Proposal seeks to settle disagreement on transit agency’s hotel taxes, which it split with tourism agencies for years. Details on the proposed deal were not immediately available.
Board member says he will introduce a proposal for the convention center to adopt the city’s living wage ordinance, which requires contractors to pay employees at least $11.19 per hour.
The changes result from mayor’s ‘fair share’ infrastructure deal, merging NOTMC with New Orleans & Co.
The board won’t be clued in until the time comes to sign the closing documents, which isn’t expected to happen until June.
The council argued that there was no Open Meetings Law violation as a result of the Entergy paid actors scandal
When it comes to regulating Entergy New Orleans, the City Council has outsourced the vast majority of tasks to out-of-state consultants. Now, the city is trying to build in-house expertise.
While the vote was for a single contract, the debate broadened to how the Convention Center approached minority-business participation in general.
“The public records law means what it says — if the people want to review records of government spending or how decisions are made in positions of public trust those records have to be turned over in a timely fashion,” Scott Sternberg, McKay’s attorney, said.
A plan from three years ago to fix the increased traffic from the lane reduction on Convention Center Boulevard has gone nowhere.
