re: Mitch Landrieu plans to spend $500,000 on "root cause analysis" on Aug 5 Flooding

I'll do an RCA for 5k and have it done in 30 minutes.

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I wonder how much of that goes into his pockets

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It will end up being the jumpstart to his 2020 primary campaign fund.

All he needs to do is go to Walmart and get a $5 hand mirror.

See, I just save the city $499,995.00

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Harang also said the administration plans to spend $500,000 on a "root cause analysis" to determine what went wrong during the Aug. 5 flooding.

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Mayor Landrieu said 7 years ago that the pump infastructure needed to be upgraded, the catch basins needed to be cleaned, and the wiring at some pump stations was bad.

7 years later he had yet or attend any SWB meetings, fulfill any of those promises, or report to the city or the city council about the status of those problems.

He then blamed the SWB, of which he is the head, the city council, whom he's supposed to work with, and the DPW, who said he never released the funds to them, for his problems.

Problems, by the way, that he was not in the city for and did not come back immediately for because he was on a trip in Aspen promoting a league of Mayors.

This rain event was massive. But not unpredictable. It happens about once every two decade. Last time it happened was May 1995. It's not that the rain event was unpredictable or unprecedented. The city was going to get some standing water, but it was Mitch's administration's incompetence and willfull neglect that led to the extent of the damage. Pump stations at 50% capacity, 2 dozen pumps not online, failure to turn some working pumps on, clogged and polluted catch basins, century old antique technology, all of that falls squarely on the shoulders of the man who insists that he had neither the funds nor manpower to clean the catch basins and drastically improve the city and yet had 2 million dollars and a massive coordination of manpower to rip down some pointless pieces of bronze.


Can I have $500,000 or is this study going to be blindly given to his family members at a bid cost of $500,000 and a pending change order of 8 million?

Hope there is enough $ left to put Bourbon Street back together again

It rained real hard, check please!

So a high ranking board member of the sewerage and water department needs to spend half a million to figure out what went wrong?

This is like the president of Blockbuster launching a 500k investigation to find out why their business model is out dated

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I thought we already knew the root causes. They need to spend money on fixing the issues and not backtracking

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If in all those meetings he said they had allegedly discussing the issue, and if he wasn't a fricking subject matter expert as to what was wrong with the system because they did not know what was wrong, why did not commission outside experts BEFORE the floods.


WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THOSE MEETINGS YOU DEFLECTED BLAME WITH MITCH!

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I'm glad the city is so broke that it is going to cost us $500k to determine that Mitch was the primary reason for what went wrong.

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The $500k is not to find out what went wrong, it's to find a creative way to blur the truth and place the blame elsewhere. It's a CYA insurance fee of sorts for Mitch.

I can tell him for $490,000.