For first time in 5 years, New Orleans closes out budget with cash in piggy bank
City posted a surplus for 2013, a year earlier than expected.
Tag: 2014 New Orleans city budget
City to give sheriff $2 million to pay for jail consent decree next year
That's not much more than was allocated for the last three months of 2013.
Live blog: City Council to vote on 2014 budget, water shutoff ordinance
The meeting starts at 10 a.m. and could go most of the day.
City Council to vote on law shutting off water for customers late on trash fee
Thursday's meeting will be the first time the ordinance, requested by Mayor Landrieu, will be debated in public.
New Orleans City Council budget hearings end not with a bang, but a whimper
Friday afternoon's session focused on Safety and Permits and one of its divisions, the Taxicab Bureau.
Chief public defender sounds off: Time to fix a ‘perverse’ system of justice
"Fines, fees and court costs are a part of criminal justice systems around the country, but Louisiana public defenders depend and rely on such costs to a dangerous degree."
City Council eyes once-a-week trash pickup as budget hearings continue
New Orleans spends only half as much per capita on recreation as comparable cities.
RTA, public library burning through reserves; council lauds inspector general
Budget director proposes taking money from school fund to meet library needs.
NORA figures it will never sell some of its Road Home properties in Lower 9th Ward
Council members seek more accountability in Wisner, NOLA for Life spending
And they had plenty of questions for Code Enforcement too.
