Amid city budget cuts, New Orleans Mayor-elect Helena Moreno has gutted the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability (ORS). The office will lose nearly half its staff, including its director.
Chris Lang, the office’s circular economy and policy program director, said he and other colleagues received emails yesterday afternoon stating they would no longer be retained past Monday (Jan. 12).
“Urban agriculture’s protected, and the stormwater and green infrastructure team, urban water team is safe. They didn’t get terminated,” he said. “So basically the energy, the waste and the transportation folks, as well as the director position [were cut].”…