NEW ORLEANS - District “D” Councilmember Jared C. Brossett has released the following statement regarding the investigation into Entergy New Orleans' preparation and response to Hurricane Ida:

"Today as your regulator, the Council moved forward to investigate Entergy New Orleans' actions following Hurricane Ida. We also approved a management audit of ENO and explored utility ownership reform. After hearing from Entergy executives, I am looking forward to what the upcoming investigation reveals. 

NEW ORLEANS - District “D” Councilmember Jared C. Brossett will seek to pass Ordinance 33,393, which mandates a one-time sanitation fee suspension, during tomorrow's regular Council meeting. This comes in the wake of Hurricane Ida, as many residents have gone an entire month without trash collection due to the storm.

NEW ORLEANS - District “C” Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer authored a resolution (R-21-351), that if approved by the Council, requests the City to declare Metro Service Group, Inc. in breach of its contract with the City of New Orleans following months of service failures.

NEW ORLEANS - The newly-launched Operation Mardi Gras Clean-Up maps, which show the sections where City workers and partners are actively working and where work has been completed, are now available on the NOLA Ready website. 

Residents can now see the status of debris removal and pick-up across New Orleans via the new Debris Mapping feature, which shows a current total of 38,653 cubic yards removed, and 1,002 total hazardous limbs/trees removed.

NEW ORLEANS - Today, District “C” Councilmember Kristin Palmer filed a resolution (R-21-337) requesting that the City Council, the regulatory body of Entergy New Orleans (ENO), stop rate increases for the recovery costs of Hurricane Ida. 

“We need to be very clear here—Entergy failed the people of New Orleans. It’s inexcusable that our entire City was left in the dark for weeks following Hurricane Ida. People died. Most of them were part of our City’s most vulnerable populations who suffered in the sweltering heat. Asking for the people of New Orleans to pay more for bad service caused by obvious negligence is not going to cut it,” said Councilmember Palmer.