The ballot measure authorizing the tax gave control to the unelected FQMD board, which city officials have criticized.
The change comes as vaccine demand has started to wane.
The presentation came days after The Lens retracted a story, based on flawed documents provided by the city, that severely underrepresented the number of STR fines the city had actually collected since 2019.
The dispute involves millions of dollars in contested hotel taxes that the transit agency previously passed on to the tourism industry.
Nearly $200,000 of that has been collected, far more than previously reported. City officials told The Lens on Monday that previous records provided to The Lens were incomplete and provided additional information.
The Convention Center and development team now enter a year-long negotiating period for the massive new development.
The plan had previously been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The request for the audit came after the utility unnecessarily cut power to thousands of customers during a freezing Mardi Gras night.
Lawyers for the city say the move doesn’t conflict with the Home Rule Charter.
A campaign for a full renewal of an expiring library tax will have to be clear and honest in order to win voters’ trust back, the director of a national library group told the NOPL board.
