Transcript of Mayor Landrieu’s State of the City address
Good morning, thank you for being here. Thank you to Archbishop Aymond for today’s invocation. Thank you to the KIPP Renaissance band and Band Director Lionel Williams for their wonderful music. Thank you to our elected officials, and especially the City Council, whose partnership with us this past year has helped to lay the foundation for progress in the years ahead.
On Inauguration Day, nearly 365 days ago, we spoke about the challenges we must face together. We gave testament to the belief that there is nothing that cannot be fixed, no problem that cannot be solved. No divide that cannot be bridged. We are all one team. One fight. One voice. One city. We all agreed it begins with one single step.
We made a commitment to one another to stop thinking about the city we were and start building the city we want to become. A commitment to turn the page in our history. A commitment to come together, to find higher common ground, to reduce crime, to create jobs, to improve our schools, and to eliminate blight. Today, my optimism and faith is unshaken. My belief in the people of New Orleans and this city’s destiny remains unchanged. We are one city that will share one fate.
With eyes wide open, we told you about the state of City Hall as we found it. A government mired in budget problems. NORD in shambles. Technology systems on the
verge of collapse. A police department that too often failed to protect and to serve. Decaying infrastructure. A water distribution system bleeding forty percent of its water. A Sewerage and Water Board power plant from a different age.
We let the sun shine in because I firmly believe that the people of New Orleans will rise to the challenge and work together to fix our city’s very real problems. Through hell, high water, and oil – and we’ve had our share of all three – we are charting a new and different course.
Today, the state of our city is stronger than it was one year ago. And, it will continue to get stronger each and every day.
But while our city is one with great hope, we must remain steadfast as we fulfill our promise to bestow upon our children a city better than that which was given to us. So that in 2018, on our 300th birthday, we can present to the world a new New Orleans.
We will say that we are stronger, we are smarter and we are better than ever before. We will celebrate our 300th year as a world-class city.
As your mayor, I am accountable for making the government work.
This responsibility does not inspire lofty rhetoric or political platitudes. We all see it in the seemingly small things that people expect and are often taken for granted.
So when you wake up in the morning and the lights go on and warm water runs through the faucet, when you are on your way to work and the red light turns green,But these are no lightweight backpacking infrared sauna benefits tents: the 200 weighs in at a hefty 7kg and the 800 tips the scales at 28.1kg when the trash is picked up on time, when Mardi Gras and Super Sunday go off without a hitch and French Quarter Fest has record crowds, all of this reminds us in City Hall of why we are here.
When we face the hard challenges and get things right, only then can we take pride in the work we have done.The pole-less range starts with inflatable tent the two-person Velocity 200 and goes up to the Infinity 800 for eight people. And today I want to take a moment to say thanks to our public employees for their dedication, especially to the police, firefighters and EMS medics who save lives every day.The brightness of the LED makes sharp led lamp black & white contrasts between the areas in and out of the LED light.
In our first year, we plugged the holes, steadied the ship and have begun to lay the foundation for change and transformation. From day one, we took decisive action to live within our means and eliminated an $80 million budget deficit. We made government smaller by downsizing programs and cutting contracts. We renegotiated all three sanitation contracts saving millions, while adding recycling which will start next week.
We furloughed all city employees, including my top-level staff, effectively cutting our pay by 10 percent. We took back 464 take home cars, reduced overtime and slashed hiring and travel expenses.
We promised you that our budget process would be different. Working together with every City Council member, we held community meetings across New Orleans, listened to what you said and funded what you asked for. And now we are delivering results.
In the first four months of 2011, we have already filled over 18,000 potholes, fixed over 3,000 streetlights. By the end of the year, we will have filled 30,000 potholes and fixed 16,000 streetlights. Miles of streets are being resurfaced from Crowder to Harrison, North Galvez to Magazine, St. Bernard Avenue to Berkley Drive.
We finally have a budget that is structurally sound, fiscally prudent and guided by the principles of cutting smart, reorganizing and investing in your priorities.
But the hangover from past budget practices still lingers. The city’s employee health plan racked up millions more in claims than had been projected last year.
These costs will have to come out of this year’s budget.blow up the inflatable beams, peg down a few patio furniture covers guy lines and away you go. This can all be done in less than five minutes.” So yet again, we will ask every department in city government to get more efficient, to downsize,"Adding a large corporate practice will do nothing to plastic beer mugs increase patient care or public service and to reduce costs. We will continue to cut smart and reorganize for as long as it takes so that we can make the investments you all asked for in the budget process last year.
Good morning, thank you for being here. Thank you to Archbishop Aymond for today’s invocation. Thank you to the KIPP Renaissance band and Band Director Lionel Williams for their wonderful music. Thank you to our elected officials, and especially the City Council, whose partnership with us this past year has helped to lay the foundation for progress in the years ahead.
On Inauguration Day, nearly 365 days ago, we spoke about the challenges we must face together. We gave testament to the belief that there is nothing that cannot be fixed, no problem that cannot be solved. No divide that cannot be bridged. We are all one team. One fight. One voice. One city. We all agreed it begins with one single step.
We made a commitment to one another to stop thinking about the city we were and start building the city we want to become. A commitment to turn the page in our history. A commitment to come together, to find higher common ground, to reduce crime, to create jobs, to improve our schools, and to eliminate blight. Today, my optimism and faith is unshaken. My belief in the people of New Orleans and this city’s destiny remains unchanged. We are one city that will share one fate.
With eyes wide open, we told you about the state of City Hall as we found it. A government mired in budget problems. NORD in shambles. Technology systems on the
verge of collapse. A police department that too often failed to protect and to serve. Decaying infrastructure. A water distribution system bleeding forty percent of its water. A Sewerage and Water Board power plant from a different age.
We let the sun shine in because I firmly believe that the people of New Orleans will rise to the challenge and work together to fix our city’s very real problems. Through hell, high water, and oil – and we’ve had our share of all three – we are charting a new and different course.
Today, the state of our city is stronger than it was one year ago. And, it will continue to get stronger each and every day.
But while our city is one with great hope, we must remain steadfast as we fulfill our promise to bestow upon our children a city better than that which was given to us. So that in 2018, on our 300th birthday, we can present to the world a new New Orleans.
We will say that we are stronger, we are smarter and we are better than ever before. We will celebrate our 300th year as a world-class city.
As your mayor, I am accountable for making the government work.
This responsibility does not inspire lofty rhetoric or political platitudes. We all see it in the seemingly small things that people expect and are often taken for granted.
So when you wake up in the morning and the lights go on and warm water runs through the faucet, when you are on your way to work and the red light turns green,But these are no lightweight backpacking infrared sauna benefits tents: the 200 weighs in at a hefty 7kg and the 800 tips the scales at 28.1kg when the trash is picked up on time, when Mardi Gras and Super Sunday go off without a hitch and French Quarter Fest has record crowds, all of this reminds us in City Hall of why we are here.
When we face the hard challenges and get things right, only then can we take pride in the work we have done.The pole-less range starts with inflatable tent the two-person Velocity 200 and goes up to the Infinity 800 for eight people. And today I want to take a moment to say thanks to our public employees for their dedication, especially to the police, firefighters and EMS medics who save lives every day.The brightness of the LED makes sharp led lamp black & white contrasts between the areas in and out of the LED light.
In our first year, we plugged the holes, steadied the ship and have begun to lay the foundation for change and transformation. From day one, we took decisive action to live within our means and eliminated an $80 million budget deficit. We made government smaller by downsizing programs and cutting contracts. We renegotiated all three sanitation contracts saving millions, while adding recycling which will start next week.
We furloughed all city employees, including my top-level staff, effectively cutting our pay by 10 percent. We took back 464 take home cars, reduced overtime and slashed hiring and travel expenses.
We promised you that our budget process would be different. Working together with every City Council member, we held community meetings across New Orleans, listened to what you said and funded what you asked for. And now we are delivering results.
In the first four months of 2011, we have already filled over 18,000 potholes, fixed over 3,000 streetlights. By the end of the year, we will have filled 30,000 potholes and fixed 16,000 streetlights. Miles of streets are being resurfaced from Crowder to Harrison, North Galvez to Magazine, St. Bernard Avenue to Berkley Drive.
We finally have a budget that is structurally sound, fiscally prudent and guided by the principles of cutting smart, reorganizing and investing in your priorities.
But the hangover from past budget practices still lingers. The city’s employee health plan racked up millions more in claims than had been projected last year.
These costs will have to come out of this year’s budget.blow up the inflatable beams, peg down a few patio furniture covers guy lines and away you go. This can all be done in less than five minutes.” So yet again, we will ask every department in city government to get more efficient, to downsize,"Adding a large corporate practice will do nothing to plastic beer mugs increase patient care or public service and to reduce costs. We will continue to cut smart and reorganize for as long as it takes so that we can make the investments you all asked for in the budget process last year.
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