NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — WGNO is your native election headquarters, and we’re speaking to the candidates within the main races within the Oct. 11 election.

We’re looking on the race for Mayor of New Orleans, and Good Morning New Orleans anchor LBJ speaks with Metropolis Council Vice President Helena Moreno about her marketing campaign.

LBJ: Your expertise on a state stage, the state consultant, metropolis council, in addition to your profession as a journalist fairly effectively documented. Past that, what are these abilities that you simply deliver to steer our metropolis proper now?

“Nicely, in the end, I feel what I deliver is mostly a unifying perspective, bringing all people collectively in order that we are able to begin actually shifting our metropolis ahead in a brand new course. However in the end, what I additionally deliver is in my years of expertise really having a full understanding of the problems, being within the legislative department, clearly, you recognize, we do not run operations of the town, however we see what the problems are,” stated Moreno,

LBJ: The $100 million that we’re listening to about deficit or the potential $100 million deficit, it is a powerful one. How will we deal with that? How does your administration deal with that?

Moreno answered, “Nicely, as you in all probability reported many occasions, you recognize, there appears to be form of this, this completely different take relying on who you discuss to inside the administration, whether or not it is the CIO’s workplace or the CFO workplace. They appear to have a distinct tackle the place we’re with this deficit for the present 12 months. So, what I made a decision to do, together with the remainder of the town council, is to herald the state legislative auditor in order that he can have a look as to love what is admittedly occurring with the funds and get an actual understanding as to what the deficit is for this 12 months and what we’re actually taking a look at for the potential deficit, normal fund deficit for subsequent 12 months.”

LBJ: And nearly each ballot we have seen that residents need the straightforward issues. They need the streets to work, they need drainage, you recognize, the lights on I-10, no matter. How does your administration shift from what we’re doing proper now to what we have to do sooner or later?

“Yeah. Nicely, actually, it begins with working with urgency, coordination and collaboration amongst all completely different, metropolis departments and in addition with our exterior stakeholders. Equally to what we did throughout Tremendous Bowl, we all know that it may be completed and all of that occurred on the directive of the mayor. However what is going on to be completely different once I’m mayor is that that is really going to be the usual, not one thing that simply occurs when there is a Tremendous Bowl or when Taylor Swift is coming into city. However then the opposite piece, too, that is so critically essential, and we simply talked about this with the DPW director throughout a council assembly we had a pair days in the past, and that’s that we’re outsourcing a lot to completely different contractors and consultants, which actually raises the price of numerous providers and providers that we may very well be doing in-house,” acknowledged Moreno.

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