor) | mayor@brla.gov |
 | Darrel Waites (Baker Mayor) | dwaites@cityofbakerla.com |
FILMED BY CENTRAL CITY NEWS and Woody Jenkins, this is a great discussion about the issues and non-responsiveness of parties concerning the future of CPGC. A document signed last Juy21, 2025, spells out the changes they intend to make and they discuss how to sell us those changes as if they are our ideas. Full video, unedited for time.
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Here is a 40 second TV Spot explaining the steps being used to take away the City Park Golf Course. They want to take the golf course and make it part of the LSU Lakes project under one independent authority – the authority to do ANYTHING with the property with no recourse for Taxpayers and residents.
Guess who has 680 signatures wanting to keep the golf course intact! WE DO!
Who is looking at our pages?? March 14 just 39 views. April 25 we had 214,814 views!!
Why IS a private foundation with billions in assets so interested in a 9 hole Public golf course??
SHAME!
Friends of City Park Golf Course went from “a rag-tag bunch of weed pullers” to “organized stakeholders encouraging multiple submissions“. They accuse us.
ALLEGATION FROM SASAKI’S JOSHUA BROOKS
| Sasaki’s Wishful Thinking (What is at stake is millions and millions of our tax dollars) “Survey says: Sasaki principal Josh Brooks acknowledged both public surveys were demographically compromised.” “Sasaki tracked 183 survey responses originating from the same public Wi-Fi—consistent with social media posts from organized stakeholders encouraging multiple submissions.” The Reality Sasaki’s “Data Tracking” is Actually Citizen Silencing: Friends of City Park Responds to Joshua Brooks “On March 29, March 30, and April 1, the Historic City Park Golf Course Pro Shop became a Hub of Democracy. While Sasaki consultants watched from afar, the Friends of City Park were on the ground, hosting a public ‘Survey Drive’ to ensure that the voices of our neighbors, our seniors, and those without high-tech devices were heard. Joshua Brooks calls this ‘demographically compromised.’ We call it community engagement. The Truth by the Numbers: Sasaki claims they tracked 183 responses from our public Wi-Fi. They are wrong. Our records show 301 citizens—real neighbors with real names—filled out those surveys to say one thing: Keep the Golf Course Intact. If Sasaki only ‘tracked’ 183, the public deserves to know what happened to the other 118 voices. Did they simply delete the data they didn’t like? Digital Redlining: By using ‘device-tracking software’ to limit responses to one per phone, Sasaki is effectively implementing a high-tech poll tax. They are silencing the senior citizen who doesn’t own a smartphone and the neighbor who came to the Pro Shop specifically for help navigating a complex digital portal. Transparency vs. Suppression: Friends of City Park conducted this drive in broad daylight. We posted it on Facebook, took photos( See photos below!)of our neighbors participating, and walked them through the process. We have nothing to hide. It is deeply troubling that a high-priced, out-of-town firm would change the rules of the game mid-stream because they didn’t like the ‘overwhelming’ support for the current course footprint. You don’t get to ignore taxpayers just because they gathered in person instead of behind a private screen. We have the photos. We have the records. We have the people. We are waiting for our copy of the entire survey database we have requested with our public records request. Give us those public records the law requires you to produce. Shame on you, Joshua Brooks. Our voices are not ‘data points’ to be managed—they are the mandate of this community.” Visit the Facebook Posts https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fx1um4xRE https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18ZwCRpctC https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CWYXPmHb8/ | |
| Proof is in the pictures. Click on a pic. |
(A full listing of our daily petition sheets is below)
Here is a real plan prepared AT NO COST by a Friend of City Park Golf Course member. Compare the beauty of this to the stale cookie cutter offered to us for our 600K dollars.
SAVE CITY PARK GOLF COURSE
TELL THESE FOLKS TO LEAVE THE COURSE ALONE – send direct to all commissioners
E-MAIL TO: commissioners@brec.org
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FOCP has started a petition – DIFFERENT FROM THE SURVEY!!
You can do both.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THESE LINKS —AND READ BELOW FOR COOL PICS AND INCISIVE, WITTY OBSERVATIONS
FRIENDS OF CITY PARK BATON ROUGE WEBSITE
https://www.cityparkfriendsbatonrouge.org
FRIENDS OF CITY PARK BATON ROUGE FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086981644298
PROTECT CITY PARK GOLF COURSE BR
https://www.protectcityparkgolfcoursebr.org
SOCIETY OF HICKORY GOLFERS
OF HISTORIC CITY PARK GOLF COURSE FACEBOOK
Almost everyone who came by our location signed their name. So far 680 people signed the petition from our station as of April 25, all of whom want to keep the Tom Bendelow Signature Golf Course intact. And “intact” means no changes to the course itself.