GOVERNMENT FINANCE
BGR Releases ‘Paying For Streets: Options For Funding Road Maintenance In New Orleans’
By Biz New Orleans
Source: Biz New Orleans
May 10, 2017
NEW ORLEANS – BGR released “Paying for Streets: Options for Funding Road Maintenance in New Orleans,” yesterday, Tuesday, May...New Orleans spends a fraction of what it needs to on street maintenance, group says
By Wilborn P. Nobles III
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
May 9, 2017
The city of New Orleans only spends an average of $3.8 million annually on street maintenance tasks like pothole repairs...Why did New Orleans property owners just get another tax bill?
By Greg LaRose
Source: NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
April 29, 2017
New Orleans property owners are venting their frustration after finding a second property tax bill for 2017 in their...New River Ridge-area fire millage, parishwide library tax renewal on Saturday ballot
By Chad Calder
Source: The Advocate
April 27, 2017
Voters throughout Jefferson Parish will be asked Saturday to renew the 6.5-mill property tax that funds the parish’s public...Amid strong opposition from city employees, Stacy Head pulls plan to reform pension system
By Jessica Williams
Source: The Advocate
April 27, 2017
After a boisterous New Orleans City Council committee meeting Thursday at which dozens of city workers railed against a...Lawmaker proposes redirecting some Convention Center taxes to New Orleans roads
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
April 23, 2017
A state representative is proposing to redirect about $16 million a year in taxes from the Ernest N. Morial...Stacy Head: Why we need municipal employee pension reform now
By Stacy Head
Source: The Advocate
April 20, 2017
We’re running out of time. That’s how I feel with a little less than a year left in office...New Orleans would get larger share of taxes on short-term rentals under bill filed this week
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
March 30, 2017
A larger share taxes generated by short-term rentals on platforms such as Airbnb would go to New Orleans rather...Councilwoman Stacy Head proposes money-saving changes to city retirement system
By Jeff Adelson
Source: The Advocate
March 7, 2017
New Orleans City Councilwoman Stacy Head is proposing changes that would make the city’s main pension plan less generous...Peter Reichard shares the Bureau of Governmental Research’s new study calling for a drainage fee
By Janae Pierre
Source: WWNO
March 6, 2017
This week on All Things New Orleans, we spoke with representatives of the Global Livingston Institute about their annual...