The NORD (New Orleans Recreation Department) Aquatic Jets swim team participated in the 2010 State Championship Meet from Thursday, March 11 to Sunday, March 14 at the UNO Natatorium.

On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) tennis team, the Dangerous Ladies, hosted a 3.5 level division (advanced) match against the Night Caps, a local United States Tennis Association (USTA) team, at NORD’s Atkinson/Edgar B. Stern Tennis Center.

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.