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...
Richard A. Webster, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Traffic Court is overstaffed, underworked, over-budgeted and reliant on a funding system that threatens the impartiality of its judges, putting defendants’ constitutional rights at risk, according to a report Inspector General Ed Quatreveaux released Wednesday (July 29). Continue Reading
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A “broken system” allows repeat drunk drivers to remain on the road, according to the New Orleans Office of Inspector General. Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux says they found serious flaws in every step in the process, from arrest through prosecution, sentencing, probation, and closing of drunk driving cases in Orleans Parish....
nola.com A new report from Inspector General Ed Quatreveaux’s office says the New Orleans City Council is too reliant on outside consultants to regulate Entergy New Orleans and other utilities. The report makes 20 recommendations for how the city council and the mayor’s office can save cost and improve regulation. Continue Reading
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