City Stories

Citizens are reminded of the upcoming changes to parking meter hours adopted as a part of the 2010 budget. This Saturday, March 20th, the City of New Orleans Department of Public Works will begin issuing courtesy, warning citations to parking meter violators according to the new policy to extend meter hours/days to Monday – Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Full enforcement of the new hours will begin on Saturday, March 27.

Workers continue construction on the heavily damaged Jourdan Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward as part of the FEMA Eligible Roadway and Sidewalk Patching Repair program. Late last year, the City of New Orleans Department of Public Works and the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans began the $1.8 million construction project to rehabilitate Jourdan Avenue from the N. Claiborne Avenue Bridge to Florida Avenue.

On March 4th, Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Chair of the US Conference of Mayors (USCM) national Stafford Act Reform Task Force testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

On February 25th, Louisiana State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning Jr. announced that New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent of Fire, Charles Parent, had been awarded Louisiana “Fire Chief of the Year.”

Crews recently began construction work on two roadway rehabilitation projects funded by disaster community development block grants (d-CDBG). St. Roch Avenue from N. Roman Street to St. Claude Avenue will received approximately $850,000 in rehabilitation repairs. Douglass Street from Forstall Street to Lamanche Street, Andry Street from N. Peters Street to Douglass Street, and N. Peters Street from Andry Street to Flood Street will receive approximately $890,000 in rehabilitation repairs.