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… »
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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… »
Whither electronic police reports?
The NOPD said in 2007 that electronic police reports were just months away from being implemented, yet in the MTV Real World drama that recently unfolded is proof positive that the old-fashioned handwritten police reports are still being used.
Currently, handwritten police reports take hours out of each patrol officers shift. Once handwritten police reports… »
How do we eliminate bloated insider contracts?
As demonstrated in recent years by cost overruns and project failures with crime cameras as the 311 system, any investment to modernize and integrate city data systems to support a NolaStat reform will require contract reform to ensure that any outsourced work fits into well-considered, high-priority plans, and to ensure that the work is satisfactorily… »
New Orleans 311 problems finally resolved
After spending millions of taxpayer dollars to professional services contractors, in a secret bidding and award process, on the city’s 311 system, including an “upgrade” to connect the system to departments, Mayor Ray Nagin has shut down the 311 system, blaming budget shortfalls.
Citizens should now direct their questions and complaints directly to departments:
The 311 phone… »
Council Vice President Fielkow Continues Fight To Increase City Contract Transparency
An email from Council Vice President Arnie Fielkow:
New Orleans, LA - April 22, 2009 - At tomorrow’s regular City Council meeting, Council Vice President Fielkow will introduce a Resolution that urges the Administration, pursuant to the Home Rule Charter, to require full disclosure of all subcontractors and individuals having a financial interest in any professional… »
Transparency has been law for years
The Times-Picayune:
Transparency has been law for years
Posted by Letters to the Editor April 14, 2009 4:29PM
Re: “Subcontractors at the center of N.O. ethics issues, ” Page 1, April 12. Thanks to Michelle Krupa for her article highlighting issues related to subcontractors associated with public contracts. This is the reason that in September 2005, after Hurricane… »
“I think we will have citizens asking more questions about their government”
AP reporter Becky Bohrer reports that Ray Nagin is dogged by his 2002 campaign promises to bring technology to City Hall, and to create a more transparent government:
“It’s not your father’s New Orleans,” University of New Orleans political scientist Ed Chervenak said, adding that residents post-Katrina are demanding transparency and accountability.
Just what Nagin promised in… »
Who’s ahead and who’s behind in the City Hall slugfest?
An opinion published in The Times-Picayune by David Marcello, executive director of The Public Law Center of Tulane and Loyola law schools
Who’s ahead and who’s behind in the City Hall slugfest? I don’t know, and I don’t care.
It matters not who’s winning between the mayor and the council. What’s important is which one of them… »
