Mayor Helena Moreno met Tuesday night for more than two hours with the presidents of seven other metro area parishes — the first such meeting among the New Orleans area’s top leaders in years and an indication of the priority the new mayor is placing on regional cooperation.
Moreno disclosed details of the meeting on Friday at the Greater New Orleans Inc. annual luncheon. She said the gathering was an off-the-record brainstorming session held over a dinner at the Windsor Court, organized and paid for by GNO Inc. She sought the meeting, she said, because she wanted to revive connections with her peers in other parishes that have fallen by the wayside in recent years.
“I’d been hearing from different parish presidents that they felt they had a closed door to the mayor’s office for so long,” she said…