Drainage/Stormwater
Addressing Jefferson Parish Infrastructure at April 16 Breakfast Briefing
April 16, 2024
Today, BGR presented a Breakfast Briefing with Cynthia Lee Sheng, Jefferson Parish President, and Mark Drewes, Director of the...
BGR Recommends Improving the City Council’s Evaluation of S&WB Funding Proposals
November 30, 2023
In a November 28 letter to the New Orleans City Council, BGR expressed concern that the council does not...
On Politics: Is ‘Healthy Homes’ funded?; S&WB drainage fee revisited; graffiti gains
By Sophie Kasakove and Ben Myers
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
November 19, 2023
Housing advocates and City Council members were surprised when they opened up Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s proposed 2024 budget to...Nonprofit floats stormwater fee to shore up drainage system costs
By Joshua Rosenberg
Source: The Lens
May 22, 2023
Inevitably, impossibly, New Orleans lives with water. “With,” though, is a flexible term that, for more than 100 years,...
Breakfast Briefing Explains How Jefferson is Preparing for Future Storms
September 15, 2022
Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) hosted a Breakfast Briefing in Jefferson Parish about “Preparing Jefferson for Future...
Gambit Commentary: A note to our readers
By Gambit
Source: The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
December 9, 2020
We find ourselves in the uncomfortable, but necessarily so, position of having to start this week’s Commentary with an...Stephanie Grace: Voters sent LaToya Cantrell a clear message on library tax. She should listen.
By Stephanie Grace
Source: The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
December 9, 2020
The voters in Orleans Parish spoke quite clearly Saturday when they rejected three millage proposals that Mayor LaToya Cantrell...New Orleans voters reject Cantrell’s tax proposals
By WDSU Digital Team
Source: WDSU
December 5, 2020
In Orleans Parish, multiple property tax measures were on the Dec. 5 ballot. New Orleans overwhelmingly rejected Mayor LaToya...Orleans millage proposals beaten badly despite Cantrell threatening layoffs
By WWL Staff
Source: WWL-TV
December 5, 2020
New Orleans voters roundly defeated all three of Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s tax proposals just days after she had warned...Voters shoot down all three Cantrell-backed tax proposals
By Michael Isaac Stein
Source: The Lens
December 5, 2020
New Orleans voters on Saturday rejected a package of ballot propositions put forward by Mayor LaToya Cantrell that would...