The mayor promised to remediate 10,000 blighted properties in New Orleans. In January, he announced he had met his goal. But that was based on a study of all properties that had been fixed up, regardless of whether the city got involved. The city is now cited as a model for blight reduction, but there’s no official count of properties that have been remediated.
Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.
But it faces strong opposition from law enforcement. A committee will hear the bill Tuesday.
It also would allow court fees to fund the relocation of Civil District Court to the old Charity building.
The bill is one of several filed in response to the levee board's lawsuit against oil and gas companies.
Mayor pushing legislative efforts to increase revenues, rather than making cuts to city services.
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Rules that control hiring, promotion and discipline would be rewritten.
Gas and oil interests have been good to Robert Adley, and as a senator, Adley has been unfailingly good to them. He insists the Flood Protection Authority lawsuit seeking damages for coastal destruction is illegal. The bills he's moving would make sure of that.
