OPSB corrected an accounting error months ago; more of the new money results from adjusted budgeting practices.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Tricentennial will make for a very big year — and perhaps an equally big tax bite
The Landrieu administration devised a grow-or-die strategy for post-Katrina recovery and hopes to bring it to consummation by 2018.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use
Keith Hardie talks Audubon tax fight, Newcomb fence at Newsmakers event
Watch here at 8 a.m. Thursday; you’ll have to supply the danishes and coffee.
Posted inLand Use
Developer drops height of Holy Cross condos to allay neighbors’ complaints
Perez proposes 60-foot buildings rather than 75-feet, but a neighbor says that’s still too high.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Landrieu seeks special riverfront tax district to pay for decrees and pensions
The tourism industry is falling in line behind the measure — to avoid yet another hotel/motel tax increase.
Posted inCharter Schools
New Beginnings schools expect savings from shift to in-house janitorial services
UNO wants more rent for space leased to the network’s accounting department, but recent cost reductions are expected to offset the increase.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use
Mission accomplished: Landrieu administration promises one thing on blight, delivers another
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.
Posted inLand Use
Live chat: How well has the Landrieu administration dealt with blight in New Orleans?
The Lens’ Charles Maldonado will talk with Lens readers at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Posted inSchools
Campus move yields hefty surplus — but its uses are limited to debt service, construction
Several milestones have been reached as NOMMA completes its build-out to a four-grade high school.
Posted inCharter Schools
After-school programs can continue, thanks to renewed community-center funding
After-school tutoring and enrichment will continue at Friends of King’s two schools. State education officials renewed Friends of King’s contract with the federal 21st Century Community Learning Center Program, which enables schools to provide those services. The organization first received the $480,000 contract last July. That amount will be renewed again in 2015, pending state […]