Does this chart reflect your priorities?
Council Members Shelley Midura and Stacy Head hosted a budget town hall meeting last night. Among the strongest points made was that the lack of community participation in the budget process may have led to a misalignment of expenditures with respect to community priorities.
See the town hall Powerpoint… »
A schedule of upcoming City Council budget meetings:
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2PM – Budget Committee Meeting
Friday, Oct. 30, 10AM – Mayor presents his budget
Budget hearings begin, Nov. 6, 9:30AM: Throughout month of November, departmental budget committee hearings during day in City Council chambers.
Weekly Budget Review Sessions with Councilmembers Head & Midura:
Wednesday, November 11th, 7:00 PM, City… »
The public has been invited to City Council chambers tonight to comment on what the city’s budget priorities should be:
As you know, during the month of November the Council will undergo the harrowing process of adopting the 2010 budget, AND we are facing a nearly $68 million deficit based on the 2009 budget.
I am writing… »
Although not officially released yet, the October 2nd Inspector General’s report on the 2009 New Orleans budget process (previously leaked to the press) is now available to read on NolaStat.org:
Review of the Budget Process of New Orleans
Months of NolaStat policy research have produced many of the same conclusions about the city’s budget as can be… »
A NolaStat presentation was delivered to the steering committee of EngageNOLA on October 12th. This was merely a briefing to inform interested members of the ideas offered in the NolaStat policy reform.
EngageNOLA is not endorsing policy issues, but is motivated by an intereste in raising education and discourse on issues of interest to voters:
EngageNOLA is… »
And not just in the New Orleans IG office …
While conducting NolaStat research on the CapStat experience in D.C., I found this Washington Post story detailing how the District of Columbia technology security chief, Yusef Acar, was indicted earlier this year in a kickback scheme that netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit gains:
A… »
