BGR in the News
The city should get a bigger chunk of hotel tax revenue, report says
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
January 30, 2019
A new report from the Bureau of Governmental Research released on Wednesday found a lack of accountability and transparency when it...New Orleans should regain ‘lost’ hotel tax money to fix drainage and roads, watchdog group says
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 30, 2019
A one-percent tax on New Orleans hotel sales should return to city coffers, as it was decades ago before that local...
S&WB task force highlights agency’s financial crisis, calls for drainage fees
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
January 28, 2019
The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board is in desperate need of money for critical infrastructure projects and should...
Money should not be taken from tourism for infrastructure needs: Billy Nungesser
By Julia O'Donoghue
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
January 16, 2019
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser doesn’t think New Orleans hotel tax revenue should be redirected from state marketing, tourism and sports-related organizations...Cantrell’s quest for more infrastructure dollars centers on $160 million in tourism taxes
By Tyler Bridges
Source: The Advocate
January 12, 2019
In her push to find money to improve New Orleans’ decrepit infrastructure, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is targeting a share...‘Everything is on the table’ — including rate hikes — as S&WB looks to improve operations
By Jessica Williams
Source: The Advocate
January 10, 2019
Since his first few weeks on the job as executive director of the Sewerage & Water Board, Ghassan Korban...
Nell Nolan: BGR luncheon, The Studs Club, Churchill Society, N.O. Jazz Museum
By Nell Nolan
Source: The Advocate
January 5, 2019
Salutes of the Season Pleasurable Business Just around midday on a recent Friday, board Chairman Hardy B. Fowler garnered attention as...Potholes, water woes: New Orleans seeks more of tourist tax
By Kevin McGill
Source: The Associated Press
December 26, 2018
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A night’s stay at a New Orleans hotel can take as much as a 15...Should New Orleans have a drainage fee? City Council member is wary
By Beau Evans
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
December 20, 2018
New Orleans Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer warned this week that she would not support any new fee levied on residents...Superdome, arenas get record-setting boost from hotel taxes: audit
By Kevin Litten
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
December 17, 2018
The Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, the state entity with oversight of Mercedes-Benz Superdome and Smoothie King Center, raked...