BY CHAD CALDER, NOLA.com | The Advocate The New Orleans Inspector General’s Office says the city continues to balk at turning off water service for customers who don’t pay their bill for trash pickup, despite having the legal authority to do so. Continue Reading
Greg LaRose, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The Sewerage and Water Board issued nearly $42 million in sanitation fees on behalf of the city of New Orleans in 2014 but did not collect on $7 million — nearly 17 percent, and the city failed to shut off water service to customers with outstanding balances as allowed under its...
nola.com The city’s in-house attorneys do not track the time they spend on each case they are handling and sometimes dabble in outside work, which obscures the employees’ contributions and can lead to subpar job performance, according to an Office of Inspector General report. In addition, the Law Department’s internal systems do not provide data...
nola.com Starting this year, the city began holding adjudicated property auctions through contractor Archon Information Systems. By November, the auctions had netted $12 million in sales, according to the report. Before its July auction, the city reported an additional $1.2 million in delinquent tax collections from owners who wanted to avoid losing their properties. Continue...
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans spent an excessive amount — nearly $400,000 — in fuel and repair costs for take-home vehicles in 2014, an audit from the city’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found. Costs were high because 45% of employees with take-home vehicles live outside of Orleans Parish. Continue Reading
wwltv.com The New Orleans Office of Inspector General says the water board has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on take home cars and that many of those policies have been violated. Continue Reading
wdsu.com A new report from the Office of Inspector General this week found that employees of the Sewerage and Water Board received excessive overtime and standby pay. The OIG said auditors reviewed a random sample of 88 employees for 2013 and found the S&WB had paid approximately $3 million, which violates the Civil Service Rules...
fox8live.com NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The New Orleans Inspector General released a report Monday morning detailing findings that the Sewerage and Water Board spent millions of dollars on excessive overtime pay. The audit finds the board paid its employees $1.5 million in standby pay and a projected $3 million in overtime pay during 2013. Continue...
wwltv.com The New Orleans Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report Tuesday claiming the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans violated the Louisiana Constitution and Civil Service rules by paying its employees excessive overtime and standby pay based on 2013 payroll data. Continue Reading
BY JAQUETTA WHITE jwhite@theadvocate.com In the five years since Mayor Mitch Landrieu overhauled the city’s rules for awarding professional service contracts, contract managers and contractors have failed to file key reports with the city’s Procurement Office as required under the regulations, potentially allowing poorly performing contractors to continue to win work with the city, according...
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