BATON ROUGE, LA – In a rare show of unity, several BREC employees have reportedly agreed to a six-month “fuel theft moratorium” in hopes of raising enough money to finally clean up the enormous homeless encampment on their property along Siegen Lane.
The encampment, which is almost 9 acres, has become a semi-permanent fixture of tents, shopping carts, and used syringes—just yards from a children’s park. Despite BREC successfully passing a new millage in November 2024 to “improve facilities and expand services,” officials say they somehow still don’t have the funds to remove the encampment from their own land.
“We’re just asking staff to help out,” said one BREC administrator. “If they could stop stealing gas for a few months, we might be able to afford to send the 56 roll-off dumpsters we’re gonna need to remove all the trash that’s accumulated there for the past 8 or 9 years.”
If the fuel theft pause works, BREC says it may expand the effort by asking employees to stop selling agency lawn equipment and laptops on Facebook Marketplace, clocking in while still at home in bed then “forgetting to go to work,” and using BREC trucks to haul scrap metal for side hustles during work hours.
