Remarks by Matthew Willard
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“I move to add. Seconded by Councilmember Harris. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Six yays, zero nays. And you could discuss a vote. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Members, this is the task force we discussed about a month or two ago. It will help the city incorporate consideration for expected mothers and children under the age of three in our planning around extreme heat hazard. hazard mitigation, and climate. Today's motion just approves the membership of that task force. I move for approval. Can I get a second? Seconded by Councilmember McCarran. All in favor? Aye. Six yays, zero nays. The motion's been…”
“Thank you, Madam Clerk. You did a pretty good summary of this ordinance. Members, today we're going to take up the vote on the city's responsible contracting ordinance. After we passed it out of economic development, we sat down with the administration. They had a couple of changes that they wanted to see in the ordinance. So first we'll take up this amendment. What it does is it clarifies that the administration can determine contractor responsibility for its own professional service contracts. The reason we're doing that is it'll still have parity to this ordinance, but the administration…”
“Okay. Madam Clerk, can we add all council members as an author to this ordinance? Okay. Public comment. First, we have Chip Fleetwood, the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO.”
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“Thank you. Thank you, Jennifer. Bobby? And after Bobby, we'll have Parker Diaz.”
“Parker Diaz. After Parker, we'll have Andy O'Brien. ANDY O' All right.”
“Andy O'Brien, followed by Peter Robbins-Brown.”
“You did a great job. Thanks. Two minutes, I thought. Please give President Wood our best. Thank you to the men and women of the AFL-CIO and IUPAT that showed up today. It's been a pleasure working with you all. For the public out there, this ordinance is about increasing accountability and transparency. The city of New Orleans should not be awarding contracts to companies that repeatedly violate federal, state, and local labor laws. They should not be receiving contracts for doing shoddy job. We should award the good actors, the people who are paying their workers fairly, the ones who are…”
“Thank you, Councilmember Green. Any other comments from the dais? All right. I've moved the adoption of the ordinance as amended. It's been seconded by Councilmember McCarran. All in favor?”
“Six yays, zero nays. The ordinance has been adopted as amended.”
“Thank you, Madam Clerk. Okay, we have Monique Blossom with the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center on Consent Agenda Item Number 7. Monique? Okay, she waves. And then we have Dan Feliciano on consent agenda item number 17. Dan Feliciano. Oh, there you are.”
“Thank you, Dan. And then we have Morgan Clevenger on consent agenda item 17. Consent agenda item number 17.”
“Thank you, Council Member Green. Any other comments? All right. It's been moved and seconded by Council Member McCarran. All in favor?”
“Any opposed? Seven yeas, zero nays. The consent agenda has been adopted.”
“Moved. Seconded by Councilmember Harris. All in favor? All right. Seven yays, zero nays.”
“Moved. Seconded by Councilmember Harris. All in favor? All right. Seven yays, zero nays.”