The City of New Orleans at one point last week had just $30,000 in its general fund, Mayor Helena Moreno said Wednesday, a low balance for an account that’s budgeted to fund $800 million in operating expenses this year.
But Moreno, who took office in January, said that “with some very aggressive moves,” she predicts that City Hall will dig itself out of its budget crisis by 2027 — much sooner than the four years that Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack has said he expected it will take.
Moreno discussed the city’s budget and her administration’s priorities during a wide-ranging conversation Wednesday morning with Becky Mowbray, CEO of the Bureau of Governmental Research, a local good government nonprofit…