Issue Position: Infrastructure

Issue Position

Once again, the rainy season has shown how inadequate our basic infrastructure is in the City of New Orleans to protect our homes and businesses. Whether it is street flooding from a summer rain, boil water alerts, potholes that never get fixed, or power outages during peak seasons of usage, it is getting more and more questionable as to whether the city has the capacity to provide the basic protections and services that our homes, schools and businesses need to operate on a regular basis. We must address this, and here's how I would start:

I will work with members of the legislature to ensure that New Orleans receives its fair share of tax revenue to fix our crumbling infrastructure;
I will work to secure funds to conduct an independent financial and resource audit of all City of New Orleans infrastructure programs which receive state funds;
I will convene a series of public hearings on these reports so that every resident and business person in this city understands the tasks before us;
I will work with the State of Louisiana to identify ways to utilize existing resources to help address these needs with sustainable funding.

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