Council on Aging keeps its funding

BATON ROUGE- Metro-council members failed to strip funding from the Council on Aging in Baton Rouge Tuesday. Republican Buddy Amoroso wanted the senior-citizen group to be solely funded by a tax hike voters approved in November."I'm disappointed we gave them $872,000 from the budget," said Amoroso after his proposal failed. "I tried to get that money transfered over to the general fund so the new mayor could have discretion over it."The group fell under public scrutiny after th