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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… »
NolaStat 2011
Dear friends,
It was just a year ago when a few New Orleans idea leaders who supported NolaStat met at a coffee shop to discuss how to ensure that the policy recommendations were implemented by the next mayor. There were positive assurances from many candidates, but not all. Furthermore, there was no certainty that promises made… »
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… »
NolaStat is like “a big red light that flashes”
Lee Zurik has been doing some interesting reporting lately on financial abuse at public agencies.
In his ongoing report on the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, Zurik reported that General Manager Jim Bridger spent $108,000 over three years on meals and liquor — all while earning an eye-popping $350,000 a year, making Bridger one of… »
“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… »
TechStat teaches skills that promote good government
The NolaStat report has offered a treatment of the TechStat approach used to manage IT projects in the District of Columbia. Additionally, the use of portfolio managers responsible for monitoring key performance indicators of D.C. projects was a remarkable innovation.
Here’s a review of the federal TechStat process that was published in Government Technology:
Federal CIO’s Techstat… »
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… »
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… »
