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| NOLA Requests Prison Funding |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 10/31/2005 |
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said last week he had asked for temporary federal funding for courts, a jailhouse and other critical functions in the storm-ravaged city, which he suggested was near bankruptcy. Nagin said he had asked the Bush administration whether some of the more than $60 billion in disaster relief approved by Congress after Hurricane Katrina could be redirected as a kind of bridge financing for New Orleans as the city rebuilds over the coming months. "We're asking to see if there's a way to reallocate some of those dollars to help us in the short term," he told reporters. Facing growing frustration over the pace of the rebuilding process, Nagin noted that all of the key funding was being directed by the federal and state government with the city's own finances now severely strained. "The city of New Orleans is technically -- I won't say the word -- but we're very close to it," said Nagin, who has already slashed city payrolls in the face of still shuttered business and abandoned homes in large areas of New Orleans. Nagin said he expected to have an answer on the request for extraordinary federal assistance soon. Meanwhile, a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Nagin pledged to rebuild the predominantly black Lower Ninth Ward and other neighborhoods that sustained some of the deepest damage from Katrina. The largely symbolic vote by the Bring Back New Orleans Commission came at a meeting marked by protests and anger by residents who complained they were being shut out of federal contracts, housing and the chance to reshape their city. Some experts have questioned whether the low-lying areas of New Orleans, including the now almost entirely deserted Lower Ninth Ward, should be rebuilt in the same way given the risk of future fatal flooding. But those suggestions have become politically volatile in what had been a majority black city, with some activists saying they feared a backdoor attempt to shut out working-class and black residents and alter the city's demographics. "Let me just say it one more time and make sure everybody understands it ... We will rebuild this entire city," Nagin said. |
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