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  • Search results for: orleans council

237 Search Results Found For: "orleans council"

  • New Orleans Council on Aging hopeful despite vote failure

    NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A last-ditch effort at the polls for a property tax to benefit elderly services fell flat Saturday (March 30). City Councilman Jason Williams sponsored the measure and poste
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  • New Orleans Council on Aging tax proposal brings political, policy debates before voters

    Before the fish plates were served Friday at the senior center on the edge of Pontchartrain Park, Joyce Rawlins and Rose George were on opposite sides of a debate. Rawlins, 73, supported giving the or
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  • New Orleans Council passes pension changes affecting only new hires

    Current New Orleans City Hall employees will avoid changes to their retirement plans under a deal City Councilwoman Stacy Head cut to apply changes designed to save taxpayers money only to e
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  • Early voting for New Orleans City Council, sheriff, library millage starts Saturday

    Early voting in the Dec. 11 runoff elections for New Orleans City Council, Sheriff and Clerk of Criminal Court begins Saturday, and voters will also weigh in on tax propositions for the New Orleans Pu
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  • Infrastructure, bond issues dominate discussion on second day of New Orleans City Council budget hearings

    Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s top public works aides offered a roadmap Tuesday for the hundreds of millions of dollars they plan to spend on streets, drainage, parks and other infrastructure in coming yea
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  • New Orleans City Council wants nonprofits to pay more in taxes, but obstacles are many

    The New Orleans City Council is looking for ways to get nonprofits to contribute more to the city’s bottom line — the latest in a long string of attempts to get properties that are exempt from ta
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  • New Orleans voters overwhelmingly reject new tax for Council on Aging’s senior services

    New Orleans voters overwhelmingly rejected a new tax to pay for services for senior citizens Saturday in an election that doubled as a test of political might between Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the Cit
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  • Should New Orleans have a drainage fee? City Council member is wary

    New Orleans Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer warned this week that she would not support any new fee levied on residents and businesses to raise money for the city’s drainage system&nb
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  • Should New Orleans City Council be represented on S&WB? Voters will decide on election day

    New Orleans voters will decide Saturday whether to approve a City Charter change that would return City Council representation to the Sewerage & Water Board and strengthen rules surrounding report
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  • Biggest surprise to Joe Giarrusso about first year on New Orleans City Council? ‘People lie’

    New Orleans City Council members had some surprising answers at a panel discussion hosted by the Bureau of Governmental Research last week when they were asked what they have been most surprised by in
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