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  • Search results for: orleans "planning"

106 Search Results Found For: "orleans "planning""

  • New Orleans City Planning Commission approves affordable housing plan minus key element

    The New Orleans City Planning Commission has recommended dropping the core element of a plan aimed at increasing the amount of affordable housing in the city, balking at a plan that would allow the ci
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  • Strengthening New Orleans’ Use of Its General Fund Balance

    OVERVIEW Today, BGR sent a letter to the mayor and the New Orleans City Council urging greater planning and public reporting for the City of New Orleans’ use of its primary financial reserve. The Ci
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  • New Orleans S&WB needs sweeping changes if it wants to avoid more pitfalls, BGR says

    The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board is overseen by a board controlled by the mayor. Its funding is determined by the City Council, and it is regulated by the Louisiana Legislature’s laws. Tha
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  • BGR report says New Orleans should restructure governance of Sewerage and Water Board

    NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The Sewerage and Water Board is hamstrung by bureaucratic inefficiencies and competing interests, and will continue struggling unless its “flawed” governance structure i
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  • BGR Urges JP Council to Improve Fiscal Planning, Accountability

    NEW ORLEANS — From the Bureau of Governmental Research: In an April 28 letter to the Jefferson Parish Council, BGR recommends ways in which the council can improve planning and public repo
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  • Improving Jefferson Parish Council’s Fiscal Planning and Accountability

    OVERVIEW In this letter to the Jefferson Parish Council, BGR recommends ways in which the council can improve planning and public reporting for one-time spending made possible by the receipt of federa
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  • BGR Analyzes Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office Tax on April 29 Ballot

    NEW ORLEANS — From the Bureau of Governmental Research: On April 19, BGR released a report intended to help Orleans Parish voters make an informed decision on whether to nearly double a 2.
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  • Dec. 14 Webinar Focuses on City of New Orleans’ Uses of Pandemic Relief Funds

    The Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) highlighted a new report on the City of New Orleans’ uses of its federal American Rescue Plan Act funds in a webinar on December 14 on Zoom. The federal
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  • Watchdog: Power struggles between city, Sheriff’s Office has set back New Orleans jail’s progress

    Power struggles between the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office and the city have long stymied progress at the New Orleans jail that could have moved the facility closer to compliance with a federal con
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  • BGR Seeks Better Governance for New Orleans Jail

    NEW ORLEANS — From the Bureau of Governmental Research: BGR has released a report that urges the Orleans Parish Sheriff and the City of New Orleans to forge a multi-year agreement to improve their c
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