Whatever Mayor LaToya Cantrell is doing regarding the contract to pick up the trash in the French Quarter, it stinks more than the trash – and French Quarter trash can stink!
Three of Cantrell’s top and most loyal staff officers were shocked when she suddenly changed her mind and inappropriately issued an emergency declaration to give Henry Consulting, owned by Troy Henry, a no-bid contract beginning at the end of this month.
Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montano, Deputy CAO Joe Threat, and Sanitation Director Matt Torri were all told by Mayor Cantrell that IV Waste, owned by Sidney Torres, would maintain the emergency sanitation for the French Quarter and the Downtown Development District until the end of the year as it was originally scheduled. But the next day Cantrell issued an emergency declaration giving Henry Consultants a no-bid contract…