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Council approves capital budget reallocations, e-waste extension and multiple servitude agreements generating modest annual revenue
Summary
The council adopted a capital budget reallocation to move funds to underfunded projects and to support DPW capital staff, approved a one-year e-waste agreement extension, and adopted multiple servitude ordinances and lease amendments that together generate modest annual revenues.
The New Orleans City Council voted to reallocate capital funds, extend an electronic-waste cooperative agreement and approve a string of servitude and lease-related ordinances that the council said will bring modest annual revenue to the city.
Kyle Horman, representing the administration, told the council the capital budget ordinance reallocates money from completed or cancelled projects into three projects that needed additional funding and chiefly toward Department of Public Works personnel working on capital-improvement scopes such as traffic signals, street lights and bridges. “These are the folks that are working on traffic lights, traffic signals, street lights, bridges … and this will reduce pressure on the general fund,” Horman said.
Council approved a one-year extension to a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) to continue city e-waste removal services that reduce landfill disposal fees.
The council also considered and approved numerous ordinances authorizing the mayor to enter servitude (encroachment) agreements at multiple municipal addresses; the clerk and council members read each ordinance and noted annual revenue estimates for some items (examples in the meeting record include $230, $779, $28, $578, $458, $1,535, $211, $828 and an amendment to a city lease expected to generate about $12,000). Several servitude ordinances and the lease amendment were approved by recorded or voice votes (numbers recorded in the meeting were six yays for many items).
Council members also adopted appropriations of private grant funds from the Mayor’s Alliance to support the city Health Department’s No Kid Hungry efforts and related outreach to enroll residents in SNAP, WIC and Medicaid; Dr. Vagnner said the Mayor’s Alliance awards will support community-center enrollment drives and an education campaign linked to 211 referral services.
Most of the ordinance items were handled on the consent agenda or as first reads where specified; the council moved to first reads for a long list of additional cooperative agreements and appropriations and then voted to enter executive session to continue closed deliberations.
