New Orleans city leaders are taking a closer look at how trash service is tracked after discovering the numbers behind sanitation may not be adding up.
The review comes as the city considers raising the monthly sanitation fee residents pay for garbage and recycling pickup, a move now on hold until the data can be verified.
Right now, residents pay $24 a month for once-a-week trash service, a price that has not changed since 2011. The only change was after Hurricane Ida, residents lost trash pick-up twice a week…