News Roundup
Feb 17 2009
Nagin Flouts Council on Contracts Panels
The Times-Picayune
by Michelle Krupa
Tuesday February 17, 2009, 9:51 PM
Rather than comply with a unanimously approved ordinance requiring committees that recommend firms for certain city contracts to meet in public, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has announced plans to suspend the panels and give himself sole authority to evaluate such deals.
The move, the latest skirmish in an increasingly bitter war between the city’s executive and legislative branches, also would end the modest reform Nagin enacted in June 2005, when he called for a private citizen to join two city staffers in evaluating proposals for professional service contracts larger than $150,000. Read more.
Source: The Times-Picayune
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