Recovery Planning Smackdown
Two recovery planning processes. One pot of federal funds. Today at 10:00 AM they meet at City Council Chambers for the Recovery Planning Smackdown. Get a load of their pre-bout trash talk.
UNOP
Officials of the Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP) today reconfirmed their goal to complete a parish recovery plan as requested by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and endorsed by the Mayor, the New Orleans City Council and the City Planning Commission. The plan is open to every voice in the recovery process to ensure that the plan that is developed represents the needs and interests of the community.
To reiterate, UNOP is the city’s official process to produce a single unified plan for recovery including building on completed plans, including Lambert Advisory’s Neighborhoods Rebuilding Plans, which will be completed by mid-January 2007. UNOP fully supports requests for FEMA ESF-14 project funding as multiple sources for resources are needed for our city’s recovery. However, the UNOP process will make clear citizen recommendations for a citywide infrastructure recovery
strategy which is dependent on input from all New Orleans neighborhoods.
This unified plan includes three phases: (1) identifying and confirming the city’s vision, goals and needs, (2) evaluating alternative options for addressing those goals and needs, and (3) developing the final plan, which was requested by the LRA.
The process is currently in the first phase, involving public participation through neighborhood, district and citywide meetings.
The Unified New Orleans Plan is funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. The New Orleans Community Support Foundation is the fiduciary body, and the Community Support Organization is the advisory board for UNOP.
UNOP is intended to include all neighborhoods in the planning of the city’s large scale infrastructure needs and will produce a comprehensive recovery plan for Orleans Parish. Once approved by the City Planning Commission, City Council and Mayor, this unified recovery plan will be used to guide the disbursement of key federal funds and other critical financial support for the strategic recovery of Orleans Parish.
Lambert
The New Orleans Neighborhoods Rebuilding Plans were unanimously accepted by the City Council of New Orleans on Friday October 27, 2006 (Motion M-06-460).
The Motion directed that the Plans be packaged with requests of the Sewage & Water Board and with major project initiatives developed by the Mayor, and sent immediately to the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) for funding. This Motion will also bolster the State’s efforts to ensure that Congress adequately fund the revitalization of the areas severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
This is an important milestone in the redevelopment effort; these plans represent the hard work, needs, and desires of communities, affluent and poor, large and small across New Orleans. The plans, in preparation for several months, are the result of the commitment residents have to rebuilding their City and neighborhoods.
However, as residents of New Orleans know all too well, the work is not over.
There is a way to go before the City secures the funding necessary for these plans for rebuilding New Orleans to be implemented.
The next step now is to provide your City Council and Mayor the support they need as they move the plans to the State and Federal funding authorities. There are several ways to do this:
1. Attend the Thursday, November 2,2006 City Council meeting which begins at 10:00 am to indicate your support of the Council and Mayor in moving the plans quickly to the State and Federal government for funding consideration. There is a tough road ahead for the Mayor and Council, both before the State and Congress, and nothing will help them more than the knowledge that their constituents stand fully behind them
2. Attend the Monday, November 6,2006 LRA meeting at the Alario Center located at 2000 Segnette Blvd, Westwego, LA which begins at 9:00 am, to provide support to the Mayor and City Council as they deliver the Orleans Parish plan to the State. This is a critical meeting. The City will be trying to obtain a commitment from the State to both ensure that the City receive its fair share of recovery funds and obtain the State’s commitment to immediately go back to Congress to ask for
additional funds consistent with the needs outlined within the City of New Orleans’ plan.
3. Write your Congressmen, Senators, the Secretary of HUD, and President Bush to let them know that your plans have been approved by the City Council and Mayor and delivered to the State. Request that legislation be introduced which includes adequate funding consistent with the needs outlined in the Plans to allow the President to keep his promise to do whatever it takes to rebuild New Orleans.
Our entire team of planning professionals wants to very much thank the residents of New Orleans for their commitment to this planning effort. Despite all of the personal issues people had to deal with, you took time out week-after-week and month-after- month to develop revitalization plans for the long term benefit of your communities. It is a tremendous testament to your resolve to rebuild the City and make it as great a place as it ever was.
Meetings
So, here are the meetings for you to attend…
- City Council at 10:00 AM, Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
- Louisiana Recovery Authority Board Meeting which is at 2000 Segnette Blvd, Westwego, LA
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leave nagin the idiot in the swamp in westwego for nutria food.oops i forgot you are not suppose to feed chocolate to animals.funny the state picked westwego for the treaty settlement,may be they are afaird of our mayor’s acceptable crime rate.A gun fight a day will keep the tourist away including the governor.good luck with the smackdown sounds like a junkie kind of name are their any sharp points to all of this or is just the old political hog trough? do you remenber what century the mayor is in or is it the alien excuse?
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[...] Uncategorized bywaterlife 5:28 am In November, Think New Orleans first reported the Recovery Planning Smackdown  taking place between the Lambert and UNOP plans. Now the Ninth Ward gets its own smackdown. The Times-Picayune reported January 7, 2007 that ACORN has released its own recovery plan for the 7th and 8th planning districts. Dubbed The Peoples’ Plan for Overcoming the Katrina Blues, it was unveiled Saturday, January 6th at Holy Angels Academy, where UNOP Planners Goody Clancy had unveiled their plan for the 7th District the night before. Most Bywater residents would not learn of the competing ACORN plan until they read the Sunday paper two days later. [...]
[...] It has been a long time since the inaugural Recovery Planning Smackdown. Then smackdowns became the norm. Today was a glorious day in New Orleans smackdown history. The new Inspector General, Robert Cerasoli, has received $3.2 million to fund his brand new office. But, I mention smackdowns because we are now nationally known for them. In New Orleans Smackdown, Portland Style Beck’s musings did not sit well with local writer and sometime WW contributor Kevin Allman, a recent transplant from New Orleans. “I’ve read a lot of ignorant writing about New Orleans post-Katrina, but this one takes the doberge cake,” Allman blogged today So who’s right? Dunno. But the disagreement is more entertaining than endless blog natterings about whether Steve Novick or Jeff Merkley is the truer Democrat. And a doberge cake also sounds like something worth importing from the Crescent City. Doberge Cakes and smackdowns. [...]
[...] It has been a long time since the inaugural Recovery Planning Smackdown. Then smackdowns became the norm. Today was a glorious day in New Orleans smackdown history. The new Inspector General, Robert Cerasoli, has received the blessing of the City Council for $3.2 million to fund his brand new office. Whether or not he receives the money will be the subject of future smackdowns. But, I mention smackdowns because we are now nationally known for them. In New Orleans Smackdown, Portland Style Beck’s musings did not sit well with local writer and sometime WW contributor Kevin Allman, a recent transplant from New Orleans. “I’ve read a lot of ignorant writing about New Orleans post-Katrina, but this one takes the doberge cake,” Allman blogged today [...]