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Editorial: The mayor’s interpretation of transparency and inclusiveness
The mayor’s interpretation of transparency and inclusiveness
5th December 2011
By Edmund W. Lewis
Editor, Louisiana Weekly
For those who expected things at City Hall to significantly improve and for there to be more justice, democracy, truthfulness and transparency from local elected officials, the past few months have been quite a wake-up call.
We’ve witnessed the mayor try his best… »
Progress report on the adoption of NolaStat recommendations
It’s been a year since Mitch Landrieu was inaugurated as Mayor of the City of New Orleans. How is the new Mayor doing at implementing NolaStat transparency and accountability recommendations?
Here are the findings obtained from research, community feedback, and a May 25th Q&A with administration officials.
In the report each of the four primary NolaStat recommendations… »
Standing room only at the city’s second BlightStat meeting
Judging from the standing-room-only meeting space for the second New Orleans “BlightStat” meeting, public interest in the city’s new statistics-driven performance management process to reduce blight is overwhelming.
As a metric of the success of the effort to have NolaStat recommendations implemented by the Landrieu administration, the packed BlightStat meeting suggests that the message has… »
“Be hard on the problem, soft on the people”
Mitch Landrieu set a tone for discourse at last night’s neighborhood meeting on budget priorities at a packed Martin Luther King Charter School auditorium in the Lower Ninth Ward.
To underscore the importance of the meeting, Landrieu introduced the heads of all city departments, and invited people to bring their concerns directly to those managers after… »
“Bad choices based on bad options”
Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed that all city workers take 11 unpaid furlough days this year in order to help balance a projected $67 million deficit in the 2010 budget.
“This is not a proud moment for the city of New Orleans,” Landrieu said. “I am particularly angry as a citizen and now as the chief executive… »
Garbage in, garbage out
New Orleans remains the most blighted city in America. The factors that produced an estimated 57,000 blighted properties are historic outmigration, exacerbated by flooding after Hurricane Katrina.
Despite the overwhelming need to revitalize neighborhoods by bringing property back into commerce, there are tremendous investment opportunities in the city, with attractive, historic architectural gems distributed throughout the… »
Landrieu reforms budget process
Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued an executive order yesterday in City Council chambers to create a more “transparent and accountable process” for producing the annual budget.
Responding to criticisms of the previous administration’s budgeting process, Landrieu promised to obtain community input in determining budget priorities, and to provide more informative descriptions of revenue sources and the purpose… »
Mayor Landrieu to adopt NolaStat open data recommendation
It’s become clear since his May 3rd inauguration that Mayor Landrieu will be adopting a performance management policy, like Baltimore’s CitiStat model, to improve the delivery of city services to the public.
Times-Picayune reporter Michelle Krupa has been following government reforms being implemented by Mayor Landrieu to shift away from the closed government policies of… »
Time to transition from advocacy to action
The Times-Picayune story about Mitch’s policy shift toward a statistical approach to governance read like the NolaStat policy research paper.
Implementing a data-tracking program will require major improvements in computer technology across city government, Kopplin said. “Everything is paper, and what we put in computers, the systems don’t talk to the systems in other agencies,”… »
City Business: ‘Nasty decisions’ expected from city’s interim tech chief
New Orleans City Business reporter Jennifer Larino wrote an excellent article a couple of weeks ago on the reforms Mayor Landrieu will need to tackle to in order to modernize the city’s IT infrastructure.
The administration has already begun to shift toward adopting NolaStat recommendations:
One of the more significant changes the interim CIO is expected… »
