NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A brand new director of finance was confirmed by the Metropolis of New Orleans in an announcement made on Thursday, June 20.
The brand new director is Romy Schofield-Samuel, who has been serving because the interim director of finance since April and brings over twenty years of presidency expertise to her new position.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell spoke positively of Schofield-Samuel and her new appointment, saying “Schofield-Samuel has labored by means of the ranks of Metropolis Corridor for over 30 years, spending greater than half of these years inside this division. Her position shall be essential in making certain our Metropolis continues to reveal fiscal accountability and long-standing monetary stability, particularly as we transfer towards growing the 2025 finances. She is able to persevering with the success and innovation to our monetary methods.”
Previous to accepting this new place, Schofield-Samuel served because the income collections supervisor and ABO supervisor for the Metropolis of New Orleans from August 1996 to February 2006, then as a income collector within the metropolis’s finance division since February 2006. In that point, managing annual tax collections of over $450 million.
She has additionally contributed closely to the implementation of latest gross sales tax and occupational license assortment programs, growing metropolis income.
“Our residents deserve a metropolis in steady monetary place that may create a wealthy high quality of life,” mentioned Schofield-Samuel. “The enterprise neighborhood in addition to residents create the tradition that draws and welcomes hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. With that in thoughts, income positioned on this administration’s care addresses the matter of significance to residents and enterprise neighborhood successfully and makes metropolis authorities work for all. Distinctive customer support to inside and exterior clients shall be our focus for the instant future. My purpose is to rethink present processes in Finance that lead to inefficiencies and slowed productiveness.”
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