The right thing to do
The city council has decided to make it’s contracts public by posting them on their web page.
Continuing a drive to make information about city government more accessible to the public, the New Orleans City Council has decided to place all the professional-services contracts it awards on its Web site.
They are also considering passing an ordinance that would require the mayor’s office do the same.
From T.P.
The ordinance, which the council could vote on June 5, would further require that all professional-services contracts awarded by any department “within the control of the mayor” must be placed on the city’s Web site “in a conspicuous manner and an easy-to-use format.”
This is a good thing, the public has a right to know how their money, not the mayors’s money not the council’s money but money that belongs to the citizens of New Orleans i sbeing spent. I am pretty sure that even if the ordinance is passed that the mayor’s minions will delay and obtruct getting the information on the city’s web page. That’s just the way the “cable guy” does business. Why would a mayor who is doing a good job be so afraid of letting the public know what is going on behind the scenes? Could it be that he is not doing such a good job after all.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
I wonder why they stopped with the Mayor?
The City Council has oversight over any entity that gets city funds. Why not require any entity receiving City funding do the same?
I wonder what exactly the “Mayor control”s, since many public boards and corporations have some kind of joint control between the Council and the Mayor.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I agree, with the poor history we have here when it comes to spending and stealing public funds I think it should all be a.vailable for teh public to peruse