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Landry sets date to unveil SpaceX deal Event scheduled for Tuesday in Abbeville BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

Gov. Jeff Landry is inviting hundreds of Louisiana elected ofﬁcials and business leaders to Abbeville next week to announce that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is planning to build a multibillion-dollar spaceport on a roughly 18-mile stretch of the coast about 45 miles southwest of Lafayette. An invitation, sent via email by the Governor’s Office and Loui-

siana Economic Development on Wednesday, said Landry and LED Secretary Susan Bourgeois “cordially invite you to join them in announcing a deﬁning moment for Louisiana’s future.” The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Tuesday in Abbeville, the Vermilion Parish seat and the closest city to the site of the planned spaceport. The invitation didn’t mention SpaceX by name and Landry’s office declined to comment, but

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sources familiar with the deal said the subject of the announcement is the SpaceX project. The announcement has been anticipated for weeks and is expected to lay out the aerospace company’s plans to build a launch facility along the coast that will blast SpaceX’s reusable Starship

rockets — among the most powerful ever built — out over the Gulf and into orbit. The project could bring potentially thousands of jobs and a massive inﬂux of aerospace and other commercial activity to the coastal areas sandwiched between two wildlife refuges and known as a popular spot for recreational hunting and ﬁshing. The facility will be located on land — some 130,000 acres in all — that was owned for decades by ExxonMobil. The land was turned over to the state as part of a settlement of dozens of lawsuits blam-

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ing the oil giant for pollution and coastal land loss. Court records show that a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Tuesday signed an order dismissing the coastal suit that had been brought by Vermilion Parish against Exxon, a signal that the long-running case is over and that the settlement is ﬁnalized. The land is key to the state’s deal with SpaceX, which is expected to take control of the site through a sale, donation or long-term lease.

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Sheriff to review assault allegation Inmate claims he was beaten, put in dog collar BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer

The largest trash hauler in New Orleans, IV Waste, is owned by Sidney Torres IV.

Moreno announces overhaul of operations in wake of report

The effort, dubbed the Sanitation Accountability and Funding Reform Initiative, is aimed at getting a more accurate count of eligible homes and businesses, analyzing the cost of service and coming up BY BEN MYERS with a new monthly saniStaff writer tation fee. Ofﬁcials say a new fee Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration on Wednesday announced an overhaul of proposal will be present- Moreno the city’s trash-hauling operations after ed to the City Council next an audit found the city is paying contrac- week. “We are correcting years of problems tors for sanitation and recycling services to thousands of locations that are vacant instead of passing them on to another ador ineligible. ministration,” Moreno said in a prepared

statement. “We are going to build a sanitation system that is accurate, accountable and ﬁnancially sustainable.” Residents pay $24 a month for onceweekly trash service, with recycling provided on the city’s dime. Former Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration cut twice-weekly pickups to once per week in 2021 after a post-Hurricane Ida service collapse led to garbage piling up on streets for weeks. Cantrell then negotiated new contracts that led to more reliable, albeit less frequent, service. But the new contracts were far more

Orleans Parish Sheriff Michelle Woodfork is reopening an investigation into an alleged assault and rape that took place at the New Orleans jail under her predecessor, after a lawsuit filed this month described it in disturbing detail. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, alleged that on the night of Dec. 25, 2024, a man being held at the jail was beaten, stabbed and raped by a group of inmates and Woodfork later placed in a makeshift dog collar and paraded through the unit, resulting in treatment for stab wounds and severe bruising at a hospital. At no point during the Christmas night attack did Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office staff intervene, the lawsuit alleged. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a New Orleans man who was being held in the jail on drug and robbery charges. The victim is only identified by his initials in the filing. Woodfork, who took office in May, said in a statement Tuesday that an investigation conducted under then-Sheriff Susan Hutson appeared to have concluded that the allegations were unsubstantiated. She said there was no record

ä See GARBAGE, page 5A

ä See ASSAULT, page 7A

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Universities work to comply with Ten Commandments law

NEIGHBOR’S WIFE,” the eral appeals court in February al- nal affairs for the University of State requires display in all public classrooms THY newly installed poster states. lowed the Louisiana law requiring Louisiana system.

BY HALEY MILLER

the likenesses of Moses and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson. Staff writer A whiteboard emphasizing imIn a classroom at Fletcher Tech- portant dates in the semester nical Community College in Ter- hangs to the right of the 3,000-yearrebonne Parish, a poster bears the old text. “THOU SHALT NOT COVET Ten Commandments, flanked by

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“FINALS. CHRISTMAS BREAK,” the whiteboard states. As Louisiana college students return to campus this month, they will encounter mandated displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. This fall marks the ﬁrst full semester since a fed-

displays of the religious text in all public classrooms — including the lecture halls of colleges and universities — to take effect. “We have a responsibility as a state agency to follow the law, so that’s what we’re doing,” said Rich Vath, executive director of exter-

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Many of Louisiana’s public higher education institutions have completed or nearly completed the task of hanging the posters in their classrooms, according to administrators.

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Safari helicopter crash in northern Kenya kills 7

NAIROBI, Kenya — A safari helicopter crashed Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, killing seven people, including ﬁve Americans, according to local police and the U.S. State Department. Among those killed were an executive with Telemundo, the U.S.-based Spanish-language network owned by NBCUniversal, and the director of Ecuador’s national intelligence service. The helicopter crashed at 9:13 a.m. while ﬂying from the Loisaba Conservancy to the Ewaso Nyiro area in Samburu County, according to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, which said in a statement that an investigation was underway. It said there were seven people on board — six passengers and the pilot. Late on Wednesday, David Nkoroi, the police commander for Samburu, told reporters that all seven people on board had died. The U.S. State Department said five of those killed were U.S. citizens. The identities of the victims were not revealed but a local television station in Miami, Florida, said that José Suárez, 55, president and general manager of several Telemundo stations in Florida, was among those killed.

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Gaza ceasefire progress in doubt Israel’s deadly strikes raise concerns BY WAFAA SHURAFA

Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Deadly airstrikes in Gaza on Wednesday cast more doubt on whether new U.S. efforts can advance a tenuous ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. Just two days after U.S. negotiators reportedly asked Israel to draw down attacks in the Gaza Strip, at least 10 people were killed Wednesday in two strikes, according to local hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. Israeli troops also crossed the ceasefire line in southern Gaza and detained a Hamas police colonel at dawn Wednesday, two witnesses and a Hamas official said. Israel’s military said one of the strikes on Wednesday, in the area of Nuseirat refugee camp, struck a Hamas commander who had participated in the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people, mostly civil-

ians, were killed and 251 abducted. A second strike in the Tuffah area of Gaza City struck four Hamas militants gathering in a police station, the military said, claiming they were planning to carry out attacks against Israeli troops. Israel’s military said a strike the day before targeted a meeting of four Hamas commanders and additional militants. The commanders killed included Muhammad Hamdi Ahmad AlMasri, Muhammad Attar and Muhammad Fathi Hussein Nasser, all accused of carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli troops, and Samed Samir Harb Abu Habal, who infiltrated Israeli territory during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, according to a statement from Israel’s military. The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said the Wednesday Gaza City strike on the police station killed eight police ofﬁcers and a 13-year-

old girl. Two ofﬁcers were women, it said. One person was killed in Nuseirat. On Tuesday evening, an Israeli strike on a busy seaside cafe killed seven Palestinians, including a child, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Jared Kushner, a U.S. negotiator and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, held a marathon meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, in which he asked Israel’s leader to draw down attacks on Gaza, a person familiar with the meeting said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief journalists. Also on Wednesday, Israel’s military said it had completed reviews of 150 incidents of troop conduct during the war in Gaza and would launch criminal investigations into the 2024 killings of a 5-year-old girl and her family, as well as of 15 Palestinian paramedics in 2025. The deadly strikes in Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday exacted more casualties even as a ceaseﬁre

U.S. national debt now stands at $40T BY FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press

Death toll in gold mine collapse rises to over 100 BANGUI, Central African Republic — The death toll from a gold mine collapse in a western part of Central African Republic has risen to more than 100, a Red Cross volunteer involved in relief efforts and a local ofﬁcial said Wednesday. The low-tech, artisanal gold mine collapsed Tuesday morning in the village of Zamboye, in the Nana-Mambere prefecture, near the border with Cameroon. In addition to the dead, several survivors were critically injured, said Gervais Ganagoroh, a local Red Cross volunteer involved in relief efforts. The death toll is likely to rise since several people were still missing and others were trapped under the rubble, said Bertrand Be Yangué, a member of the Zamboye youth council. “Finding them alive would be a miracle,” Yangué said. “We are saddened and heartbroken to see young men and women perish after coming to the mines to save their families from despair.” An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the collapse, identify the victims and those responsible for operating the site, and establish any potential criminal liability, the prosecutor at the Baboua sub-prefecture court said in a statement.

Indonesia foils drug smuggling attempt BATAM, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities seized about 2.6 tons of liquid methamphetamine from a ship intercepted off Sumatra and detained 10 Myanmar nationals suspected of involvement in an international trafficking network, officials said Wednesday, in one of the country’s largest drug busts. The operation was carried out Monday by a joint task force of Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency, customs officials and Riau Islands police after authorities received intelligence about a vessel allegedly transporting narcotics from Malaysia’s Sarawak state toward Indonesian waters, said Roy Hardi Siahaan, the National Narcotics Agency’s director of enforcement. Siahaan said investigators found approximately 2.6 tons of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside eight drums and the vessel’s water tanks, describing the seizure as “one of the largest drug busts in Indonesia this year.”

CORRECTION A story Wednesday misstated how often two Jefferson Parish public schools have appeared on a national best schools list. Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies and Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy have appeared on that list more than once. The Times-Picayune regrets the error.

that’s been in place since October has significantly diminished the ﬁghting in the tiny enclave where more than 2 million Palestinians live. Since the ceasefire, Israeli strikes have killed at least 1,273 people, according to health officials in Gaza. On the diplomatic front, the ceasefire also appears stalled. Trump’s initial ceasefire plan laid out a broad vision for ending Hamas’ rule in Gaza and rebuilding the territory, much of which was reduced to rubble during the war. But since last fall, major sticking points have emerged on the conditions of Hamas’ disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal — and which should come ﬁrst. Earlier this month, Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to disarm. But Hamas said it would begin to disarm if Israel halts strikes and withdraws, adding that laying down its heavy weapons would come later and be contingent on the creation of a Palestinian state.

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The U.S. Army’s armored vehicles gather to cross a river at a training field in yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea on Tuesday.

North Korea shrugs off scaled-back exercises Officials say Trump’s move to cut back U.S.-S. Korea drills changes nothing

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Wednesday that a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea does not change what it sees as the provocative nature of the drills, dampening hopes for an early resumption of diplomacy between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made the comments Wednesday night in her country’s ﬁrst reaction to Trump’s moves to drastically cut back the annual U.S.-South Korean military drills. “We think it’s not worth making comments on that and we have no interest in it at all,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media. “The provocative, aggressive nature of the drills won’t change even though their duration and size were reduced.” She also cited a series of other military drills carried out by the U.S. and South Korea earlier this year and South Korea’s push to introduce nuclear-powered submarines. Kim Yo Jong denied that there are any communications between Trump and Kim. Earlier this week, pressed by reporters on whether he had a conversation with Kim Jong Un, Trump said that Kim had re-

sponded to his request for a conversation. Kim Yo Jong’s statement did not contain North Korea’s typically harsh rhetoric. She briefly said relations between her brother and Trump are “still excellent,” mentioning her brother’s past comments that he still has “good memories” of Trump. This suggests North Korea may be trying to manage relations with Trump, while seeking bigger concessions to restart talks. When asked by reporters Wednesday if he will meet with Kim Jong Un this year, Trump said that “Yeah, I will be.” He wouldn’t answer a question about whether he is exchanging letters with Kim but said he gets along with him. Kim Yo Jong’s statement came hours after the South Korean and U.S. militaries confirmed they were scaling back their 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises. Trump earlier ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the exercises, citing what he said was a good relationship with Kim and South Korea’s refusal to support him over Iran. South Korean officials said Trump’s announcement came without prior notice, baffling many people in the Asian country and raising concerns about joint defense readiness. South Korea’s military said the allies agreed to adjust the duration and scale of the exercises at the request of the U.S. It said the ongoing drills would end Friday, not Aug. 27 as initially planned. It added that the allies also agreed to downsize some joint field training exercises. The drills are a central pillar of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, which dates to the 1950-53 Korean War.

Telescope spies the fastest star in Milky Way around a black hole BY ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP science writer

NEW YORK — A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second. That’s 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane. “That star is really, extremely fast,” said as-

tronomer Stefan Gillessen with the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. The newly discovered star also orbits the black hole at closer range than scientists have ever seen before, taking just 8.7 years to complete a revolution. It harnesses the black hole’s gravity to ﬂy faster without falling in. Gillessen and colleagues uncovered the star in data collected by the European Southern Observatory’s

Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Their ﬁndings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature. There are several hundred stars that closely orbit this giant black hole and are sensitive to its gravity. Scientists have mapped the orbits of around 50 of them. The new star is 10 times closer than the previous record holder, meaning that it also feels the effects of the black hole’s rotation.

WASHINGTON — The national debt surpassed a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering milestone as defense costs, social programs like Social Security and Medicare and interest on the burgeoning deficit make up an enormous share of federal spending. The milestone ﬁgure was recorded just ﬁve months after the U.S. hit a record $39 trillion debt in March. It reached $38 trillion in October. The unprecedented $40 trillion figure highlights competing administration priorities, from boosting the defense spending that the U.S. relies on to carry out President Donald Trump’s almost-6-monthold Iran war to lowering the cost of gas and groceries. Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said the Trump administration “has been focused on slashing waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending while accelerating economic growth to get America’s

debt-to-GDP ratio trending in the right direction.” However, experts say the exploding debt and the latest record milestone is already affecting Americans’ pocketbooks by raising borrowing costs for things like mortgages and cars, lowering wages from businesses that have less money available to invest and creating more expensive goods and services. Advocates for a balanced budget also warn that the long-term trend of borrowing more and paying more in interest will force Americans to face tougher ﬁscal tradeoffs ahead. “The federal debt is already raising the cost of living and choking out other spending and investment, threatening our economy and Americans’ long-term prosperity,” said Margaret Spellings, president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center. The U.S. is subject to a statutory debt limit, or a limit to federal borrowing, which Congress has the authority to set, adjust or abolish.

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Exxon suit dismissed, clearing path for SpaceX Settlement could open 130,000 acres for launch site

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A federal judge has formally dismissed a coastal damages lawsuit brought by Vermilion Parish and the state of Louisiana against ExxonMobil following a settlement, ending a legal battle that has stretched over a decade and potentially clearing the way for the construction of Louisiana’s first spaceport. The case is one of 42 similar lawsuits led by Baton Rouge attorney John Carmouche, alleging that oil and gas companies polluted coastal marshes and contributed to the state’s land-loss crisis. As with the settlements in other coastal cases, the details have not been made public, and it is not clear how much money the state will receive from the company for coastal restoration efforts. But the settlement with Exxon in the Vermilion case is expected to allow SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk’s commercial spaceflight company, to acquire the use of about 130,000 acres of land owned by the oil company in the parish. There, the company plans to build a rocket launch site similar to the one it has constructed near Brownsville, Texas, according to sources close to the negotiations not authorized to speak publicly. An official announcement on SpaceX’s plans appears imminent. On Wednesday, Gov. Jeff Landry’s office sent invitations to hundreds of Louisiana public officials to an event in Abbeville next week at which he will announce the deal with SpaceX, according to sources with knowledge of the event. The Governor’s Office declined to comment on the invitations to the event, scheduled for Tuesday, but Landry celebrated the Exxon settlement in a statement. He provided no details on how it might help coastal restoration efforts, which are facing a severe funding shortfall in the years ahead, though he did signal that the settlement will help address abandoned

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Continued from page 1A Coastal protection measures are expected to be announced as part of the deal. SpaceX has declined to comment. But company executives, including Musk, have said in recent weeks that they need more launch sites to meet Musk’s ambitious goals of launching up to 100,000 Starlink mobile and broadband satellites and, eventually, up to 1 million orbital data center satellites. The Louisiana site is attractive to the company for several reasons. It is remote and sparsely populated with easy access to natural gas lines and proximity to the Gulf, which is ideal for launching satellites along a north-south orbit, and the Intracoastal Waterway, which can accommodate heavy barges carrying rockets. Also, the state Legislature this spring passed a sweep-

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SpaceX is expected to build a launch facility along the coast in Vermilion Parish. oil wells along the coast. “From the very beginning, I have dedicated myself to opening Louisiana to business. Over the past three years, we have achieved remarkable progress in improving the legal environment for our oil and gas companies!” he said. “The resolution with Exxon is a signiﬁcant victory for the state and the environment. Their commitment will facilitate the removal of hundreds of wells from the orphan well program along the coast, thereby saving our taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.” The governor had previously announced a settlement in the state’s coastal lawsuits against Exxon in June. Both Exxon and Carmouche, who spearheaded the coastal cases, declined to comment on the lawsuit’s

ing package of incentives that shield aerospace companies from liability related to launch activity and prevents local governments or individuals from being able to sue to block them. Last week, Musk’s personal jet was spotted at the Lafayette airport for several hours. Among those to receive invitations to next week’s announcement were members of the Louisiana Legislature, Abbeville City Council and Vermilion Parish Police Jury.

“The resolution with Exxon is a significant victory for the state and the environment. Their commitment will facilitate the removal of hundreds of wells from the orphan well program along the coast, thereby saving our taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.” GOV. JEFF LANDRy dismissal. But Carmouche previously applauded the oil companies for resolving the cases. “Some of the oil companies are realizing that this is a type of case that needs resolution, not ﬁghting in the courtroom for 12 years,” he said in May. The coastal cases, which have

Rep. Jack McFarland, a Republican from Farmerville who steered the incentive package through the Legislature earlier this year at the request of the Landry administration, said he plans to make the four-hour drive for the announcement. “I’m excited for another economic investment opportunity for Louisiana,” McFarland said. Email Stephanie Riegel at stephanie.riegel@ theadvocate.com.

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been winding their way through the courts since the ﬁrst of them was ﬁled in 2013, aimed to provide a remedy for land loss, providing funding from oil and gas companies for coastal restoration efforts. Vermilion Parish lost 95 square miles of land between 1932 and 2015, according to a Times-Picayune | The Advocate analysis of state data. Through 2070, the parish could lose up to 360 additional square miles. But the cases have been long stalled, and only one of them has gone to trial so far. The companies and the state have repeatedly sparred over whether they should be heard in federal or state court, delaying the cases’ resolution. Finally, last year, the first of the coastal cases went to trial in Email Alex Lubben at alex. Plaquemines Parish, where a jury lubben@theadvocate.com.

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ordered Chevron to pay $745 million in damages. But the U.S. Supreme Court later weighed in, sending the Plaquemines case to federal court, where a federal judge will decide whether to toss the jury verdict and order the case retried. The Supreme Court’s ruling may have increased the state’s willingness to settle rather than continue a lengthy legal battle. Both Landry and Carmouche have said that their interest in the cases is to clear the oil companies’ liability in order to allow new business to come in. That may be exactly what happens. Sources familiar with the discussions say the site is appealing to SpaceX, which is looking for new areas from which to launch its newest, largest rocket, called Starship. It intends to use that rocket to launch data centers into orbit around the Earth. But the secrecy of the settlements in the coastal cases in a state losing a football ﬁeld of land every 100 minutes has led to questions over whether Louisiana is abandoning the lawsuits’ original intent. They also come as Landry’s administration faces scrutiny over its aggressive use of nondisclosure agreements in connection with economic development projects, including those related to data center construction, keeping key details out of the public’s view. “The settlement is shrouded in confidentiality and secrecy. We don’t even know what the terms of the settlement are,” said Blaine LeCesne, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. “Only time is going to tell whether the citizens of Louisiana have once again been given the short and soiled end of a very dirty stick. We just don’t know. But we deserve to know.” Keith Hall, the director of the Energy Law Center at Louisiana State University, noted that the agreement was conﬁdential but said that it appeared that “the state government and Exxon have come to something they think is in their mutual interest. “It could be great for both sides,” Hall said. Staff writer Stephanie Riegel contributed to this report.

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Continued from page 1A costly, and auditors said in their report that the fee isn’t generating nearly enough revenue to cover the cost, leaving a $21.1 million gap. Auditors also found nearly 8% — 13,000 of the 164,625 service locations — may be vacant, nonexistent or duplicates. Others on the location list, such as hotels, aren’t eligible for service under city ordinance. In addition to vacant and duplicate properties, others had already been retired from service or were multifamily residences with more than four units, which are required to solicit private service. Duplicate addresses cost the city $319,000 in unnecessary payments to contractors, auditors found. It’s not clear how much the other ineligible service locations are driving up costs, if at all. Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack said the 13,000 number is “a starting point” derived from numerous databases, some of which conflict with one another. He said city officials will need to spend months working with garbage haulers to come up with an accurate list of service locations. “We’re presenting differences in the datasets that the city has to actually drill down on and reconcile,” Waguespack said in an interview. Auditors recommended a series of steps for the city to identify and remove invalid locations, nearly all of which the city agreed with. Once an accurate list is established, Waguespack said, the city should reconcile it on a monthly basis. Sidney Torres IV, who owns the city’s largest trash hauler, IV Waste, said he is open to renegotiating payment terms to reflect an accurate service location count. He also said he hired a GIS expert who found Waguespack’s ineligible list includes small businesses and inhabited residences that are properly receiving trash pickups. “There’s multiple addresses at this one parcel in Lakeview that we’re picking up, we’re servicing, but they have as nothing there,” Torres said. “This is going to be a monumental task.” Alvin Richard, who owns Richard’s Disposal, which services Algiers, said previous administrations have failed to pay haulers for all the locations they pick up at.

Residents of New Orleans pay $24 a month for once-weekly trash service, with recycling paid for by the city. “I got a problem with the whole thing,” Richard said. “I just stay quiet with it because I’ve been working with it for so long, and I’m a New Orleanian. Just let politics and all that stuff alone.” A representative for Waste Pro, which services New Orleans East and the Lower 9th Ward, did not respond to a message.

Spiraling costs Cantrell executed contracts with the city’s three existing trash haulers — IV Waste, WastePro and Richard’s Disposal — after Ida in 2021, when sanitation service faltered and garbage piled up on streets for weeks. The new contracts were signiﬁcantly more expensive than the previous ones, with measures requiring newer equipment, tracking data and protections for employees. That led to more reliable service, according to 311 complaint

data, but the city cut twice-weekly pickups in half to help pay for it. The $24 monthly sanitation fee didn’t change despite the cut in service frequency, which has been a sore spot among many residents who have accused the city of ripping them off in countless public meetings. At the same time, the fee — which hasn’t changed since 2011 — isn’t generating nearly enough to cover the cost of service. Fee revenue amounted to $38 million last year, but the cost of service was $59 million, the audit found. That deﬁcit also reﬂects the cost of recycling, which the city doesn’t charge residents for. The city would have needed to increase the monthly fee to about $36, a 50% increase, to cover the cost of service last year, according to the audit. The audit noted that Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Jefferson Parish residents all pay

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more than New Orleanians for sanitation, with small annual increases to keep up with costs. Notably, Baton Rouge and Jefferson Parish also receive twiceweekly pickups. City officials haven’t yet announced a new fee proposal, but a Moreno administration news release said it will reﬂect “the actual cost of service.” Moreno has previously said she would explore ways to provide additional service to accompany any fee hike.

administration capped the number of locations Metro and Richard’s would be paid for, an arrangement the companies long complained was unfair because it didn’t keep up with their service load. Tension boiled over during Cantrell’s administration, when the pandemic led to huge increases in household waste and service faltered. The Cantrell administration and contractors traded blame for the service meltdowns, and Metro eventually was forced out of its contract and into bankruptcy. Past tensions Richard’s, which services AlThe accuracy of the service lo- giers, made amends with city ofcation list has historically been a ﬁcials. source of tension between haulers The Cantrell administration, and city government. Before the while never publicly admitting recent contracts, two companies, fault, paid the companies a comMetro Service Group and Rich- bined $9 million in legal settleard’s, split up most of the city in ments. two roughly equal service areas, an arrangement that dated to 2007. Email Ben Myers at bmyers@ Former Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s theadvocate.com.

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Companies that secretly vary prices based on how much they think individual customers will pay could face federal charges under a proposed policy released Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission. “When consumers see a listed price, they expect it to be same price that everyone else sees, not the retailer’s estimate of how much they are willing to pay based on their personal data,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement. The FTC has had its eye on personalized pricing for a while. In a preliminary report filed in January 2025, the agency found that grocers, clothing companies and others were using third-party companies to help them individualize online prices based on shoppers’ locations, browsing histories and how long they left items in their virtual shopping carts. In one hypothetical example, the FTC said a consumer profiled as a new parent might be shown higher-priced baby thermometers on the first page of their search results. Ferguson said the FTC doesn’t have the legal authority to ban personalized pricing in all circumstances. But under the proposed policy, businesses would have to “clearly and conspicuously disclose” if they are engaging in personalized pricing and share the types of data they’re using to set those prices.

Moderna shares surge upon key test results Moderna shares more than doubled Wednesday after it announced initial results from a study of an experimental cancer treatment that would be the ﬁrst of its kind if approved by regulators. Moderna and Merck are developing a treatment using an mRNA-based cancer vaccine called intismeran that is designed to be tailored to individual patients based on unique mutations within their tumors. In current studies, they are pairing it with Keytruda, a immunotherapy drug made by Merck. The study compared using intismeran and Keytruda together on melanoma patients against using Keytruda alone. The companies said patients who received the combination lived longer without cancer returning or metastasizing than patients who got Keytruda alone. The companies did not say how long patients survived without cancer returning or whether patients lived longer overall.

China puts robotics ambitions on display BEIJING — Do you want to see whether a robot can fold a piece of cloth? Interested in getting a robot dog or even a humanoid robot that could offer some emotional support? Or perhaps you just want to watch robots boxing and dancing? Come to Beijing. China kicked off the 2026 World Robot Conference on Wednesday, with companies showcasing the country’s expanding robotics industry as it looks to move the technology beyond demonstrations and into factories and other realworld applications. Organizers say around 3,000 products will be showcased during the ﬁve-day event. Despite the conference’s name, there was no sign of other countries exhibiting. One of the main attractions on Wednesday was the booth of Unitree, one of China’s leading humanoid robot makers, where some of its models boxed and danced. One even played ping pong with a human opponent. The opening of the conference coincided with Unitree’s stock market debut in Shanghai. The conference comes weeks after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move targeting China.

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Fed warns about possible rate hikes Many officials worried that inflation won’t subside, minutes show

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP economics writer

WASHINGTON — Many Federal Reserve officials think the central bank will have to lift its key shortterm interest rate in the coming months if inflation doesn’t subside, minutes of the Fed’s meeting last month showed. The minutes of the July 28-29 meeting, released Wednesday, don’t provide specifics on how many of the 19 officials supported higher rates. Only 12 of the 19 policymakers vote on the outcome. Officials voted 9-3 at the meeting to keep their key rate unchanged at about 3.6%.

Inflation has since showed some signs of cooling, though gas prices have rebounded this month on renewed hostilities in the Middle East. Wall Street investors now expect the Fed to remain on hold at its next meeting in September and potentially lift rates in December, though that outlook could change. At last month’s meeting, Fed officials were heavily focused on the threat of stubbornly elevated inflation. Fed officials worried that the Iran war, tariffs, and heavy investment in AI infrastructure were all boosting prices of a range of goods and services. “Participants judged that their inflation outlooks were highly uncertain and that inflation risks were skewed to the upside,” the minutes said. “Many participants assessed

that (higher rates) would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline.” Some Fed officials pointed out that “even after excluding prices of items most directly affected by tariffs and energy prices, underlying inflation appeared to be elevated,” the minutes said. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called “core” prices have cooled, with annual core inflation falling to 2.5% in July, the government said last week, according to the consumer price index. Yet the Fed pays more attention to a separate gauge, the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, which is running hotter than the CPI. Core PCE prices are expected to have risen 3.3% in July from a year ago, a much higher reading than CPI. Those figures will be reported Aug. 26.

According to the minutes, “Most participants anticipated that inflation would step down over the rest of the year as the effects of tariffs and earlier energy price increases wane, but many participants noted the possibility that inflation might be more persistently elevated.” New Fed chair Kevin Warsh also unnerved Wall Street investors last month by providing little guidance at a July 29 news conference on what the Fed’s next steps might be, threatening the Fed’s inflationfighting credibility. Interest rates, or yields, on longer-term Treasury securities, which had already risen before the meeting, moved higher. Warsh has said he will provide less of what he calls “forward guidance” about the Fed’s plans, which he sees as limiting the central bank’s policy options even if economic circumstances change.

EXPANDING AIR DROPS Amazon set to bring drone deliveries in nearly 500 cities

BY JOSH FUNK Associated Press

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Wednesday to expand airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities. Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon said in a news release. The drones can carry packages up to 5 pounds. The plan will intensify the battle between Amazon and Walmart to provide consumers with the fastest delivery times. Both giants rely on a mix of drones and drivers to deliver everything consumers have ordered. Amazon’s plan would expand its drone delivery operation more than sixfold nationwide into hundreds of new communities, including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise metro areas. The drones will primarily fly in the suburbs well away from skyscrapers and major airports that could cause problems. Amazon launched drone delivery service in Baton Rouge early last month. The MK30 drone delivers products from Amazon’s facility at Cortana Place to anywhere within a 7.5-mile radius. That covers an area that includes Scotlandville, Central, parts of St. George, LSU, Southern University and downtown. Hundreds of thousands of packages have already been delivered by Amazon drones this year, but even after this expansion drones will still only handle a fraction of the hundreds of millions of package deliveries each year. In addition to only being able to carry 5 pounds, the drones Amazon builds face countless challenges from tree cover to landscaping and inflatable pools that can make it hard to find a good drop zone. There are also regulatory hurdles to overcome in every community where Amazon wants to set up operations. Noise concerns also pose a potential challenge. “It’s still an experiment. It’s still in testand-learn mode,” said Sucharita Kodali, who is a retail analyst with Forrester. Walmart also uses drones in some locations as part of its delivery service, but the core part of its network relies on drivers to bring

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Jeff Cleland, principal of infrastructure and regulatory affairs, talks about the drone that Prime Air uses in the Amazon drone delivery. Amazon, which launched drone delivery service in Baton Rouge last month, said it wants to expand airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities. orders directly from its stores to customers. Walmart didn’t immediately respond Wednesday to Amazon’s announcement, but the retail giant said early this year that it planned to expand drone delivery service to 150 more stores in partnership with Wing, a division of Alphabet, to give it 270 drone delivery locations by 2027. Initially, consumers might order something delivered by drone because they are curious about it, but it’s not clear how often they will continue to use the service, and Amazon is still working out the economics, Kodali said. The service will be free for Amazon Prime members who are ordering more than $50 worth of goods, but smaller orders will cost members $2.99. Nonmembers will pay $4.99 for drone delivery. Prime members get free deliveries while nonmembers pay a ﬂat fee if the shipment is under $35 for standard delivery or up to $12.99 for same-day shipments when avail-

able. Kodali said drones could prove more useful for certain lightweight deliveries that are needed urgently like prescription medications. DoorDash and other delivery companies also are experimenting with using drones to deliver foods and other goods. Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders in his annual letter in April that the company has learned a great deal by ﬂying drones in 11 sites across Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and Texas. In each location, the drones launch from an Amazon warehouse and cover about 175 square miles, so it takes multiple drone launching locations to serve a large metro area. “Prime Air now has a design that’ll scale, plans to serve communities with 30 million customers by year-end, and expects to deliver half a billion packages by the end of this decade (with an aim to deliver inside 30 minutes),” Jassy wrote.

Ex-engineer says Instagram safety ‘was an afterthought’ Testimony heard on child safety at trial

BY BARBARA ORTUTAY AP technology writer

OAKLAND, California — A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, Arturo Béjar said Meta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing its products, focusing on how often and for how long people used them, even if it was detrimental to their mental well-being. “If you step away from the prod-

uct, they are not going to make any money,” he said. The trial that began Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, California, pits Meta against the states of California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey and is expected to last about six weeks. The four states were among 29 that sued the tech giant in 2023 over child safety and privacy — the other 25 will go to trial later. The company also faces lawsuits in state courts, including one underway in Tennessee. The lawsuit accuses Meta of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features that addict children to its platforms and hide these harms from the public. It also argues that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’

consent, in violation of federal law. “The attitude in particular on Instagram was ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’ ” Béjar said in response to a question about his perception of the company’s attitude towards users under 13. The company has rejected the claims and said evidence at the trial will show its commitment to safety. “You will hear over the course of this case a lot of important issues, issues like teen mental health, issues like social media, issues like how teens use social media,” Meta lawyer Paul Schmidt said Tuesday. “Those are important issues, and they’re issues where Meta believes that it has a responsibility. It has a responsibility to act on its own. It has a responsibility to try to work with teens and parents in partnership to try to address those

questions.” Béjar worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, attracting wide attention for his work to combat cyberbullying. He returned from 2019 to 2021 as a contractor to work on safety issues. He testiﬁed before Congress in 2023 about social media and the teen mental health crisis, saying that Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, knew about harms Instagram was causing but chose not to make meaningful changes to address them. In his testimony Wednesday, Béjar said employee performance reviews and compensation for those who worked on user-facing products were mostly focused on user numbers and how long they spend with those products. “In that context, safety was an afterthought,” he said.

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Continued from page 1A that it was referred to law enforcement for prosecution. Woodfork said she has since directed OPSO’s Investigative Services Bureau to conduct a review of the facts and circumstances around the incident. “Due to the serious nature of the allegations and because the applicable criminal offenses do not appear to be time-barred, we believe it is important to do our own due diligence to examine the investigative ﬁle,” Woodfork said.

Alleged attack Much of the alleged assault occurred in the victim’s cell, according to the lawsuit, which John Adcock, a New Orleans attorney who specializes in civil rights cases and is representing the plaintiff, said was largely based on a review of surveillance footage from inside the jail. The lawsuit said the attack began around 10:33 p.m., when an inmate entered the victim’s cell with a homemade shank and began stabbing the victim in his torso. At one point, the victim stumbled into the dayroom, before getting dragged back into his cell by his hair, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit described the victim getting raped with the end of a broomstick and sprayed in the face with chemicals used for cleaning. Near the end of the assault, the lawsuit said attackers placed the collar on the victim’s neck and walked him through the housing unit on his hands and knees on a leash. “They force him to bark

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A man has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was beaten, stabbed and raped by a group of inmates and later placed in a makeshift dog collar and paraded through the unit while being held at the New Orleans jail. like a dog. Innumerable inmates are watching,” the lawsuit stated. According to the lawsuit, there was no guard stationed in the unit where the alleged attack happened. The only deputy supervising the unit that night was stationed in a control booth, where her job was to monitor two housing pods at once through surveillance video. The lawsuit alleged that the deputy left the control pod unattended at least twice for around 14 minutes, including during the alleged attack. Shortly before the attack, a different deputy conducted a security round, but she leaves “without inspecting any cells or shaking down any inmates,” the lawsuit stated. OPSO staff didn’t reenter the housing unit until the next morning, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit argued the

attack was the “predictable result of a legacy of dereliction” at the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce to adequately staff and supervise the jail. Hutson, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said in a prepared statement that she would respond to the lawsuit through “appropriate legal ﬁlings.” Hutson noted that OPSO “has strong policies and investigative practices for these type of incidents that are alleged to have occurred within its facilities and for holding individuals accountable when misconduct is found.” Woodfork is also named as a defendant, alongside OPSO, the jail’s warden, two unnamed deputies who were on duty that night and nine detainees accused of participating in the assault.

poster designs contain paragraphs with an overview of “The History of the Ten The law left some ambi- Commandments in Ameriguity about how to comply can Public Education.” on a college campus, where “classroom” can be a murky Students concerned term. At UL institutions, for Louisiana has four public example, lab spaces are not university systems, all renecessarily included in the quired to hang the donated mandate, Vath said. posters. LSU appears to “It’s places where there’s be the only system to have consistent, explicit, formal completed installation syseducation experiences with temwide. Spokespeople for students,” he said. “That’s UL, Southern and Louisiana roughly how they’ve made Community and Technical the determination.” Colleges said the effort was The Louisiana Family Fo- underway. Vath said there has not rum, a conservative advocacy group, donated thousands been any formal pushback of posters to public colleges from faculty or students and universities to support since the posters started gothe statute, which states that ing up, but debate may ramp institutions are not required up as the semester begins. to spend their own funds to LSU Faculty Senate Presibe compliant. Still, campus dent Daniel Tirone, who is labor is likely being used — also a political science proacross the UL system, Vath fessor, said he wants all stusaid, facilities employees dents to still feel welcome in are responsible for install- the classroom as campuses implement the law. ing the displays. “I would not anticipate Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s ofﬁce ap- that there would be any elproved four versions of the ement of the education that posters. One design includes would change as a result of a representation of Moses this,” Tirone said. and a photo of Johnson, RAs students move in Benton, with the Old Tes- across Louisiana this week, tament text in the middle. some are just now learnAnother shows legal think- ing of the posters. Southern

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of the mandate, said she was worried about the separation of church and state. “They might as well do it with every religion then, if they’re going to do it with Christianity,” Lawrence said. “Not everybody follows it.” LSU sophomore Bryson Freeman said he believes students should be exposed to the Ten Commandments but does not agree with the state’s approach. “I don’t think it should be enforced like that,” Freeman said. “I myself am a Christian, but I don’t want to force it on people. I think it’s good to be a reminder, but there’s probably a better way to do it.” LSU sophomore Tatiyana Mack was concerned that the posters would make students who practice religions that do not follow the Ten Commandments feel excluded. “It’s one of those if we’re going to do one, we’re going to do all, type things,” Mack said. “If we’re not going to do all, then we shouldn’t just have one. Low-key, I don’t want to see that on the wall.”

inmates unsupervised for hours and allow them to have access to materials by which to fashion weapons,” monitors wrote in their October 2024 report. “Many of the inmate-on-inmate assaults occur because staff allow inmates out of their cells and leave them unsupervised.” Adcock said Woodfork should consider recommending appropriate criminal charges against OPSO staff or deputies who are found to have failed in their responsibilities. Adcock said his client was taken to the hospital a day after the attack and has since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The plaintiff is seeking unspeciﬁed monetary damages. OPSO hasn’t released a copy of the incident report for the alleged attack.

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New Orleans agreed to a court-ordered reform agreement, or consent decree, more than a decade ago to remedy rampant violence and unconstitutional conditions inside its jail. Over the last six years, federal monitors have said that the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce has backslid in its efforts to reach compliance with that consent decree. In 2024, the Sheriff’s Office reported 735 incidents of inmate-oninmate assault — the highest since 2018. “For all the progress made since the consent decree started, you still have a very, very violent jail,” said Adcock. The consent decree requires there be a guard physically present providing direct supervision on each of the jail’s housing units at all times. The lawsuit pointed to repeated warnings by independent monitors about staffing in the months leading up to the alleged assault. “Staff continue to leave

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Trump announces pick to lead Psychologist testiﬁes Food and Drug Administration Clancy not criminally Heidi Overton, a top responsible in killing White House aide, to step into role

Mental health left her her medical records, said she to a perinatal clinic in Deunable to appreciate went cember 2022 because she felt “brain was damaged,” “she ‘wrongfulness’ of murder her should kill herself” and that she

BY ALI SWENSON and MATTHEW PERRONE

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, has been picked to lead the Food and Drug Administration, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Overton is a medical doctor and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council who has worked on several of Trump’s second-term health initiatives. She has become a trusted administration figure and a champion of the Republican president’s goals. If confirmed by the Senate, she would have to balance a raft of competing priorities, including Trump’s fixations, the anti-regulatory interests of traditional Republicans and the anti-corporate posture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Those challenges dogged the tenure of the previous FDA head, Dr. Marty Makary. He resigned in May, leaving behind unfinished projects such as work on ultraprocessed foods, antidepressants and COVID-19 shots. Referring to her as “Dr. Heidi” in a Truth Social post, Trump said Overton was a smart and respected “rockstar” who would deliver on his priorities of faster cures, innovation, lower drug prices and more wins for Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. Kennedy posted on X that Overton has “exceptional judgment, professionalism, discipline and an unwavering commitment to the American people.” Overton attended medical school at the University of New Mexico and has a doctoral degree in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins University, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before joining Trump’s second administration, she was the chief policy officer at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., center, speaks as President Donald Trump and Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, listen during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines on Aug. 10. Trump announced Wednesday Overton will lead the Food and Drug Administration. think tank. In recent months, she has appeared with the president to announce major projects, including some of his “most favored nation” deals with drug companies to lower prices to those of other developed countries and his recent vaccine order that sought to split the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate immunizations — against the advice of medical groups. At an Oval Office event to promote that order, she stood by Trump as he falsely suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder. Scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. Overton has been critical of abortion pills and, if confirmed, would be positioned to roll back FDA rules that made them more accessible. U.S. abortion opponents have expressed frustration that the administration has not acted to stem the flow of such pills prescribed online, a situation they view as undermining state abortion bans.

Mifepristone is typically used with misoprostol in medication abortions that make up close to two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. Medical professionals call it “among the safest medications” ever approved by the FDA. To be conﬁrmed, Overton must seek approval from a narrowly Republican-led Senate and face questions from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Its chair, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician from Baton Rouge, has been a vocal critic of some of Trump’s actions to sow doubt in vaccinations, including the MMR order. Cassidy posted Wednesday that while he respects Overton’s medical background, he has “strong concerns” about the nomination, mentioning her lack of managerial experience and her participation in the recent vaccine order, which he called “almost disqualifying.” Democratic senators slammed the nomination. “Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA,” posted Washington Sen. Patty Murray, a committee member.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy didn’t appreciate the “wrongfulness” of killing her three children because of her mental health issues, a psychologist testifying for the defense said at her murder trial Wednesday. The testimony of Paul Zeizel is the strongest evidence yet to support the defense contentions that Clancy should not be held legally responsible for murder because she has bipolar disorder and was in the grip of a rare mental illness called postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children before trying to kill herself. Zeizel began seeing Clancy as a patient at a hospital after the deaths. “She was unable to conform her behavior to the rule of law. She had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act,” Zeizel said, adding that she had “a mental disease or a defect.” Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. Postpartum psychosis is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Researchers estimate that the condition — which is more serious and less common than postpartum depression — afﬂicts 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery. Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the January 2023 killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family. Zeizel, who said he spent more than 35 hours with Clancy over dozens of visits and reviewed

“is never going to get any better.” She also showed signs of psychosis, was paranoid and feared that people could hear her thoughts and that she would lose her children. “She was worried that her children would be removed from her and that she would never see them again,” he said. But just because she was in a psychotic state, Zeizel said, that didn’t mean she couldn’t do “everyday tasks of living” like driving and searching the internet, a reference to the fact that the day of the killings she took her daughter to the doctor, played with the children in the snow and searched online for a pharmacy and a restaurant. “So the fact she is not talking about the unicorns in the corner, she is not slurring her words and she is not unable to walk, to your opinion to a degree of medical certainty, does that mean she is not in a psychotic state?” Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington asked. Zeizel responded: “It does not.” On cross-examination, prosecutors pointed out mistakes Zeizel made in his report about Clancy and questioned whether he could be objective about her diagnosis when he was seeing her as a patient and working with the defense including appearing with Reddington at a news conference. Zeizel acknowledged that there was nothing in Clancy’s medical records in which she reports hearing voices telling her to kill herself, only that she told her caregivers that “she wanted to die.” Prosecutors have questioned the seriousness of Clancy’s suicide attempt. After strangling her children, Clancy jumped from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

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Plan charges krewes $850 per float or truck BY DOUG MacCASH Staff writer

It may cost more for Carnival krewes to roll in the future, as the New Orleans City Council will soon consider taxing each parade ﬂoat or truck $850.

The fee, outlined in an ordinance on the council’s Thursday agenda, would be capped at $45,000 per parade, and is aimed at helping the cash-strapped city close a $4 million gap between the costs of hosting Carnival parades each year and the revenue the city receives

from the events. At the request of Mayor Helena Moreno, council member Freddie King sponsored the proposed ﬂoatbased tax that’s called the Carnival Gap Adjustment for Parades Fee — GAP Fee for short. King said Wednesday that the matter “is

still being discussed,” and won’t be voted on Thursday. A discussion is planned for the Criminal Justice Committee Meeting on Aug. 31, he said. and a vote is planned for Sept. 6. GAP Fee funds would be used exclusively to cover costs related to parade presentation including, “public safety, trafﬁc control, emergency preparedness, route

management, sanitation coordination, barricade operations, permitting administration, and other municipal services related to the carnival season,” according to the proposed change to the Mardi Gras code. Carnival has long been seen as a boon to New Orleans economy,

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Trial underway in suit by justice

IN HIS HONOR

The Advocate named as defendant

BY DAVID J. MITCHELL Staff writer

The trial of a defamation lawsuit by a Louisiana Supreme Court justice against The Advocate is underway in an Iberville Parish courthouse, with attorneys for both sides clashing over a 2019 editorial and the jurist taking the witness stand to press his case. Justice Jefferson Hughes III claims an editorial by the newspaper falsely said he acted improperly when, as a district judge nearly 30 years ago, he presided over a child custody case in which his then-girlfriend was for a time a lawyer before him. Attorneys for the newspaper countered in opening statements Tuesday that the case was “about one thing and one thing only” — whether The Advocate can publish something that holds accountable an ofﬁcial in one of the highest ofﬁces in the state.

Friends, family and

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classmates of Jacque St. Ann gather on the football ﬁeld at Belle Chasse High School

Deputy accused of abusing Flock cameras fired

for a memorial service on Wednesday. St. Ann, a student of the school, died after falling from the Plaza Tower while exploring the abandoned downtown New Orleans

JPSO officer searched woman’s plate ‘several thousand times’

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its useful purpose,” said Lisa Herron, an adviser with Manning, which has provided several different assessments for a new version of Civil District Court from as far back as 2002. No decisions were made Wednesday afternoon. The committee has until Jan. 12 to submit a ﬁnal report, and there will

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto on Wednesday announced the termination of a deputy who admitted to using the department’s Flock automated license plate recognition system to search a plate belonging to his former fiancée “several thousand times” over several years. The deputy, identified by the department as Nathan Rome, is not facing any criminal charges, such as cyberstalking, after the fiancée declined to make a criminal complaint. Officials said the fiancée told investigators she was aware of the searches and that she did not consider herself a victim.

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Demolishing, rebuilding municipal complex could cost $326M Advisory board explores options

million, a group of architects told an advisory board looking at what’s next for the city’s municipal complex. “It probably has reached the last of its life span,” Kevin BY VIOLET BUCARO Quan, of Manning Architecture, Staff writer said at the Municipal Complex Tearing down and rebuild- Advisory Committee meeting ing New Orleans’ City Hall and Wednesday afternoon. The committee, created by Civil District Court building in 2027 could cost as much as $326 Mayor Helena Moreno within

days of taking ofﬁce, has been exploring new options for the decrepit complex on Perdido Street downtown. Three options under consideration are a renovation of the existing buildings, a complete demolition and rebuild, or moving city and court functions to another location entirely. “I would say that this nearly 70-year-old building … has lost

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Pearl River mayor spars with police leaders BY JIM DERRY Staff writer

The removal of a school resource ofﬁcer at Little Pearl Elementary School sparked a debate that spilled into Tuesday’s meeting of the Pearl River Town Council, as police department leaders butted heads with Mayor Joe Lee and aldermen. In front of an overflow crowd at Pearl River Town Hall, Police Chief Jack Sessions and Maj. David Dean asked the council for a “united front” in an attempt to restore Pearl River police ofﬁcer Courtney Badon to her position at Little Pearl. Badon, who has served as the school resource officer at Little Pearl for the past two years, was

told that she would not be able to serve in the position this school year after the St. Tammany School Board notified Lee that she didn’t yet have the required school resource officer training. Lee said that due to her lack of the required certification, his hands were tied and that he could not support the request to reinstate her. Lee “I am not going to recommend taking somebody who is not SRO certified,” said Lee. “Training is a big deal to me.” Roughly 100 people attended the meeting Tuesday evening, most of them to support Badon in an effort to allow her to return to the school, as classes are in their second full

week of the new year. Dean said that Lee should have given the department the information about the training earlier. “That would have been great information to have a month ago, and we would have appreciated if you told this to us in person, in a meeting, and not in a letter,” Dean said. He then asked the mayor and the council, “Will y’all support us?” in a push to have her reinstated, although neither the mayor nor the council have the powers to put Badon back in the position unless they were willing to violate a contract with the school board. The meeting turned into a heated

debate, as Dean and Lee went back and forth on multiple occasions for several minutes. The St. Tammany Parish School Board told Lee earlier this summer that an officer must be POSTcertified and also have specific SRO training. The latter cannot be attained until an officer has been POST-certified for 2 years, which Badon will hit Aug. 27, a month after the state held its annual SRO training for the 2026-27 school year. Therefore, she must wait until next summer to become qualified. Schools Superintendent Frank Jabbia confirmed Wednesday the school system’s “agreements with all our local law enforcement partners … require that a POST-certi-

fied police officer perform the duties of a School Resource Officer.” Lee said if there was a way for Badon to be SRO trained before next summer, he would gladly offer his approval to have her back at Little Pearl as soon as she was certified. However, the state only offers training on Sundays in June and July each year. “I get it; it’s heartbreaking,” Lee said. “You see the parents who are here in support of her. That’s all she’s ever done. It’s about the kids, I understand. But I basically got called into the principal’s office and was told she couldn’t be there.” Email Jim Derry at jderry@ theadvocate.com.

Community mourns Hahnville High Drone ban set for Tiger football player Patrick ‘PJ’ Jackson Jr. Stadium on game days 17-year-old loses battle with cancer

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

Staff writer

Patrick “PJ” Jackson Jr. never let adversity stop his momentum, whether it was in the classroom, on the football ﬁeld, or even during the ﬁght for his life. Despite setback after setback after he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, Jackson, 17, kept his faith forefront and his head held high as he focused on elevating the worried spirits of his loved ones, according to his parents. Jackson lost his fight Aug. 12, just after he was to begin his senior year at Hahnville High School in St. Charles Parish. But his mother, Courtney Paul, said she knows exactly what her son would say in this moment. “I can just hear his voice pushing me through. ‘Come on, mom. I’m going to let you cry for a little bit. But you’ve got to get up. You’ve got to keep going,’ ” Paul, 39, said Monday. Family and friends are set to celebrate Jackson’s life Saturday during funeral services that will be held at Hahnville High.

‘Dedicated leader’ Jackson’s death has reverberated through the community. His friends, classmates and teammates are struggling with his loss. “We have a very close-knit group of seniors,” Hahnville Head Football Coach Greg Boyne said. “These kids are hurting.”

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Continued from page 1B Hughes is seeking $10 million in damages. Hughes testified for hours Wednesday and was still on the stand as the evening wore on. He said he did become romantically involved with the lawyer, but only after she removed herself from the case. Asked by Suzy Montero, one of The Advocate’s attorneys in the case, why he ﬁled suit in Iberville Parish even though he lives in Livingston Parish, Hughes said he didn’t want to seem like he was seeking an advantage in his home parish. He added he didn’t sue in East Baton Rouge Parish because he felt that could beneﬁt The Advocate, which is based there. He said chose Iberville because it’s the next largest parish within his Supreme Court district and he had high school friends there who might see him clear his name. Along with testifying, Hughes has sometimes acted as his own attorney in the trial, getting up with his other lawyers for sidebars at the bench to make arguments before 18th Judicial District Judge Kevin Kimball. Retired Editor Peter Kovacs and retired editorial board member Danny Heitman are named as defendants in the case along with The Advocate. They are among the witnesses expected to testify. The editorial followed a story by the paper that Hughes had sent secret apology letters to some families who had cases before him in the late ’90s. Federal prosecutors and the state’s Judiciary Commission had investigated Hughes over one of the cases featured in the stories and the editorial in dispute. That case involved the welfare and custody of a 5-year-old boy

Jackson was the oldest of Court- riorate in the early summer, but ney Paul and Patrick Jackson Sr.’s his faith never did. “I’ve never seen a child so strong children. Relatives said he was an outgoing presence who always in my life,” Paul said. “After hearsought to put a smile on your face. ing disappointing results, you just “PJ was a kid that had a big want to get in bed and put the covheart,” Patrick Jackson Sr. said. ers over your head. Watching him “He was resilient, selﬂess and a be strong, I couldn’t fall into that.” dedicated leader.” Once Jackson realized that footBoyne described Jackson as a ball would no longer be an option physical kid who was defor him, he focused on creating a business that termined to be the best would help spread his running back. He was a motivational message of player who grew up with faith through adversity, the game and understood his parents said. He bethe nuances. “He was everything gan designing a clothing a coach or a fan would line called HEM based on want in a football player,” the biblical story of the Jackson Boyne said. woman who was healed by Jackson was expected touching the hem of Jesus’ to be a vital part of the team’s run- garment. The Make-A-Wish Foundation ning game during his junior year until he was diagnosed with Ew- provided funds to get Jackson ing Sarcoma near the end of his started. After his death, his famsophomore year in May 2025, his ily is determined to see his dream parents said. realized. They plan to continue the An invasive surgery, chemother- line in his honor. It isn’t about sellapy and radiation meant Jackson ing shirts, his parents said. spent his junior year in medical “He wanted to be an advocate, homebound instruction, unable to that by having faith through any attend class in person. But Jack- adversity, you can endure,” Patson balanced the rigors of his rick Jackson Sr. said. treatment with his schoolwork, Funeral services for Jackson Jr. his parents said. will be Saturday at the Hahnville “He took pride in his academics. High School gymnasium, 200 TiHe was an honor roll student from ger Drive, Boutte. The viewing kindergarten through 11th grade,” begins at 9 a.m., followed by a serPatrick Jackson Sr. said, recalling vice at 11 a.m. how his son managed radiation Burial will be at Restlawn Park then took his biology LEAP exam. Cemetery, 3540 U.S. 90, Avondale. Boyne agreed, calling PJ Jack- A repast will follow at R.K. Smith Middle School, 281 Judge Edward son an excellent student. Dufresne Parkway, Luling. “Teachers loved him,” he said.

‘Faith through any adversity’

Email Michelle Hunter at Jackson’s health began to dete- mhunter@theadvocate.com.

whose stepfather allegedly abused him. Hughes, at the time a state district judge in Livingston Parish, ruled in March 1999 that the boy should stay with his mother — who had been represented for a time by Hughes’ girlfriend — though his stepfather still faced criminal charges over the abuse allegations. The initial news story about Hughes by The Advocate emerged from numerous interviews, a federal grand jury records subpoena and hundreds of court records. The editorial said Hughes refused to recuse himself over his romantic involvement and ruled in favor of the mother in the case. Attorney Caleb Didriksen told jurors in his opening statement Tuesday that the lapse the newspaper claimed in the editorial was false because the then-girlfriend, attorney Berkley Durbin, had stopped representing the child’s mother seven months before a final ruling by Hughes. The editorial ruined the reputation of Hughes, Didriksen said. Didriksen said the newspaper’s leadership later refused to fix the error for more than three years until a clarification was issued, even though the judge had pointed it out in a meeting with Kovacs and others. “The Advocate really hates this guy,” Didriksen said. Calling him a “terrific guy” and a family man, Didriksen listed words the paper’s news and opinion columns used to describe Hughes and his actions: “scoundrel,” “gross ethical behavior,” a “horror story,” “biased” and “prejudiced.” “He lost the respect of so many people,” Didriksen said. Scott Sternberg, an attorney for the newspaper, rejected the idea that the author of the editorial hated the judge. Heitman was expressing a view about Hughes’ actions allowed under the First Amendment, Sternberg told ju-

rors. Sternberg said Hughes has a high bar to meet in proving libel under longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, which places a tougher standard for claims of defamation made by public officials. Sternberg told the jury an elected official like Hughes faces that high standard because he holds one of the “most exulted public offices in the state.” He told jurors that they would see newspaper employees at trial “who care a lot about the truth.” Sternberg noted that Hughes never asked for a correction of the original news story, published June 23, 2019. In a meeting over the subsequent editorial published on June 25, Hughes raised his concerns over the editorial in an “off the record” setting, Sternberg said. For a time, the paper could not find Hughes or anyone else to go on the record about what the judge had claimed in his defense, Sternberg added. Hughes’ first witness, ethics expert Keith Fisher, a law professor at St. Thomas University in Miami, Fla., testified Tuesday under questioning by the justice’s attorneys that he saw no ethical problem with Hughes’ ruling in the custody case because Durbin had removed herself seven months before the final ruling. But on cross-examination, Fisher acknowledged he had never been provided the apology letters by Hughes’ attorneys nor court minutes showing that Hughes had made an interim custody decision in favor of the child’s mother about three days after Durbin ceased representing her. Fisher then said Hughes should have recused himself or disclosed the relationship and let the parties decide how to proceed. David J. Mitchell can be reached at dmitchell@ theadvocate.com.

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

No drones will be allowed to fly over or around Tiger Stadium during LSU home football games this season, the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The “no-drone zone” will be in effect for every upcoming home football game this fall, according to a news release. The ban applies to any unmanned aircraft system. The Federal Aviation Administration enforces temporary flight restrictions for all Division I football games. That means no drones are allowed within three nautical miles and up to 3,000 feet. The drone restrictions will apply one hour before the scheduled kickoff and last until one hour after

PARADE TAX

Continued from page 1B so it came as a surprise when City Hall reported losing money on the big party. To explain, the Moreno administration distributed a study by two Tulane University professors that acknowledged New Orleans sees big increases in tax revenue each season, thanks to the cash that thousands of visitors spend on dining, hotels and other things. But the professors pointed out that not all Carnival tax income flows to City Hall. Instead, that revenue is shared with agencies such as the Regional Transit Authority, the Orleans Parish School Board and others. In the end, the academics concluded, City Hall is left with big bills to pay. Krewes would be required to pay the GAP Fee by April 30 each year, based on the number of “pull units, truck floats, and rider-carrying miniﬂoats” that appeared in that season’s parade, according to the ordinance. Failure to pay could result in the city withholding future parade permits. According to the ordinance, the tax could be assessed on 2027 parades. The idea replaces a proposed $25

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Continued from page 1B be seven more meetings, with the last in December. The committee is the latest to look at how to renovate or move City Hall in recent decades, a task taken on by the last two New Orleans mayors without success. Former Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed moving the seat of government into a renovated Charity Hospital, though that plan fell through in 2014 after Landrieu conceded it would not be ﬁnancially feasible. In 2019, under former Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a team of consultants from Pace Group LLC and the Woodward Design engineering ﬁrm analyzed what should be done about City Hall, which was plagued by rats, mold, sewerage leaks, roof damage, nonfunctional restrooms and electrical problems. Their report suggested that a new 12-story, 445,000-square-foot building should be built after determining the two buildings were physically and functionally obsolete. Cantrell’s plans eventually envisioned moving City Hall into a renovated Municipal Auditorium in Louis Armstrong Park, but in

the game concludes, according to the release. The District Attorney’s Office said any drone in violation of the measure is subject to “seizure as a criminal instrument” under authority of Louisiana law and the Federal Aviation Administration. Law enforcement agencies can take down drones under Act 170, passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2025. The operator of the drone may be ticketed or arrested, with punishment of a fine up to $4,000 or imprisonment up to two years, according to the release. “The East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Ofﬁce will pursue appropriate criminal prosecution against individuals who unlawfully operate drones in violation of these restrictions,” the release states.

rider fee that Moreno floated earlier this year. Krewe of Hermes spokesperson Larry DeMarcay said the krewe’s leadership even charged each rider $25 extra in advance of this season. But he won’t be surprised if the City Council votes for the $850 GAP Fee, he said. Before the 2026 season, the city made it clear that funding Carnival had become a crisis and more income was necessary. It’s his understanding that there wasn’t time to impose the tax before the parades rolled, so the plan was tabled. He said he certainly understands “the city’s in a hard spot,” and Hermes supports the City Council’s effort to balance the books. But he’s not sure that a per-float tax is best. It might be inequitable, because small krewes may have only 16 riders per float while large krewes could have 200. But, DeMarcay said, if there is a per-float charge, “we can live with that.” The GAP Fee would apparently not sop up all of the Carnival red ink. The city presents 33 official parades, beginning on the second Friday before Fat Tuesday. If each parade paid the maximum fee, the GAP Fee income would be about $1,485,000.

2021 criticism from neighborhood advocates near the park sunk that plan as well. Donald Fant, an architect with Woodward Design Group, said Wednesday that he does not believe the rationale for the core parts of the study calling for a new 12-story building has changed, though he noted that the estimated construction cost has increased from $156 million up to $229 million due to inﬂation. “However, some aspects of the study undoubtedly need to be revisited,” Fant said. “There should be a clear, current understanding of exactly what goes into the building.” A third public meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sept. 1 in the second-floor conference room at Union Passenger Terminal on Loyola Avenue.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Clark Sr., Alfred Dale, Barbara Davis, Jacqueline Fleming, Ernest Goliwas Sr.,, Benjamin Guy Alexander, Deborah LaBruyere, Kathleen Ruth, Jacqueline Sceau, Don Smith, Kevin Wilson, Sam

Celebration of Life Service will be on Friday, August 21, 2026, at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, LA 70126. Visitation will begin at 9:00 A.M., followed by service at 10:00 A.M. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Interment: Garden of Memories Mausoleum and Cemetery 4900 Airline Dr. Metairie, La. 70001. To online guest book please visit www.estellejwilsonfh.com Arrangements Entrusted To Estelle J. Wilson Funeral Home, Inc. 2715 Danneel Street, NOLA 70113 Information: (504) 8954903

Above all, treasure the moments. Hip, hip! A Memorial Mass and celebration of his life will be held at St. Mary's Assumption, 923 Josephine Street, New Orleans, on Saturday morning, August 22nd, 2026 at 10:00. Visitation will begin at 9:00.

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vices at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. New Orleans, LA on Saturday, August 22, 2026. Visitation will be from 9:00AM until the Memorial Mass begins at 11:00AM. Interment will follow at All Saint Mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery. To sign the online guestbook and leave memories for the family to keep, please visit www.lakelawnmetairie.co m.

The Admiral is on the Bridge. Benjamin Fane Goliwas Sr., affectionately known as Ben, Benjamin F., and Pops, passed away peacefully, surrounded by love, on June 29, 2026.

CPO Alfred Clark Sr was born in New Orleans LA February 12, 1945, at Charity Hospital. Alfred's parents were Joseph Clark Sr and Rosalie Minor Clark. Alfred was the 8th child out of their 10 children. Alfred attended F. P. Ricard Elementary and later moved to Madisonville and attended and graduated Covington Rosenwald High School. After graduation Alfred enlisted into the U.S. Navy and served in Vietnam and retired in 1984. He worked as a Supervisor for the ST. Tammany Parish School Board as a Maintenance Supervisor and a substitute teacher. Alfred also worked for Southern University in Baton Rouge as an Instructor of ROTC. Alfred served his country for 25 years in the Navy. Alfred was baptized at Historic St. James BC where he served in the choir and as a deacon. He leaves to mourn his two children Alfred Clark Jr. (Gina) and daughter Angela (Boris) Carries, his loving wife Maria Clark, 3 sisters, 6 brothers in law, 3 sisters in law and 13 grandchildren and one great granddaughter Nori Parker. Alfred left a lasting legacy with many family memories. Services will be held Saturday August 22, 2026, at Historic St. James BC 312 LA Hwy 1077 Covington, LA 70447. Visitation 9:00am until the funeral service at 11:00am. Arrangements are entrusted to N.A. James Funeral Home Hammond LA.

Jacqueline (Jackie) C. Davis departed this life on Saturday, August 1, 2026, at the age of 77. Cherishing her memories she leaves one brother, Rev. Charlie R. Davis, one bonus daughter, Tramine L. Davis, and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents: Thomas and Loubirdia Joshua-Davis; brother Reverend Doctor Joshua J. Davis, sisters: Bertha Rodriguez, Beatrice Branch, and Amelia Davis; brother in laws: Arthur Rodriguez, Sr. and Rev. Eddie Branch; sister in laws: Marion Davis and Cynthia Davis; niece: Tracey Branch, nephew: Reginald Rodrguez, greatnephew: Jermone Rodriguez. Officers and members of First Shiloh Baptist Church, New Home Ministries, Buena Vista Baptist Church (St. James, LA), Louisiana Freedmen Missionary Baptist General Association, Gospel Music Workshop of America, staff of Ochsner Hospital Main Campus and members of the Magnolia High School Class of 1967 are invited to a Memorial Tribute Musical on Friday, August 21, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. at First Shiloh Baptist Church, 2507 Perdido St. (New Orleans); Funeral Service on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation at 9:00 a.m. at St. John Institutional Baptist Church, 2538 Jackson Ave. (New Orleans). Rev. Antoine R. Jacobs presiding. Interment at Buena Vista Baptist Church Cemetery. Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home. Visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the guestbook.

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Barbara Jean Dale was born September 2, 1954, to the late Lillian Warner Mearis and Willie Mearis. She departed this life August 4, 2026. Barbara attended George Washington Carver High School, graduating with the Class of 1972. She was formally employed by Hilton Riverside, where she dedicated more than 30 years of service. She was preceded in death by her daughters, Lillian Dale and Shameka Dale; sisters, Lillian McCarty, Shirley Nelson; and brother, Calvin Mearis. She leaves her children, Latoya Dale, Bob Dale III, and Shantel Wiltz; son-in-law, Nicholas Wiltz; grandchildren Janesha Phipps, Niyelle Bienemy (Kenard), Damon Bryant, India Debose, Emerson Varnado Jr., Jamie Debose, Danielle Bryant, Nick Wiltz Jr., James Debose Jr., and Paul Wiltz; great-grandchildren Keimani and Kni Bienemy, Ja'Orey Scott, and Aamir Jones; sisters Florence Barker, Carol Brown, Joyce Henry; and brother Willie Mearis Jr.; and a host of relatives and friends.

Ernest Fleming Jr., age 77 of New Orleans LA, entered eternal rest on Saturday August 8, 2026. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 13, 1949, to Ernest Fleming Sr. and Ethel McKay Fleming. He was raised in the Gentilly neighborhood of Pontchartrain Park. Ernest began his professional career with the Luzianne Coffee Company, later he joined the Harbor Police Department before building a 30-year career with United Parcel Service (UPS) where he served in a leadership position and mentor to many. Ernest is survived by his loving wife of nearly 57 years Diane Fleming, daughter Kenyan Fleming, and sister-in-law Consuella Johnson, nieces, LaVerne Watson and Debbie Ford, nephews Troy Barra and Paul Briscoe and godchild David Baham and Merrick Moore Jr. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ernest Fleming Sr. and Ethel McKay Fleming, his uncle Johnny Fleming, sister-in-law, Lola Briscoe (Paul Briscoe), brother-inlaw, Clarence Barra (Shirley Barra); and cousins Theresa Henry and Craig Sutton. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Mass of Christian Burial on Saturday August 22, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, 6828 Chef Menteur Hwy. New Orleans, La. 70126.

Born on July 21, 1942, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ben was the seventh of eight children born to Walter Joseph Goliwas Sr. and Mary Fane Goliwas. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sisters Mary Jo Thibodeaux, Colleen G. Holthaus, and Peggy G. Bourgeois, and his brothers Robert Edward Goliwas and William Joseph Goliwas. He is survived by his sister, Frances Joy Goliwas, and his brother, Walter Joseph Goliwas Jr. He is now joyfully reunited with Delery "Del" Eagan Strassel, his longtime love and companion. Ben's heart was full of the love of his family, including his children Elizabeth Goliwas Bodet (Robert †), Benjamin Fane Goliwas Jr. (Holly), Laura Goliwas Kuhlke (Chris), Andrew Alvin Goliwas (Madeleine), and Ynyra OShea. He held an unbounded love for his grandchildren who brought him great joy: Elizabeth "Ella" Kuhlke, Henry Kuhlke, Elizabeth "Libby" Bodet, Zachary Goliwas, Margaret "Maggie" Goliwas, Marcel Dubois, and Dominique "Mika" Dubois (Justin). He had the opportunity to hold the hand of his great granddaughter Juniper Alaine Berdahl-Dubois. Having served as a sailor in the U.S. Navy, Ben was affectionately known as "The Admiral." Few things brought him as much joy as being out on the water. Ben felt most at home with the wind in his sails and the horizon ahead of him, a passion that also inspired his support of the Ocean Conservancy and its mission to protect the waters of the world. He founded the grassroots organization Home Port New Orleans, where he was instrumental in coordinating the crucial removal of storm debris from Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina. Ben dedicated much of his life to early childhood education, shaping young minds with the same warmth and patience that would come to define him in every other chapter of his life. He was an early supporter of the Special Olympics. He was a longtime volunteer of WYES, sharing in its commitment to educational programming and community, supporting his belief that "it is in giving that you receive." Ben held a lifelong belief in the power of the number 52, fittingly, according to gematria, the numerical value of the name 'Ben' is 52, a quiet reminder that even in the smallest details, he was exactly who he was meant to be. Blessed with the luck of an Irishman, Ben lived a marvelous life that spanned the globe. He believed his greatest successes were measured not in material achievements, but in relationships and memories. His guiding philosophy to "treasure the moments" was more than a saying; it was the way he lived every day. Whether meeting someone for the first time or reconnecting with an old friend, Ben had a rare gift for bringing people together. His warmth, curiosity, optimism, and genuine love for others (humans and all creatures great and small) made him beloved by those whose lives were brighter for having known him. The greatest way to honor his memory is to live as he did with gratitude, generosity, and an appreciation for life's simple gifts.

Deborah Jean Mills Guy Alexander, beloved daughter of the late Douglas Mills Jr. and Ada Mae Hines Mills Manuel, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at the age of 76 at Ochsner Hospital. She is survived by her husband of 42 years, Larry Alexander; Daughter Karen Guy-Smothers (Dwayne) and son Derrick Guy (Tashawana) and stepdaughter, Mary Matthews. Grandchildren: Brianna Guy and Aryelle Guy Leconte (Nick-Olas). Greatgrandson, Christian Guy, Aunt, Barbara Harris, Sisters in law, Yolanda Berry and Katrina Nunnery (Joshua) and a long-time friend, Linda Jackson, along with a host of beloved cousins, in-laws, nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends. Deborah was preceded in death by her stepfather, Henry Clark Jr. Brother, Douglas Mills III., and Grandson, Derrick Guy Jr., Maternal grandparents, Orelia Hines Slatton, and William Hines Sr. Uncles, William P. "Bill" Hines Jr. and Lonnie Hines Sr. Paternal grandparents, Eleanor Rollins Mills Jones (Emile Jones) and Douglas Mills Sr., All are invited to attend the Homegoing Service on Saturday, August 22, 2026, for 1:30 p.m. at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126. Visitation will begin at 12:30 p.m. Interment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 2050 Caton Street, New Orleans Louisiana 70122. Guestbook Online: www.an ewtraditionbegins.com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd andDonavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

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Jacqueline "Jackie" O'Connor Ruth entered this world on January 6, 1953, and peacefully departed this life on August 11, 2026. Jackie will be lovingly remembered for the life she lived, the love she shared, and the special place she held in the hearts of her family and all who knew her. Jackie was the beloved daughter of Sarah Ellen O'Connor and the late Frank O'Connor, Jr. She was a loving mother to her 3 daughters, Raven Ruth, Leslie Ruth, and Falone Ruth Mack. She was also the proud grandmother of 9 grandchildren and the loving great-grandmother of 3 great-grandchildren. Jackie shared a special bond with her siblings: Carol O. McDonald, Sharon O. Frisco, Cynthia O'Connor, and Calvin O'Connor (Learnese). She was preceded in death by her sister Gail O. Brown (Clarence) and her brothers Frank O'Connor and Ronald O'Connor. A visitation will be held from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM on 2026-08-21 at Charbonnet Family Services, 1615 St. Philip St. NOLA 70116 A funeral service will be held from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM on 2026-08-21 at Charbonnet Family Services, 1615 St. Philip St. NOLA 70116

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Mr. Kevin Anthony Smith "Slick", a native of New Orleans, LA and a resident of Laplace, LA, peacefully passed away on Monday, August 3, 2026. He was 65 years old. Kevin was born on September 21, 1960, to the late Cashmere Smith Sr. and Edna Mae Martin Smith. He received his formal education through the New Orleans Public School System and was formerly employed as a Boilermaker with Cembell Industries. A proud and active member of Philippi Evangelistic Church of God in Christ, Kevin served faithfully on the Usher Board, Brother's Board, and Trustee Board. Kevin leaves behind to cherish his memories his wife Annette Booker Smith; sister, Joan Sorapuru; children, Frederick Booker, Jacqulyn Scott and Clenette Bickham; 11 grandchildren, KiKi Booker, Cristen and Caiden Scott, Cashia, Bryce, and Londen Bickham, Devon Selmon, Terrell DeBose, Jalayah Charles and Amyrii and Kemynii Booker; 7 greatgrandchildren, Major and Tatum Oliney, Demi Banks, Terrell DeBose, Emari Booker, and Serenity and Isaiah Selmon. He is preceded in death by his parents Edna Mae and Cashmere Smith Sr.; brothers Cashmere Jr., Glenn Sr. Calvin Sr., David and Eric Smith, and sister Debra Holmes. He leaves behind a host of nieces, nephews, and other family and friends. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services at Philippi Evangelistic Church of God in Christ, 6325 N. Claiborne Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117 on Saturday August 22, 2026, at 10:00 AM. Visitation will begin at 9:00 AM. Arrangements entrusted to The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600.Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

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LaBruyere, Kathleen McCann

Kathleen McCann LaBruyere passed away peacefully in her home on August 14, 2026 at the age of 73. She was born in New Orleans on March 25, 1953. Kathy attended St. Francis of Assisi grammar school, was an alumni of both St. Mary's Dominican Class of 1971 and Touro School of Nursing Class of 1974. She worked as a registered nurse at East Jefferson Emergency Room for 10 years. Kathy is survived by her loving, devoted husband of 52 years, Donald LaBruyere; her daughters, Celeste and Lindsay LaBruyere; her father, Thomas McCann; her brothers, Patrick McCann (Celeste), the Rev. Thomas McCann, III; her sister, Julie McCann; and many other nieces, nephews, family members and friends. She was preceded in death by her sister, Nancy McCann and her mother, Lucille McCann. In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider a donation to the MS Society at www.nationalm ssociety.org. Relatives and friends are invited to attend ser-

Don Joseph Sceau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on July 2, 1963. He was the baby of Lionel and Florence Fitch Sceau's seven children: Darryl, Melvin, Verdel, Larry and Janell. Don was a special and free-spirited person who loved life. He was educated in the New Orleans Public School System. On Thursday, August 6, 2026, at the age of 63, Don transitioned from this world and taken to his eternal home by his loving angels. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lionel and Florence Fitch Sceau, his brothers: Darryl, Melvin, Verdel, and Gerald Sceau; his sister Janell Sceau Lopez and his loving and dedicated brother-in-law Vincent J. Lopez, Sr. Don will be remembered for his loving spirit, his love of family, the warmth he shared with everyone he met and the love he had for working at Wendy's. He leaves to cherish his memories to his brother, Larry Sceau; his niece and nephews; Vincent Jr (Eyango Copelin), Tiki, and Corey Lopez Sr, grand nieces and nephews: Vincent II, Elijah, Torie, Alaina, and Corey Lopez Jr, as well as additional nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, extended family, and friends. Relatives, friends of the family, and those who knew and loved Don are invited to attend a Funeral Service at St. Martin De Porres Catholic Church, 5621 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA on Saturday, August 22, 2026, for 11:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditio

Sam Morris Wilson, age 88, of Hammond, LA, passed away on August 9, 2026. Born on December 19, 1937, to Andy and Martha Wilson. He retired from the US Navy and from the RTA. He is survived by his wife, Jeannette H. Wilson, his children, siblings, family, and friends. A funeral mass will be held at Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Hammond, LA on August 21, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. Burial at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery on August 24, 2026, at 11:00 AM. In lieu of flowers please make donations to the Richard Murphy Hospice House in Hammond, Louisiana.

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The public has a right to expect public agencies will look out for the public’s interest. But the Public Service Commission has recently failed on that account when considering whether to require greater transparency about Meta’s plans for a data center in Richland Parish. While we have welcomed the project as a boon to a part of Louisiana where economic development is greatly needed, that doesn’t mean we believe that it should proceed without transparency and public involvement in the process. Both should be a priority for all such projects that come before the PSC, not just this one. That’s why we were chagrined last week when the PSC voted to overrule a judge’s decision to require Meta to provide details on two categories: the “level of investment and permanent job creation” the data center would provide and the amount of electricity it would use. This came after local advocacy groups sued for the information. The PSC, which is the regulator for the state’s utilities, ultimately voted along party lines to say that the public didn’t need to know. The three Republicans on the panel agreed with Meta that providing the information would somehow put the company at a competitive disadvantage. We are struck that Louisiana’s leaders appear to lament that some in the public seem skeptical that this latest burst of economic development will benefit real Louisiana citizens. We commend the executive order Gov. Jeff Landry often touts to protect Louisiana ratepayers as the data center is being built. And we have lauded the governor and the team at Louisiana Economic Development for finally seeming to put the pieces together to bring in big deals that will create the sort of good jobs that can keep our young people here. But there’s one more piece to the puzzle if Louisiana is to enjoy real prosperity. And that piece is trust. Citizens have to trust that government is working on their behalf, that strong regulatory systems will be in place to minimize any issues that arise, that the state isn’t just grabbing the latest shiny object with little regard for the long-term health of our communities. The only way to win that trust is through transparency. We want more of our people to believe that this is a turning point for our state and latch on to the opportunities it presents. But so often, as in this case, what holds us back is a lack of confidence that our institutions are truly acting in the public’s best interest. And only governmental agencies can solve this problem. As the Meta project and other data center projects move forward in the state, we urge members of the PSC to keep that in mind. Their constituents are clearly watching. Their votes — and more importantly, their attitude toward questions by the public — will shape perceptions of this project for years to come. If they truly want to galvanize public support and the big economic gains being promised, regulators need to demand answers on behalf of the people they serve.

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Blame taxes and more, but La.’s image is holding us back In his recent guest column, the CEO of the Pelican Institute argues that Louisiana is on its way to growing the population because of economic development, but that it’s held back by a lack of education freedom and legal reforms, plus taxes and onerous permitting requirements. The facts don’t support that assertion. Census data show that since 2020 the state has lost nearly 40,000 residents. The state’s response to the fact that people like to visit Louisiana but no one wants to move here is to focus on a lack of job opportunities and to promote economic development. But the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in December 2025 there were 95,000 job openings in the state. No, the problem is how people in other parts of the country perceive us — our brand. Louisiana is seen as unwelcoming, religiously extreme, unwilling to invest in quality of life and racially intolerant. Louisiana’s leaders are actively try-

ing to insert religious practices into our politics and schools. They stand between doctors and patients over what kind of healthcare women can receive, promote so-called educational freedom over support for public schools and oppose policies to help migrants willing to work at jobs our citizens don’t want. They disparage higher taxes rather than persuading voters to make sacriﬁces to invest in infrastructure, education and a better quality of life. And nothing says come to Louisiana like pursuing a nuclear waste dump, building detention centers and actively trying to hide information about development proposals. The brand is the problem, and unless we change it you can build all the data centers and space ports you want, but no one will want to make Louisiana their permanent home.

As the school year begins and nonpartisan voter education organizations like the League of Women Voters prepare to conduct high school voter registration and education events at schools around the state, one issue that we think deserves more focus is that fact that 16- and 17-year-olds can pre-register to vote under Louisiana law. A 16-year-old must register in person at the ofﬁce of their parish Registrar of Voters or the Louisiana Ofﬁce of Motor Vehicles. In fact, under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (also known as the “Motor Voter Act”), OMVs are required to offer all U.S. citizens seeking to obtain or renew a driver’s license the opportunity to register. A 17-year-old can register online, and they can also register to serve as poll workers. Preregistered 16- and 17-year-olds will receive a very special 18th birthday card from their Registrar of Voters — their Voter Information Card indicating that they are eligible to vote! Even so, it is our experience that many 16- and 17-year-olds do not know that they may preregister to vote. We have asked them directly about whether they have preregistered at our youth voting and civics events and mostly received blank stares. In response to a social media post, one older Louisianan opined that young people should not register to vote until age 18 — and then vote only under the careful tutelage of their parents. We wonder if Louisiana’s young prospective voters agree! This election season, we hope that all 16- and 17-year-olds in Louisiana take the opportunity to pre-register to vote. The data show that the younger voters register, the more likely they are to build the civic habit of becoming regular voters and participants in our democracy.

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It is laughable to compare the U.S. to Norway I read Michael O’Rourke’s recent letter in which he postulates U.S. corruption as being the reason socialism would fail here. The letter seems to have left out a few critical facts about the differences between the United States and Norway. The writer described Norway as being a social democratic capitalist country, which is a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. The Norwegian government will tell anyone in a heartbeat that Norway is capitalist and not socialist. The Norwegian government does not dictate how the Norwegian economy operates, which is the primary difference between a capitalist and socialist country and the primary reason socialist countries fail. Norway, like Sweden, Denmark and Finland, is a capitalist country with many social programs and very high taxes to support those programs. The United States is also a capitalist country with many social programs, except

we don’t provide free college tuition, which is one of the primary reasons for Norway’s high taxes. The letter-writer apparently has never read letters from people in those countries complaining about their high taxes. But wait, there’s more: Norway’s population is 5.6 million, and it is slightly larger than New Mexico as a country. It is laughable to compare Norway to the United States. I would refer O’Rourke to the many YouTube videos from Europeans here during the World Cup extolling the virtues of the United States compared to European countries — yes, even Norway. Finally, as a last laugh, if Norway is that great, why was the TSA conﬁscating hundreds of bottles of ranch dressing being smuggled back to European, especially Scandinavian, countries?

DUDLEY GARIDEL Baton Rouge

Amid investigations into deal, Meta sponsorship is distasteful I was so excited to have a different news source when The Advocate came into the city, but your recent sponsorship with Meta is quite distasteful. I understand that funding for news is tanking, but where is the integrity? The timing of the sponsorship is quite

devious, as The New York Times published its investigative piece on the ugly truths of the Richland Parish data center deal. Anyway, I have canceled my subscription.

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A new statewide survey indicates when Republican Rep. Steve Scalise Louisianans have more constructive was shot in 2017, Democratic Rep. Cedpolitical outlooks than most people naric Richmond, a good friend from their state legislative days, was the first coltionwide. This is good news. It’s also unsurpris- league to rush to the hospital. Louisiana’s congressional staffs of ing. And it provides some worthwhile both parties also befriended lessons. each other. And not once but Before considering the surtwice, longtime Democratic vey, though, please allow a few staffers reached out to me, a stories. They show why, at least notably conservative Republiuntil recently, Louisiana politicians themselves have been can, to advise me of job openknown for their relatively corings they thought (correctly) Quin would be good for me. dial relations across party lines. Hillyer Then there’s the state LegislaThe first story comes from the late John Von Kannon, the longture, where until recently nonpartisan coalitions were as important time chief fundraiser for the conseras party affiliation. vative Heritage Foundation. In 2015, I’ll never forget the morning of just days before his death, Von Kannon then-Democrat Roemer’s inauguration was reminiscing with his Capitol Hill as governor in early 1988. Sen. John neighbor Rich Masters, a Democratic insider and former communications di- Hainkel, a Republican but a close Rorector for U.S. senator, Mary Landrieu. emer ally, had let me sleep in one of his “You know what one of my favorite two rooms in the so-called Pentagon memories was?” Von Kannon said to Apartments used almost entirely by Masters. “There we were at the taillawmakers. When morning light came, legislators of both parties, Black and gate party before the Saints-Redskins White, started wandering up and down game [it was 2009, the Saints’ Super the breezeway, into each other’s apartBowl year], and we looked over to the vat of gumbo steaming in the cold ments, waking each other up, teasing weather, and there were [two-time and laughing and basically goofing Democratic National Committee chair] around as friends. Donna Brazile and [ Republican former In all these examples, Democrats U.S. Rep.] Bob Livingston, standing and Republicans, liberals and conserover the gumbo and laughing like old vatives, could fight, fight, fight over friends.” policy differences, but without making Von Kannon said that’s how politics the differences personal. In Louisiana, should be, and he envied the unique that’s how we rolled. ability of Louisianans to do it that way. Which leads us to the survey, reHe was right: It was a Louisiana poleased last week jointly by the Public Affairs Research Council and LSU’s litical tradition. The late Democratic Reilly Center for Media & Public AfRep. Lindy Boggs was famously gracious to Republican Reps. Livingston fairs. It measured various indices of and Dave Treen. When Livingston and political polarization in the state comthen-Democratic Rep. Billy Tauzin pared to similar results nationally. Sure both lost a hotly contested 1987 goverenough, while the differences weren’t as pronounced as I would have expectnor’s race to Buddy Roemer, Livingston put aside hard feelings and helped ed, and probably not as pronounced as Tauzin retire his campaign debt. And they would have been a decade or three

ago, Louisiana citizens still are less likely than other Americans to think the worst of the “other” political side and more willing to engage in real political dialogue. Granted, one raw measure of political polarization — how approvingly respondents rated their own party compared to how negatively they viewed the other party – showed only a tiny, 1.7-point Louisiana edge (meaning less polarized) over national attitudes. But when asked to rate someone of the other party who they know personally, the Louisiana polarization index dropped an encouraging 10 points. Meanwhile, 70% of Louisianans, compared to just 64% nationally, reported having real conversations with people with very different political views. Also, 81% of Louisianans said they would like politicians to work harder to ﬁnd common ground across the aisle (rather than just beating up on the other side as if it were irredeemable). Moreover, despite living in this age of “cancel culture” 91% of Louisianans said unfettered speech rights should apply equally to all sides, not just their own. And this is interesting: While the usual assumption is that the more people are engaged with politics, the more tribal they are and the more “dug in” to their positions, this isn’t the case in Louisiana. Louisianans posted those slightly-more-tolerant-thannational scores even though they are a whopping 20% more likely than other Americans to feel very or extremely interested in politics. Nobody is saying politics here ever was a game of pattycake. Still, the rest of the nation would do well to see how we in Louisiana keep politics somewhat less of a blood sport. And learn from it.

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Who can take AOC seriously? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has begun the process of freezing her eggs for future childbearing. Not only does AOC talk about it, she shares Instagram videos of her getting hormone shots in her belly. AOC is 36, approaching her later baby-making years. Frozen eggs can Froma later be fertilized with Harrop sperm in a lab to create an embryo that could be transferred to the uterus, the result being a child. Surely, I’m not alone in feeling squeamish at references to AOC’s reproductive organs. Many women have eggs removed from their ovaries for later use but generally do so in private. “Can I afford it?” AOC asks in a Vanity Fair interview, implying she’s a working stiff of modest means. For the record, egg cryopreservation typically costs from $10,000 to $20,000, and AOC makes $174,000 a year as a member of the House. This is just the latest offering from AOC’s assembly line of attention-grabbing show pieces, and grab attention they do. But are they helpful to a woman said to be contemplating a challenge to Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2028 or even a run for president? Perhaps this public egg harvesting is intended to resonate with female voters. AOC has noted that women must make decisions about careers and children that men do not. That said, women in power do give birth, but they don’t televise the process. AOC has provided other social media fodder that won’t appeal to normal Democrats, much less everyone else. She became a big supporter of the Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier despite the candidate’s call to open the borders, defund the police and empty prisons. And oh, yes, she also accused Joe Biden of being a rapist. With the Democratic Socialists’ roundup of young lefties who had recently moved into this majority Latino district, she unseated longtime Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who headed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The New York Post headline

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.y., speaks at a rally in New york. after the primary was “Wack to the Future.” AOC recently tried to laugh off the ludicrous positions of such left-fringe candidates as post-pandemic insanity. She agreed with a colleague’s remark that “Woke 1 was crazy” and not representative of today’s Democratic Socialists. Thing is, less than two months had elapsed between AOC’s reference to Woke 1 and her defending kooky Avila Chevalier from attacks by normies. “I went through the same thing,” AOC told an interviewer. “I was met with so much hostility & cruelty by the Democratic caucus.” Also not universally admired is the picture of AOC swanning on the red carpet at the Met Gala’s fashion blowout. AOC is seen showing off her lovely ﬁgure in a custom-made gown with “Tax the Rich” painted on her back and rear end. That was inﬂuencer gold. People talk about it today. But do such spotlighthungry antics look presidential, or senatorial? Love for AOC has been slip-

ping in her own House district covering parts of Queens and the Bronx, witness her margin of the vote narrowing from 2022 to 2024. If left-winger Abdul El-Sayed loses the Michigan senatorial race in November and that costs Democrats a Senate majority, AOC will have much to answer for. El-Sayed barely beat the very plausible Democrat contender, Rep Haley Stevens, for the nomination. AOC had pushed El-Sayed as “the strongest candidate to keep this seat in November” — a view not necessarily reﬂected in the latest polls that favor Republican Mike Rogers. As for her eggs, AOC should do with them as she will. She can always ﬁnd a sperm donor and put them to reproductive use. Of course, a U.S. House member’s decision in this matter should be none of my business, but AOC has made it everybody’s business. And we can’t unsee it. Froma Harrop is on X, @FromaHarrop. Email her at fharrop@gmail.com.

Change without chaos When left-wing insurgent Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat in Michigan, Donald Trump cheered that it was “great news for the Republican Party.” In an important way, he’s right. Many of ElSayed’s policy views are far outside the mainstream. Even many Democrats agree with Trump that he will be a weaker candidate in November than the more pragmatic rival he narrowly defeated, Rep. Haley Stevens. And if Democrats lose Michigan, they have virtually no Steve hope of reclaiming the Senate Roberts majority. “It is deeply troubling to see radical, far-left candidates winning in places that are potentially presidential swing states,” Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way, a leading centrist Democratic group, warned in the New York Times. But there is another way to look at this year’s primary results, where a number of liberal outsiders have ousted entrenched favorites. Voters often see these newcomers as “fighters” — as change agents who reflect a profound discontent that goes beyond ideology, injecting a jolt of energy into a party that’s been flailing since the Biden-Harris debacle two years ago. “What voters have been screaming from the rooftops is they’re sick of the status quo. They’re sick of the establishment. They want something different,” Lis Smith, a Democratic consultant who worked in Michigan, told Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post. So, here’s the crucial problem facing Democrats this fall: How do they harness this yearning for something different, represented by candidates like El-Sayed, while downplaying their more outlandish ideas, like opening borders, abolishing prisons and ending private health insurance? That won’t be easy, because insurgents have long expounded far-fetched ideas that are already being exploited by Republican strategists. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has released an ad branding El-Sayed “the most radical Senate candidate in America,” calling him “too dangerous” to trust in office. These sorts of attacks have worked before, when Democrats have given their rivals an opening by veering too far to the left on issues like crime, immigration and gender identity. Remember that in 2024, Trump’s campaign ran a simple, stunning ad that stated, “Kamala is for they/them; President Trump is for you.” This playbook exploits the longstanding and deeply held liberal fantasy that this is a left-leaning country, ready to elect radical leaders, when that is just not true. In 2024 exit polls, only 23% of voters identified as liberal, with 42% calling themselves moderates and 35% conservatives. “The left has the passion, but the middle still has the votes Democrats need to win in general elections,” writes Fareed Zakaria in the Post. All true, but passion is also an enormously valuable commodity in politics. It moves people to recruit, donate, organize and above all, vote. And outsiders like El-Sayed give Democrats a chance to tap into a deeply despondent American mood that long preceded Trump but now weighs heavily against him and his Republican acolytes. Four of the last five presidential elections have been won by the “out” party (Obama in 2012 being the exception). In the latest Gallup poll, only 1 in 4 Americans said they were “satisfied with the way things are going in the United States,” while 72% expressed dissatisfaction. “On the Country’s 250th Anniversary, the American People Are in a Sour Mood,” reports the Pew Research Center, with 3 out of 5 saying the nation’s best days are in the past, not the future. That general sourness — much more than any ideological shift — explains why El-Sayed and other outsiders have been able to win. Take Colorado, where insurgents won the nomination for governor and defeated a long-time House member. Kyle Clark, a veteran political analyst in Denver, told Puck’s Peter Hamby that Colorado voters “want proven fighters they know will go hard without being prodded to do it. It’s not about ideology for many voters I talk to. It’s about demanding action and results.” Democratic pollster Fred Yang discerned similar emotions in races he handled in New York and Maryland. “The focus wasn’t on left or right — it was about going forward. It was about bread-and-butter issues: affordability and costs,” he told Puck. El-Sayed and his comrades pose a big risk for the Democrats, but also present a great opportunity. Can they recognize, and reflect, what really angers people? Can they focus bread and butter, not pie in the sky? Can they generate excitement while avoiding excess? Can they stand for change — and not chaos? Email Roberts at stevecokie@gmail.com.

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Remains found at Baton Rouge landfill ID’d Coroner confirms it is Ja’Derrius Minnieweather

BY OLIVIA TEES Staff writer

Remains found at the Baton Rouge landfill have been confirmed as belonging to missing 15-year-old Ja’Derrius Minnieweather. The East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office confirmed the finding Wednesday afternoon after conducting an analysis of the DNA. “With the assistance of the LSU FACES Lab, led by Dr. Ginesse Listi, and the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office has made an identification of the remains of Ja’Derrius Minnieweather using DNA comparison,” the Coroner’s Office said in a statement. Baton Rouge Police Department spokesperson Lt. L’Jean McKneely said clothing was found near the body but would not confirm whether the remains were full or partial out of respect for the family. On Tuesday, police announced that after searching the landfill in Zachary for six weeks crews had found remains believed to be the teen. Police Chief TJ Morse said the

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Continued from page 1B “She gave us a statement that she was aware that he was doing it,” Lopinto said Wednesday. “There was no history of domestic violence between the two, no stalking incidents.” But Rome’s actions constituted a violation of department policy, and he was ﬁred, Lopinto said. “You can’t use the Flock system as your own personal Life 360. That’s a problem,” he said. The Sheriff’s Office became aware of Rome’s actions Monday when they were contacted by a national media outlet inquiring about possible inappropriate use of the Flock system by an employee, ac-

Baton Rouge Landfill started at 6 a.m. July 13. Police arrested Maurice Parms, 51, on June 20 on a count of firstdegree murder. Police say he allegedly beat Minnieweather to death and went to great lengths to hide the evidence. Morse said the department had evidence that strongly indicated Parms had killed Minnieweather and dumped the body in a garbage can. Parms admitted in an interview with police after his second arrest that he had met Minnieweather on June 4 at a residence of a 16-yearold girl, who police say was a friend of Minnieweather. Detectives obtained footage of a tall Black man dragging a trash can to a spot in the 3200 block of Conrad Street. They also found video from a minute later of a man matching Parms’ body type riding a child’s bike away from Conrad toward Charles Street. A male was also STAFF PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS seen getting off the bike and throwing it into bushes, where he is then Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse speaks during a news conference about Ja’Derrius Minnieweather at the seen taking off a black mask, gloves Police Department headquarters on Tuesday. and a T-shirt, which he threw into multiple garbage cans. area where Minnieweather’s reFor the entirety of the search, The team will continue to search clude the search. Minnieweather was reportedly Parms made no statement or mains were found was not in the the landfill until Friday to deteroriginal 0.64-acre sector that was mine if any additional evidence is killed June 5, and his body was helped police in any way to locate identified with help from the FBI in the area where the remains were subsequently dumped into the East the body. If he is convicted of first-degree Laboratory’s Technical Hazards found, McKneely said. He said the Baton Rouge Landfill in Zachary on Response Unit and Evidence Re- department will make a decision at the morning of June 22, police said. murder, Parms would face the posThe search at the 400-acre East sibility of the death penalty. the end of the week if it will consponse Team.

cording to the department. Officials did not disclose exactly how many times Rome used the system to track his fiancée, calling it “several thousand times” between 2024 and 2026. Internal affairs investigators interviewed Rome Tuesday, and he admitted to the searches, the Sheriff’s Office said. “The employee advised that he and his former fiancée maintained a friendly relationship,” the department said in a statement released Wednesday morning. “Based on this admission, the employee was immediately suspended.” Investigators spoke with Rome’s former fiancée, and she confirmed she knew about the searches. She asked that Rome be allowed to remain employed, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The department called Rome’s misuse of the cameras a “serious violation of JPSO policy,” regardless of the circumstances. Details of Rome’s camera misuse come as surveillance technology providers in the U.S. have been under increased scrutiny from opponents and civil rights advocates who have raised ﬂags about privacy concerns and the potential for law enforcement to abuse such systems. The Sheriff’s Office has been using automated license plate readers since 2008 to track vehicle movements as part of investigations, from missing persons searches to vehicle burglaries and homicide cases. Flock system cameras can also log and track identifying details such as the color, make and model

of a vehicle and even whether it has a bumper sticker. That information is loaded into a searchable database available to law enforcement nationwide. “It unfortunately comes as no surprise that yet another law enforcement agent abused Flock surveillance technology. This is one more example of how dangerous mass surveillance is, particularly without guardrails or transparency,” ACLU of Louisiana Advocacy Director Sarah Whittington said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. Critics of the Flock system and similar providers say the information they collect and make available through searchable databases could be used to build a mass surveillance system used for warrantless searches and violations of con-

stitutional rights. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. If we continue to allow Flock and other surveillance companies to expand unchecked, we will watch as our right to privacy becomes a thing of the past,” Whittington said. The Sheriff’s Office declined to disclose how many ALPR cameras the department had in use as of Wednesday. In 2015 and 2016, the Times-Picayune found that the Sheriff’s Office had more than 100 fixed cameras mounted across the parish. “From a law enforcement standpoint, it’s an extremely effective tool that we use to solve crime,” Lopinto said. “When you have deputies like this that abuse the system, it gives the rest of the system a black eye.”

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‘TOUGHEST CAMP EVER’

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — There was a moment early in training camp that got coach Kellen Moore ﬁred up during one of the New Orleans Saints‘ ﬁrst padded practices. He was watching the offensive and defensive lines go at each other in a one-onone pass rush drill. There was his star edge rusher, Chase Young, working against his promising young tackle, Kelvin Banks. And it was what transpired after their reps against each other that got the coach excited. “As soon as they were done, they were sitting there talking to each other and giving each other feedback,” Moore said. “That’s all you can dream of, to watch those guys try to help each other be better.” Young has already established he’s a budding star, though there’s an argument to be made that he’s just starting to show what he can be. But Banks, the No. 9 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, is still at the beginning of what the Saints hope to be a long and productive career. When Moore watched those two talk over their reps, he saw two of his best young players working together to perfect their

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Kiffin’s tempo, high temperatures turn up the heat at LSU practice BY JON BLAU Staff writer

LSU set to take on ‘tougher’ schedule

Only one Tiger at a time chased and snatched a donutshaped “pursue and tackle” wheel as it rolled across the grass of LSU’s practice field. But they weren’t the only ones in pursuit. As each LSU safety backpedaled, stuck a foot in the ground, and charged those oversized O’s, a student manager ran after the tackling pad with the urgency of a parent watching their baby crawl toward a fireplace. That manager wouldn’t allow an extra tenth of a second to pass as he returned the wheel to assistant safeties coach Noah Joseph, who rolled it again for the next defender in line. He was so gassed, the manager’s hands were on his hips after a couple of retrievals. “Y’all go out to practice, there’s nobody standing around,” LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker said. “We practice with tempo.” The tempo is set by LSU’s offense, which is trying to match the breakneck pace Lane Kiffin’s units established

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Mulkey confident Tigers ready for upgraded slate For as long as she’s coached the LSU’s women’s basketball program, Kim Mulkey has tried not to schedule too many marquee nonconference games. Mulkey said it takes time to build a program that can consistently handle those matchups. In the meantime, she’d rather play it safe in November and December, avoiding unnecessary challenges and risks, so that her Tigers could be ready for January, February and March. Those months are the ones that matter most, anyway, and the SEC is chock-full of opponents that can test her team’s mettle. “It wasn’t like I sat down,” Mulkey told The Advocate on Monday, “and just said, ‘OK, now’s the year.’” But LSU still wound up with what’s, by its standards, an unusually tough

at Ole Miss. But the Tigers’ defense has had to equal that speed, not only during 11-on-11 periods but also in their individual drill work. Kiffin aims for efficiency in practice, even if that means moving fast in a Baton Rouge environment that feels like a convection oven. He doesn’t allow media members to see much, only 10-12 minutes of individual drills each day, but the intensity of preseason camp has been validated through the Tigers’ own words. A couple weeks in, redshirt junior safety Tamarcus Cooley posted to his X account that this was the “toughest camp ever.” “I ain’t gonna lie, it’s a lot,” sophomore cornerback DJ Pickett said. “You gotta be real in shape.” Kifﬁn’s practices have been an adjustment for everyone, from players to coaches to the student managers fetching tackling wheels. But the Tigers are getting a lot in.

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Miami quarterback Darian Mensah speaks to reporters during ACC media days on July 15 in Charlotte, N.C. The former Tulane quarterback’s NIL deal with a luxury watch company is believed to be worth $6.5 million.

And that, in short, is the not-so-hidden secret driving a new era in college sports. It is a business rebuilt to allow players to cash in on their name, image and likeness fame, one that pays exorbitant prices to athletes under the guise that the money isn’t a salary, but rather a payment for services the athletes provide through sponsorship deals. That’s the way many of the headlinegrabbing six- and seven-ﬁgure payments that go to college players for so-called “third party NIL” can truly comport with the NCAA rulebook. And that rulebook — for all its rapid changes in recent years — refuses to do away with the fading notion that college athletes aren’t pros who can be paid merely to show up and play.

Left tackle Dan Moore of the Tennessee Titans can list all the sponsorship deals he has done as a pro on one hand: A few meet and greet opportunities when he was with the Steelers, a grill company that gave him some barbecue tools in exchange for his endorsement. Million-dollar deals? No such thing, especially for someone playing his position. If he were in college — a talented offensive lineman with a chance to make his team a national contender — that might One of these things is not like the other be different. Mike McGlinchey, a ninth-year NFL “It’s only been five years since NIL right tackle with the Denver Broncos, has started,” said Moore, who heads into his a contract worth $52 million in guaranteed sixth year in the NFL this season. “An- money but he doesn’t have a sponsorship other ﬁve years, and we could see college ä See NIL, page 4C football becoming semi-pro.”

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Scheffler on cusp of earnings record BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

ST. LOUIS — Scottie Scheffler is on the cusp of a PGA Tour record Tiger Woods has held for more than 26 years, one that means next to nothing to the world’s No. 1 player because of so many factors in play. Scheffler is coming off his 21st career PGA Tour victory, all in the last five years. Last week’s win was worth $3.6 million, the fifth time this year he has earned $2 million or more. That brought him to within $1,034,756 of surpassing Woods on the career earnings list. He could do that with a threeway tie for third in the BMW Championship. Just don’t look for any sparkling wine, much less a celebration. Prize money began to soar because of Woods, and it spiked with the arrival of LIV Golf. It was a matter of time. Besides, that’s not the way Scheffler keeps score. “That has a lot to do with the purses and all that,” Scheffler said Wednesday. “I’m not really too close to him in terms of career wins. What am I, like a fourth of the way there?” Close enough. Woods is at 82 wins, tied for the all-time record with Sam Snead. Money topics at Bellerive Country Club, hosting the BMW Championship for the first time since 2008, is all about 30 players trying to get to East Lake to play for a $40 million purse — $10 million for the winner — and the FedEx Cup. That’s not a concern for Scheffler, either, or for the likes of Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young, Rory McIlroy and a host of others who were among the top 50 in the FedEx Cup to advance to the second FedEx Cup playoffs event. But it is to Gary Woodland, still recovering from brain surgery and at No. 31 with a chance to reach the Tour Championship for the first time in six years. And it is to 46-year-old Adam Scott, the only player in the field who was at Bellerive for the last BMW Championship.

Houston Texans receiver Jayden Higgins is expected to miss the season with a torn ACL, according to a person with knowledge of his injury The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the Texans haven’t announced the severity of his injury. Higgins fell awkwardly while running a route during a joint practice with the Las Vegas Raiders on Tuesday in Houston. Coach DeMeco Ryans said at the time that Higgins was being evaluated for a leg injury. The second-year receiver was expected to team up with No. 1 wideout Nico Collins in the Texans offense led by quarterback C.J. Stroud. A second-round pick in the 2025 draft, Higgins made 41 catches for 525 yards and six touchdowns in his rookie year.

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Scottie Scheffler hits from the 12th tee during the final round of the St. Jude Championship on Sunday in Memphis, Tenn. Getting to East Lake all but assures a spot in all four majors. That’s a big perk, along with the chance to win a $10 million payoff. “Making the Tour Championship has always been important,” Scott said. “It’s always been a marker of your performance throughout the year.” There’s a little more at stake for a short list of players — Scheffler, Fitzpatrick, Young, perhaps even McIlroy. No one has really stood out as PGA Tour player of the year. Scheffler moved to the front with his eight-shot win at the FedEx St. Jude Championship last week. It’s only his second win this year, but it goes along with five runner-up finishes and five other top 4s. Scheffler has played so well he already is guaranteed the $23 million bonus for leading the FedEx Cup through the BMW Championship. That doesn’t count toward official earnings.

That number stands at $119,964,411. Perhaps another testament to changing times is that Woods earned his last official paycheck in the 2024 Masters ($44,000), moving his total to $120,999,166. Scheffler won the Masters that year and moved to No. 12 at $57,658,464. So he has made just over $62.3 million in his last 48 tour starts over two years and four months. Great golf. Big money. It was a matter of time. And it really doesn’t matter to Scheffler. “Tiger did a lot for the game of golf and he put us in a position where we’re able to earn some pretty good stuff financially, so that’s something we’re very grateful for,” Scheffler said. “When you look at where the purses were at before he came out on tour to where they’re at now is a pretty stark difference. And we’re very thankful for his contributions to the game and

hopefully we’ll see him back out here competing again soon.” Scheffler’s first PGA Tour check was $25,080 for a tie for 43rd at the 2018 St. Jude Classic. Last place at the BMW Championship this week pays $66,000. The testament to Woods is how long he kept his name atop the career money list. He took over for Davis Love III — Love was at the top for all of two weeks — when Woods tied for second in the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines (total purse was $3 million) on Feb. 13, 2000. Six players in the BMW Championship field weren’t even born then. Talk of money took Scheffler back to his early days of grinding. He had financial freedom with an endorsement deal he signed with Nike, so there was no concern on entry fees in Monday qualifiers or even gas money to get there. But those were fun times to him. “Just trying to find my place in the game,” Scheffler said.

McI lroy questions value of Rahm, DeChambeau to LIV BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

Scottie Scheffler is not opposed to the return of LIV Golf players who chased after Saudi money, but with some form of a penalty. Rory McIlroy could see unification at some point, though he paused when asked Wednesday about the value they would bring to the PGA Tour. “I mean, I’d argue have they brought value to LIV?” McIlroy said at the BMW Championship. LIV Golf’s future is under scrutiny with the Indianapolis event this week being the last one of the year for a league that no longer will get funding from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. LIV CEO Scott O’Neil remained bullish about plans for 2027 and beyond, saying players would be equity owners and have their commercial rights restored. O’Neil said the plan was to have five team championships overseas and five individual tournaments in the United States scheduled close to the majors for those who qualify for them. He did not name the lead investor with whom LIV has reached an agreement. Several outlets have identified him as Ted Goldthorpe of BC Partners, who met with players on Tuesday. O’Neil said there was a deadline for players to commit to LIV 2.0 without saying when it is. He also has not mentioned the size of the proposed investment. LIV Golf spent more than $5 billion in five years. “The entirety of our focus is to get to this transaction and get through it,” O’Neil said. “Without the players, that becomes very difficult. I have a good level of con-

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Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, waits to hit on the 10th tee during the third round of the St. Jude Championship on Saturday in Memphis, Tenn. fidence in my conversation that we’ll have a critical mass of the right players to move this league forward.” The critical players for LIV are Jon Rahm, whose contract end after 2027, and Bryson DeChambeau, whose contract is up this year. Both are two-time major champions and the biggest two names left on LIV Golf. Brooks Koepka was the first player to return to the PGA Tour this year, with stipulations that he could not play $20 million signature events unless he earned his way, paid $5 million to charity and had no access to equity. The tour put the penalty value at $50 million and upward. The tour then offered the same

deal — and two weeks to decide on it — to Rahm, DeChambeau and Cameron Smith, all major champions dating to the launch of LIV in 2022. “When we talk about the best players, LIV has a few players that are really good,” Schefﬂer said. “I think the depth that we have on our tour is unmatched, but I think when you look at the higher levels of LIV Golf there’s deﬁnitely some players that would provide a lot of value to the tour, and guys that I love competing against as well. “So I think going forward there obviously has to be, I think, some sort of penalties.” What those penalties are he said would be up to PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp.

McIlroy has been the biggest critic of LIV from the start. He has toned down his rhetoric over the years, though he suggested in February 2025 that players “have to get over it” when it comes to ﬁnding a way to bring defectors back. He sounded more reluctant Wednesday, noting that top players had their chances to return at the start of the year and whatever offer likely would not be as good as it was for Koepka. “I’m not part of these discussions, but I’m pretty sure they’re not going to be welcomed back straight away,” McIlroy said. “I think it was said at the time that the deal that they might get going forward — if they do decide to come back — isn’t going to be as good as the one that Brooks got. “So, yeah, I would say it’s going to be a tough, tough road back.” And it’s going to be tough on LIV, particularly with at least two lawsuits pending from vendors. Canadian-based Mobbi Systems Group ﬁeld a lawsuit in Miami last month. The technology company that supplied LIV’s “Any Shot, Any Time” feature on broadcasts is asking more than $1 million for outstanding invoices and lost revenue. In another lawsuit filed last month in New York, Coloradobased Fresh Tape Media is asking for more than $1.2 million LIV owes for the company to produce its preseason media preview days. “What I would say to them is we’re doing everything we can to make sure we can do right by them and the work they committed, and I hope we can,” O’Neil said. “For the next generation, it will certainly be a different business with a different process.”

GENEVA — Former Wimbledon ﬁnalist Nick Kyrgios revealed on Wednesday he tested positive for cocaine, and cited the doping case as a wake up call after feeling “helpless and alone” as injuries derailed his career. The 31-year-old Australian with a checkered disciplinary record was provisionally suspended after playing just 10 singles matches on the ATP tour, winning only two, since his peak season of 2022. Then, he reached the ﬁnal at the grass-court Grand Slam and lost to Novak Djokovic. Kyrgios is now ranked 919th. He tested positive in June for the party drug during a grass court event in Spain. Kyrgios faces a ban of up to four years, though a lighter sanction can be expected.

Pirates acquire catcher Bethancourt from Yankees

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired veteran catcher Christian Bethancourt from the New York Yankees on Wednesday in exchange for cash considerations. The 34-year-old Bethancourt had been playing for Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton, New York’s Triple-A afﬁliate. Pittsburgh assigned Bethancourt to Triple-A Indianapolis, but he is expected to join the Pirates’ taxi squad when the club begins a nine-game road trip in Los Angeles against the Dodgers on Friday. Bethancourt has appeared in 427 major league games across eight seasons, hitting .229 with 35 home runs and 135 RBIs for Atlanta, San Diego, Oakland, Tampa Bay, Miami and the Chicago Cubs.

WIngs guard Fudd set for season-ending knee surgery

ARLINGTON, Texas — Dallas Wings guard Azzi Fudd is set for seasonending surgery on a sore knee that has sidelined this year’s No. 1 overall pick for the past ﬁve games. The team said Wednesday that Fudd will have arthroscopic surgery on her right knee next week in Connecticut, where she starred for UConn before becoming the Huskies’ second consecutive top overall pick by Dallas. Reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year Paige Bueckers was the No. 1 choice last year. Fudd was eased into the lineup as a rookie, coming off the bench for the ﬁrst six games. She scored 24 points in that sixth game and immediately became a full-time starter. Fudd had a season-high 26 points in a win over Seattle in June.

Source: Seahawks, CB Diggs agree to one-year deal

SEATTLE — The Seahawks have agreed to sign cornerback Trevon Diggs to a one-year contract, a source confirmed to The Seattle Times. Diggs, 27, had a visit with the Seahawks on Tuesday. A second-round pick of Dallas out of Alabama in 2020 and the younger brother of receiver Stefon Diggs, Trevon Diggs led the NFL in interceptions with 11 in 2021 but has battled injuries since the 2022 season and has played just 23 games the last three years. Diggs, listed at 6-2, 195 pounds, was waived by the Cowboys on Dec. 30 after playing in eight games while dealing with what were reported knee and concussion issues. He signed with Green Bay and played in a regular-season game and postseason game before being released by the Packers in January.

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THE VARSITY ZONE FOOTBALL PRE VIEW n DISTRICT 11-3A LOOKING BACK L.B. Landry Last year: 5-6 overall (first round), 4-1 in 10-3A Patrick Taylor Last year: 5-6 (first round), 3-1 in 9-3A Thomas Jefferson Last year: 5-5 (first round), 2-2 in 9-3A Cohen Last year: 2-8 (first round), 1-3 in 10-2A Sophie B. Wright Last year: 1-8, 1-4 in 10-3A Jefferson Rise Last year: 1-9, 0-4 in 9-3A

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Patrick Taylor running back Logan Rogers takes part in practice on August 12, 2025, in Westwego. Rogers rushed for 1,661 yards and 19 touchdowns last season to help lead the Tigers to the playoffs after going winless in 2024.

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Patrick Taylor led by senior RB Rogers, who’s contributed since middle school BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

Patrick Taylor running back Logan Rogers was only an eighth grader when he earned coach Kenny Bourgeois’ trust. A familiar face to Bourgeois having attended Patrick Taylor since the sixth grade, Rogers saw his ﬁrst varsity action in Week 3 of his eighth grade year for the school that began varsity play in 2022. He’s gone on to become a foundational piece for the Tigers and is now a workhorse running back entering his senior season. Rogers ﬁnished last season as a junior with 1,661 yards rushing and 19 touchdowns last season, helping lead Patrick Taylor back to the playoffs after going winless in 2024. “I’ve stayed at (Patrick Taylor) for a while, and I’ve grown to love it,” Rogers said. “Going through it and sticking with this group, I wouldn’t want any other group to go out with.” Rogers saw his rushing load increase as a sophomore after Patrick Taylor graduated a pair of senior running backs as a part of 28-player senior class. The Tigers had to start several sophomores as a result. The majority of Patrick Taylor’s seniors are now multiyear starters such as Rogers, who’s taken on a leadership role to help mentor the underclassmen. “I used to be that younger kid who was always eager to get in,” said Rogers, listed at 5-foot-10, 190 pounds. “Someone has to be that guy to step up (as a leader), even if it may be hard. Someone has to speak up, and that’s what I’ve grown into.” Quarterback Parker Marks started alongside Rogers as a sophomore. The pair took a step forward as juniors, leading a Tigers offense that averaged more than 30 points per game. “Our offense is built around Parker and Logan,” Bourgeois said. “This senior class was sixth graders when the program started and have helped build it from the ground up. I really saw (Rogers’) potential when he broke in, and he’s been the man ever since.”

Logan Rogers RB | Patrick Taylor, Sr. Described as “the horse that pulls the carriage” by Patrick Taylor coach Kenny Bourgeois, Rogers has been a varsity contributor since his eighth-grade year.The senior rushed for more than 1,600 yards and scored 16 touchdowns last season. Akiree Hogan DB/RB | L.B. Landry, Sr. Hogan returns as a two-way starter at running back and in the secondary. He’s set to carry the rushing load on offense while serving as a versatile defensive back who can play cornerback or safety. Elijah Hensley LB | Jefferson Rise, So. Jefferson Rise coach Chris Current was looking to get Hensley on the field as a freshman, and he shined after moving to middle linebacker in Week 6.“(Hensley) gave us a different spark on defense,” Current said. Vincent Wypyszinski QB | Thomas Jefferson, Sr. Wypyszinski is a returning starter who will have more on his plate with Thomas Jefferson moving to a spread offense.The 6-foot-1 left-hander will have senior Charles Turner back at wide receiver. Antonio Barthelemy LB | Patrick Taylor, Sr. Barthelemy was a leader on defense as a junior after injuries limited his playing time in previous seasons. He led Patrick Taylor with 98 tackles last year and is one of three returning starters at linebacker.

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Patrick Taylor coach Kenny Bourgeois directs practice on Aug. 12, 2025, in Westwego. The Tigers return 17 starters to a team that has 14 seniors. ‘A lot of these seniors have been starting since their freshman year. They’re a very a battle-tested group,’ Bourgeois said. Patrick Taylor has 14 seniors this season, the most it’s had since 2023. The Tigers 17 starters in total. Senior wide receiver Jalen Patterson returns as Marks’ go-to target after recording 862 all-purpose yard last season. Junior Benton Bruner is another returning wide receiver hoping to make an impact. “We lost only three seniors on offense and two on defense,” Bourgeois said. “A lot of these seniors have been starting since their freshman year. They’re a very a battle-tested group.” Patrick Taylor returns its entire starting offensive line, including all-district senior Bryce Berthelot. Seniors Bryce Brazier and J’Shad Paddio return to lead the defensive line. Senior Antonio Barthelemy led Patrick Taylor in tackles last season and is one of three returning starters at linebacker. The secondary returns four-year starting cornerback Ryne Reaves along with senior safety Will Schmidt.

With a solid foundation in place, Patrick Taylor will look to improve upon last season’s 5-6 record. Rogers has set lofty goals as he looks to prove himself to college football coaches. “My main goal is winning,” Rogers said. “My personal goals are (to rush for more than) 2,000 yards and 20 touchdowns. I’ve got (college) coaches looking at me. I’ve got to go out there and show them.” Patrick Taylor is in a new-look District 11-3A but has a pair of familiar district opponents in Jefferson Parish programs Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Rise. “We’ve got a schedule that we can go compete with,” Bourgeois said. “Jefferson Rise started their program the same year as us, and Thomas Jefferson has been a rivalry. “We’re hoping to keep it consistent and be in the playoffs every year.” Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@ theadvocate.com.

1. Three of the six teams in the district have first-year head coaches. Former Carver coach Byron Addison has taken over at L.B. Landry, Michael Ford is a head coach for the first time at Thomas Jefferson and former Martin Luther King coach Joe Riley is leading Sophie B.Wright. 2. Patrick Taylor has plenty of experience with 17 starters returning on offense and defense. Senior quarterback Parker Marks is a three-year starter, and senior wide receiver Jalen Patterson had 862 all-purpose yards and 12 touchdowns last season. 3. Former NFL running back Robert Kelley is entering his second season as Cohen’s coach. Kelley is a Tulane alum and one of two former NFL running backs coaching in the district along with Ford, an LSU alum. 4. L.B. Landry has a new quarterback in junior Malik Bartholomew after multiyear starter Warren Davis transferred. Jefferson Rise will also have a first-year starting quarterback in sophomore Jaylen Randall. 5. Riley is Sophie B.Wright’s third coach in four years, but he plans to coach the Warriors “for the long haul.” Returning seniors Zakhi Pleasant and K’ron Josey will be leading contributors this season. Spencer Urquhart

Deputy tried to serve civil papers to Sanders at practice

time to receive receipt of lished or shared. sity staff to be attempting to block Colorado coach being atthethe papers,” a spokesperson with Carrie Haverfield, a senior com- the civil service, on the contrary, subpoenaed to testify the sheriff’s office said Wednes- munications specialist for the they were attempting to help our day. Sanders is being subpoenaed sheriff’s office, wrote in an email deputy find a better time to do so. in son’s bankruptcy trial to testify as part of a bankruptcy to The Associated Press that it’s We do not disclose the specific con-

BY PAT GRAHAM AP sportswriter

A deputy with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office showed up at the University of Colorado campus last week to serve civil papers ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO to Deion Sanders while the coach was at an open practice and inacColorado coach Deion Sanders cessible. talks to reporters after practice on The ofﬁcer was informed that the Aug. 6 in Fountain, Colo. Buffaloes coach was “unavailable

trial involving his son, Shilo, that begins on Aug. 31, according to USA Today. The Colorado athletic department had no additional information. The Buffaloes open the season on Sept. 3 at Georgia Tech. The deputy arrived on campus at 10:22 a.m. on Aug. 11 with civil papers. It was the day the Buffaloes held an open practice with speciﬁc rules in place that nothing observed could be reported, pub-

not uncommon for civil papers to take several attempts to serve. “While working with university staff to find a better time to complete the process, we heard from Mr. Sanders’ legal counsel who indicated that they were able to receive receipt of the papers on behalf of Mr. Sanders, however, they were not located in Boulder County, so we transferred the paperwork to Denver to be served,” Haverfield wrote. “We did not find any univer-

tents of civil papers that we serve.” Shilo Sanders remains in litigation over a lawsuit stemming from an incident with a security guard when he was in high school. The guard ﬁled a lawsuit against Sanders and was issued a default judgment when Sanders didn’t show for his court date. The hard-hitting safety who played for his dad at Colorado was waived by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last August.

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Miami picked as favorite for ACC in 2026 BY AARON BEARD AP sportswriter

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LSU edge rusher Jack Pyburn stands on the fi eld following the win over Western Kentucky on Nov. 22 at Tiger Stadium. Pyburn is one of 16 football players and 30 athletes in total who joined a suit against the NCAA.

Ex-LSU athletes sue NCAA for eligibility

BY JON BLAU Staff writer

Four ex-LSU athletes, including a football player currently on an NFL roster, are attempting to return to the college ranks via a lawsuit ﬁled Wednesday in a Louisiana court. Jack Pyburn, an edge rusher signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent, is one of 16 football players and 30 athletes in total who joined in the suit, which resulted in a temporary restraining order against the NCAA. LSU women’s basketball player Amiya Joyner, men’s basketball player Rashad King and women’s soccer player Jazmin Ferguson are also plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Wednesday’s temporary restraining order, which remains in effect for 10 days unless the court extends it, deems the plaintiffs eligible to compete in college and allows them to enter the transfer portal, which the NCAA has otherwise closed to athletes who hadn’t jumped in during the association’s prescribed windows for entry. The order also specifies that athletes who signed with a professional team are eligible to compete in the college ranks as long as they terminate their contracts and repay the money they’ve received. NFL teams will make their ﬁnal cuts and designate practice squad players by the end of August. The chaos surrounding the NCAA’s eligibility rules took a turn on Aug. 1 when a federal judge in Colorado granted a class-wide preliminary injunction requiring the NCAA to declare athletes from the high school class of 2022 eligible. The NCAA has threatened stiff penalties against schools that add “ghost transfers” outside of its portal windows, including the

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Continued from page 1C They “two-spot” drills, which means two groups are repping things at the same time so fewer people are standing around at any given moment. One half of the offensive line, for example, practices pass protection with head offensive line coach Eric Wolford while “run game specialist” James Cregg works insidezone blocks with the other half. “This is as close to the pros as

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Continued from page 1C deal. That puts him in the majority of NFL offensive linemen, who either don’t need to work extra for more income or aren’t well-known enough to grab much more than a local deal or two. Of the 20 biggest NFL endorsement deals listed by Sportico – a list that starts with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce at $32 million – not a single one belongs to a lineman. But in college, there’s Jordan Seaton, the ﬁve-star left tackle who was one of Deion Sanders’ biggest signings at Colorado, then left the

Mario Cristobal got Miami back inside the top 10 by Year 3 and within a victory of a national championship in his fourth. Yet the Hurricanes are still chasing a ﬁrst Atlantic Coast Conference championship after more than two decades in the league. His team is picked to accomplish that goal this year, which would put it right back in the mix for the College Football Playoff, too. “We’ve had steady progress over the last four years,” Cristobal said. “It’s been due to the commitment and the level of just care of these players and their coaches.” The seventh-ranked Hurricane s are the headliner, with Duke transfer quarterback Darian Mensah as the preseason player of the year and Miami claiming a third of the spots on the preseason all-conference team. That list includes Mark Fletcher Jr. (1,192 yards, 12 TDs) as last year’s top league rusher and versatile big-play receiving threat Malachi Toney. Miami joined the league ahead of the 2004 season, but has reached the ACC championship game just once (2017). No. 19 SMU is the top challenger, with the Mustangs launching a Heisman Trophy push for veteran starting quarterback Kevin Jennings — who led them to the ACC title game and a CFP bid in 2024. No. 24 Louisville is next up after adding Ohio State transfer Lincoln Kienholz at QB to an offense featuring running back Isaac Brown, the ACC rookie of the year in 2024 who played nine games last year due to injury.

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Miami quarterback Darian Mensah throws a pass during a practice session at their training facility on Aug. 4 in Coral Gables, Fla.

Clemson and Florida State have gone from ranking among the nation’s elite to also-ran status. It’s unclear whether either can change that trajectory. Dabo Swinney’s Tigers won two national titles and eight ACC crowns between 2015-24, but slid to 7-6 last year for their worst record since 2010. Clemson was unranked in the preseason AP Top 25 for the ﬁrst time since 2011. “This year, ain’t none of y’all go-

ing to pick us,” Swinney told reporters in July. Little has gone right for Mike Norvell’s Seminoles since being snubbed for the final four-team CFP as an unbeaten team after losing star quarterback Jordan Travis to a season-ending injury. FSU has gone 7-18 since, including a league-worst 3-13 in the ACC. Clemson is picked to finish fourth in the ACC, while FSU is picked 11th. ACC finalists Duke and Virginia picked in league’s middle third Duke beat Virginia in last year’s title game for its first outright ACC championship since 1962. Those finalists are picked in the ACC’s middle third. Mensah’s transfer was the biggest hit for the Blue Devils, who also lost their top three receivers while having uncertainty as to who will fill leading defensive roles. “I think people just went back to labeling us as the same old Duke just because of the people that walked out this door,” 1,100-yard rusher Nate Sheppard said. “But you have dudes walk out the door every year.” The Cavaliers are coming off a breakthrough 11-win season under Tony Elliott after managing just 11 wins in his first three seasons combined. The Cavs are picked to finish sixth, the Blue Devils 10th. Virginia Tech, California and Stanford welcome new coaches Virginia Tech’s hiring of James Franklin is the big coaching move, with the Hokies betting the former Penn State coach can jolt their marquee sport as part of a larger push to elevate athletics in Blacksburg. Out West, Stanford and California have each turned to alumni. The Cardinal has hired former quarterback Tavita Pritchard after he spent the past three years as a QB coach with the NFL’s Washington Commanders. The Golden Bears hired former defensive lineman Tosh Lupoi, who had spent the past four seasons as Oregon’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

playbook,” Seaton said. “We’re not always going to get every call out and probably not always going to hear every call.” On the ﬂip side, LSU’s defense has been challenged to line up in time. It’s a worthwhile exercise because the Tigers will play some of the fastest offenses in the country in SEC play. Auburn coach Alex Golesh and Kentucky’s Will Stein are bringing tempo schemes from South Florida and Oregon, respectively, and Tennessee’s Josh Heupel has established the Volunteers as sprinters. If Ole Miss retains Kifﬁn’s offen-

sive philosophies, then the Rebels will move like LSU too. “As fast as our offense goes, on defense, it weighs on you,” Baker said. “So it’s been really good for our mental toughness. I think we’ve done a much better job handling that than we did in the spring.” Kiffin came into camp saying the Tigers had a “long way to go” in learning how to push through “intense” periods of practice. On Monday, it was 97 degrees in Baton Rouge — with a “feels like” temperature in the 110s — and Kifﬁn had LSU’s offense and defense staying on the ﬁeld for long drives

without affording them any substitutions. “We’ve got to go to another level,” Kifﬁn said. “We’ve got to play better than what we’ve played all around. Especially our backups got to play better so we can rotate.” Kiffin and his fellow coaches have pushed the pace. How well the Tigers have acclimated will be revealed Sept. 5 versus Clemson. “I mean, it’s a lot of football. It’s been a lot of fun,” Baker said, referring back to Cooley’s “toughest camp ever” post, “but I can see where he’s coming from.”

used name-image-likeness to open the ﬂoodgates to say. ‘We’re going to pay the most to get this kid.’ ” Among the 20 highest-paid NFL endorsers are quarterbacks Geno Smith ($1.5 million), Sam Darnold ($1 million) and Deshaun Watson ($750,000). All of those amounts are less than what the top 10 college players make in sponsorships, according to On3, which tracks college NIL deals, none of which are disclosed by schools. It’s a list that includes Seaton but does not include college football’s most widely recognizable name: Arch Manning, who reportedly took a pay cut this year to $2.5 million to help Texas beef up its roster.

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a luxury watch company. Mensah’s NIL is believed worth $6.5 million, which is more than what all but nine current NFL players earn in endorsements, according to Sportico. Among Seaton’s handful of NIL deals is one in which he goes on social media to tell his 77,000 Instagram followers of his love for Raising Cane’s — a chicken joint with roots in the Baton Rouge area that has strong connections to LSU. It helps explain how Seaton’s haul rose to about the same as that brought in by Livvy Dunne, the former LSU gymnast who has 5.1 million followers and is considered the highest female earner in the short history of third-party NIL.

suspension of a program’s coach for half the season and a 20% reduction in that team’s budget. But Wednesday’s order explicitly forbids the NCAA from levying such penalties. Football players were previously required to enter the NCAA’s transfer portal between Jan. 2-16 to play for another team in 2026. The men’s and women’s basketball transfer windows closed April 21 and April 20, respectively. The NCAA has declined to provide a blanket waiver to athletes who previously exhausted their eligibility in four years despite its adoption of a new “5 for 5” model that allows current athletes to play five seasons in five years. NCAA vice president for external affairs Tim Buckley said courts “granting relief to ineligible athletes” have failed to appreciate the “destabilizing effect” of their rulings. “The lawyers bringing these cases seemingly won’t be satisfied until every professional athlete can treat college sports as a fallback option,” Buckley said in a statement, “regardless of the opportunities it strips from those who will never have a chance to begin their collegiate sports experience.” Darren Heitner, one of the attorneys who helped initiate the case, offered a statement to The Advocate: “I’m very pleased to see clients continue to be understood by courts of law around the country who clearly view the NCAA’s decision-making to be arbitrary and capricious. The early victories are satisfying, but the battles go on.” Online court records indicate the case involving Pyburn and Co. is set for an initial hearing before a Baton Rouge judge, Hon. William Jorden, at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 —

just days before LSU’s Sept. 5 season opener against Clemson. LSU coach Lane Kiffin recently said his staff looks at “everything” and his program would be “prepared” to potentially add newly eligible seniors if they were suddenly eligible to play another year. Kiffin adamantly believes those athletes should be eligible to play anywhere, not just the schools where they were previously rostered. “They haven’t been in programs for seven months. And the program where they were at, the coaches have changed at a number of them,” said Kiffin, who just took over LSU after six years at Ole Miss. “There will be places that don’t want them back, because they’re full or they don’t need someone at that position, or there are new coaches there,” he added. “So it would really be a shame for anyone to limit these kids to where they can go back to.” Three of Kiffin’s former starters at Ole Miss — tight end Dae’Quan Wright, defensive tackle Zxavian Harris and safety Wydett Williams — were also a part of Wednesday’s lawsuit. Pyburn, who played three years at Florida before finishing as a senior at LSU in 2025, had just two sacks in the Bucs’ opener against the Jets. Joyner is a 6-foot-2 forward who spent the first three years of her career at East Carolina. She transferred to LSU before the 2025-26 season and started 19 games for the Tigers, averaging 9.2 points and 7.5 rebounds per contest while shooting 60% from the field. Reed Darcey contributed to this story.

it’s going to get,” said left tackle Jordan Seaton, who noted Cregg’s time with the 49ers and Raiders after his ﬁrst LSU stint from 2018-20. Seaton, who has dropped about 25 pounds since his transfer from Colorado, has positioned himself physically to transition from one play to the next in Kifﬁn’s tempo offense. But as fast as the Tigers move, they have to process information just as quickly. Because the offensive line won’t necessarily have a good 15 seconds to scan the defense across from them and work out who is blocking whom. “Everybody needs to know their

Buffs to play at LSU. There, in the heart of SEC country, Seaton reportedly makes $4 million for pitching a national chain pharmacy, a fast-food restaurant, a personal finance firm and others. It’s a far cry from what McGlinchey envisioned when NIL arrived five years ago; he graduated from Notre Dame long before the era of paying college players began. “What I thought NIL was supposed to mean was a local Ford dealership in South Bend puts the offensive line on a billboard and gives us a truck to drive around for six months,” he said. “Now, NIL means, ‘We have collectives of money and the one with the biggest checkbook is going to win.’ They’ve

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Transition to 9-game schedule The league is transitioning to a nine-game football schedule to align with fellow power conferences. But the odd number of teams means there will be variables, with 12 teams playing nine games and ﬁve — Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and North Carolina — staying at eight. This will be a bridge year toward having 16 of 17 teams regularly playing nine games by 2027. The schedule concludes with the ACC title game Dec. 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Deals cut with non-associated entities — the deﬁnition of which has been disputed — aren’t subject to the same scrutiny. In theory, those deals, if truly between an athlete and a business with no connection to the school, are only limited by what the market will bear. While a good chunk of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ $30 million in endorsements comes from his hard-to-miss State Farm TV commercials, it would be harder to spot most of college’s best-paid pitchmen. Quarterback Darian Mensah’s featured NIL deal with Miami – his third school in three years – is with

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Saints’ injury bug hitting Moore harder in Year 2 BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — Of all the aspects that were different about the New Orleans Saints in coach Kellen Moore‘s first year, the changes in sports science might have been the starkest. After hiring director of sports science Ted Rath, the Saints stayed remarkably healthy for the majority of the season. While injuries mounted late in the year, New Notebook Orleans was still far healthier than in 2024 — when it was the fourth-most injured team in football, according to FTN Fantasy’s adjusted games lost metric. The start of Year 2 hasn’t been as kind in the injury department. From losing Bryan Bresee for the year on the first day of practice to Alvin Kamara and Quincy Riley being sidelined for several weeks, the Saints’ injuries are adding up fast before the season has officially begun. This summer, the Saints have already lost Bresee and guard Dillon Radunz to season-ending ACL tears. Then, defensive end Cam Jordan (hamstring), rookie wide receiver Jordyn Tyson (hamstring), running back Audric Estime (foot), Kamara (sprained MCL) and Riley (groin) are all dealing with issues that could linger into Week 1 and beyond. That’s three starters and three key backups. “It’s the unfortunate part of football,” Moore said. “There’s risk associated with football as far as injuries. You do your best to control that environment the best you can. We’re navigating it right now and our guys

will be as well prepared as we can be for the season.” The Saints, of course, aren’t the only team that deals with injuries. And they may still be less impacted than teams like the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Chargers, who have been hit hard this summer. But the injuries have caused adjustments, nonetheless. Moore said the Saints would study whether there has been an uptick in, or an outlier of, soft-tissue injuries, which teams tend to believe are more preventable than the contact that led to Kamara’s MCL sprain, for instance. On the surface, though, the Saints have utilized the same approach that led to a healthy season last year. Under Rath, the Saints still closely monitor workloads and give players rest days when needed. There are cool-off periods in practice in which players are supposed to hydrate or step into the team’s outdoor freezers in Metairie to reduce their body temperature. Practices still seem to be efﬁcient and avoid contact when possible. But football, as Moore knows, is a dangerous game. Instead, the Saints are left to manage timelines and determine the severity of each injury. There, Moore is also relying on a familiar method. Amid a report that Tyson could miss up to two months, the coach seemed to try to take whatever pressure off the ﬁrstround receiver might be facing to get back sooner, just as the coach did with Chase Young last year. “I know sometimes there’s a patience, or an impatience, to what (the) timeline is,” Moore said. “Let’s

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Saints cornerback Quincy Riley runs a drill during organized team activities on June 10 in Metairie.

just let him get healthy and we’ll fig- fensive tackle for the performance. PFF’s system is subjective, but ure it out.” the Saints also graded him out faMiller progress vorably. “There was some good film,” The Saints have taken a patient apMoore said. “There was a good first proach with Christen Miller. They sidelined the second-round exposure and he’ll keep getting betrookie defensive lineman for most ter.” of the spring as they worked him Miller made the most of his 17 back slowly through a hamstring in- snaps. The defensive tackle rejury. Then in training camp, Miller corded a quarterback hurry and has remained with the 2s and 3s — three “stops,” a tackle that PFF even as others along the defensive qualifies as a failure for the offense. line got hurt. The Saints and Miller The Saints lined Miller up as a nose have also had other nicks and bruis- tackle in base for six snaps and as es to manage, first a toe injury and one of the two defensive tackles in nickel for 11. now a shoulder issue. Interestingly, despite the team’s But, as the cliché goes, good things happen to those who wait. And the normal starters resting, the Saints two sides saw a glimpse of that in still had Miller wait to get into the Miller’s preseason debut last week- game — even after the 22-year-old end — when he was Pro Football was introduced as a “starter” with Focus’ highest-graded rookie de- the rest of the backup defense.

For the ﬁrst three plays, the Saints rolled with a trio of Jay’Vair Suggs, Khristian Boyd and Myles Cole on the interior. But that was part of the plan. The Saints haven’t rushed Miller’s development. They turned to Vernon Broughton to replace Bresee after his season-ending ACL tear. And then, while Davon Godchaux has been sidelined recently with an ankle issue, Boyd has taken reps with the starters. That was the case before Miller’s latest injury. The Georgia product hurt his shoulder in Saturday’s preseason game, though it did not prevent Miller from traveling to California this week while others with more serious injuries stayed back at the team’s facility. “We’re pleased with where his progression is,” Moore said.

Running back plan With Kamara and Estime out, the injuries throw a wrench into the Saints’ running back competition. But it creates an opportunity for Devin Neal and Kendre Miller to get back in the race after dealing with their own injuries. Neal (hamstring) and Miller (back) returned to practice this week and are tracking to play in Saturday’s preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams. Both had been out since early August. “This is going to be a hard group to sort out,” Moore said. “They’re all talented. They can all play on Sundays at a really high level. I love this group.” Email Matthew Paras at matt. paras@theadvocate.com

Colts’ Allen and Falcons’ Smith Commanders rookie sit out teams’ ﬁrst joint practice LB Styles is eager for his next opportunity BY MICHAEL MAROT AP sportswriter

WESTFIELD, Ind. — Keenan Allen took his spot on the sideline at Wednesday’s practice and did the same thing as all the Indianapolis Colts and Atlanta Falcons fans in the stands. He just watched. New Atlanta edge rusher Za’Darius Smith hadn’t even made it to town for the first of this week’s two joint practices. All that could change Thursday. Less than 48 hours after agreeing to a one-year contract with the Colts, Allen arrived at Grand Park Sports Complex, ready to get acclimated for his next test — practicing with his new teammates. “Knowing the offense, being able to come in and be ready to go right away,” Allen said, explaining why he picked the Colts. “We’re just going to feed off each other, everybody’s going to get some and love and just make plays.” Allen flew in Tuesday night and spent the first part of Wednesday reuniting with Colts coach Shane Steichen, who was an assistant with the Chargers during Allen’s first seven seasons in the league. The Colts envision the 34-yearold Allen giving them the same kind of production he’s had throughout his 13 NFL seasons, 12 with the Chargers as the franchise’s career leader in receptions (985). He broke the record when he returned to the team last season after one season with Chicago. “The production he’s had in this league and the consistency and professionalism he’s brought throughout his entire career has been phenomenal,” Steichen said. “So to add that type of guy to our roster is great for our whole team.” Atlanta also was missing a its new addition — the 33-year-old

SAINTS

Continued from page 1C craft. In Banks’ case, after a strong rookie season as the Saints’ starting left tackle, that is part of what the Saints love most about him. The 22-year-old was very good last year, and that is not enough. “The best players I’ve been around are the ones who not only want to be coached, they don’t want you to sweep it under the rug,” said offensive line coach Brendan Nugent. “They want you to tell them, even if they know it; they want to hear it and be held accountable just like everyone else. “That’s one of the best things

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“I respect him a lot,” Styles said. “It’s great to have a vet like that in the room. … You got to get a feel for each other, how each of you ﬁt certain runs and knowing how to play off each other.” With an exhibition game under his belt, the Ohio State product said he didn’t notice much of a difference in live action between college and the NFL. “I think it’s the same thing, like ball is ball,” Styles said. “If you’re a linebacker, you got to have good footwork, you got to have good hands, get off blocks, execute the play call.” Commanders coach Dan Quinn has yet to decide who will play during Saturday’s preseason game at Detroit. If Styles gets the call again, he has one goal in mind. “I just want to get out there and start fast,” Styles said.

The blue wave of Colts jerseys in the stands for the joint practice included a sprinkling of “Rise Up” paraphernalia and black Falcons jerseys, including a father-son tandem wearing Matt Ryan’s No. 2 and Bijan Rob-

inson’s No. 7. Robinson was on the ﬁeld with another high-priced running back: Indy’s Jonathan Taylor, the 2021 NFL rushing champ. There were two quarterbacks who continued working their way back from season-ending injuries — Indy’s Daniel Jones and Atlanta’s Michael Penix Jr. Jones has been under no restrictions at training camp after tearing his right Achilles tendon. Penix, who played in college at Indiana, has been limited to seven-on-seven drills as he recovers from yet another torn ligament in his left knee. Falcons receiver Drake London wowed the crowd with a catch over the top of a Colts defender. While there was some playful banter and hooting and hollering after each team’s big plays, the teams avoided any of the fights that marred Tuesday’s joint practice between the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints.

ASHBURN, Va. — Sonny Styles played just one drive during his NFL preseason debut, but it was more than enough for the Washington Commanders rookie linebacker to selfcritique his performance. “First game, I wasn’t a big fan of it,” Styles said Wednesday. Styles, the seventh pick in the draft, was the only projected defensive starter to play Friday night against Miami. The Dolphins went on a 14-play, 93-yard touchdown drive, which amounted to their only points of the game. “One drive, start slow,” Styles said. “You’re always going to have things you want to be better at. I got to work on keeping better footwork, hands — all those different things.” That drive was a reality check for Styles, who has largely impressed in his first pro training camp. He was tasked with wearing the green dot on his helmet, making him responsible for relaying plays to the rest of the defense. Frankie Luvu has had that role with the first-team defense throughout camp, but new defensive coordinator Daronte Jones has preached the need for constant communication throughout the unit. “I think all the guys in the room execute at a high level,” Styles said. “We have a bunch of guys that can do it. It really doesn’t matter (who gets) the play out. Once we get the play out, we’re all communicating together: linebackers, safeties, D-line, everyone’s communicating, corners. It’s not just one person doing all the communicating.” Styles has leaned on Luvu throughout training camp, trying to learn as much as possible from the ninth-year veteran. They are still in a feel-out process of how to play alongside each other.

The Commanders were without four defensive players during practice Wednesday because of injuries: Odafe Oweh, K’Lavon Chaisson, Johnny Newton and Jordan Magee. Newton’s absence seems to be the most serious after the thirdyear defensive tackle injured a pectoral muscle in the preseason opener. Newton spent Wednesday in New York meeting with a specialist for what Quinn expects could be a long-term injury. Magee injured a shoulder during Friday’s game and will not play this week against the Lions, according to Quinn, who said it is “nothing that’s going to linger into the season or any of that.” Oweh is dealing with a calf strain, while Chaisson suffered a knee injury during the joint practice with the Dolphins last week. Quinn emphasizing the team is being precautionary and did not appear concerned about either injury lasting long.

about KB. His evolution from a rookie into this year, it’s like I don’t even have to say much anymore. If it’s not right, he knows what he did and he knows how to ﬁx it.” Banks is receptive to coaching, whether that is coming from a veteran like Young or from a member of the Saints staff. To Nugent’s point, the critique is often not very substantial at this stage of Banks’ career — but if there is something that is off, he wants to know about it so he can ﬁx it. That mindset has roots in Banks’ earliest days playing organized football. “My dad always critiqued me and let me know, ‘Hey, if you’re gonna play this sport, you’re gonna get yelled at a couple times, you’re

gonna get told you suck, you’re not doing good … you’re not executing the play well.’ “So I just take it with a grain of salt, man. I go to practice knowing there’s gonna be something that you gotta fix.” The key, he said, is understanding that nobody in the game is a finished product. Once armed with that, it’s easy to open yourself to criticism, because that is the tool he can use to get better. Banks started each of the Saints’ 17 games last season. He was the only player on the team to play more than 900 offensive snaps (his final tally: 1,066). That long exposure to the NFL game was beneficial for Banks, whose play continued to ascend as the season went on.

The tape was overwhelmingly positive. But when Banks looked back on the large workload from last season, he wanted to isolate the small moments when his play lagged. Was it related to fatigue? A mental error? Poor technique? He wanted to find the cracks this offseason so he could fill them before 2026. And that has continued during the lead-up to the regular season, even if finding the flaws has become a little more challenging. “That’s the thing with him,” Nugent said. “He does a lot of good on the field, so really, when we’re in the film room it’s nitpicking. And I tell him that. You’re winning the rep, but I’m going to nitpick here because eventually

that’ll get you beat.” This trait is not necessarily something New Orleans identiﬁed before the draft. The Saints felt they had a good read on who Banks was — two Saints staffers were on the University of Texas coaching staff during Banks’ time there, and Nugent is close friends with Banks’ college position coach, Kyle Flood. They couldn’t get a real sense of Banks’ willingness to receive feedback until they got to work with him hands-on. And now that they’ve seen it, they’ve seen a player who can close that gap between very good and great. “The sky’s the limit,” Nugent said. “You can go as far as you push yourself.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MICHAEL CONROy

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Daniel Jones throws during a joint practice with the Atlanta Falcons at the team’s training camp in Westfield, Ind., on Wednesday. Smith, who signed a one-year deal Tuesday, reuniting him with coach Kevin Stefanski. The two worked together in Cleveland in 2023 and 2024. Stefanski had no scheduled media availability Wednesday, so was unclear if Smith would practice Thursday. Atlanta and Indy will square off Saturday in a preseason game. The Falcons hope Smith can help offset the losses of linebacker Jalon Walker, who suffered a season-ending knee injury, and edge rusher James Pearce Jr., who will serve a league-imposed eight-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy following a domestic violence arrest in February.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL National League glance

American League glance East Division

W Tampa Bay 76 New York 71 Boston 68 Toronto 62 Baltimore 61 Central Division W Chicago 66 Minnesota 63 Cleveland 61 Detroit 61 Kansas City 53 West Division W Houston 63 Texas 62 Seattle 59 Los Angeles 50 Athletics 49

Tuesday’s games

L 50 55 59 66 66

Pct .603 .563 .535 .484 .480

GB — 5 8½ 15 15½

L 60 65 66 66 74

Pct .524 .492 .480 .480 .417

GB — 4 5½ 5½ 13½

L 63 64 67 76 77

Pct .500 .492 .468 .397 .389

GB — 1 4 13 14

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 1 N.Y. Yankees 3, Baltimore 1 Cleveland 8, San Francisco 1 Toronto 10, Tampa Bay 5 Minnesota 4, Atlanta 1 Boston 9, Arizona 4 Kansas City 4, Athletics 3 Milwaukee 22, Seattle 0 Texas 5, Washington 0 L.A. Angels 3, Houston 1 Chicago Cubs 4, Chicago White Sox 3

Wednesday’s games

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By GENE J. PUSKAR

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers during the first inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

Thursday’s games

SCOREBOARD Odds

Pro golf

NFL

PGA Tour statistics

Thursday

Through Monday FedExCup Season Points

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Las Vegas 1½ 1½ (37½) at HOUSTON San Fran. 1½ 1½ (38½) at LA CHAR.

MLB

Thursday

American League FAVORITE LINE at TAMPA BAY -177 at KANSAS CITY OFF N.Y Yankees -124 at HOUSTON -193 National League FAVORITE LINE St. Louis -114 Interleague FAVORITE LINE at CLEVELAND -198 Atlanta -117 at MILWAUKEE -132 at TEXAS OFF

UNDERDOG Toronto Athletics at BALTIMORE LA Angels

LINE +143 OFF +101 +155

UNDERDOG at CINCINNATI

LINE -108

UNDERDOG San Francisco at CHI. W. SOX Seattle Washington

LINE +159 -105 +107 OFF

Pro basketball EASTERN CONFERENCE W 24 22 22 20 14 10 9

L 12 13 15 14 22 24 25

Pct .667 .629 .595 .588 .389 .294 .265

GB — 1½ 2½ 3 10 13 14

L 7 9 13 16 20 23 23 30

Pct .806 .735 .649 .556 .429 .361 .343 .189

GB — 3 5½ 9 13½ 16 16½ 22½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W x-Minnesota 29 x-Golden State 25 x-Las Vegas 24 Dallas 20 Portland 15 Phoenix 13 Los Angeles 12 Seattle 7 x-clinched playoff spot

1, Scottie Schefﬂer, 4,873. 2, Matt Fitzpatrick, 3,426. 3, Cameron Young, 3,183. 4, Si Woo Kim, 2,701. 5, Wyndham Clark, 2,542. 6, Sam Burns, 2,416. 7, Chris Gotterup, 2,288. 8, Tommy Fleetwood, 2,247. 9, Collin Morikawa, 2,242. 10, Ludvig Åberg, 2,130.

Scoring Average

1, Scottie Schefﬂer, 68.612. 2, Matt Fitzpatrick, 69.474. 3, Rory McIlroy, 69.477. 4, Collin Morikawa, 69.565. 5, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.607. 6, Sam Burns, 69.646. 7, Cameron Young, 69.706. 8, Xander Schauffele, 69.714. 9, Jake Knapp, 69.716. 10, Si Woo Kim, 69.718.

Driving Distance

1, Aldrich Potgieter, 331.1. 2, Rory McIlroy, 328.9. 3, Michael Brennan, 326.4. 4, Marco Penge, 325. 5, Nicolai Hojgaard, 324.1. 6, Rasmus Hojgaard, 323. 7, Gary Woodland, 322.3. 8, Chris Gotterup, 322. 9, Min Woo Lee, 321.8. 10, Jesper Svensson, 320.2.

Driving Accuracy Percentage

WNBA glance Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Chicago Toronto Connecticut

Orlando City Columbus Toronto FC Philadelphia CF Montréal Atlanta

Tuesday’s games

Indiana 101, Toronto 95 Connecticut 5, Los Angeles 77 Atlanta 97, Las Vegas 82 Chicago 93, New York 86

Wednesday’s games

Washington 93, Toronto 82 Minnesota at Golden State, n

Thursday’s games

Indiana at Dallas, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Los Angeles, 9 p.m. Connecticut at Las Vegas, 9 p.m.

Pro football NFL preseason Thursday’s games

Las Vegas at Houston, 7 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 9 p.m.

Friday’s games

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Carolina at Jacksonville, 6:30 p.m. Green Bay at Denver, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games

Washington at Detroit, 11 a.m. Atlanta at Indianapolis, noon Baltimore at Minnesota, noon Buffalo at Cleveland, noon N.Y. Giants at Miami, 3 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 3 p.m. Chicago at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at New England, 6 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s game

Seattle at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

SCHEDULE

Continued from page 1C nonconference schedule for the 2026-27 season. The slate doesn’t just feature a Dec. 20 showdown with UConn in Nashville, Tennessee; it also has three other programs that made the NCAA Tournament last year: Villanova, North Carolina State and North Carolina. The Tigers faced only one such team in 2025-26 and two in 2024-25. LSU hasn’t had four reigning tournament teams on its nonconference schedule since 2021-22, when Mulkey had to play a slate of games she inherited from her predecessor, Nikki Fargas. You could make a compelling case that this upcoming schedule is tougher than that one. And Mulkey is conﬁdent her new-look group is ready for it. This year, she has an older, more experienced bunch — one that she thinks can take a loss or two before SEC play without losing its conﬁdence. “I don’t ever want to over-schedule,” Mulkey said. “Losing is one thing. But if you’re losing with kids that can get over it, and they don’t just melt, then you can schedule nonconference a little bit tougher.”

1, Russell Henley, 72.73%. 2, Davis Chatﬁeld, 71.20%. 3, Joel Dahmen, 71.05%. 4, Aaron Rai, 70.92%. 5, Lucas Glover, 69.65%. 6, Si Woo Kim, 69.25%. 7, Emiliano Grillo, 69.18%. 8, Brandt Snedeker, 69.07%. 9, Tommy Fleetwood, 68.59%. 10, Collin Morikawa, 68.52%.

Greens in Regulation Percentage

1, 10 tied with .00%.

Total Driving

1, Jordan Smith, 56. 2, Alex Fitzpatrick, 58. 3, Kristoffer Ventura, 66. 4, Neal Shipley, 67. 5, Scottie Schefﬂer, 74. 6, Ludvig Aberg, 82. 7, Cameron Young, 86. 8, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, 88. 9, Michael Thorbjornsen, 92. 10, Xander Schauffele, 94.

SG-Putting

1, Jacob Bridgeman, .720. 2, Sam Burns, .697. 3, Scottie Schefﬂer, .680. 4, Vince Whaley, .639. 5, Alex Noren, .589. 6, Beau Hossler, .571. 7, Maverick McNealy, .540. 8, Akshay Bhatia, .524. 9, 2 tied with .520.

Birdie Average

1, Scottie Schefﬂer, 4.81. 2, Si Woo Kim, 4.51. 3 (tie), Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa, 4.41. 5, Kevin Yu, 4.34. 6, Ludvig Aberg, 4.32. 7, Jacob Bridgeman, 4.26. 8, Sam Burns, 4.24. 9, Keith Mitchell, 4.26. 10, Robert MacIntyre, 4.21.

Eagles (Holes per)

1, Jake Knapp, 57.2. 2, Kristoffer Ventura, 60.4. 3, Matt Wallace, 81.7. 4, Nicolai Hojgaard, 84. 5, Rasmus Hojgaard, 85.8. 6, Tommy Fleetwood, 91.4. 7, Billy Horschel, 92.6. 8, Aldrich Potgieter, 94.5. 9, Shane Lowry, 98.2. 10, Keegan Bradley, 99.7.

All-Around Ranking

1, Scottie Schefﬂer, 183. 2, Ludvig Åberg, 252. 3, Sam Burns, 273. 4, Collin Morikawa, 282. 5, Jake Knapp, 286. 6, Doug Ghim, 315. 7, Chris Gotterup, 337. 8, Tommy Fleetwood, 343. 9, Si Woo Kim, 344. 10, Kevin Yu, 345.

Soccer MLS glance L 2 3 6 7 7 6 7 8 5

T 4 5 2 3 4 6 5 4 9

Pts 43 38 32 30 28 27 26 25 24

GF 39 46 34 29 32 46 33 30 27

Western Conference

3 5 8 4 5 3

21 20 20 19 17 15

31 27 26 28 25 21

48 31 33 35 36 34

W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 11 3 4 37 40 17 Houston 11 6 2 35 28 24 Los Angeles FC 10 6 4 34 35 20 San Jose 10 6 3 33 38 27 FC Dallas 8 5 6 30 34 26 St Louis City 8 6 5 29 27 25 Real Salt Lake 8 6 4 28 30 26 Colorado 8 10 1 25 29 25 Minn. United 6 6 7 25 21 26 Portland 7 9 3 24 34 35 Seattle 7 8 3 24 20 24 San Diego FC 6 7 6 24 33 29 LA Galaxy 5 8 7 22 24 30 Austin FC 4 10 5 17 23 38 Kansas City 4 13 2 14 18 48 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s games

New York City FC at Cincinnati, n CF Montréal at Columbus, n New England at D.C. United, n Nashville at New York, n Chicago at Orlando City, n Miami at Philadelphia, n Charlotte FC at Toronto FC, n St Louis City at Sporting Kansas City, n Atlanta at Minnesota, n Los Angeles FC at Colorado, n FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake, n Austin FC at Seattle, n San Jose at LA Galaxy, n San Diego FC at Portland, n Houston at Vancouver, n

Saturday’s games

D.C. United at Charlotte FC, 6:30 p.m. Seattle at Cincinnati, 6:30 p.m. Toronto FC at Miami, 6:30 p.m. LA Galaxy at CF Montréal, 6:30 p.m. Chicago at New York, 6:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Austin FC, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Nashville, 7:30 p.m. Houston at St Louis City, 7:30 p.m. FC Dallas at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Los Angeles FC, 9:30 p.m. Colorado at San Diego FC, 9:30 p.m. Minnesota at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games

New York City FC at New England, 3:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

BASEBALL

1, 10 tied with .00%.

W Nashville 13 Inter Miami CF 11 Chicago 10 New England 9 Charlotte FC 8 Cincinnati 7 NYC FC 7 New York 7 D.C. United 5

10 9 7 10 10 12

San Francisco (Roupp 7-12) at Cleveland (Williams 11-7), 12:10 p.m. Toronto (Bieber 4-2) at Tampa Bay (Seymour 9-3), 12:10 p.m. Athletics (Ginn 8-7) at Kansas City (Dobnak 2-1), 1:10 p.m. Atlanta (Holmes 7-5) at Chicago White Sox (Kay 9-5), 1:10 p.m. Seattle (Kirby 8-9) at Milwaukee (Gasser 3-5), 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Cole 6-6) at Baltimore (Bradish 7-11), 5:35 p.m. Washington (Alvarez 2-4) at Texas (deGrom 8-8), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Rodriguez 3-5) at Houston (Lambert 8-6), 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York Central Division Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati West Division Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 74 70 64 60 58

L 53 58 64 67 70

Pct .583 .547 .500 .472 .453

GB — 4½ 10½ 14 16½

W 78 74 65 63 61

L 48 54 63 66 66

Pct .619 .578 .508 .488 .480

GB — 5 14 16½ 17½

W 76 68 67 52 50

L 51 60 61 74 76

Pct .598 .531 .523 .413 .397

GB — 8½ 9½ 23½ 25½

Tuesday’s games

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 1 St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 0 Cleveland 8, San Francisco 1 Philadelphia 6, Miami 4 Minnesota 4, Atlanta 1 Boston 9, Arizona 4 San Diego 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Milwaukee 22, Seattle 0 Texas 5, Washington 0 Chicago Cubs 4, Chicago White Sox 3 L.A. Dodgers 7, Colorado 6

Wednesday’s games

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3 N.Y. Mets 4, San Diego 2 Minnesota 6, Atlanta 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 7, Boston 6, 10 innings Philadelphia 4, Miami 1 San Francisco 1, Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 4 Seattle at Milwaukee,n Washington at Texas, n L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, n

Thursday’s games

St. Louis (McGreevy 5-9) at Cincinnati (Singer 5-11), 11:40 a.m. San Francisco (Roupp 7-12) at Cleveland (Williams 11-7), 12:10 p.m. Atlanta (Holmes 7-5) at Chicago White Sox (Kay 9-5), 1:10 p.m. Seattle (Kirby 8-9) at Milwaukee (Gasser 3-5), 1:10 p.m. Washington (Alvarez 2-4) at Texas (TBD), 7:05 p.m.

BOX SCORES Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3

Minnesota 6, Atlanta 4

Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h bi Keith dh 3 0 1 0 Horwitz 1b 5 0 0 0 Valencia ph-dh1 0 0 0 Lowe dh 3 2 1 1 Torres 2b 3 0 1 1 Reynolds lf 4 0 1 0 McGonigle ss 3 0 1 2 E.Valdez rf 4 0 0 0 Dingler c 4 0 0 0 Cruz cf 3 0 1 1 Callahan lf 2 0 0 0 Gonzales 2b 3 0 2 0 Malgeri ph-lf 2 0 0 0 Gonzalez ss 2 0 1 0 McKinstry rf 3 0 1 0 Yorke ph-3b 2 0 0 0 Torkelson 1b 4 0 0 0 Triolo 3b-ss 3 0 0 0 Clark cf 4 1 2 0 Mangum ph 1 0 0 0 Lee 3b 2 2 1 0 Davis c 0 0 0 0 Flores ph-c 2 2 2 2 Totals 31 3 7 3 Totals 32 4 8 4 Detroit 001 020 000 — 3 Pittsburgh 100 000 102 — 4 E—Gonzales (13), Flores (1). DP—Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 1. LOB—Detroit 7, Pittsburgh 8. 2B—Clark (3), McGonigle (22). HR—Flores 2 (6), Lowe (27). SB—Cruz (22). SF—McGonigle (3). IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Jobe 51⁄3 4 1 1 3 3 2 Holton H,13 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 2 Waguespack H,3 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 1 Sommers H,10 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Finnegan H,14 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 Jans. L,3-5 BS,16-21 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 Pittsburgh Skenes 41⁄3 4 3 3 4 5 Soto 12⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 Doval 1 0 0 0 1 1 Weaver 1 0 0 0 0 1 Montgomery W,5-3 1 2 0 0 0 2 HBP—Jobe (Davis). ABS Challenge—Keith (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Umpires—Home, Chris Conroy; First, Austin Jones; Second, Ben May; Third, John Tumpane. T—2:52. A—18,208 (38,753).

Atlanta Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h bi Acuña rf 5 0 1 1 Keascha. rf 5 1 2 0 Baldwin c 5 0 0 0 Buxton cf 4 1 0 1 Olson 1b 3 1 1 0 Bell dh 3 1 1 1 Harris cf 4 1 1 0 Cleme. 2b-lf 4 1 2 3 Smith dh 2 0 0 0 Lewis 1b 4 0 1 0 Thom. ph-dh 2 1 1 1 Larnach lf 3 0 0 0 Albies 2b 3 0 1 1 Jeffers ph 0 0 0 0 Yastrzem. lf 2 0 1 0 Kreid. pr-2b 0 0 0 0 Dubón ph-lf 2 0 1 0 B.Lee 3b 4 0 1 1 Riley 3b 3 1 0 0 Caratini c 3 1 0 0 Jarvis ss 2 0 0 0 Culpepp. ss 4 1 3 0 Totals 33 4 7 3 Totals 34 6 10 6 Atlanta 000 013 000 — 4 Minnesota 001 030 20x — 6 E—Jarvis (7). DP—Atlanta 1, Minnesota 0. LOB—Atlanta 7, Minnesota 8. 2B—Albies (23), Clemens (21), Bell (26). SB—Olson (4). SF—Albies (12). IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Smith-Shawver 41⁄3 5 4 4 3 3 2 Dodd ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 Mederos L,2-1 11⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 2 D.Lee ⁄3 2 1 1 1 0 Kerr 1 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota Bradley 5 2 1 1 3 7 1 Funderburk H,10 ⁄3 3 3 3 0 0 Nance BS,0-3 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 Minter W,2-2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Hoffman H,16 1 1 0 0 0 3 Gómez S,20-20 1 0 0 0 0 1 Nance pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. ABS Challenge—Smith-Shawver (BallOverturned to Strike); Bradley (BallConﬁrmed); Bradley (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Bradley (Ball-Conﬁrmed). Pitch timer violations—Lee (pitcher). Ejected—Weiss. Umpires—Home, Carlos Torres; First, Nate Tomlinson; Second, Bruce Dreckman; Third, Mark Wegner. T—2:51. A—20,316 (38,544).

Arizona 7, Boston 6

Chi. White Sox 3, Chi. Cubs 0

Arizona

Chicago (A)

Detroit

Transactions

Sand Save Percentage

Eastern Conference

6 5 4 5 4 4

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3 Minnesota 6, Atlanta 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 7, Boston 6, 10 innings San Francisco 1, Cleveland 0 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 6 N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 3 Athletics at Kansas City, n Seattle at Milwaukee, n Washington at Texas, n L.A. Angels at Houston, n

East Division

GA 15 36 24 25 28 45 27 41 30

The headliner, of course, is the UConn matchup. ESPN agreed to give LSU $190,000 for its NIL fund and $10,000 for its travel expenses so it could stage a TigersHuskies showdown as part of the 2026 espnW Invitational, according to the contract for the game. The deal was ﬁnalized on Aug. 5. Mulkey has won four of her nine career matchups with coach Geno Auriemma’s UConn program, but she has not yet faced the Huskies as LSU’s head coach. She last coached a contest against UConn in the 2021 Elite Eight — a clash that doubled as the last game of her 21-year tenure at Baylor. ESPN approached the two programs about renewing that matchup last year, Mulkey said. Once the three parties agreed to play the game — and to do it at a neutral site — the network asked the two coaches if they had any host cities in mind. “Well, if you’re asking my opinion,” Mulkey said, “I’m a country music person, so I like Nashville. That’s what I said. Now I don’t know if that was why they chose Nashville, but I said my vote is Nashville.” The game will take place in Bridgestone Arena, home of the NHL’s Nashville Predators, three

Major League Baseball American League ATHLETICS — Reinstated LHP Jeffrey Springs from the 15-day IL. Optioned RHP Seth Johnson to Las Vegas (PCL). BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated C Samuel Basallo from the 10-day IL. Optioned 2B Jeremiah Jackson to Norfolk (IL). BOSTON RED SOX — Sent 2B Isiah KinerFalefa on a rehab assignment to Worcester (IL). CLEVELAND GUARDIANS — Recalled RF David Fry from Columbus (IL). Placed 1B Rhys Hoskins on the 10-day IL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Selected the contract of RHP Ethan Pecko from Sugar Land (PCL). Optioned RHP Miguel Ullola to Sugar Land. Transferred CF Brice Matthews from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Traded C Christian Bethancourt to Pittsburgh for cash. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled C Kenny Piper and RHP Chris Roycroft from Durham (IL). Optioned RHP Jesse Scholtens to Durham. Placed RF Victor Mesa Jr. on the 10-day IL.

weeks after LSU faces its first major test of the season and 11 days before it begins SEC play. When the Tigers hit that part of their season, they’ll still be trying to find the right roles for each of their six returners and six newcomers. Last season, LSU had eight newcomers — and five of them were freshmen. Its 2026-27 roster has only one freshman, a McDonald’s All-American wing named Lola Lampley. The other 11 players each have at least one year of experience either at the collegiate level or in the professional ranks overseas — a fact that makes Mulkey more confident they can handle the tougher nonconference schedule she and her staff put together for her sixth year in Baton Rouge. “You’re looking at kids who have played at the highest level for a period of time,” Mulkey said, “and then you’re looking at young ones who played a lot last year, and then you add the international kids to it. “So you’ve got a good mixture. What do we really have? I don’t know. It’s gonna be fun to watch.” Email Reed Darcey at reed. darcey@theadvocate.com. For more LSU sports updates, sign up for our newsletter at theadvocate.com/lsunewsletter

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THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Aug. 20 1912 — Walter Johnson won his American League-record 15th straight game, downing Cleveland 4-2 in the opener of a doubleheader. Washington’s Carl Cashion pitched a six-inning no-hitter to give the Senators a 2-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians in the second game, which was called to allow Cleveland to catch a train to Boston. 1938 — New York’s Lou Gehrig hit his 23rd and the ﬁnal grand slam of his career and drove in six runs to lead the Yankees to an 11-3 win over the Philadelphia Athletics. 1945 — Tommy Brown, 17 years, 8 months, 14 days, of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest major league player to hit a home run when he connected in Ebbets Field against Preacher Roe of the Pittsburgh Pirates. 1957 — Bob Keegan of the Chicago White Sox pitched a 6-0 no-hit victory over the Washington Senators in the second game of a doubleheader. 1958 — Detroit’s Jim Bunning pitched a nohitter to lead the Tigers to a 3-0 win over the Boston Red Sox in the opening game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park.

1961 — The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Milwaukee Braves 7-4 in the second game of a doubleheader to snap a 23-game losing streak, a modern record. 1965 — Milwaukee’s Eddie Mathews hit his 28th home run, and the Braves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3. With the homer, the duo of Mathews and Hank Aaron passed the Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig total of 772 home runs to become the top home-run tandem in major league history. 1974 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels struck out 19 Tigers in a 1-0, 11-inning loss to Detroit. It was the third time this season that Ryan struck out 19 batters in a game. 1980 — Pittsburgh’s Omar Moreno stole his 70th base of the season in a 5-1 loss to Houston, to become the first player this century with three consecutive 70-steal seasons. The fleet outfielder swiped 71 in 1978, 77 in 1979. 1989 — New York’s Howard Johnson hit his 30th home run of the season in the Mets’ 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers and joined Bobby Bonds and Willie Mays as the only players to achieve 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in two different seasons.

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Enhance salmon ﬁlets with pistachios, greens BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service (TNS)

A friend recently returned from a trip to Sicily and raved about the region’s incredible pistachios. I decided to use them as a crunchy crust for salmon fillets. To make dinner even easier, I arranged the salmon and fresh asparagus on a baking sheet and roasted them together in a 400-F oven for just 10 minutes. It’s a simple, flavorful meal with almost no cleanup. To round out the dinner, I served the fish with one-minute microwaveable quinoa, making this a wholesome, weeknight meal that comes together in minutes. HELPFUL HINTS: n Regular quinoa can be used if microwaveable quinoa isn’t available. n Look for roasted, shelled pistachios at the market.

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April Hamilton serves up Spicy Cajun Shrimp, left, and Café Reconcile’s White Beans and Shrimp, both recipes found in the ‘Cooking up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans’ cookbook.

Pistachio Crusted Salmon Yields 2 servings. Recipe is by Linda Gassenheimer. ¾ pound wild caught salmon fillet ½ cup roasted shelled pistachio nuts Zest from lemon 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons honey ½ pound asparagus 4 teaspoons olive oil, divided use 1 cup microwaveable quinoa Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Stained recipes, such as Spicy Cajun Shrimp and Café Reconcile’s White Beans and Shrimp, tell tasty tales BY APRIL HAMILTON

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he best cookbooks on my shelf boast stained pages that tell a history of all the favorite recipes tucked inside. Even though my copy of “Cooking up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans” is new, it already Recipe, shows which Café Reconcile’s pages to stop on. White Beans Right there in the and Shrimp “Seafood” chap2D ter, a couple of keepers present themselves with the telltale stains of treasured recipes. Spicy Cajun Shrimp is the one I turn to when I need a showstopper with minimal time to labor in the kitchen. If you start with peeled Louisiana shrimp, perhaps the most time-consuming part is chopping

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Spicy Cajun Shrimp Makes 3 to 4 servings. Recipe is from “Cooking up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.” 1 pound medium fresh or frozen shrimp, thawed if frozen, peeled and deveined ¼ to 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper ½ teaspoon black pepper ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves, crushed 1 teaspoon dried basil leaves, crushed

½ teaspoon dried oregano leaves, crushed 1 ⁄3 cup butter (I used a half stick) 1½ teaspoons minced garlic 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 cup diced tomatoes ¼ cup beer, at room temperature Hot cooked rice or crusty bread for serving

1. Rinse the cleaned shrimp under cold running water. Drain well, then set aside. 2. In a small bowl, combine the cayenne, black pepper, salt, red pepper ﬂakes, thyme, basil and oregano. 3. Combine the butter, garlic, Worcestershire and the pepper-herb mixture in a large skillet over high heat. When the butter is melted, add the tomatoes and then the shrimp. 4. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring well. 5. Add the beer, cover and cook for 1 minute longer. 6. Remove from the heat, serve over rice or with crusty bread, if desired.

1. Preheat oven to 400 F. 2. Line a baking sheet with foil. Chop the pistachio nuts into small pieces in a food processor, or chop them on a cutting board with a sharp knife. Be careful not to turn them into ﬁne dust if using a food processor. 3. Mix the lemon zest, lemon juice, mustard and honey together in a small bowl. Add the pistachio pieces. Toss all together. 4. Place the salmon skin side down on the foil-lined sheet. Spread the pistachio mixture over the salmon and press into the salmon with a spoon or your hands. 5. Snap off the tough woody ends (about 2 inches) of the asparagus and discard. Place the asparagus next to the salmon on the sheet. Place it in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes. A meat thermometer should read 140 F. 6. Meanwhile, microwave the quinoa according to package instructions. Toss with 2 teaspoons olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Divide in half and place on two dinner plates. 7. When the salmon is ready, divide into two portions and place on the quinoa on the dinner plates. Place the asparagus on the plates with the salmon and quinoa. Drizzle the two remaining teaspoons oil over the asparagus. NUTRITION INFO PER SERVING: 635 calories (51 percent from fat), 36.0 g fat (4.1 g saturated, 16.9 g monounsaturated), 96 mg cholesterol, 46.4 g protein, 34.9 g carbohydrates, 25.7 g ﬁber, 217 mg sodium.

Game day calls for spicy and tangy Buffalo pork salad BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service (TNS)

With a summer full of exciting sports events on TV, I was inspired to create a buffalostyle sauce for pork. The spicy, tangy glaze gives the pork a bold kick, while a crisp, cool salad drizzled with blue cheese dressing provides the perfect contrast. Together, they make a ﬂavorful, all-American meal that’s ideal for game day or any summer dinner.

Buffalo Pork Salad Yields 2 servings. Recipe by Linda Gassenheimer. ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper (¾ teaspoon if you like it really hot) 2 tablespoons honey 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar 2 tablespoons tomato paste 2 medium garlic cloves, crushed 4 cups washed, ready-to-eat salad 1 tomato, cut into 1-inch

pieces 1 cup sliced carrots 1 cup sliced celery ¾ pound boneless pork loin chops ½ tablespoon canola oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons lite blue cheese dressing 4 slices whole wheat baguette

1. Mix cayenne, honey, add the sauce to the skillet, vinegar, tomato paste and stirring to coat all sides of garlic together in a small the pork. Cook 2 to 3 minbowl to form a smooth utes. A meat thermometer sauce. Set aside. should read 145 F. 2. Divide the salad in half 5. Divide pork in half and and place on two dinner place over salad on the dinplates. Mix in the tomato, ner plates. Serve the bread carrots and celery. Drizzle on the side. with blue cheese dressing. NUTRITION INFO PER SERVING: TNS PHOTO By LINDA GASSENHEIMER 485 calories (22 percent 3. Cut the pork chops into 2-inch strips about 3 inches Buffalo Pork Salad from fat), 11.7 g fat (2.4 g long. Heat oil in a nonstick saturated, 4.3 g monounsatskillet over medium-high heat. brown 2 more minutes. Sprin- urated), 96 mg cholesterol, 47.5 Add the pork and brown for 3 kle with salt and pepper to taste. g protein, 50.2 g carbohydrates, minutes, turn pork over and 4. Reduce heat to low and 8.8 g ﬁber, 461 mg sodium.

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from greeting your friend with a Dear Miss Manners: I was in a store cheerful smile. But Miss Manners where an acquaintance of mine was making a scene, demanding a does feel that your solution is both more tactful and less product that the store does exhausting, as you were not supply. She stormed then spared the explanaout after a barrage of loud, foul language. As she left, tion that would no doubt she must have noticed me, have followed about why but I was looking purposeshe thought her rude befully away. havior was justiﬁed by the Judith This type of circumpart you did not see. Martin Dear Miss Manners: Many stance, while not the norm, MISS restaurants pack in as certainly does arise. Is it MANNERS many tables as possible. I correct to greet someone am wondering what one is when they have just made supposed to do when one has to a big, embarrassing scene? Or leave the table for a few minutes. perhaps it is more delicate to let It seems that the options are to them exit the situation anonyface the diners at the table next mously? to one as one squeezes through Gentle reader: As you were not the one who misbehaved, there is the gap, which intrudes on their meal and privacy, or to have one’s no etiquette rule preventing you

backside brushing by their food and drinks as one leaves, which also seems rude. Gentle reader: There is no single rule that Miss Manners can provide for such cases, though she can expand on what to watch out for. Maneuvering in tight spaces requires careful judgment of each individual case — and not just about which body part is least likely to cause offense when brought into close proximity to a fellow diner. You also want to give thought to what might happen if the person you are passing reacts in an unanticipated way. When there is no obvious solution, you will have to say “excuse me” and wait for them to make room — and do so in a way that

does not lead a reasonable person to think you are implying that the tight spacing is their fault. Dear Miss Manners: A tenured colleague (I work in education) routinely solicits the faculty to contribute to group gifts. This colleague sends the requests not only to those of us with tenure, but also to subordinates who lack tenure and whose jobs are dependent on the approval of tenured faculty members (including the solicitor). My colleague’s email solicitation “suggests” the amount to be contributed ($50 for a gift, for example) and directs that contributions are not to be made anonymously, as he wants to be able to conﬁrm everyone’s contribution. Those of us with tenure can

safely ignore the requests or simply make anonymous contributions, but those without job protection do not share that luxury. Is there a way around this conundrum? Gentle reader: Yes: Gather together the other tenured faculty to tell your colleague that this has to stop, as it is wrong to dun junior colleagues in this way. Say that if he does not desist, you will be taking it up with HR.

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Crossword puzzles help kill time Waiting for conﬁrmation Dear Heloise: I had to chuckle keep the mind sharp and acwhen I read the letter in your tive, so keep it up! — Heloise column from the woman who Document disposal mentioned taking a crossword puzzle book to the docDear Heloise: You recently printed a hint from tor’s or other appointsomeone who recomments when there’s a wait. I’ve been doing mended getting rid this myself for years. of paper without a Everyone else is sitshredder by soaking it in bleach water to ting there playing fade the ink. I have with their smartHints from a more environmenphones and looking Heloise tally friendly way at me like I’m weird. But my cellphone is that people with a a “dumb” ﬂip phone, and I compost pile can try: I simenjoy the crosswords. I’m in ply tear documents up and my 80s and call them “menput them under a few items tal gymnastics.” — An Old Fuddy- in the compost. In no time, they’re completely gone and Duddy in the Buckeye State added into my precious comFuddy-Duddy, I’ve read that crossword puzzles help post for my plants.

If you’re more paranoid than I am about your sensitive documents, simply bury them even deeper in there. I can almost guarantee that no one will come into your yard and dig down into your compost for your personal information. And it’s a totally sustainable practice! Win-win! Thank you for your column. — Victoria R., in Kingston, New York Victoria, this is a novel approach to hiding documents, and it might be a useful method for some of my readers. Thank you! — Heloise Send a hint to heloise@ heloise.com.

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Café Reconcile’s White Beans and Shrimp* 1. Put the beans in a large bowl. Cover with water 3 inches above the beans and soak overnight. 2. Drain the beans. Combine them in a large pot with the onions, celery, bell peppers, parsley, 2 tablespoons garlic, the thyme, granulated garlic and onion, black pepper, cayenne, white pepper and salt to taste. 3. Add 2 cups of the stock. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat. Simmer with the lid ajar, stirring occasionally for 2 to 3 hours, until the beans are tender. 4. In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat and saute the 3 tablespoons garlic just until it starts to brown. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring, until they turn pink. 5. Add the cream to the beans and then add the shrimp-garlic mixture. Bring to a simmer being careful not to boil. 6. Serve over rice with jalapeno cornbread. *Sidebar notes from Café

Reconcile’s chef, Martha Wiggins, about the legacy dish White Beans and Shrimp: “This is a signature dish for the restaurant. Guests talk about it and remember it as part of their dining experience whether they dine once a week or once a year. Every Thursday, we produce five pounds of beans and 10 pounds of shrimp; it’s our weekly Thursday special. We sell out quite often. Adding a side of fried chicken is a pro-move recommendation. Some guests swap in smoked sausage.” Fun fact from Cafe Reconcile’s chief development officer, Caitlin Scanlan: “When Chef Martha first arrived, the dish wasn’t selling, so she chose to remove it from the menu. Someone who knew the legacy of the dish reached out and it immediately went back. The outcry helped her understand how special the dish is to the cafe’s guests, and it’s been selling like gangbusters ever since.”

that rivals more complicated cooking techniques. Continued from page 1D Done. Swirl the sauce and taste. Kick up the heat as desired. The recipe suga tablespoon of garlic and gests ¼ to 1 teaspoon of a couple of ripe tomatoes. cayenne, leaving the spice I make the recipe pretty level in the chef’s hands. much to the letter, getting I use a heaping teaspoon my cast iron skillet nice and for a double batch and call hot and adding about a half it perfection. With some stick of butter along with crusty bread for dipping a good handful of spices, and a green salad, dinner is fresh garlic, a hefty splash served to wild applause. of Worcestershire and the Turn the page and land juicy tomatoes. Then in go on the beloved Café Recthe shrimp for a quick two- oncile’s White Beans with minute cook before adding Shrimp. Simmering a pot of some beer and another min- beans is a ritual in Louisiute in the hot skillet. ana, and one I have happily The result: tender spicy adopted. This recipe reshrimp in a luscious sauce quires a little more advance

planning, mostly hands off, yielding a beautiful bowl of beans with a mission. I follow this recipe as written with a subtle tweak when ﬁnishing the dish. My ﬁrst attempt, I hesitated to add a full pint of cream to the beans and tasted the broth after adding half that amount and my knees buckled. It’s another crowd pleaser and can easily be scaled up to feed a party. “Cooking up a Storm” stole my heart from the moment I thumbed through its delicious storied pages. It claimed a space right next to my stove, and I look forward to continuing to christen its pages with saucy spatters.

Makes 6 servings. Recipe is from “Cooking up a Storm,” from the archives of Café Reconcile. FOR THE BEANS: 1 pound dried great Northern beans 2 cups chopped onion 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup chopped green bell peppers ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley 2 heaping tablespoons chopped fresh garlic 1 tablespoon dried thyme leaves 1½ teaspoons granulated garlic 1½ teaspoons granulated onion ½ teaspoon black pepper Dash of cayenne pepper Dash of white pepper Salt 2 to 2½ quarts chicken stock (Café Reconcile uses shrimp stock) FOR THE SHRIMP: 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 tablespoons olive oil 1½ pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined 2 cups heavy cream (I used 1 cup) Hot cooked rice and jalapeno cornbread for serving

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wants to know. But right Dear Annie: My grandnow it seems that she’s daughter, “Melanie,” not totally sure she does. thinks that she has a halfPerhaps deep down she’s sister 24 years younger. uncomfortable with the Melanie believes that idea of her father having her father, long divorced another child. I’d exfrom her mother, was asked by his plore that with her former unattached to help her sort out girlfriend with her feelings so she whom he remained can come to peace friendly, to “help” with this issue eiher have a child bether way. Annie Dear Annie: I wanted fore it becomes bioLane to add one more logically too late. DEAR ANNIE point to the cigaNow, my granddaughter has rette butt converbecome very attached to sation that I feel you and the 2½-year-old and visits the reader should have her at least once a week. mentioned, as it is incredShe finds a lot of physical ibly important: People resemblance to herself who throw out their butts when she was that age. She along roadways can and sees her father participate do cause wildfires, some lovingly in the little girl’s of them causing death activities. She has asked and destruction across him “the question” but vast areas. With this being he refuses to answer tellwildfire season, we need to be more aware of how our ing Melanie to address habits impact the earth the question to the child’s and those around us. — Conmother whom she sees every time she goes to visit cerned in the Northwest the young child. However, Dear Concerned in the Northshe cannot bring herself to west: You are absolutely asking the mother if this correct. According to the girl is her half-sister. National Fire Protection What should she do? — Association, there were an Wondering Grammy estimated 90,000 smokingDear Wondering Grammy: material fires in the United Melanie has nothing to lose States in 2011, the most and a sister to gain. She’s recent year for which this already spending a lot of data is available. Those mental energy on the subfires caused an estimated 540 civilian deaths and ject, and her dad actually three times as many injutold her to ask the child’s mother. So she should go ries. Discarding cigarettes ahead and ask — if she properly can literally be a

life-or-death issue. Thanks for bringing attention to this aspect of the problem. Dear Annie: Like “Childless With No Regrets,” my husband and I also decided not to have children. After 33 years, we don’t ever regret being childless, either. To this day, when I see a baby, I smile and comment how beautiful he/she is to the proud parents, and am truly happy for them, but have no desire to hold the little “bundle of joy.” However, if I see a puppy, I go gaga, turn to mush, and snuggle the little pup in my arms and talk “baby talk” to it. I remember when I was a rebellious teen, my mother would tell me, “I hope when you have kids, they turn out to be just like you!” That was enough for me to swear off having children! — Dog Mom in Missouri Dear Dog Mom: Bundles of joy come in all shapes and sizes. Millions of pups need “parents,” so it’s wonderful that you were able to take one into your home. Thanks for sharing your experience with not having children; I’m printing your letter for people who are facing peer pressure to have children when they’d rather not. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2026. There are 133 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization movement. Also on this date: In 1858, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was first published in the “Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.” In 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley calling on President Abraham Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free enslaved people and end the South’s rebellion. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson declared the official end of the Civil War. In 1882, Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” had its premiere in Moscow. In 1910, a series of wildfires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning more than 4,600 square miles. In 1920, the American Professional Football Conference was established by representatives of four professional football teams; two years later, with 18 teams, it would be renamed the National

Football League. In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked in Coyoacan, Mexico, by assassin Ramon Mercader. (Trotsky died the next day.) In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure. In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post ofﬁce in Edmond, Oklahoma, shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself. In 1989, 51 people died when the pleasure boat Marchioness sank in the River Thames in London after being struck by a dredger. In 2012, after 80 years in existence, Georgia’s Augusta National Golf Club (home to the Masters Tournament) invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina ﬁnancier Darla Moore to become

its ﬁrst female members; both accepted. In 2023, Tropical Storm Hilary struck Baja California, killing three and causing $15 million in damage. Today’s birthdays: Boxing promoter Don King is 95. Former U.S. Senator and diplomat George Mitchell is 93. Rock singer Robert Plant is 78. Country singer Rudy Gatlin is 74. Singersongwriter John Hiatt is 74. Actor-director Peter Horton is 73. Actor Joan Allen is 70. Movie director David O. Russell is 68. Rapper KRS-One (Boogie Down Productions) is 61. Actor Colin Cunningham is 59. Actor Billy Gardell is 57. Rock singer Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) is 56. Baseball Hall of Famer Todd Helton is 53. Actor Amy Adams is 52. Actor Misha Collins (TV: “Supernatural”) is 52. Actor Ben Barnes is 45. Actor Andrew Garﬁeld is 43. Actor-singer Demi Lovato is 34. Actor Fátima Ptacek is 26.

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Bridge By PHILLIP ALDER Dorothy Miller Richardson, an English novelist, said, “If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.” I suppose all bridge players could be called tricksters, even though some are more skillful at prestidigitation than others. In this deal, South is trying to bring home nine tricks in no-trump. After West leads the diamond queen, what should declarer do? And suppose dummy’s hearts were A-Q-10. Would that change South’s plan? After South opens two no-trump, showing a balanced hand with a good 20 to a so-so 22 points, North is right not to use Stayman with 4-3-3-3 distribution and such weak spades. Even if South has four spades, it is unlikely that four spades would make and three no-trump fail. The reverse would be more probable. South starts with six top tricks: one spade, three hearts and two diamonds. Obviously, declarer should try to collect three club winners — but how should he play the suit? This is a great example of “lead up to honors.” South should plan to cross to dummy three times with a heart and to play a club toward his hand. Whenever East has the club ace or the suit splits 3-3, the contract will come home. Note that leading a club honor from hand leads to defeat with this layout.

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If dummy’s hearts are A-Q-10, it is a much tougher problem. If East has acefourth of clubs, South needs three heart entries, so should play a heart to the 10, hoping West has the jack. But that risks going down when clubs are 3-3. The odds of each line are almost equal — guess well. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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today’s thought “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” Luke 11:13 Have you asked? Ask the Lord now. — G.E. Dean

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InstructIons: 1 - Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 thorugh 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating. 2 - The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. 3 - Freebies: Fill in the single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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HErE is a plEasanT liTTlE gamE that will give you a message every day. it’s a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. if the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. if the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. start at the upper left-hand corner and check each of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the checked figures give you.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Project: DELGADO COM‐ MUNITY COLLEGE WESTBANK, BUILDING 1 AND 2 ROOFING AND WINDOW WIND MITIGATION 2600 GENERAL MEYER AVE. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70119 Contract No./Delgado Project No.: 40006R0031505 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Delgado Community College Pur‐ chasing Office, O’Keefe Administration Building, located at 501 City Park Avenue (Building 37), New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 until 2:00 p.m. Central Time on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. All bids which have been duly received will be publicly opened in the Purchasing Department and, except as provided in LSA-R.S. 37:2163, read aloud. Late bids will not be ac‐ cepted. Description of the pro‐ posed work: Membrane Roofing and Window Replacement in Building 1 and Metal Roofing and Window Re‐ placement in Building 2. Pursuant to LSA-R.S. 37:2163, Licensed Con‐ tractors may secure Bid‐ ding Documents from the Purchasing Department of Delgado Community College (purchas‐ ingdept@dcc.edu) lo‐ cated at 501 City Park Avenue, New Or‐ leans, LA 70119 until 24 hours prior to bid open‐ ing. An account Log-in will be provided to the Bidder giving access to an online service to obtain pdf’s of the Construction Documents. Licensed Contractor shall submit evidence of Louisiana State License and License number. Questions about this pro‐ cedure shall be directed to the Designer at: N-Y Associates, Inc. 2750Lake Villa Drive Metairie, LA 70003 Telephone: 504-885-0500 E-mail: mbuisson@nyassociates.com (Michael Buisson) A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at the Delgado Westbank Campus in the Building 5 Auditorium located at 2600 General Meyer Av‐ enue, New Orleans, LA 70114, on Friday, August 28, 2026, at 2:00PM. local time. Type of Bid: Bids shall be on a lump-sum basis. Segregated bids will not be accepted. Bids security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid must accompany each Bid. A certified or cashier’s check or a bid bond is acceptable bid security. If bid bond is used, it shall be writ‐ ten by a surety or insurance com‐ pany currently on the U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Man‐ agement service list of approved bonding companies which is published annu‐ ally in the Federal Regis‐ ter, or by a Louisiana domiciled in‐ surance company with at least an A-rating in the latest printing of the A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide to write individual bonds up to ten percent of policy‐ holders’ surplus as shown in the A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide. (LSA-R.S. 38:2218.C). Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA.

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RS.37:2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder shall certify that he is li‐ censed under the provi‐ sions of LSA-R.S. 37:2150 et seq. and show his license number on the bid enve‐ lope. Except as other‐ wise provided in LSA-R.S. 37:2163, any bid that does not contain the contractor’s certification and show the contractor’s license number on the bid enve‐ lope shall be automati‐ cally rejected, shall be returned to the Bidder stamped “Re‐ jected” and shall not be read aloud. Any Bidder who submits a bid for a type of construction for which he is not properly li‐ censed shall be acting in violation of LSA-R.S. 37:2163 and shall be subject to all provisions for violations and penalties thereof. Any interested person may object to the licensing classifica‐ tion of this public project in accordance with LSAR.S. 37:2163D. The successful Bidder will be required to fur‐ nish a Performance Bond guaranteeing faithful performance and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond guaranteeing the payment of all bills and obligations arising from the performance of the contract. Sureties will be required to meet qualifications set forth in LSA-R.S. 38:2218 and R.S. 38:2219 as applicable, and as set forth in the Contract Doc‐ uments. Delgado Community Col‐ lege reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any and all informalities, and to re‐ ject nonconforming, nonresponsive, or condi‐ tional bids whichever is in the best interest of Delgado Com‐ munity College. 197122-AUG 13-20-27-3T $

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The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for cause; such ac‐ tion will be in accor‐ dance with Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. In accordance with La. R.S. 38:2212 (A) (1)(b), the provisions and requirements of this Sec‐ tion, those stated in the advertisement for bids, and those required on the bid form shall not be considered as informali‐ ties and shall not be waived.

The bidding documents, consisting of drawings, specifications and other Contract Documents for the project, are available in hard copy from a re‐ production company of the bidder’s choice or in digital format, on a Com‐ pact Disc, from the Archi‐ tect’s office. Please con‐ tact the office to request a disc to be sent via U.S. Mail, for pick up at the Architect’s office or to request hard copies:

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Lachin Architects, APC 5190 Canal Blvd., Suite 201 New Orleans, LA 70124 Telephone: 504-835-8013 E-mail: stephen@ lachinarch.com and christopher@lachinarch. com All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 10:00 AM on Wednes‐ day, September 02, 2026 at City Park Administration Building, Lobby, 1 Palm Drive, New Orleans, LA 70124. Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2166 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and require‐ ments of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a pe‐ riod of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity. When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are received, the award of this Con‐ tract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Com‐ mission or the availabil‐ ity of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract Between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted. Facility Planning and Control is a participant in the Small Entrepreneur‐ ship (SE) Program (the Hudson Initiative) and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Connected Dis‐ abled Veteran-Owned (LaVet) Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program. Bid‐ ders are encouraged to consider participation. Information is available from the Office of Facility Planning and Control or on its website at https:// www.doa.la.gov/doa/ fpc/. If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to participate in this meeting, please con‐ tact Cheryl Schilling at Cheryl.Schilling@la.gov or (225) 342-6060 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled meeting. STATE OF LOUISIANA DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION FACILITY PLANNING AND CONTROL MATTHEW H. BAKER, DIRECTOR 197117-aug 13-20-27-3t $164.79

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The successful bidder IS required to furnish the Owner with a Payment and Performance Bond for 100% of the contract amount prior to the is‐ suance of a contract to perform the work.

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SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: New Orleans Health Department TITLE: Outpatient Treatment Services SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4746 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Professional Services DBE OPPORTUNITY: Waived RELEASED ON: August 6, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 3, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: August 17, 2026 Meeting ID: 258 355 129 752 553 Passcode: Vo9Li7yR Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 962-58 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: August 6, 13 and 20, 2026 NOCP 9208 196857-aug 6-13-20-3t $119.43 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT TITLE: CANINE VETERINARIAN CARE (REBID) SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4753 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: AUGUST 20, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE:

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AUGUST 27, 2026 Meeting ID: 297 657 120 682 973 Passcode: Gg24wq2M Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 961-86 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: August 20 and 27, 2026 NOCP 9233 198151-aug 20-27-2t $106.64 PUBLIC NOTICE --LCTC Invitation to Bid for Oracle Software Update License and Support Ser‐ vices The Louisiana Commu‐ nity and Technical Col‐ lege System (LCTC) in‐ vites interested parties to review and respond to an Invitation to Bid (ITB). The purpose of this ITB is to secure Oracle Soft‐ ware Update License and Support Services for the LCTC System. Digital copies for down‐ loading of the ITB and as‐ sociated documents can be found on the LCTC website at: http://www.lctcs.edu/rfp and at the Office of State Procurement website LA PAC Online Solicitations & Award Information Section: https://wwwcfprd.doa. louisiana.gov/OSP/ LaPAC/pubMain.cfm Additionally, interested parties may obtain a hardcopy or inquire about this ITB document by mailing a request to the LCTC Office located at 265 South Foster Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70806, or by e-mailing mnardini@ lctcs.edu. All bids must be received by LCTC no later than September 10, 2026 (4:00 p.m. CT). 197954-AUG 20-1T $40.77

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y g the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com.

p requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, September 4 , 2026, at 9:00 A.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/8vR 3oBgITOatn38CSiCZHQ After registering, you will receive a conﬁrmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting. The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, September 4, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/f8_ tJG-YSnm_OGEF-9x6qw

Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Pro‐ curement

After registering, you will receive a conﬁrmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting.

FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived. NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 198036-aug 20-27-sept 33t $132.31

197863-AUG 20-27-SEP 33T $135.31 PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0022 TITLE I SERVICES FOR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 10:00 A.M. (CST) on Tues‐ day, September22, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com. The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, September 4 , 2026, at 10:00 A.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/ZGo tyLJERre5MWA0cr2wow After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting. The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and i f hi d

NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 197862-aug 20 -27-sep 33t $133.30

PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0038 TITLE IV SERVICES FOR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 12:00 P.M. (CST) on Tues‐ day, September 22, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com. The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, September 4, 2026, at 12:00 P.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/ 38Ze_AuRSAaIi1duFDR3 8Q After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting. The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived. NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 198037-aug 20-27-sept 33t $135.31

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals g tions related to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on publicly funded projects. The RTA is committed to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on all feder‐ ally funded projects to‐ ward attainment of the agency's established overall goal of 31%.

PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY REPLACE TROLLEY LIFT CABLE INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #2026-025 (rebid)

No goal has been estab‐ lished for this project.

Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans in‐ vites qualiﬁed vendors to provide Replace Trolley Lift Cable for Streetcars obtain speciﬁcations in IFB 2026-025.

Notice to all offerors is hereby provided that in accordance with all ap‐ plicable federal, state and local laws the RTA will ensure that DBEs are afforded full opportunity to submit offers and re‐ sponses to this solicita‐ tion and to participate in any contract consum‐ mated pursuant to this advertisement. Addition‐ ally, no offeror will be discriminated against on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, na‐ tional origin, ethnicity or disability

How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Speciﬁcations and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained August 12, 2026, from the RTA’s Pro‐ cureware website at https://norta. procureware.com/home. You will be required to ﬁrst register on this web‐ site. The IFB can also be obtained at Regional Transit Authority’s web‐ site at http://www.norta. com

As such, award of the contract will be condi‐ tioned on meeting the re‐ quirements of the fed‐ eral, state and local laws for Equal Opportunity in‐ cluding compliance with the policies of DBE Pro‐ gram.

Responding to IFB: Bids shall be submitted thru the RTA’s Procureware website on or before 2:00 P.M., Thursday, Septem‐ ber 10, 2026. Any ques‐ tions or further informa‐ tion concerning this IFB may be submitted through https://norta. procureware.com/home beginning on Thursday, July 2, 2026-0125. Only written questions sub‐ mitted through https:// norta.procureware.com/ home shall be consider ofﬁcial. All answer to questions shall be by for‐ mal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026-025.

The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals submitted. Interim Ronald G. Baptiste Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Regional Transit Authority 197510-AUG 20-27-2T. $781.04

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Clariﬁcation Deadline: Any questions or further information concerning this IFB must be submit‐ ted through https:// norta.procureware.com/ home by 2:00PM on Sep‐ tember 3, 2026. Only writ‐ ten questions submitted through the Procureware site shall be considered ofﬁcial. All answers to questions shall be by for‐ mal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026-025. A Bid Opening will be held in the RTA Board Room on Thursday, Sep‐ tember 10, 2026, at 2:00 PM. Any questions or fur‐ ther information con‐ cerning the IFB may be submitted Via https:// norta.procureware.com/ home, beginning on Au‐ gust 12, 2026.

The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority is sealed bids for C-2243 Furnish & In‐ stall Electronic Key Sys‐ tem. Bids are due Monday, Au‐ gust 31, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at which time bids re‐ ceived on time and in the correct location will be considered. Bid Docu‐ ments may be obtained online at https://www. centralauctionhouse. com/Category/10822/ NewOrleansErnestNMo rialConventionCenter or by contacting the Con‐ tracts Department at (504) 582-3562 or con‐ tracts@mccno.com. All Bids must be submitted in accordance with the Bid Documents.

RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ lations (CFR) Part 26 has an obligation to ensure nondiscrimination of Dis‐ advantaged Business En‐ terprises (DBEs) and to comply with all federal, state and local regula‐ i l d ili

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com. 192988-jul 2-aug 31-t PUBLIC NOTICE --The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for Proposals (RFP) due Monday, August 31, to deconstruct spoil banks for a Canal Spoil Re‐ placement (Backfilling) Project. Please email admin@lowlandercenter. org with any questions by Tuesday, August 11. All questions and an‐ swers will be posted on the Lowlander Center canal backfilling project page (https://www.low landercenter.org/canalbackfilling) by Tuesday, August 18. Please see the project page for RFP, per‐ mits, plat maps, back‐ ground information about the project, and an informational slidedeck. This project is partially funded by the National Oceanic and Atmos‐ pheric Administration (NOAA), through a grant agreement with the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, grant award number: NA23NOS4730219. The views and conclusions contained in this docu‐ ment are those of the au‐ thors and should not be interpreted as represent‐ ing the opinions or poli‐ cies of the U.S. Govern‐ ment or the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and its funding sources. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government, or the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation or its funding sources. 196005-aug 1-31-31t $$4,838.79

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1:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING CITY HALL, 1300 PERDIDO STREET CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER (CITY HALL - 1E07) The City Planning Com‐ mission, in accordance with the provisions of Ar‐ ticle 4 of the Comprehen‐ sive Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 4,264 M.C.S., as amended, will hold a public hearing. The public hearing will consider the following proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of New Orleans. Materials for these items may be viewed via https://onestopapp.nola. gov/ The public comment deadline is 5 pm on the Monday that is 8 days before the meeting date. Zoning Docket 081/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-26-254 Request: Zoning change from an HU-B1A Historic Urban Neighborhood Business District to an HU-RD2 Historic Urban Two-Family Residential District Property description: Square 187, Lots 1, 2, and 3, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Oc‐ tavia Street, Laurel Street, Constance Street, and Jefferson Avenue Address(es): 5433 Laurel Street and 509-515 Oc‐ tavia Street Zoning Docket 082/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-26-229 Request: Amendment to the text of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to amend all nec‐ essary articles to imple‐ ment the findings of the Transient Lodging Study, with specified modifica‐ tions as described in City Council Motion No. M-26229 Zoning Docket 083/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-26-268 Request: Amendment to the text of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to amend Article 17, Figure 17-2 Maximum Building Height and Fig‐ ure 17-3 Maximum Floor Area Ratio to limit the al‐ lowable height to 35 feet for the property located on Square 26 in the First Municipal District Property description: Square 26, in the First Municipal District, bounded by Convention Center Boulevard, Gaien‐ nie Street, South Peters Street, and John Churchill Chase Street Address(es): 350 John Churchill Chase Street Zoning Docket 084/26 li ( )

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g Applicant(s): JJJAGS Holdings, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a commercial short-term rental in an MU-2 High Intensity Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District Property description: Square 557, Lots N/046, in the First Municipal Dis‐ trict, bounded by Gravier Street, South Tonti Street. Braddish Aly and South Rocheblave Street Address(es): 2407 Gravier Street Zoning Docket 085/26 Applicant(s): Moto Julia, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a Commercial Short Term Rental in the CBD-5 Urban Core Neigh‐ borhood Lower Intensity Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District Property description: Square 257, Lots 2, 3, Half of 2 and Half of 2, in the First Municipal District, bounded by, Julia Street, O'Keefe Avenue, Girod Street and Baronne Street Address(es): 901-909 Julia Street and 751 Baronne Street Zoning Docket 086/26 Applicant: Junk Drawer Coffee, LLC Request: Conditional Use to permit a neighbor‐ hood commercial estab‐ lishment in a HU-RD1 His‐ toric Urban Neighbor‐ hood Two-Family Resi‐ dential District Property description: Square 43, Lot 9-A, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Panola, Audubon, Spruce and Broadway Streets Address(es): 2045 Broad‐ way Street Zoning Docket 087/26 Applicant(s): 3157 Tchoup, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a live perfor‐ mance venue and the re‐ tail sale of packaged al‐ coholic beverages in an MU-1 Medium Intensity Mixed-Use District Property description: Square 19, Lot A, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Harmony Street, Tchoupitoulas Street, Ninth Street, and St Thomas Street Address(es): 3157 Tchoupitoulas Street Zoning Docket 088/26 Applicant(s): Bonne Terre Property, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a Neighbor‐ hood Commercial Estab‐ lishment in an HMR-3 Historic Marigny/Treme/Bywater Residential District. Property description: Square 238, Lot 4, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Burgundy, Lesseps, Dauphine, and Poland Streets

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Address(es): 814 Poland Avenue Zoning Docket 089/26 Applicant(s): Christopher Meehan Request: Conditional Use to permit a Multi-Family Dwelling – Limited to 4 Units Maximum in an HMR-3 Historic Marigny/Treme/Bywater Residential District. Property description: Prairie Lands All That Portion of Fort Pike Mili‐ tary Reservation In Sec‐ tion 19 T S10 S R 15 E, in the Third Municipal Dis‐ trict, bounded by North Claiborne Avenue, Columbus Street, North Robertson Street and Kerlerec Street Address(es): 1515 Ker‐ lerec Street Zoning Docket 090/26 Applicant(s): Beau Land Co, LLC Request: Conditional Use to permit a Commercial Short Term Rental in an HMC-2 Historic Marigny/Tremé/Bywater Commercial District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District Property description: Square 369, Lot B or Pt. 7, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Saint Claude Avenue, Saint Roch Avenue, North Rampart Street, and Music Street Address(es): 2404-2406 Saint Claude Avenue Zoning Docket 091/26 Applicant(s): West Rigo‐ lets Lighthouse, LLC Request: Zoning Change from an NA Natural Area District to an M-MU Mar‐ itime Mixed-Use District Property description: Square 227, Lot X, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur Highway, Hospi‐ tal Road, and Lake Pontchartrain. Address(es): 27501 Chef Menteur Highway Zoning Docket 092/26 Applicant(s): Crescent West, LLC Request: Zoning Change from an S-RS Single-Fam‐ ily Residential District to a C-3 Heavy Commercial District Property descrip‐ tion: Square 72, Lots 16, 17, 18, 29, 30 and 31, in the Fifth Municipal Dis‐ trict, bounded by Wagner Street, Erle Street, Hendee Street and Gen‐ eral de Gaulle Drive Address(es): 1723 Gen‐ eral de Gaulle Drive Zoning Docket 093/26 Applicant: Saint Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart Request: Conditional Use to permit the expansion of a secondary educa‐ tional facility in a HU-RD2 Historic Urban Neighbor‐ hood Two-Family Resi‐ dential District Property description: Square 1507, Lots A, B, 6, d i h hi d i

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q and 7, in the Third Munic‐ ipal District, bounded by George Nick Connor Drive, Law Street, Hope Street, and Republic Street Address(es): 2600-2606 George Nick Connor Drive and 1863-1869 Law Street

pp proposed changes to the Comprehensive Zoning Law of the City of New Orleans. All interested parties are encouraged to attend and all relevant comments concerning the proposed changes are encouraged. The CPC has established public hearing rules within its Administrative Rules, Policies, & Procedures, which are available on the CPC website (www. nola.gov/cpc).

Zoning Docket 094/26 Applicant(s): Lake Catherine Investments, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a commercial short term rental in an M-MU Maritime MixedUse District and the Tran‐ sient Lodging Interim Zoning District Property description: Lot 540, Cedar Bayou Subdi‐ vision, in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur High‐ way, Bayou Delasaire, Chef Menteur Pass, and the Rigolets Address(es): 24855 Chef Menteur Highway Zoning Docket 095/26 Applicant(s): S Z & S, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a motor vehicle service and repair facility (minor) in an S-B1 Neigh‐ borhood Business Dis‐ trict Property description: Square 11, Lot 16, Pine Village, in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District, bounded by Downman Road, Dwyer Road, and Babylon Street Address(es): 4901 Down‐ man Road Zoning Docket 096/26 Applicant(s): Shel-Shar Properties, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a commercial short term rental in an M-MU Maritime MixedUse District and the Tran‐ sient Lodging Interim Zoning District Property description: Lot 7, Lake Catherine Land Company - Three, Section 36, T10S R14E, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur Highway and Lake Saint Catherine Address(es): 25894 Chef Menteur Highway Zoning Docket 097/26 Applicant(s): Sedrick Gilbert Request: Amendment to the text of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to amend Article 16, Section 16.2 to allow Motor Vehicle Service and Repair as a permit‐ ted use in the BIP Busi‐ ness-Industrial Park Dis‐ trict

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Written public comment: You may also submit written comments to the Executive Director in ad‐ vance by mail (1300 Per‐ dido Street, 7th ﬂoor, New Orleans LA 70112) or email (CPCinfo@nola. gov). All written com‐ ments must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, Au‐ gust 31. August 19, August 26, and September 2, 2026 Robert Rivers, Executive Director NOCP 9230 198044-aug 19-26-sept 23t $445.26 PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026, 1:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING CITY HALL, 1300 PERDIDO STREET CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER (CITY HALL - 1E07) The City Planning Com‐ mission, in accordance with the provisions of Ar‐ ticle 4 of the Comprehen‐ sive Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 4,264 M.C.S., as amended, will hold a public hearing. The public hearing will consider the following proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of New Orleans. Materials for these items may be viewed via https://onestopapp.nola. gov/ The public comment deadline is 5 pm on the Monday that is 8 days before the meeting date. Zoning Docket 081/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-26-254 Request: Zoning change from an HU-B1A Historic Urban Neighborhood Business District to an HU-RD2 Historic Urban Two-Family Residential District

Property description: Square 187, Lots 1, 2, and 3, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Oc‐ tavia Street, Laurel Street, Constance Street, and Jefferson Avenue Address(es): 5433 Laurel Street and 509-515 Oc‐ tavia Street Zoning Docket 082/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-26-229 Request: Amendment to the text of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to amend all nec‐ essary articles to imple‐ ment the findings of the Transient Lodging Study, with specified modifica‐ tions as described in City Council Motion No. M-26229 Zoning Docket 083/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-26-268 Request: Amendment to the text of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to amend Article 17, Figure 17-2 Maximum Building Height and Fig‐ ure 17-3 Maximum Floor Area Ratio to limit the al‐ lowable height to 35 feet for the property located on Square 26 in the First Municipal District Property description: Square 26, in the First Municipal District, bounded by Convention Center Boulevard, Gaien‐ nie Street, South Peters Street, and John Churchill Chase Street Address(es): 350 John Churchill Chase Street Zoning Docket 084/26 Applicant(s): JJJAGS Holdings, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a commercial short-term rental in an MU-2 High Intensity Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District Property description: Square 557, Lots N/046, in the First Municipal Dis‐ trict, bounded by Gravier Street, South Tonti Street. Braddish Aly and South Rocheblave Street Address(es): 2407 Gravier Street Zoning Docket 085/26 Applicant(s): Moto Julia, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a Commercial Short Term Rental in the CBD-5 Urban Core Neigh‐ borhood Lower Intensity Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District Property description: Square 257, Lots 2, 3, Half of 2 and Half of 2, in the First Municipal District, bounded by, Julia Street, O'Keefe Avenue, Girod Street and Baronne Street Address(es): 901-909 Julia Street and 751 Baronne Street Zoning Docket 086/26 Applicant: Junk Drawer ff

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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS REGULAR SESSION CITY HALL: JUNE 24, 2026 The Council of the City of New Orleans met this day in Regular Session, at 10:00 A.M., in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Council President, JP Morrell, presiding. On calling the roll, the following members answered to their names: PRESENT: MORRELL (PRESIDENT) WILLARD (VICE PRESIDENT) MCCARRON HARRIS HUGHES ABSENT: GREEN (Arrived later in the meeting). KING (Arrived later in the meeting). FIVE MEMBERS PRESENT, CONSTITUTING A QUORUM. ROLL CALL AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL INVOCATION PASTOR LIONEL ROBERTS HOLY ANOINTED HOUSE OF PRAYER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AIMEE MCCARRON COUNCILMEMBER DISTRICT “A” ORDINANCES ON FINAL PASSAGE CAL. NO. 35,447 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL - An Ordinance to amend and reordain section 154-777 of the Code of the City of New Orleans to increase the fee for immobilization of unoccupied vehicles; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,449 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING AND MORRELL - An Ordinance to amend and reordain Article 18 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended by Ordinance No. 26,413 M.C.S. and subsequent amendments) to establish a new overlay district called the Behrman Mixed-Use Integrity Overlay District, the intent of which is to ensure that any multi-family developments proposed within the S-MU Suburban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District and the MU-1 Medium Intensity Mixed-Use District, bounded by Wall Boulevard, Holiday Drive, and General De Gaulle Drive, contain non-residential uses which align with the mixed-use goal of those districts; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (ZONING DOCKET NO. 34/26) ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,450 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds for the implementation of NOPD 8th District Drone Program within the French Quarter Economic Development District; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Hughes, Morrell, King - 4 NAYS: McCarron, Willard - 2 ABSENT: Harris - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,451 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds for the implementation of NOPD 8th District Drone Program within the French Quarter Economic Development District; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Hughes, Morrell, King - 4 NAYS: McCarron, Willard - 2 ABSENT: Harris - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,455 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING - An Ordinance to amend and reordain Section 110-188 of the Code of the City of New Orleans to permit the use of mobile vending permits within the boundaries of the Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park in accordance with any governing lease; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Green - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,456 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HUGHES, MORRELL, WILLARD, MCCARRON, HARRIS AND GREEN - An Ordinance to amend and reordain sections 10-52, 14-1, 30-69, 66-176, 110-46, and 110-259 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, to prohibit the issuance of a special event permit if the property on which the event is to occur is delinquent in the payment of property taxes, administrative judgment fines or municipal liens; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,457 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend and re-ordain Ordinance No. 30,532 M.C.S., entitled “An Ordinance Providing a Capital Budget for the Year 2026”, to effect the following change to the 2026 Capital Budget: to de-appropriate funds from the Department of Property Management, the Department of Public Works, the New Orleans Fire Department, and the New Orleans Police Department; to appropriate funds to the Chief Administrative Office, the Department of Property Management, the Department of Public Works, the New Orleans Fire Department, the New Orleans Police Department, the New Orleans Recreation Commission, and the Office of Sustainability; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Green - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED, WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,458 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Private Grant funds to the Health Department for the Packard Foundation - Family Connects Visiting Home Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,459 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Private Grant funds to the Health Department for the Packard Foundation - Family Connects Visiting Home Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,460 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Capital Outlay funds to the City of New Orleans for the Sewerage and Water Board Power Plant; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,461 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend

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Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Capital Outlay funds to the City of New Orleans for the Sewerage and Water Board Power Plant; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,462 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to move funds from 200 - Other Operating to 100 - Personal Services within the Office of Inspector General for personnel expenses; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,463 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to the New Orleans Fire Department for Louisiana State Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (TF1); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,464 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to the New Orleans Fire Department for Louisiana State Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (TF1); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,465 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to the Office of Workforce Development for the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,466 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to the Office of Workforce Development for the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,467 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Tulsa Community Foundation for operating expenses; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,468 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Tulsa Community Foundation for operating expenses; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,469 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30,530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026” to appropriate funds to the City Council for Wisner litigation and general litigation costs incurred by Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,470 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30,531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026” to appropriate funds to the City Council to cover Wisner litigation and general litigation costs incurred by Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. MOTION/RESOLUTION (LYING OVER) NO. M-26-229 CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD A MOTION directing the City Planning Commission to conduct a public hearing to consider amendments to Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, to amend all necessary articles to implement the findings of the Transient Lodging Study, with the specified modifications. WHEREAS, on March 23, 2023, the City Council adopted Motion M-23-120 directing the City Planning Commission to conduct a study to recommend updates to Commercial Short Term Rental (CSTR) regulations; and WHEREAS, on May 25, 2023, the City Council adopted Motion M-23247 directing the City Planning commission to replace that study with an expanded review of all transient lodging uses, to be called the Transient Lodging Study; and WHEREAS, on February 12, 2026, the City Council received the Transient Lodging Study from the City Planning Commission on its consent agenda; and WHEREAS, after careful review and engagement with relevant stakeholders, the City Council is prepared to move forward with the consideration of amendments to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance in accordance with the recommendations contained in the Transient Lodging Study; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the City Planning Commission is directed to conduct a public hearing to consider amendments to Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (“CZO”), to amend all necessary articles to implement changes to use permissions, standards, definitions, and any other provisions pertaining to transient lodging, as set forth in this motion, and as informed by the Transient Lodging Study. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the City Planning Commission shall recommend changes, if necessary, to the CZO regarding the topics set forth in Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof. In recommending these changes, the City Planning Commission should incorporate recommendations made in the Transient Lodging Study wherever possible. This list should not be considered exhaustive, and

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additional recommendations by the City Planning Commission regarding any topic contained in the Transient Lodging Study may be included in their staff report. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the requirement to participate in the Neighborhood Participation Program is waived due to extensive and ongoing public engagement in this process, and application fees in the amount of $1,500.00 are hereby waived. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That in accordance with CZO Section 4.2.D.3.C, the Council finds that there is good cause to provide for a period of 120 days for the City Planning Commission to provide its recommendation given the extensive and complex nature of the changes contemplated and the intense public interest in the subject matter of the changes. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That in the process of reviewing this amendment, the City Planning Commission staff is directed and granted the flexibility to make all appropriate changes to the proposed regulations and any existing corresponding regulations in the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, to establish consistency and continuity with the format of the existing zoning code, to add references wherever references are customary, needed or appropriate, to make the appropriate adjustments to clarify any ambiguities or mistakes, and to make adjustments deemed necessary in light of public testimony resulting from this review. JUNE 4, 2026 THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. MOTIONS/RESOLUTIONS NO. M-26-241 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS WILLARD, MORRELL, MCCARRON, HARRIS, KING, GREEN AND HUGHES WHEREAS, Section 6-201(2)(d) of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans provides for a Housing Trust Fund, into which an amount equal to not less than two percent of the annual general fund operating budget shall be appropriated and used exclusively to ensure the availability of affordable housing for low- to moderate-income residents of the City; and WHEREAS, in City Code §§ 70-415.338—415.343 of the City Code, the City Council created the eponymous special fund, including an advisory committee to counsel and advise on appropriations from the Housing Trust Fund; and WHEREAS, pursuant to City Code § 70-415.338(d)(2), the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee submitted, and on December 1, 2025 the Council approved, its 2025 Annual Report with a proposed budget and implementation plan for 2026 based on a proposed general fund operating budget of $725,566,564; and WHEREAS, the City Council subsequently adopted 2026 budget ordinances that recognized $74,183,436 in additional revenue, yielding an adopted general fund operating budget of $799,750,000; and WHEREAS, the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee submitted an amendment, dated May 20, 2026, to its 2025 Annual Report to account for the difference between the proposed and adopted budgets, two percent of which amounts to $1,495,000; and WHEREAS, pursuant to City Code § 70-415.340(b), no more than five percent of the annual appropriation may be reserved for “rainy day” funds, and no more than ten percent may be reserved for fund administration, leaving at least 85%, or $1,270,750, reserved as “program funds”; and WHEREAS, the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee recommends that 50% of the $1,270,750 in additional program funds be devoted to the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority’s owner-occupied roof rehab program and 50% be devoted to the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority’s homeownership construction subsidy program, both of which are programs included in the Committee’s 2026 budget and implementation plan approved by the Council; and WHEREAS, the City Council agrees with the Committee that, to ease implementation, the additional revenue should be allocated to existing programs or programs familiar to both the fund administrators and their partners; and WHEREAS, the City Council further agrees that, for the additional owneroccupied roof rehab funds, the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority should prioritize recipients of the Louisiana Fortify Homes Program grant with incomes below 120% of the area median income (AMI) who face a gap between the grant award and the cost of a fortified roof, to better leverage state grant dollars for Orleans Parish residents; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That, the 2025 New Orleans Housing Trust Fund Annual Report Amendment, dated May 20, 2026 as prepared and submitted by the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee, wherein the Committee proposes a budget and implementation plan for the additional revenue recognized in the adopted 2026 operating budget for the Housing Trust Fund, is hereby approved pursuant to City Code § 70-415.342(e)(2); and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, that the additional funds referenced herein dedicated to the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority’s owneroccupied roof rehab program shall be structured as supplemental grants to Louisiana Fortify Homes Program lottery winners with incomes below 120% of AMI, who are deemed eligible to receive a fortified roof and receive a grant from the Louisiana Department of Insurance, and face a gap between Louisiana Fortify Homes Program grant award and the cost of the fortified roof; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall provide a copy of this motion and the 2025 Annual Report Amendment, dated May 20, 2026 as prepared and submitted by the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee, to Chief Administrative Officer Joseph Giarrusso, Finance Director Alyssa Rambeau, the City Council Fiscal Office, the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority through Brenda Breaux, Executive Director, and Finance New Orleans, through Damon Burns, Chief Executive Officer, for implementation and incorporation into the city’s operating budget ordinances for 2026; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall provide a copy of this motion to the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee through its co-chairs, Monique Blossom and Ellen Lee. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-243 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment LaVerne Toombs (fulfilling the unexpired term of Aaron Miller) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2027, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to LaVerne Toombs, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-244 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Kenneth Barton Farris (vice Gayle Benson) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective on July 1, 2026, upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2032, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Kenneth Barton Farris, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-245 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment Alvin Barrington (vice Ashley Francis) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective on July 1, 2026, upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2032, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Alvin Barrington, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0

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ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-246 BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Tanchanelle Washington (vice Kristyna Jones) to the board of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority representing the At-Large seat, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on June 30, 2031, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Tanchanelle Washington, New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-247 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Nissan Patel (vice Ronald Carrere) as a member of the Regional Planning Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2028, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Nissan Patel, the Regional Planning Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-248 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Bishop Tyrone Jefferson, Jr., (fulfilling the unexpired term of Michael Bagneris), as a member of the Ethics Review Board, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on June 30, 2027, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Bishop Tyrone Jefferson, Jr., the Ethics Review Board, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-249 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Katherine Baudouin (vice Olin Parker), as a member of the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission representing the Orleans Parish School Board, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire at the discretion of the Orleans Parish School Board, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Katherine Baudouin, the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-250 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL WHEREAS, Section 70-10(a) of the New Orleans City Code ordains that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditure of more than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of more than one year must be signed by the president of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10(b) of the New Orleans City Code ordains that the President of the New Orleans City Council (“Council”) shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so by Council motion; and WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works and Force 1 Protection, after completing the appropriate procurement process, desire to once again amend the contract to provide armed and unarmed security guards at DPW facilities by extending the duration of the contract through April 2, 2027, with no adjustment necessary to the cost of the contract; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the President of the Council shall be added as a signatory to Amendment No. 5 of the professional services agreement between City of New Orleans and Force 1 Protection. BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the President of the Council is authorized to sign Amendment No. 5 to the professional services agreement between the City of New Orleans and Force 1 Protection. BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion to the City Attorney’s Office for preparation of an amendment to the professional services agreement to effectuate this request. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-251 (AS CORRECTED) BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES WHEREAS, In the Election held on May 16, 2026, pursuant to Resolution No. R-25-546, adopted on October 23, 2025, the number of votes cast FOR and AGAINST the UPPER HURSTVILLE DISTRICT PROPOSITION have been canvassed and compiled and the results thereof transferred to the compilation sheets attached hereto and made a part hereof; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the compilation sheet of the election results attached hereto and made a part hereof is hereby declared to be the official results of the Election of May 16, 2026 relative to the Upper Hurstville Security District Proposition, held pursuant to Resolution No. R-25-546, as reflected by the actual returns made by the various commissioners who conducted said election, and it is hereby proclaimed that the results of the Proposition, submitted at said Election and the vote cast by the qualified electors voting at said Election held in the City of New Orleans on May 16, 2026, are as follows. UPPER HURSTVILLE SECURITY DISTRICT PROPOSITION VOTE FOR: 221 VOTE AGAINST: 98 TOTAL VOTES: 319 MAJORITY OF VOTES: FOR BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That a certified copy of this motion, which shall serve as a Proces Verbal of the canvass of the returns of said Election, shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who shall record the same in that office; that another certified copy of this motion shall be forwarded to the Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans, who shall record the same in the Mortgage Records of said Parish; and that another certified copy of this motion shall be retained in the archives of this City Council; and the results of said Election shall be promulgated by publication in the manner provided by law. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the actual cost of this election, as determined by the Louisiana Secretary of State, based upon the provisions of Title 18, Chapter 8A of the Louisiana Revised Statutes and actual costs of similar elections was $900. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-252 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON WHEREAS, In the Election held on May 16, 2026, pursuant to Resolution No. R-25-568, as corrected, (Clarifying and Amending Resolution No. M-25-557) adopted on November 5, 2025, the number of votes cast FOR and AGAINST the CASTLE MANOR IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PROPOSITION have been canvassed and compiled and the results thereof transferred to the compilation sheets attached hereto and made a

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part hereof; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the compilation sheet of the election results attached hereto and made a part hereof is hereby declared to be the official results of the Election of May 16, 2026 relative to the Castle Manor Improvement District Proposition, held pursuant to Resolution No. R-25-568, as corrected (Clarifying and Amending Resolution No. M-25-557), as reflected by the actual returns made by the various commissioners who conducted said election and it is hereby proclaimed that the results of the Proposition, submitted at said Election and the vote cast by the qualified electors voting at said Election held in the City of New Orleans on May 16, 2026 are as follows. CASTLE MANOR IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PROPOSITION VOTE FOR: 76 VOTE AGAINST: 377 TOTAL VOTES: 453 MAJORITY OF VOTES: AGAINST BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That a certified copy of this motion, which shall serve as a Proces Verbal of the canvass of the returns of said Election, shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who shall record the same in that office; that another certified copy of this motion shall be forwarded to the Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans, who shall record the same in the Mortgage Records of said Parish; and that another certified copy of this motion shall be retained in the archives of this City Council; and the results of said Election shall be promulgated by publication in the manner provided by law. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the actual cost of this election, as determined by the Louisiana Secretary of State, based upon the provisions of Title 18, Chapter 8A of the Louisiana Revised Statutes and actual costs of similar elections was $300. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. M-26-253 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the City Planning Commission’s report and recommendation for approval, subject to ten provisos, for ZONING DOCKET 30/26 – Octavia-Laurel, LLC, requesting a zoning change from an HU-RD2 Historic Urban TwoFamily Residential District to an HU-B1A Historic Urban Neighborhood Business District and conditional use to permit a “Standard Restaurant,” as defined in Section 26.6 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of New Orleans in the HU-B1A Use Restriction Overlay, on Square 187, Lots 1, 2, and 3, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Octavia Street, Laurel Street, Constance Street, and Jefferson Avenue (Municipal Address: 5433 Laurel Street and 509-515 Octavia Street), is received, and the request is hereby approved, subject to the ten provisos recommended by the City Planning Commission, with the following modifications to said ten provisos, and the addition of two provisos added by the City Council, all of which shall read as follows: PROVISOS: 1. The Department of Safety and Permits shall issue no building permits or licenses for this project until final development plans are approved by the City Planning Commission and recorded with the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court Land Records Division. Failure to complete the conditional use process within one year or failure to request an administrative extension as provided for in Article 4, Section 4.3.H.2 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance will void the conditional use approval. 2. In accordance with Article 20, Section 20.3.ZZ of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, the applicant shall meet the following standards: a. The Standard Restaurant shall submit a security and operation plan, to be reviewed by the Director of Safety and Permits, and all other relevant City agencies, with the following added: i. For restaurants with an outdoor component, the plan shall include provisions regarding how the facility will control the sales of alcoholic beverages to ensure consumption on-premises. ii. All restaurants serving alcoholic beverages shall provide exterior security cameras. b. The Standard Restaurant shall submit a noise abatement plan, to be reviewed by the Director of Safety and Permits, and all other relevant City agencies. c. If the Standard Restaurant contains a brewing, distilling or winemaking facility on-site, a floor plan indicating the area reserved for brewing, distilling or winemaking and a description of the facility and capacity. Onsite micro-brewing, micro-distillery and winery facilities are only allowed in standard restaurants. d. The Standard Restaurant shall submit a summary of the number and location of places of worship, educational facilities, and parks and playgrounds within three-hundred (300) feet of the proposed location. e. Unless otherwise permitted by law, retail sales of packaged alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises are prohibited. g. Hours of operation shall be posted on or near the restaurant’s entrance visible to the public. h. Live entertainment-secondary use and outdoor live entertainmentsecondary use are separate uses and subject to separate approval. Additionally, the Standard Restaurant must remain open with full food service while any live entertainment takes place. i. If the restaurant use plans an increase in intensity, such as an expansion of floor area or increase in permitted occupancy, the security and operation plans shall be updated and resubmitted for approval. The revised security and operation plan shall be approved prior to the issuance of any permits. j. Security and operation plans may be revised by the property owner or person authorized in writing by the owner. New plans shall be resubmitted for approval. k. Restaurants with drive-through facilities are subject to the standards of this Article. Standard restaurants with live entertainment – secondary uses are also subject to the standards of this Article. Drive-through facilities and live entertainment – secondary uses are considered separate principal uses and subject to separate approval. l. There shall be no cover charge to enter the Standard Restaurant. 3. The Property shall not be permitted to operate as a “Bar”, as defined in Article 26 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. 4. The floor area within the Standard Restaurant shall not be permitted to have a “holding bar”, as described in Section 20.3.ZZ in Article 20 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. 5. The Standard Restaurant shall be limited to the current tenant size and configuration at municipal address 5433 Laurel Street, which is approximately 1,250 square feet interior space and 200 square feet of outdoor seating space. Alcohol sales shall be limited exclusively to this space. The Standard Restaurant shall separately obtain the necessary permits/licenses for any outside seating on the public right-of-way. No expansion or adjacent standard restaurant use in the remainder of the property shall be permitted under any circumstances. 6. All alcoholic beverages served in the Standard Restaurant shall only be served to seated guests only occupying tables for food service. The use of “Go-Cups” shall be prohibited. 7. The Standard Restaurant shall not be permitted to have video poker. 8. Notwithstanding the hours of operation set forth in Table 20-2 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, the Standard Restaurant shall only be permitted to operate daily between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., seven (7) days a week. 9. Employee parking for the Standard Restaurant shall not be allowed in front of residential property within a 3-block radius of the property and actively enforced by management, including recording all employee license plate numbers for identification. 10. Management shall designate and continually maintain a designated contact person and phone number for neighbor complaints and inform the immediate neighbors and the Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association (“ARNA”) Audubon of any changes of this information. 11. The Standard Restaurant shall be limited to fifteen (15) special events per year occurring outside of the restricted operating hours of 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily. All special event permits shall be approved through the District A City Council Office. 12. The applicant and property owner will request that the City remove the “15 minute parking” zone on Laurel Street, directly adjacent to the Property, to allow for patron parking at this location. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, that the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted the flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-254 (AS CORRECTED) BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD WHEREAS, Cafe Malou, located in the Uptown neighborhood at 5433 Laurel Street, wishes to sell alcoholic beverages; and WHEREAS, the site also houses Octavia Books, located at 509-515 Octavia Street, operating under the umbrella of Octavia-Laurel, LLC; and WHEREAS, Octavia-Laurel, LLC applied for a zoning change from an HURD2 Historic Urban Two-Family Residential District to an HU-B1A Historic Urban Neighborhood Business District and conditional use to permit a

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standard restaurant in the HU-B1A Use Restriction Overlay District; and WHEREAS, on June 18, 2026, the City Council approved the application subject to ten provisions, following a favorably recommended from the City Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, one of the most prominent concerns raised by the adjacent and near neighbors of the petitioned site was future possible uses under the HU-B1A zoning, given its proximity to purely residential uses; and WHEREAS, the property owner has agreed to revert the petitioned site to HU-RD2 and protect those residential uses; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the City Planning Commission is directed to conduct a public hearing to consider a zoning change from HU-B1A Historic Urban Neighborhood Business District to HU-RD2 Historic Urban Two-Family Residential District, for the property located on Square 187, Lots 1, 2, and 3, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Octavia Street, Laurel Street, Constance Street, and Jefferson Avenue (Municipal Addresses: 5433 Laurel Street and 509-515 Octavia Street). BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the required Neighborhood Participation Program (NPP) meeting and the zoning change fee of $2,000 is hereby waived. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL; THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-255 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the report and recommendation of the City Planning Commission on ZONING DOCKET 24/26 - ERNEST N. MORIAL NEW ORLEANS EXHIBITION HALL AUTHORITY - Requesting a Text Amendment to Article 18 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to establish a new overlay district called the Convention Center Hotel Overlay District affecting the area generally bounded by Convention Center Boulevard, Andrew Higgins Drive, South Peters Street, and the Mississippi River Heritage Park. The overlay district would create new regulations affecting the permitted land uses, allowable building heights, floor area ration (FAR) limits, design standards, bicycle parking requirements, loading space requirements, curb cut allowances, signage restrictions, and exterior lighting requirements, applicable to the following area: the entirety of Squares 12-A, 24-A, 25, and a portion of the Public Street, situated in the First Municipal District, generally bounded by Convention Center Boulevard, Andrew Higgins Drive, South Peters Street, and the Mississippi River Heritage Park (Municipal Addresses: 1000 South Peters Street, 1001 Convention Center Boulevard, 1040 South Peters Street, John Churchill Chase Street between South Peters Street and Convention Center Boulevard) for Modified Approval is received and is hereby APPROVED, subject to the following modifications: 1. On page 31 of the City Planning Commission report, amend the “18.33.C Building Height” provision as follows: Lots in the CCH Overlay District shall not be subject to the maximum building height limits of Figure 17-2: Maximum Building Height. Lots in the CCH Overlay District shall be subject to a maximum floor area ratio (FAR) limit of 12, with no building exceeding a maximum building height of 360 feet. 2. On page 33 of the City Planning Commission report, amend the sentence under “FIGURE 17-2: MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT” as follows: This map will be amended to show the site is controlled by FAR, subject to a maximum building height of 360 feet. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion and the report of the City Planning Commission to the City Attorney’s Office for preparation of an ordinance to effectuate this request. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. R-26-256 BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS RESOLUTION RESOLUTION PROVIDING APPROVAL AND AUTHORIZATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED TWENTYFIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($225,000,000) NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD DRAW-DOWN BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES IN ORDER TO FINANCE ADDITIONAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS TO FINANCE THE SAME; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. WHEREAS, the New Orleans Aviation Board (the “Aviation Board”) is charged with the administration, operation, and maintenance of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (the “Airport”) pursuant to Article V, Section 5-602 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (the “City”); and WHEREAS, Part XIV of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, in particular Section 1034(D) thereof, together with other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto, including, without limitation, La. R.S. 39:1430, and La. R. S. 39:1444 through 1455 inclusive, (collectively, the “Act”), authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds by the Board in its own name payable out of the income revenues and receipts derived, or to be derived, from the properties or facilities administered, maintained, or operated by the Board, subject to the approval of such issuances by the City Council and the State Bond Commission; and WHEREAS, the Aviation Board did adopt on May 21, 2026, a resolution captioned: RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($225,000,000) NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD DRAW-DOWN BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES IN ORDER TO FINANCE ADDITIONAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS TO FINANCE THE SAME; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. (the “Authorizing Resolution”); WHEREAS, the Council desires to authorize and approve the issuance by the Aviation Board of not to exceed Two Hundred Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($225,000,000) New Orleans Aviation Board Draw-down Bond Anticipation Notes, Series 2026, in one or more series (the “Series 2026 Notes”) to finance Additional Capital Improvements on an interim basis until Bonds are issued to finance the same and to pay for the costs of issuing the Series 2026 Notes; and WHEREAS, the Council desires to authorize and approve the issuance by the New Orleans Aviation Board of the Series 2026 Notes in one or more series in its own name for the purposes described in the Authorizing Resolution; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council, acting as the Governing Authority of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (the “City”), that: Section 1. Authorization and Approval of Series 2026 Notes. The Council does hereby authorize and approve the issuance, sale, and delivery from time to time by the New Orleans Aviation Board in its own name pursuant to the provisions of La. R.S. 39:1034 in combination with other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto of not to exceed Two Hundred Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($225,000,000) of New Orleans Aviation Board Draw-down Bond Anticipation Notes, Series 2026 (the “Series 2026 Notes”) to finance the Additional Capital Improvements on an interim basis until Bonds are issued to finance the same and to pay for the costs of issuing the Series 2026 Notes for the purposes described in the Authorizing Resolution attached hereto as Exhibit A, all of which shall be secured by and payable from the income, revenues, and receipts derived or to be derived from the properties or facilities administered, maintained or operated by the Aviation Board at the Airport as permitted in the Authorizing Resolution. The Council hereby authorizes the Mayor and the Director of Finance to countersign the Series 2026 Notes when issued. The execution by the Mayor, or in her absence, the appropriate officer of the City, and the attestation of the Mayor’s signature by the Director of Finance shall constitute due evidence of the approval of such document by the officer executing same by and behalf of the City. Section 2. Approval of Execution of Supplemental Indentures Relating to Series 2026 Notes and Bonds when issued. In order to deliver the Series 2026 Notes, the Council does hereby authorize and approve the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture to the General Revenue Bond Trust Indenture dated as of February 1, 2009 (the “General Indenture”) with such provisions as shall be approved by the officer of the Aviation Board executing same and bond counsel to the Aviation Board. The not exceeding $300,000,000 of New Orleans Aviation Board Revenue and Refunding Bonds (the “Bonds”) in one or more series previously authorized to be issued pursuant to Resolution No. R.25-605 shall be issued pursuant to an appropriately numbered Supplemental Indenture when the Bonds are issued to pay and discharge a Series 2024 Note and the Series 2026 Notes. Section 3. Approval of Execution of Other Certificates or Documents. In order to facilitate the desire of the Aviation Board as set forth in the Authorizing Resolution, the Council hereby authorizes and approves the execution and delivery by the Mayor or in her absence an appropriate officer of the City on behalf of the City of the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, the certificates, and other documents necessary in order to accomplish the issuance of the Series 2026 Notes. The Council hereby authorizes the Mayor and the Director of Finance to countersign the Series 2026 Notes when issued. 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by this resolution shall constitute due evidence of the approval of such document by the officer executing same by and on behalf of the City. THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, King, McCarron, Morrell - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Hughes, Willard - 2 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. R-26-257 BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND APPROVING THE EXECUTION, ISSUANCE, SALE, AND DELIVERY BY THE NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD OF NOT TO EXCEED THREE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION ($350,000,000) OF NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD REFUNDING BONDS IN ONE OR MORE SERIES TO REFUND THE 2017 GENERAL AIRPORT REVENUE BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. WHEREAS, the New Orleans Aviation Board (the “Board”) is charged with the administration, operation and maintenance of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (the “Airport”) pursuant to Article V, Section 5-602 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (the “City”); WHEREAS, Part XIV of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, particularly La. R.S. 39:1034 (D) and (F), together with the other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto, including without limitation, the provisions of Chapter 13 of Subtitle III of Title 39, including La. R.S. 39:1430 and the provisions of Chapter 14-A of Title 39 (La. R.S. 39:1444 through 1456, inclusive) of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (collectively, the “Act”), authorize the issuance of revenue bonds by the Board in its own name payable out of the income, revenues and receipts derived or to be derived from the properties or facilities administered, maintained or operated by the Board, subject to the approval of such issuance by the Council of the City (the “Council”); WHEREAS, the Board has previously issued $100,010,000 New Orleans Aviation Board General Airport Revenue Bonds (North Terminal Project) Series 2017A (Non-AMT) (the “Series 2017A Bonds”) and $219,390,000 New Orleans Aviation Board General Airport Revenue Bonds (North Terminal Project) Series 2017B (AMT) (the “Series 2017B Bonds”, together with the Series 2017A Bonds, the “Series 2017 Bonds”) for the purpose of providing funds to pay for a portion of the costs of a new passenger terminal and other enabling projects (the “North Terminal Project”) at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (the “Airport”); WHEREAS, the Aviation Board’s Financial Advisor, Frasca & Associates, Inc., advises that the Series 2017 Bonds may be currently refunded within ninety days of their January 1, 2027 optional redemption date and recommends that the Aviation Board should complete all legal proceedings in order to refund the Series 2017 Bonds if the sale of the Refunding Bonds within the fourth quarter of 2026 generates aggregate present value savings of at least three (3) percent of the refunded Series 2017 Bonds par; WHEREAS, the Board did adopt on May 21, 2026, a resolution captioned: RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED THREE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION ($350,000,000) OF NEW ORLEANS AVIATION BOARD REFUNDING BONDS IN ONE OR MORE SERIES TO REFUND THE 2017 GENERAL AIRPORT REVENUE BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. (the “Authorizing Resolution”); WHEREAS, the Council desires to authorize and approve the issuance by the New Orleans Aviation Board of Not Exceeding Three Hundred Fifty Million ($350,000,000) New Orleans Aviation Board Refunding Bonds in one or more series (the “Series 2026 Refunding Bonds”) to refund the Series 2017 Bonds in its own name for the purposes described in the Authorizing Resolution; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council, acting as the Governing Authority of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (the “City”), that: Section 1. Authorization and Approval of Series 2026 Refunding Bonds. The Council does hereby authorize and approve the issuance, sale and delivery from time to time by the New Orleans Aviation Board in its own name pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Not Exceeding Three Hundred Fifty Million ($350,000,000) New Orleans Aviation Board Refunding Bonds in one or more series (the “Series 2026 Refunding Bonds”) as authorized and permitted in the Authorizing Resolution. The Council does hereby authorize the Mayor and the Director of Finance to countersign the Bonds when issued. The execution by the Mayor, or in his absence, the appropriate officer of the City, and the attestation of the Mayor’s signature by the Director of Finance shall constitute due evidence of the approval of such document by the officer executing same by and behalf of the City. Section 2. Approval of Execution of Supplemental Indentures Relating to the Series 2026 Refunding Bonds. In order to deliver the Series 2026 Refunding Bonds, the Council does hereby authorize and approve such supplemental indentures to the General Revenue Bond Trust Indenture dated as of February 1, 2009 (the “General Indenture”) with such provisions as shall be approved by the officer of the Board executing same and bond counsel to the Board. Section 3. Approval of Execution of Supplemental Indentures and Other Certificates or Documents. In order to facilitate the desire of the Board as set forth in the Authorizing Resolution, the Council does hereby authorize and approve the execution and delivery by the Mayor or in his absence an appropriate officer of the City on behalf of the City of such supplemental indentures, certificates, and other documents necessary in order to accomplish the issuance of the Series 2026 Refunding Bonds. The Council does hereby authorize the Mayor and the Director of Finance to countersign the Series 2026 Refunding Bonds when issued. The execution by the Mayor, or in his absence an appropriate officer of the City, and the attestation of either’s signature by the Director of Finance to any documents contemplated by this resolution shall constitute due evidence of the approval of such document by the officer executing same by and on behalf of the City. THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, King, McCarron, Morrell - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Hughes, Willard - 2 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. R-26-258 (AS AMENDED) BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES RESOLUTION AND ORDER DIRECTING SUPPLEMENTAL FILINGS AND EXTENDING THE PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE ESTABLISHED IN RESOLUTION NO. R-26-150 DOCKET NO. UD-24-02 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, the Council of the City of New Orleans (“Council”) is the governmental body with the power of supervision, regulation, and control over public utilities providing service within the City of New Orleans (“City”); and WHEREAS, Entergy New Orleans, LLC (“ENO”) is a public utility providing electric service throughout the City; and WHEREAS, ENO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC; and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. R-24-624, the Council established Docket No. UD-24-02 to consider policies and programs designed to expand the deployment of distributed energy resources (“DERs”), including battery energy storage systems (“DER Program”); and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. R-26-150, the Council directed ENO to provide supplemental information to its BESS Phase III Pilot Program Implementation Plan (“Proposed Plan”) and established a procedural schedule for additional discovery, filing comments, the issuance of the Advisors’ Report, and the Hearing Officer’s certification of the record; and WHEREAS, Resolution No. R-26-150 intended ENO’s supplemental filing would provide sufficient information to permit meaningful review and comment by the Council Advisors, Intervenors, and other parties to the proceeding; and WHEREAS, upon review of ENO’s supplemental filing, the Council finds that certain information requested by Resolution No. R-26-150 has not been fully or adequately provided, thereby limiting the ability of the Advisors and parties to conduct a complete and informed evaluation of the proposed DER Program framework; and WHEREAS, the Council further finds that additional time is necessary to permit ENO to address the identified inadequacies and to allow the Advisors and parties a reasonable opportunity to review any supplemental information and prepare comments; and WHEREAS, the Council desires to ensure that the record developed in docket no. UD-24-02 is complete and sufficient to support a fully informed regulatory determination regarding the implementation and administration of the Phase III Battery Energy Storage System Pilot Program. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the procedural schedule established by Resolution No. R-26-150 is hereby modified and extended with the following deadlines: 1. By July 6, 2026, ENO is directed to file with the Council the following supplemental details to cure the inadequacies in its May 26, 2026 supplemental filing to the Proposed Plan. If ENO is not able to provide any portion of the additional information requested, ENO is directed to submit a detailed explanation for why the information is not available and its timeline for providing the information. A. Additional budget details for years 4-10, including costs for

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EnergyHub distributed energy resource management system provider, and costs for evaluation, measurement, and verification, costs for program administration and periodic reporting, and projected ratepayer impacts b. Operational goals and objectives with projected timelines to achieve each goal and objective c. Detailed explanation of and addditional support for the estimated $2 million portion of the administrative budget proposed the third-party incentive administrator scope of services, including cost esimates for each task in the scope of services d. Detailed explanation of and additional support for the $2 million proposed for the system study and upgrade budget 2. By July 20, 2026, the parties shall file comments addressing ENO’s Proposed Plan and ENO’s supplemental filings, consistent with the Council’s directions herein. 3. By July 20, 2026, the parties shall file comments addressing TNO’s proposed substantive modifications to the DER program. 4. By August 6, 2026, the Advisors shall file a report addressing ENO’s Proposed Plan, ENO’s supplemental filings, TNO’s proposed substantive modifications, and comments received addressing each. 5. The Hearing Officer shall certify the record not later than August 20, 2026. THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-259 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the City Planning Commission’s report and recommendation of approval subject to three provisos, related to ZONING DOCKET 51/26, initiated by 709 Jackson Ave, LLC, requesting consideration of a conditional use to permit a hotel in an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District, on Square 73, Lot 12-AB, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Jackson Avenue and Chippewa, Annunciation and Josephine Streets (Municipal Address: 709 Jackson Avenue), is hereby APPROVED IN PART AND MODIFIED to exclude short-term rentals from “Transient Lodging Use” in the first proviso, as follows: 1. The approval of the application is limited to Transient Lodging Use, except for any type of short-term rental, and any variances specifically granted as part of this application. With the exception of any variances that are specifically granted as part of this approval, the Transient Loding Use shall be compliant with all relevant requirements of the zoning ordinance. BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council is directed to forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King, Morrell - 2 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-260 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MCCARRON, HARRIS AND GREEN (BY REQUEST) WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of the City of New Orleans requires that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditure of more than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of more than one year or providing for legal services must be signed by the President of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10 further provides that the President of the City Council shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so by Council motion; and WHEREAS, The City of New Orleans and US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), desire to enter into a contract for a Lead Hazard Reduction Capacity Building Program to strengthen local infrastructure, partnerships, and workforce capabilities for reducing childhood lead exposure, for a period of 3 years, the total compensation being $1,057,014.00; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council shall be added as a signatory to the original agreement to the contract between the City of New Orleans and HUD; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign the original agreement the contract between the City of New Orleans and HUD as attached hereto as Exhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion, including Exhibit A, to the City Attorney’s Office to effectuate this request. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. M-26-261 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MCCARRON, HARRIS AND GREEN (BY REQUEST) WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of the City of New Orleans requires that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditure of more than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of more than one year or providing for legal services must be signed by the President of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10 further provides that the President of the City Council shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so by Council motion; and WHEREAS, The City of New Orleans, Chief Administrative Office, and the State of Louisiana- Louisiana Department of Health, desire to enter into a partnership to utilize federal funds designated from the Center for Disease Control to improve quality of life and care of citizens through high impact work to curb or eliminate new HIV, STIs, and Hepatitis infections among vulnerable populations through access to testing, linkage to care and services, maintenance in care, health outcomes improvement, and stigma reduction efforts; effective from September 1st, 2025 through December 31st, 2026; the maximum amount deliverable to the City of New Orleans being $1,338,011.00; the request is for approval for the multi-year duration of this partnership; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council shall be added as a signatory to the contract between the City of New Orleans and the Louisiana Department of Health (STI/HIV/Hepatitis Program), and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign the contract between the City of New Orleans and the Louisiana Department of Health (STI/HIV/Hepatitis Program), as attached hereto as Exhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion, including Exhibit A, to the City Attorney’s Office to effectuate this request. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. M-26-262 BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the City Planning Commission’s report and recommendation of approval of zoning map amendment to S-MU District, related to ZONING DOCKET 41/26, initiated by CITY COUNCIL MOTION M-26-72, requesting consideration of a zoning map amendment from an S-RS Single-Family Residential District to any zoning designation that encourages commercial use and is compatible with the NC Neighborhood Commercial Future Land Use Map designation of the subject area on all lots and rights-ofway currently zoned S-RS Single Family Residential District, in the Fifth Municipal District, bounded by Behrman Place, Holiday Drive, General De Gaulle Drive, the Algiers Canal, and the former Brechtel Golf Course, is received and the recommendation, hereby modified to amend the zoning map for the subject area from S-RS Single-Family Residential District to C-1 General Commercial District, is approved. BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council is directed to forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Green, Willard - 2 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-263 BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING

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SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the report and recommendation for APPROVAL by the City Planning Commission (CPC) on ZONING DOCKET NO. 48/26 initiated by CITY COUNCIL MOTION NO. M-26-105, requesting an amendment to the text of Article 26 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to add a new definition, Park Concession Facilities, and to the text of Article 21 to add new on-site development standards for park concession facilities, is received and the request is approved as recommended by the CPC and as outlined in the CPC staff report. BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council is directed to forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Green - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-264 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL AND HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the City Planning Commission’s report and recommendation of approval related to ZONING DOCKET 37/26, initiated by Council Motion No. M-26-63, requesting consideration of an amendment to Article 19 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to create a new Interim Zoning District called the Data Center Interim Zoning District, the intent of which is prohibit the issuance of an occupational license or otherwise permit the operation of data centers citywide, is hereby received and the request is APPROVED. BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council is directed to forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-265 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS WHEREAS, on June 17, 2026, the Council President sent a letter to the Clerk of Council directing her to reschedule the regular Council meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 18, 2026 to Wednesday, June 24, 2026, due to the potential for extreme weather as a result of Tropical Storm Arthur; and WHEREAS, Council Rule 1 requires that regular Council meetings be held on Thursdays; and BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the City Council hereby ratifies the rescheduling of the regular meeting originally scheduled for Thursday, June 18, 2026 to Wednesday, June 24, 2026;and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That in so doing, the Council hereby suspends Council Rule 1 to allow the rescheduled meeting to be held on a day that is not a Thursday. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL; THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Hughes, King - 2 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-267 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD WHEREAS, on January 27, 2026, the Council approved Motion M-26-57 authorizing the President of the Council to sign contracts with Granicus for a period not to exceed one year beginning March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027, with a maximum compensation of $82,684.38 to provide a turn-key, comprehensive scalable and flexible agenda preparation and document management system along with an internet video and meetings management solution for the City of New Orleans (the “Services”); and WHEREAS, the services have since been renegotiated to remove services that the Council does not need and include services that the Council deems to be in the public interest and to promote efficiency; and WHEREAS, the renegotiated terms require the Council to agree to pay Granicus an additional $42,029.21 to cover the cost of the services that were not approved by M-26-57; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign a contract with Granicus for a period not to exceed one year beginning March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027, with a maximum compensation of $124,713.59 to provide a turn-key, comprehensive scalable and flexible agenda preparation and document management system along with an internet video and meetings management solution for the City of New Orleans (the “Services”). THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 7 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-268 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD WHEREAS, the Mississippi River Heritage Park (“Park”), located in the Warehouse District, is a vital community asset; and WHEREAS, the Park is currently subject to a height regulation based on a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 12, pursuant to Article 17 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance; and WHEREAS, while the Park is not within the boundaries of the Convention Center Hotel Overlay District, currently under Council consideration, it is immediately adjacent thereto; and WHEREAS, establishing a lower height limit within the Park’s boundaries would provide certainty that the space remains protected from future development while reinforcing its role as a civic green space, a priority voiced by District B neighbors; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the City Planning Commission is directed to conduct a public hearing to consider a text amendment to amend figure 17-2 and 17-3 to limit the allowable height to 35 feet for the property located on Square 26, in the First Municipal District, bounded by Convention Center Boulevard, Gaiennie Street, South Peters Street, and John Churchill Chase Street (Municipal Addresses: 350 John Churchill Chase Street), commonly known as Mississippi River Heritage Park. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That in consideration of ongoing meetings that have involved the Park’s near neighbors, the required Neighborhood Participation Program (NPP) meeting and the text amendment fee of $1500 are hereby waived. THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL; THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King – 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. ORDINANCES ON FIRST READING CAL. NO. 35,472 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON - AN ORDINANCE to establish a conditional use to permit a commercial shortterm rental in an S-LM Lake Area Marina District and the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District, for Boathouse #84, whose dimensions are 25 feet fronting on Breakwater Drive, and 25 feet fronting on the water and 80 feet in length from the street-side boundary, within the Municipal Yacht Harbor Marina of Lake Pontchartrain (Municipal Address: 8112 Breakwater Drive); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (Zoning Docket NO. 22/26) CAL. NO. 35,473 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON - AN ORDINANCE to establish a conditional use to permit a commercial shortterm rental in an S-LM Lake Area Marina District and the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District, for Boathouse #85, whose dimensions are 25 feet fronting on Breakwater Drive, and 25 feet fronting on the water and 80 feet in length from the street-side boundary, within the Municipal Yacht Harbor Marina of Lake Pontchartrain (Municipal Address: 8114 Breakwater Drive); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (Zoning Docket NO. 23/26) CAL. NO. 35,474 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING - AN ORDINANCE to rescind Ordinance No. 26,276 MCS (Zoning Docket 123/14) and grant a planned development which authorizes the expansion of an indoor amusement facility, on Square 337, Lots 3A and 3-A1, in the Second Municipal District, bounded by North Broad Street, North Dorgenois Street, Saint Peter Street, and Toulouse Street (Municipal Addresses: 636-650 North Broad Street); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. Zoning Docket Number 39/26 CAL. NO. 35,475 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS - AN ORDINANCE to effect a zoning change from an HU-RD2 Historic Urban Two-Family Residential District to HU-MU Historic Urban Mixed-Use District, on Square 389, Lots 12 and 13 in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Jackson Avenue, South Claiborne Avenue, Josephine Street, and

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Willow Street (Municipal Addresses: 2819-2821 Jackson Avenue); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (Zoning Docket NO. 44/26) CAL. NO. 35,476 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN - AN ORDINANCE to effect a zoning change from an S-RS Suburban Single-Family District to an OS-N Neighborhood Open Space District, on Square 3038, Lots 6, 8-B, 9 and 10, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Touro Street, Frenchmen Street, Mandolin Street, and Pelopidas Street (Municipal Addresses: 4235-4237 Touro Street, 2110-2116 Mandolin Street); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (Zoning Docket NO. 45/26) CAL. NO. 35,477 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING AND HARRIS (BY REQUEST) - AN ORDINANCE to ordain and establish Chapter 70, Article III, Division 56 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, consisting of sections 70-415.350 through 70-415.354, for the purpose of creating the Crescent City Connection Bridge Lighting Fund to manage funding for decorative bridge lighting; to ordain and establish Chapter 146, Article XIV of the Code, consisting of sections 146-786 through 146-793, to provide relative to the maintenance, operation, and purchase by third parties of decorative lighting on the Crescent City Connection; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,478 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to grant a non-exclusive wireless franchise to SQF, LLC dba VERTA to construct, maintain, operate, and authorize new wireless facilities on and under the public rights-of-way within the corporate limits of the City of New Orleans, with locations subject to the approval of the Grantor, to provide for annual payments, and the furnishing of a surety bond; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,479 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) - AN ORDINANCE authorizing the acquisition by the City of New Orleans (City) from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) of (a) 900 Elmira Avenue, designated as the front portions of lots 19 & 20 in square 260 of the Fifth Municipal District; (b) 909-15 Homer Street, designated as the rear portions of lots 19 & 20 in square 260 of the Fifth Municipal District; (c) 3617 Third Street, designated as part of lot 15 in square 459 of the Fourth Municipal District; (d) 3621 Third Street, designated as lots B, C, E, & F in square 459 of the Fourth Municipal District; and (e) 3623 Third Street, designated as lot G in square 459 of the Fourth Municipal District (collectively, the “NORA Properties”); authorizing the transfer of the land and improvements comprising 2021 Danneel Street, designated as Lot A1 in square 293 of the Fourth Municipal District (the “City Property”); and otherwise provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,480 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - AN ORDINANCE to authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement (“CEA”) between the City of New Orleans (the “City”), and the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (“S&WB”), relative to the administration, planning and construction of the Monticello Canal Culverts State Capital Outlay Project (FP&C #50-ML2-22-03) as set forth more fully in the CEA form attached hereto as Exhibit “1” and made a part hereof; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. CAL. NO. 35,481 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to de-appropriate and transfer funds within the Chief Administrative Office, Office of the Mayor and Department of Code Enforcement to reduce reliance on one-time revenues for recurring expenditures, maintain a balanced budget, and provide funding for a one-time priority project; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,482 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to de-appropriate and transfer funds within the Chief Administrative Office, Office of the Mayor and the Department of Code Enforcement to reduce reliance on one-time revenues for recurring expenditures, maintain a balanced budget, and provide funding for a one-time priority project; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,483 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL - AN ORDINANCE to require continued use of the City’s current enterprise resource planning system (BRASS) by the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,484 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, MCCARRON AND KING (BY REQUEST) - AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Housing Bond Funds to the Office of Housing and Community Development for FY24 and FY25 projects; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,485 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, MCCARRON AND KING (BY REQUEST) - AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Housing Bond Funds to the Office of Housing and Community Development for FY24 and FY25 projects; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,486 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Section 70-565 of the Code of the City of New Orleans to clarify the intended scope of the ordinance; to provide for exceptions consistent with court orders and judgments; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,487 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to the Health Department for the United Way Rapid Rehousing program to support emergency transitional housing for homeless individuals and reduce street homelessness; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,488 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to the Health Department for the United Way Rapid Rehousing program to support emergency transitional housing for homeless individuals and reduce street homelessness; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. CAL. NO. 35,489 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL AND WILLARD AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between the City of New Orleans (the “City”) and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (“OPSO”), Civil Division, for a term greater than one year, to provide executive protection services to the New Orleans City Council (the “Council”), as more fully detailed in the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit “A”; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. CAL. NO. 35,490 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS - AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30,531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026” to appropriate funds to the City Council to continue the Sewerage and Water Board Billing Dispute Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. THE FOREGOING ORDINANCES WERE LAID OVER AS REQUIRED BY LAW. There being no further business, on motion of Councilmember Morrell, seconded by Councilmember Hughes, and without objection, the Council meeting adjourned at 4:41 P.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL DM/jmr NOCP 9228 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 21, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,447 NO. 30676 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL AND HUGHES AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain section 154-777 of the Code of the City of New Orleans to increase the fee for immobilization of unoccupied vehicles; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That section 154-777 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana is amended to read as follows: “CHAPTER 154. – TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES *** ARTICLE VIII. – STOPPING, STANDING, PARKING *** DIVISION 3. – SEIZURE OR IMMOBLIZATION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES *** Sec. 154-777. – Unoccupied vehicle in violation of law. (a) Any unoccupied vehicle found on a street or highway against which there is a recorded and unpaid delinquent parking citation issued under the authority of this article shall be immediately immobilized or towed and impounded, or both, by any police officer or other person duly authorized. (b) Such vehicle shall be surrendered or released only to the duly registered owner of such vehicle or his agent thereof upon: (1) Such person depositing a cash bond in the amount of the fines and penalties for any unpaid parking citations (including the citation, if any, for which the vehicle was towed) recorded against such vehicle plus any towing, immobilization or storage fees; or (2) Such person (but only if he is the same person charged with the parking citation) signing and executing a form prepared by the department of law for the purpose of waiving his right to a hearing, admitting liability

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for the parking offense charged, agreeing to and paying the parking fines, towing fee and storage fees or immobilization fee incurred for the period of impoundment or immobilization. The person duly authorized to collect parking fines, towing, immobilization, and storage fees is hereby authorized to accept such waivers of hearing and pleas of guilty to the offenses charged for entering of same in the proper court of competent jurisdiction, and such person shall be authorized to collect all such fines and fees and issue receipts therefore to the person making payment of same. (c) If the person whose vehicle has been immobilized or impounded deposits a bond as provided in subsection (b)(1), such person shall be issued a notice to appear for hearing in accordance with the provisions of this article in the same manner and under the same procedures employed for any violation. Any person whose vehicle has been impounded or immobilized under the provisions of this section and desires an expedited hearing shall be afforded such a hearing within three business days of his written request therefore. (d) [Forfeiture of bond.] If a person whose vehicle has been immobilized or impounded deposits a bond as provided in subsection (b)(1), such a bond will be subject to forfeiture if he fails to pay the fines and/or penalties assessed by the parking adjudication bureau within six months after such assessment. If such fee is deposited in the form of a bond and the responsible person is found not liable for all parking citations for which the vehicle was immobilized or impounded, such bond will be returned to the depositor or his agent. (e) [Violations.] The purpose of this section is to provide for immobilization, impoundment by immobilization, and removal and/or impoundment of unoccupied vehicles when in violation of the following sections of chapter 34 and this chapter: section 34-19; section 34-20; section 154-861; section 154-864; section 154-866; section 154-868; section 154-869; section 154-870; section 154-874; section 154-875; section 154-876; section 154-877.1; section 154-878; section 154-923; section 154-925; section 154-973; section 154-975; section 154-976; section 154-977; section 154-978; section 154-979; section 154-1031; section 154-1032; section 154-1035; section 154-1036; and section 154-1043. (f) Towing, storage, and immobilization rates. The department shall collect fees for towing and storage, including, but not limited to, administrative fees and gate fees, at the rates established annually by the Louisiana Public Service Commission and published in its Schedule of Prescribed Rates and Requirements for Non-Consensual Towing and Recovery Services. The department shall collect an immobilization fee of 75% of the minimum non-consensual towing rate for the applicable vehicle weight rating as published in the Schedule named in this section, rounded up to the nearest dollar. (g) If any vehicle, other than truck tractors, semitrailers, boats, buses, school buses, freight-carrying vehicles, trailers, tow trucks or dump trucks, dual-axle or tandem-axle is impounded, such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with the law. (h) If a truck tractor, semitrailer, boat, bus, school bus, freight-carrying vehicle, trailer, tow truck or dump truck, dual-axle or tandem-axle is impounded, such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with law. (i) The purpose of this section is to provide for the impoundment through immobilization of unoccupied oversized vehicles when in violation of the following sections of [chapter 34 and] this chapter: Section 34-19; section 34-20; section 154-861; section 154-866; section 154-868; section 154-869; section 154-870; section 154-874; section 154-875; section 154-877.1; section 154-923; section 154-925; section 154-973; section 154-975; section 154-976; section 154-977; section 154-978; section 154-979; section 154-1031; section 154-1035; and section 154-1043. (j) If any vehicle, other than truck tractors, semitrailers, boats over 18 feet, buses, school buses, freight-carrying vehicles, trailers, tow trucks or dump trucks, is impounded through immobilization, such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with law. If a truck tractor, semitrailer, boat, bus, school bus, freight-carrying vehicle, trailer, tow truck or dump truck is impounded through immobilization as provided for in subsection (i), such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with law.” ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE CITY COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King – 1 RECUSED: 0 REDLINE VERSION: Sec. 154-777. – Unoccupied vehicle in violation of law. (a) Any unoccupied vehicle found on a street or highway against which there is a recorded and unpaid delinquent parking citation issued under the authority of this article shall be immediately immobilized or towed and impounded, or both, by any police officer or other person duly authorized. (b) Such vehicle shall be surrendered or released only to the duly registered owner of such vehicle or his agent thereof upon: (1) Such person depositing a cash bond in the amount of the fines and penalties for any unpaid parking citations (including the citation, if any, for which the vehicle was towed) recorded against such vehicle plus any towing, immobilization or storage fees; or (2) Such person (but only if he is the same person charged with the parking citation) signing and executing a form prepared by the department of law for the purpose of waiving his right to a hearing, admitting liability for the parking offense charged, agreeing to and paying the parking fines, towing fee and storage fees or immobilization fee incurred for the period of impoundment or immobilization. The person duly authorized to collect parking fines, towing, immobilization, and storage fees is hereby authorized to accept such waivers of hearing and pleas of guilty to the offenses charged for entering of same in the proper court of competent jurisdiction, and such person shall be authorized to collect all such fines and fees and issue receipts therefore to the person making payment of same. (c) If the person whose vehicle has been immobilized or impounded deposits a bond as provided in subsection (b)(1), such person shall be issued a notice to appear for hearing in accordance with the provisions of this article in the same manner and under the same procedures employed for any violation. Any person whose vehicle has been impounded or immobilized under the provisions of this section and desires an expedited hearing shall be afforded such a hearing within three business days of his written request therefore. (d) [Forfeiture of bond.] If a person whose vehicle has been immobilized or impounded deposits a bond as provided in subsection (b)(1), such a bond will be subject to forfeiture if he fails to pay the fines and/or penalties assessed by the parking adjudication bureau within six months after such assessment. If such fee is deposited in the form of a bond and the responsible person is found not liable for all parking citations for which the vehicle was immobilized or impounded, such bond will be returned to the depositor or his agent. (e) [Violations.] The purpose of this section is to provide for immobilization, impoundment by immobilization, and removal and/or impoundment of unoccupied vehicles when in violation of the following sections of chapter 34 and this chapter: section 34-19; section 34-20; section 154-861; section 154-864; section 154-866; section 154-868; section 154-869; section 154-870; section 154-874; section 154-875; section 154-876; section 154-877.1; section 154-878; section 154-923; section 154-925; section 154-973; section 154-975; section 154-976; section 154-977; section 154-978; section 154-979; section 154-1031; section 154-1032; section 154-1035; section 154-1036; and section 154-1043. (f) Towing, immobilization, and storage, and immobilization rates. The department shall collect fees for immobilization, towing, and storage, including, but not limited to, administrative fees and gate fees, at the rates established annually by the Louisiana Public Service Commission and published in its Schedule of Prescribed Rates and Requirements for Non-Consensual Towing and Recovery Services. The department shall collect an immobilization fee of 75% of the minimum non-consensual towing rate for the applicable vehicle weight rating as published in the Schedule named in this section, rounded up to the nearest dollar. (g) If any vehicle, other than truck tractors, semitrailers, boats, buses, school buses, freight-carrying vehicles, trailers, tow trucks or dump trucks, dual-axle or tandem-axle is impounded, such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with the law. (h) If a truck tractor, semitrailer, boat, bus, school bus, freight-carrying vehicle, trailer, tow truck or dump truck, dual-axle or tandem-axle is impounded, such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with law. (i) The purpose of this section is to provide for the impoundment through immobilization of unoccupied oversized vehicles when in violation of the following sections of [chapter 34 and] this chapter: Section 34-19; section

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34-20; section 154-861; section 154-866; section 154-868; section 154-869; section 154-870; section 154-874; section 154-875; section 154-877.1; section 154-923; section 154-925; section 154-973; section 154-975; section 154-976; section 154-977; section 154-978; section 154-979; section 154-1031; section 154-1035; and section 154-1043. (j) If any vehicle, other than truck tractors, semitrailers, boats over 18 feet, buses, school buses, freight-carrying vehicles, trailers, tow trucks or dump trucks, is impounded through immobilization, such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with law. If a truck tractor, semitrailer, boat, bus, school bus, freight-carrying vehicle, trailer, tow truck or dump truck is impounded through immobilization as provided for in subsection (i), such vehicle shall be assessed a towing fee in accordance with this section and, after the first 24 hours, a storage fee shall be incurred in accordance with this section, together with such fine as may be imposed in accordance with law. ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 21, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,449 NO. 30677 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING AND MORRELL AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Article 18 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended by Ordinance No. 26,413 M.C.S. and subsequent amendments) to establish a new overlay district called the Behrman Mixed-Use Integrity Overlay District, the intent of which is to ensure that any multi-family developments proposed within the S-MU Suburban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District and the MU-1 Medium Intensity Mixed-Use District, bounded by Wall Boulevard, Holiday Drive, and General De Gaulle Drive, contain nonresidential uses which align with the mixed-use goal of those districts; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. WHEREAS, Zoning Docket Number 34/26 was initiated by City Council Motion No. M-26-53 and referred to the City Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on this zoning petition and recommended approval of the requested text amendment use in its report to the City Council dated April 1, 2026, presented in Zoning Docket Number 34/26; and WHEREAS, the recommendation of the City Planning Commission was upheld, and the changes were deemed necessary and in the best interest of the City of New Orleans and the request was approved by the City Council, as stated in Motion Number M-26-185 of the Council of the City of New Orleans on May 7, 2026. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That Article 18 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended by Ordinance No. 26,413 M.C.S. and subsequent amendments), be, and is hereby amended and reordained to read as follows: “ARTICLE 18. OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICTS * * * 18.2 PURPOSE STATEMENTS * * * 18.2.CC – PURPOSE OF THE BEHRMAN MIXED-USE INTEGRITY OVERLAY DISTRICT The purpose of the Behrman Mixed-Use Integrity Overlay District is to ensure that any multi-family developments proposed within any mixeduse zoning district contain non-residential uses which align with the mixed-use goal of those districts. * * * 18.34 BEHRMAN MIXED-USE INTEGRITY OVERLAY DISTRICT 18.34.A APPLICABILITY 1. The Behrman Mixed-Use Integrity Overlay District applies to those mixed-use zoned lots generally bound by Wall Boulevard, Holiday Drive, and General De Gaulle Drive. 18.34.B USES 18.34.B.1 PERMITTED USES The following uses are allowed as permitted uses, subject to the use standards of Article 20 and the standards of Section 18.34.C below. a. Multi-Family Dwellings as Above Ground Floor Dwellings b. The following non-residential uses when integrated within the same building or development site as a multi-family dwelling and subject to the limitations of this section: 1. Animal Hospital 2. Arts Studio 3. Art Gallery 4. Catering Kitchen 5. Cultural Facility 6. Day Care Center, Adult – Small 7. Day Care Center, Adult – Large 8. Financial Institution 9. Grocery Store 10. Health Club 11. Medical/Dental Clinic with a maximum of three (3) practitioners 12. Office 13. Personal Services Establishment 14. Pet Day Care Service 15. Recording Studio 16. Retail Goods Establishment 17. Restaurant, Specialty 18. Restaurant, Carry-Out 19. Small Box Variety Store 18.34.B.2 PROHBITED USES a. Where otherwise permitted in the base zoning, the following use is prohibited: 1. Multi-family development that does not include a non-residential component 2. Public Market 3. New Drive-Through Facility 4. Ice Manufacturing and Vending Machines as a Principal Use b. Ice Manufacturing and Vending Machines as an accessory use shall not count toward the required non-residential use. c. Storage rooms, lobbies, fitness rooms limited to residents, and other accessory residential amenities shall not qualify as required nonresidential uses. 18.34.C USE STANDARDS 18.34.C.1 OPERATIONAL STANDARDS a. Required non-residential uses shall maintain publicly accessible hours of operation consistent with the permitted use classification. b. Required non-residential uses shall not be restricted solely to residents of the development. 18.34.D SITE AND DESIGN STANDARDS All new and redeveloped multi-family residential developments are required to contain at least one (1) non-residential component that serves the surrounding residential community integrated within a development that complies with the following standards: 1. Minimum Floor Area Requirement a. Multi-family developments shall incorporate non-residential uses comprising a minimum of 10% of total ground floor area, and no less than 1,000 square feet of non-residential floor area. b. Leasing offices serving only the residential development shall not count toward the required non-residential floor area. 2. Ground Floor Requirement a. Required non-residential uses shall be located on the ground floor and directly accessible from a public street or publicly accessible pedestrian space. 3. Building Orientation Requirements a. Blank walls along view corridors and promenades are prohibited. Primary or secondary building entrances are encouraged to be located on façades facing the promenade. b. Ground-floor non-residential frontage facing a public road shall maintain a transparency of forty percent (40%). Windows shall be constructed of clear or lightly tinted glass. Tinting above twenty percent (20%) or reflective glass is prohibited. c. No overhead service doors or bays may face the promenade. Loading and service areas shall be internal to the development block and accessed through service corridors and not through pedestrian-oriented streets or promenades. 4. Parking Requirements a. Surface parking shall not be located between required non-residential frontage and a public street. * * *” ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King – 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 21, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,450 NO. 30678 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for

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the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds for the implementation of NOPD 8th District Drone Program within the French Quarter Economic Development District; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 TO: FRENCH QUARTER DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT – FUND 5128 Total French Quarter Development District $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Hughes, King, Morrell – 4 NAYS: McCarron, Willard - 2 ABSENT: Harris - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 21, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,451 NO. 30679 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds for the implementation of NOPD 8th District Drone Program within the French Quarter Economic Development District; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 TO: FRENCH QUARTER DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT – FUND 5128 MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAMS 200 – OTHER OPERATING $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Hughes, King, Morrell – 4 NAYS: McCarron, Willard - 2 ABSENT: Harris - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,455 NO. 30680 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Section 110-188 of the Code of the City of New Orleans to permit the use of mobile vending permits within the boundaries of the Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park in accordance with any governing lease; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Section 110-188 of the Code of the City of New Orleans is amended to read as follows: “CHAPTER 110 – PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND ITINERANT VENDORS *** ARTICLE II. – PEDDLERS AND ITINERANT VENDORS *** DIVISION 5. – FOOD—MOBILE VENDING *** Sec. 110-188. - Permit requirements. (a) A mobile vending permit shall be applied for with the department of finance and shall be on forms provided by the city and in the format and number of copies as required by the instructions. No permit shall be issued until all requisite approvals by the State Department of Health and Hospitals and the Fire Department are finalized and received by the department of finance. All permit holders shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the State of Louisiana and the Code of the City of New Orleans. (b) Any permit that is issued shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other required tax or license. Permits shall be issued on an annual basis and shall expire on December 31. Renewal applications shall be made by January 31. Nothing contained herein precludes the prorating of permit fees. (c) The number of permits issued under this division shall at no time exceed 100 for the entire city. (d) Permits shall be conspicuously displayed and affixed to the front windshield, lower corner, passenger side and be clearly visible from outside the mobile food truck at all times during operation. (e) Except as otherwise provided in this division, permits issued under this division are valid for use in business, commercial, industrial and mixed use zoning districts as defined in the New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, including the southbound side of North Rampart Street between Esplanade Avenue and Canal Street and the southbound side of Loyola Avenue and Elk Place between Cleveland Street and Howard Avenue. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to authorize the use of any permit: (1) In the Central Business District; (2) In the Vieux Carré; provided, however, that the use of mobile vending permits within the boundaries of the Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park may be authorized by the City in accordance with any lease governing this area; (3) In the Faubourg Marigny, except on both sides of Elysian Fields Avenue; (4) In any residential or park district as defined in the New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended; (5) On Maple Street between Audubon Place and Leake Avenue; (6) On Oak Street between Broadway Street and Monticello Avenue; (7) In the area bounded by: Louisville Street, Vicksburg Street, Robert E Lee Boulevard and Conrad Street; (8) On St. Bernard Avenue between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive; (9) On Paris Avenue between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive; (10) On Elysian Fields between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive; and (11) On Franklin Avenue between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive. (f) Permits issued under this division are not valid: (1) During the Mardi Gras Season in the locations governed by sections 34-34 et seq.; (2) During the Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Season within the area bounded by Florida Avenue on the north, North Broad Avenue on the east, Esplanade Avenue on the south, and Bayou St. John on the west (excluding the portion of that area contained within the exterior boundaries of the New Orleans Fair Grounds Racetrack) commencing at 7:00 a.m. on the first day of live music performances and continuing through and until 11:59 p.m. on the concluding day of live music performances; (3) In a clean zone as authorized by an ordinance adopted by the council; and (4) When the city requires the use of its public right-of-way to facilitate projects or events within the right-of-way. (g) The director of the department of finance may prescribe such other policies and procedures as to the issuance of permits as may be required to carry out the full intent and purpose of this division.” ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL

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ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morrell, Willard – 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Green - 1 RECUSED: 0 REDLINED VERSION: “CHAPTER 110 – PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND ITINERANT VENDORS *** ARTICLE II. – PEDDLERS AND ITINERANT VENDORS *** DIVISION 5. – FOOD—MOBILE VENDING *** Sec. 110-188. - Permit requirements. (a) A mobile vending permit shall be applied for with the department of finance and shall be on forms provided by the city and in the format and number of copies as required by the instructions. No permit shall be issued until all requisite approvals by the State Department of Health and Hospitals and the Fire Department are finalized and received by the department of finance. All permit holders shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the State of Louisiana and the Code of the City of New Orleans. (b) Any permit that is issued shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other required tax or license. Permits shall be issued on an annual basis and shall expire on December 31. Renewal applications shall be made by January 31. Nothing contained herein precludes the prorating of permit fees. (c) The number of permits issued under this division shall at no time exceed 100 for the entire city. (d) Permits shall be conspicuously displayed and affixed to the front windshield, lower corner, passenger side and be clearly visible from outside the mobile food truck at all times during operation. (e) Except as otherwise provided in this division, permits issued under this division are valid for use in business, commercial, industrial and mixed use zoning districts as defined in the New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, including the southbound side of North Rampart Street between Esplanade Avenue and Canal Street and the southbound side of Loyola Avenue and Elk Place between Cleveland Street and Howard Avenue. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to authorize the use of any permit: (1) In the Central Business District; (2) In the Vieux Carré; provided, however, that the use of mobile vending permits within the boundaries of the Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park may be authorized by the City in accordance with any lease governing this area; (3) In the Faubourg Marigny, except on both sides of Elysian Fields Avenue; (4) In any residential or park district as defined in the New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended; (5) On Maple Street between Audubon Place and Leake Avenue; (6) On Oak Street between Broadway Street and Monticello Avenue; (7) In the area bounded by: Louisville Street, Vicksburg Street, Robert E Lee Boulevard and Conrad Street; (8) On St. Bernard Avenue between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive; (9) On Paris Avenue between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive; (10) On Elysian Fields between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive; and (11) On Franklin Avenue between Interstate 610 and Lakeshore Drive. (f) Permits issued under this division are not valid: (1) During the Mardi Gras Season in the locations governed by sections 34-34 et seq.; (2) During the Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Season within the area bounded by Florida Avenue on the north, North Broad Avenue on the east, Esplanade Avenue on the south, and Bayou St. John on the west (excluding the portion of that area contained within the exterior boundaries of the New Orleans Fair Grounds Racetrack) commencing at 7:00 a.m. on the first day of live music performances and continuing through and until 11:59 p.m. on the concluding day of live music performances; (3) In a clean zone as authorized by an ordinance adopted by the council; and (4) When the city requires the use of its public right-of-way to facilitate projects or events within the right-of-way. (g) The director of the department of finance may prescribe such other policies and procedures as to the issuance of permits as may be required to carry out the full intent and purpose of this division.” ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,456 NO. 30681 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HUGHES AND GREEN, HARRIS, KING, MCCARRON, MORRELL AND WILLARD (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain sections 10-52, 14-1, 30-69, 66176, 110-46, and 110-259 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, to prohibit the issuance of a special event permit if the property on which the event is to occur is delinquent in the payment of property taxes, administrative judgment fines or municipal liens; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that section 10-52 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana is amended to read as follows: “Chapter 10 – ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES *** ARTICLE II. – PERMITS DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY *** Sec. 10-52. - Special events permits. (a) The director of the department of safety and permits or the director’s designee may, upon receipt of written or electronic approval by the office of a member of the city council, authorize the issuance of alcoholic beverage permits for special events when such functions will not continue for a period in excess of three days. No more than 12 such permits may be issued to any one organization within a single calendar year. The department of safety and permits may issue an alcoholic beverage permit or permits to the applicant named in the letter notwithstanding any ordinance or moratorium to the contrary upon payment, if applicable, of the alcoholic beverage permit fee specified in this section. (b) The fees for permits issued pursuant to this section, including all processing fees, shall be as follows. For purposes of this section, the term “nonprofit” shall mean an organization that is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, is a Louisiana nonprofit corporation in good standing with an Employer Identification Number issued by the Internal Revenue Service, or is a school operated by the Orleans Parish School Board or Recovery School District: Nonprofit

All Others

(1) Sale of beverages of low alcoholic content

$25.00

$50.00

(2) Sale of beverages of high alcoholic content

$25.00

$50.00

(3) Sale of beverages of high and low alcoholic content

$50.00

$100.00

(4) Free distribution of alcoholic beverages at picnics or other special events

No charge

(5) Alcoholic beverage permit processing fee

$100.00

$200.00

Any alcoholic beverage permit for a special event issued in accordance with this section shall be valid only for the dates, times and locations authorized by the letter which may also authorize alternative dates, times or locations in anticipation of inclement weather or other circumstances. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” SECTION 2 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that section 14-1 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana is amended to read as follows: “Chapter 14 - AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS ARTICLE I. - IN GENERAL *** Sec. 14-1. - Permit required for music or other entertainment. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful to keep any piano, organ or other musical instrument whatsoever for the purpose of performing upon it or having it performed upon in any public park or place of public resort or recreation or in any regularly licensed theatre or restaurant or having any other character of entertainment in such places, unless and until the applicant shall have first applied for and obtained from the director of the department of safety and permits a permit authorizing music or other form of entertainment in such place and location, and subject to any conditions imposed by law. (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” SECTION 3 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that section 30-69 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana is amended to read as follows:

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“Chapter 30 – BUSINESSES *** ARTICLE III. - MAYORALTY PERMITS GENERALLY *** Sec. 30-69. - Mayoralty permits required for various callings or occasions. Permits shall not be required for the sale by an individual of tickets at or below face value to athletic contests or other amusement events, provided that tickets are not sold or offered for sale within 750 feet of the grounds of the Superdome when the event related to the ticket is being conducted or within six hours of the scheduled commencement of such event. Except for such sale by an individual of tickets at or below face value to athletic contests or other amusement events, within said 750-foot buffer zone, every person who shall desire to use the public streets, sidewalks or other public or private places of business establishments for the conduct of any of the businesses or callings hereinafter set forth shall first apply to and obtain from the department of finance a permit. Such permit shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other tax or license to which permittee may be liable. Except as otherwise provided, annual permits expire on December 31. Such permits, however, are not valid within the central business district area bounded by the river on the east, Claiborne Avenue on the west, Esplanade Avenue on the north, and Howard Avenue on the south, except as provided in this article. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” SECTION 4 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that section 66-176 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana is amended to read as follows: “Chapter 66 – ENVIRONMENT *** ARTICLE IV. – NOISE *** DIVISION 2. - ADMINISTRATION Sec. 66-176. - Temporary permits. (a) The director may grant a temporary permit which allows noncompliance with the limitations prescribed in this article for the purpose of sound activities of short duration. (b) Permits shall be granted upon application, at a cost of $20.00, provided an investigation assures that the permit will not result in a condition injurious to health or safety. (c) The following factors shall be considered, in the initial investigation, in order to determine whether granting the permit will result in a condition injurious to health or safety: (1) Distance of proposed activities from a residential zone. (2) Number of amplification devices, if any, to be used in the proposed activities. (3) Sound level of amplification devices. (4) Anticipated direction of amplification devices. (5) Anticipated duration of proposed activities. (6) Whether the activity will be held within or outside of a structure. (7) Any other considerations deemed necessary by the director of the department of health. (d) Upon a determination that the granting of a permit will not result in a condition injurious to health or safety, the permit shall be issued by noise control enforcement personnel specifying place, duration, and any restrictions appropriate to the proposed site of the activities. (e) Permits must be displayed and available for review by police officers or department of health officials upon request. (f) Issued permits will be surrendered to any city police officer or city health official upon request when the restrictions of the permit have been violated. (g) Reapplication for a permit may be denied upon evidence of a complaint by a resident in the locality of the permitted activity or if an applicant has in the past been required to surrender a permit as described in subsection (f) of this section. (h) This section shall not apply to any person who has been granted a variance as prescribed by section 66-177. (i) A permit may be issued for more than one occasion of activity. However, the time of such activity must be indicated on the application and cannot be for more than four occasions, or in excess of a six-week span. (j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” SECTION 5 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that sections 110-46 and 110-259 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana are amended to read as follows: “Chapter 110 - PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND ITINERANT VENDORS *** ARTICLE II. - PEDDLERS AND ITINERANT VENDORS DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY Sec. 110-46. - Permits required for various callings or occasions. (a) Permits shall not be required for the sale by an individual of tickets at or below face value to athletic contests or other amusement events, provided that tickets are not sold or offered for sale within 750 feet of the grounds of the Superdome when the event related to the ticket is being conducted or within six hours of the scheduled commencement of such event, contest or other amusement events, within said 750-foot buffer zone, every person who shall desire to use the public streets, sidewalks or public places or private place of business establishments for the conduct of any of the businesses or callings hereinafter set forth shall first apply to and obtain from the department of finance a permit. Such permit shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other tax or license to which permittee may be liable. Except as otherwise provided, annual permits expire on December 31. Such permits, however, are not valid within the central business district area bounded by the Mississippi River on the east, Claiborne Avenue on the west, Esplanade Avenue on the north and Howard Avenue on the south, except as provided in this article. (b) All high school games played in the Louisiana Superdome shall be excluded from the provisions of this section. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens. *** ARTICLE IV. - TRANSIENT VENDORS *** Sec. 110-259. - Permits required for various callings or occasions; fees. (a) Every person who shall desire to use the public streets, sidewalks or public places or private places of business establishments for the conduct of any of the businesses or callings hereinafter set forth shall first apply to and obtain from the department of finance a permit. Such permit shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other tax or license to which permittee may be liable. Except as otherwise provided, annual permits expire on December 31. Such permits, however, are not valid within the central business district area bounded by the Mississippi River on the east, Claiborne Avenue on the west, Esplanade Avenue on the north and Howard Avenue on the south, except as provided in section 110-271. (b) Permits shall be paid for by the applicant at the time of issuance according to the following schedule: (1) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor and merchant engaged in the sale at retail of goods, wares and merchandise and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hires, leases or occupies, either in whole or in part, any open space, room or some other temporary quarter or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise and with the intention to close out or discontinue such business within a period of one year from the date of the commencement thereof. For the purpose of this subsection, this classification shall be designated as class A as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (2) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor and merchant engaged in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise in conjunction with an entertainment event, athletic or sporting event, where the sale of such merchandise is secondary as accessory to the primary purpose for the lease, use or occupation of a room, building or other structure. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated as class B as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (3) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor or merchant engaged in the production or presentation of trade shows open to the general public, with or without admission charge, where retail sales are to be conducted. This permit will cover activities of their subcontractors’ (lessees’) retail activities. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated class C as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (4) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor or merchant engaged in the business of buying precious metals or stones and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business hires, leases, or occupies, either in whole or in part, any open space, room or some other temporary quarter or structure for the purpose of buying such merchandise with the intent of closing out or discontinuing such business within a period of one year from the date of the commencement thereof. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated as class D as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00.

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(5) For any Social Aid and Pleasure Club Occasional Vendor engaging in the sale of prepared or packaged food, hot or cooked food, food cooked to order, or non-food artifacts at a parade event where said vendor’s Social Aid and Pleasure Club has a valid parade permit from the police department or a special event where said vendors’ Social Aid and Pleasure Club has obtained a promoter license and mayoralty permit. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated as class E as defined in section 110-256. The provisions of section 110-259(c)(3) relative to the amount of the permit fee notwithstanding shall be $25.00 per vendor; per year. (c) (1) Definition. Transient book seller means all persons engaging in the sale at retail of books, in a temporary location, for a period not to exceed five days per sales event. For the purposes of this definition, books must constitute more than 75 percent of the retail value of the transient book seller’s inventory of items for sale at a transient book sale. (2) a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or the City Code, effective January 1, 2005, a transient book seller (hereinafter known as seller) must obtain a “transient merchant’s license” in order to conduct temporary business in the state. The license or a copy thereof must be in the immediate possession of the seller or sales agent at all times during the transaction of transient business. Prior to the issuance of a license, the seller must provide a written list of the sales agents authorized to conduct business under the transient merchant’s license. The license shall allow the license holder to conduct not more than 12 events per year. b. Each agent will be issued a transient merchant’s license card. The card and a copy of the license must be in the immediate possession of the agent during the transaction of transient business. The seller must obtain a new transient merchant license card for each new or replacement sales agent. (3) The transient merchant’s license is valid for one year from the date of issuance, provided that the permit shall expire on December 31 of the year the permit was obtained. When the permit is obtained prior to July 1 of any year, the permit fee shall be $500.00. When the permit is obtained on or after July 1 of any year, the permit fee shall be $250.00. a. The applicant for the license must complete an application form and pay a $500.00 fee. b. The application must include the name and address of a resident agent. The resident agent must be an individual resident or a corporation, partnership, or other business entity with its principle place of business in the state. c. The application must be accompanied by a list of all employees/agents/ representatives doing business in the state. The list must include the name, Social Security number, mailing address, and telephone number of each employee/agent/representative doing business under the transient merchant license. (4) The transient merchant’s license shall, in addition to any other permits, license or fees required by the city, including an occupational license. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal lien.” ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King – 1 RECUSED: 0 ENGROSSED VERSION Chapter 10 – ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES *** ARTCLE II. – PERMITS DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY *** Sec. 10-52. - Special events permits. (a) The director of the department of safety and permits or the director’s designee may, upon receipt of written or electronic approval by the office of a member of the city council, authorize the issuance of alcoholic beverage permits for special events when such functions will not continue for a period in excess of three days. No more than 12 such permits may be issued to any one organization within a single calendar year. The department of safety and permits may issue an alcoholic beverage permit or permits to the applicant named in the letter notwithstanding any ordinance or moratorium to the contrary upon payment, if applicable, of the alcoholic beverage permit fee specified in this section. Nonprofit

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(2) Sale of beverages of high alcoholic content

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$50.00

(3) Sale of beverages of high and low alcoholic content

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(b) The fees for permits issued pursuant to this section, including all processing fees, shall be as follows. For purposes of this section, the term “nonprofit” shall mean an organization that is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, is a Louisiana nonprofit corporation in good standing with an Employer Identification Number issued by the Internal Revenue Service, or is a school operated by the Orleans Parish School Board or Recovery School District: Any alcoholic beverage permit for a special event issued in accordance with this section shall be valid only for the dates, times and locations authorized by the letter which may also authorize alternative dates, times or locations in anticipation of inclement weather or other circumstances. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” “Chapter 14 - AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS ARTICLE I. - IN GENERAL Sec. 14-1. - Permit required for music or other entertainment. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful to keep any piano, organ or other musical instrument whatsoever for the purpose of performing upon it or having it performed upon in any public park or place of public resort or recreation or in any regularly licensed theatre or restaurant or having any other character of entertainment in such places, unless and until the applicant shall have first applied for and obtained from the director of the department of safety and permits a permit authorizing music or other form of entertainment in such place and location, and subject to any conditions imposed by law. (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” “Chapter 30 – BUSINESSES *** ARTICLE III. - MAYORALTY PERMITS GENERALLY *** Sec. 30-69. - Mayoralty permits required for various callings or occasions. Permits shall not be required for the sale by an individual of tickets at or below face value to athletic contests or other amusement events, provided that tickets are not sold or offered for sale within 750 feet of the grounds of the Superdome when the event related to the ticket is being conducted or within six hours of the scheduled commencement of such event. Except for such sale by an individual of tickets at or below face value to athletic contests or other amusement events, within said 750-foot buffer zone, every person who shall desire to use the public streets, sidewalks or other public or private places of business establishments for the conduct of any of the businesses or callings hereinafter set forth shall first apply to and obtain from the department of finance a permit. Such permit shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other tax or license to which permittee may be liable. Except as otherwise provided, annual permits expire on December 31. Such permits, however, are not valid within the central business district area bounded by the river on the east, Claiborne Avenue on the west, Esplanade Avenue on the north, and Howard Avenue on the south, except as provided in this article. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does

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not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” “Chapter 66 – ENVIRONMENT *** ARTICLE IV. – NOISE *** DIVISION 2. - ADMINISTRATION Sec. 66-176. - Temporary permits. (a) The director may grant a temporary permit which allows noncompliance with the limitations prescribed in this article for the purpose of sound activities of short duration. (b) Permits shall be granted upon application, at a cost of $20.00, provided an investigation assures that the permit will not result in a condition injurious to health or safety. (c) The following factors shall be considered, in the initial investigation, in order to determine whether granting the permit will result in a condition injurious to health or safety: (1) Distance of proposed activities from a residential zone. (2) Number of amplification devices, if any, to be used in the proposed activities. (3) Sound level of amplification devices. (4) Anticipated direction of amplification devices. (5) Anticipated duration of proposed activities. (6) Whether the activity will be held within or outside of a structure. (7) Any other considerations deemed necessary by the director of the department of health. (d) Upon a determination that the granting of a permit will not result in a condition injurious to health or safety, the permit shall be issued by noise control enforcement personnel specifying place, duration, and any restrictions appropriate to the proposed site of the activities. (e) Permits must be displayed and available for review by police officers or department of health officials upon request. (f) Issued permits will be surrendered to any city police officer or city health official upon request when the restrictions of the permit have been violated. (g) Reapplication for a permit may be denied upon evidence of a complaint by a resident in the locality of the permitted activity or if an applicant has in the past been required to surrender a permit as described in subsection (f) of this section. (h) This section shall not apply to any person who has been granted a variance as prescribed by section 66-177. (i) A permit may be issued for more than one occasion of activity. However, the time of such activity must be indicated on the application and cannot be for more than four occasions, or in excess of a six-week span. (j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” “Chapter 110 - PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND ITINERANT VENDORS *** ARTICLE II. - PEDDLERS AND ITINERANT VENDORS DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY Sec. 110-46. - Permits required for various callings or occasions. (a) Permits shall not be required for the sale by an individual of tickets at or below face value to athletic contests or other amusement events, provided that tickets are not sold or offered for sale within 750 feet of the grounds of the Superdome when the event related to the ticket is being conducted or within six hours of the scheduled commencement of such event, contest or other amusement events, within said 750-foot buffer zone, every person who shall desire to use the public streets, sidewalks or public places or private place of business establishments for the conduct of any of the businesses or callings hereinafter set forth shall first apply to and obtain from the department of finance a permit. Such permit shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other tax or license to which permittee may be liable. Except as otherwise provided, annual permits expire on December 31. Such permits, however, are not valid within the central business district area bounded by the Mississippi River on the east, Claiborne Avenue on the west, Esplanade Avenue on the north and Howard Avenue on the south, except as provided in this article. (b) All high school games played in the Louisiana Superdome shall be excluded from the provisions of this section. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens. *** ARTICLE IV. - TRANSIENT VENDORS *** Sec. 110-259. - Permits required for various callings or occasions; fees. (a) Every person who shall desire to use the public streets, sidewalks or public places or private places of business establishments for the conduct of any of the businesses or callings hereinafter set forth shall first apply to and obtain from the department of finance a permit. Such permit shall in each instance state the occasion for which it is issued and the date upon which it will expire and shall be in addition to any other tax or license to which permittee may be liable. Except as otherwise provided, annual permits expire on December 31. Such permits, however, are not valid within the central business district area bounded by the Mississippi River on the east, Claiborne Avenue on the west, Esplanade Avenue on the north and Howard Avenue on the south, except as provided in section 110-271. (b) Permits shall be paid for by the applicant at the time of issuance according to the following schedule: (1) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor and merchant engaged in the sale at retail of goods, wares and merchandise and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hires, leases or occupies, either in whole or in part, any open space, room or some other temporary quarter or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise and with the intention to close out or discontinue such business within a period of one year from the date of the commencement thereof. For the purpose of this subsection, this classification shall be designated as class A as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (2) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor and merchant engaged in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise in conjunction with an entertainment event, athletic or sporting event, where the sale of such merchandise is secondary as accessory to the primary purpose for the lease, use or occupation of a room, building or other structure. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated as class B as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (3) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor or merchant engaged in the production or presentation of trade shows open to the general public, with or without admission charge, where retail sales are to be conducted. This permit will cover activities of their subcontractors’ (lessees’) retail activities. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated class C as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (4) For any transient vendor, canvasser, solicitor or merchant engaged in the business of buying precious metals or stones and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business hires, leases, or occupies, either in whole or in part, any open space, room or some other temporary quarter or structure for the purpose of buying such merchandise with the intent of closing out or discontinuing such business within a period of one year from the date of the commencement thereof. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated as class D as defined in section 110-256. Per location, per event: $500.00. (5) For any Social Aid and Pleasure Club Occasional Vendor engaging in the sale of prepared or packaged food, hot or cooked food, food cooked to order, or non-food artifacts at a parade event where said vendor’s Social Aid and Pleasure Club has a valid parade permit from the police department or a special event where said vendors’ Social Aid and Pleasure Club has obtained a promoter license and mayoralty permit. For the purpose of this section, this classification shall be designated as class E as defined in section 110-256. The provisions of section 110-259(c)(3) relative to the amount of the permit fee notwithstanding shall be $25.00 per vendor; per year. (c) (1) Definition. Transient book seller means all persons engaging in the sale at retail of books, in a temporary location, for a period not to exceed five days per sales event. For the purposes of this definition, books must constitute more than 75 percent of the retail value of the transient book seller’s inventory of items for sale at a transient book sale. (2) a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or the City Code, effective January 1, 2005, a transient book seller (hereinafter known as seller) must obtain a “transient merchant’s license” in order to conduct temporary business in the state. The license or a copy thereof must be in the immediate possession of the seller or sales agent at all times during the transaction of transient business. Prior to the issuance of a license, the seller must provide a written list of the sales agents authorized to conduct business under the transient merchant’s license. The license shall allow the license holder to conduct not more than 12 events per year. b. Each agent will be issued a transient merchant’s license card. The card and a copy of the license must be in the immediate possession of the agent during the transaction of transient business. The seller must obtain a new transient merchant license card for each new or replacement sales agent. (3) The transient merchant’s license is valid for one year from the date of issuance, provided that the permit shall expire on December 31 of the year the permit was obtained. When the permit is obtained prior to July 1

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of any year, the permit fee shall be $500.00. When the permit is obtained on or after July 1 of any year, the permit fee shall be $250.00. a. The applicant for the license must complete an application form and pay a $500.00 fee. b. The application must include the name and address of a resident agent. The resident agent must be an individual resident or a corporation, partnership, or other business entity with its principle place of business in the state. c. The application must be accompanied by a list of all employees/agents/ representatives doing business in the state. The list must include the name, Social Security number, mailing address, and telephone number of each employee/agent/representative doing business under the transient merchant license. (4) The transient merchant’s license shall, in addition to any other permits, license or fees required by the city, including an occupational license. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no special event permit shall be issued for an event to occur on property which does not already have an occupational license until the City confirms that the property upon which the event will occur is free and clear of all outstanding property taxes, final administrative judgments and municipal liens.” ORDINANCE (AS AMENDED) CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,457 NO. 30682 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend and re-ordain Ordinance No. 30,532 M.C.S., entitled “An Ordinance Providing a Capital Budget for the Year 2026”, to effect the following change to the 2026 Capital Budget: to de-appropriate funds from the Department of Property Management, the Department of Public Works, the New Orleans Fire Department, and the New Orleans Police Department; to appropriate funds to the Chief Administrative Office, the Department of Property Management, the Department of Public Works, the New Orleans Fire Department, the New Orleans Police Department, the New Orleans Recreation Commission, and the Office of Sustainability; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION I. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30,532 M.C.S., entitled “An Ordinance Providing a Capital Budget for the Year 2026”, be amended and reordained to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds therein as follows: DE-APPROPRIATION DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FEMA KATRINA 30345 - ALGIERS COURTHOUSE IMPROVEMENT $123,015 LA ST REVOLVING FD 43000 - CITYWIDE GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS $253,330 43000 - PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS $118,995 DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Total $495,340 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 2021 BONDS 60046 - DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS (HURRICANE ISAAC DRAIN POINT REPAIRS) $116 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Total $116 NEW ORLEANS FIRE DEPARTMENT FEMA KATRINA 30141 - ENGINE # 31 REPAIRS PW 12416 $710 30141 - ENGINE 27 PW 12416 $18,541 30141 - FIRE COMMUNICATION REPAIRS PW 12416 $3,058 30141 - FIRE STATION NO. FOURTEEN PW 12416 $2,518 30141 - NOFD ENGINE 07 PW 12416 $1,120 NEW ORLEANS FIRE DEPARTMENT Total $25,947 NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT FEMA KATRINA 30343 - FIRST DISTRICT POLICE STATION PW 9270 $1,285 NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT Total $1,285 DE-APPROPRIATION Total $522,688 APPROPRIATION CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM 30744 - AUDUBON PARK LAGOON DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT $1,129,692 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Total $1,129,692 DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FEMA KATRINA 30743 - CARROLLTON & ST MARY CEMETARY pw 2718 $9,610 PERMANENT REVOLVER 43001 - ARTHUR MONDAY CENTER/IDA HYMEL HEALTH CLINIC $253,330 43001 - CIVIL & JUVENILE COURT IMPRV pw 2048 $36,183 DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Total $299,123 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 2021 BONDS 60046 - EAST CARROLLTON GROUP B AND C (RR033/RR034) $116 STATE AID 40022 - WEST BANK FERRY TERMINAL ROW IMPRV $591,000 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Total $591,116 NEW ORLEANS FIRE DEPARTMENT FEMA KATRINA 30141 - FUEL TANK STATIONS PW 12416 $169,972 NEW ORLEANS FIRE DEPARTMENT Total $169,972 NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT FEMA IDA 30742 - PW 5131 NOPD HQ Electrical and Contents $797,952 PERMANENT REVOLVER 43001 - FIRST DISTRICT POLICE STATION PW 9270 $1,285 NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT Total $799,237 NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION PERMANENT REVOLVER 43001 - PONTCHARTRAIN PARK COMM CNTR PW 3314 $81,527 NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Total $81,527 OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM 30653 - MIRABEAU GARDEN STORM WATER MGT. $333,424 OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY Total $333,424 APPROPRIATION Total $3,404,091 Grand Total $2,881,403 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Morell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Green - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,458 NO. 30683 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Private Grant funds to the Health Department for the Packard Foundation – Family Connects Visiting Home Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $300,000 TOTAL $300,000 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS – FUND 4900 Total Private Grants $300,000 TOTAL $300,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0

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ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,459 NO. 30684 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Private Grant funds to the Health Department for the Packard Foundation – Family Connects Visiting Home Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $300,000 TOTAL $300,000 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS– FUND 4900 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 200-OTHER OPERATING $300,000 TOTAL $300,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,460 NO. 30685 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Capital Outlay funds to the City of New Orleans for the Sewerage and Water Board Power Plant; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $5,000,000 TOTAL $5,000,000 TO: LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION– FUND 4404 Total Louisiana Department of Administration $5,000,000 TOTAL $5,000,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,461 NO. 30686 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate Capital Outlay funds to the City of New Orleans for the Sewerage and Water Board Power Plant; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $5,000,000 TOTAL $5,000,000 TO: LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION – FUND 4404 CAPITAL PROJECTS - CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 200-OTHER OPERATING $5,000,000 TOTAL $5,000,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,462 NO. 30687 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to move funds from 200 – Other Operating to 100 – Personal Services within the Office of Inspector General for personnel expenses; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: GENERAL FUND - FUND 1000 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 200 – OTHER OPERATING $100,000 TOTAL $100,000 TO: GENERAL FUND – FUND 1000 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 100 – PERSONAL SERVICES $100,000 TOTAL $100,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1

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RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,463 NO. 30688 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to the New Orleans Fire Department for Louisiana State Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (TF1); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 TO: GENERAL FUND– FUND 1000 Total General Fund $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,464 NO. 30689 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to the New Orleans Fire Department for Louisiana State Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (TF1); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 TO: GENERAL FUND– FUND 1000 DEPARTMENT OF FIRE 200-OTHER OPERATING $250,000 TOTAL $250,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,465 NO. 30690 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to the Office of Workforce Development for the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $75,000 TOTAL $75,000 TO: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR– FUND 4130 Total Department of Labor $75,000 TOTAL $75,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,466 NO. 30691 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to the Office of Workforce Development for the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Program; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $75,000 TOTAL $75,000 TO: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR– FUND 4130 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT 200-OTHER OPERATING $75,000 TOTAL $75,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE

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CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,467 NO. 30692 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Tulsa Community Foundation for operating expenses; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $47,658 TOTAL $47,658 TO: PRIVATE GRANT – FUND 4900 Total Private Grants $47,658 TOTAL $47,658 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,468 NO. 30693 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Tulsa Community Foundation for operating expenses; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $47,658 TOTAL $47,658 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS– FUND 4900 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 200-OTHER OPERATING $47,658 TOTAL $47,658 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,469 NO. 30694 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30,530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026” to appropriate funds to the City Council for Wisner litigation and general litigation costs incurred by Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That Ordinance No. 30,530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: GRANTS, CONTRIBUTIONS, AND FUND TRANSFERS – FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES Grants, Contributions, & Fund Transfers $340,000 TOTAL $340,000 TO: GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET – FUND 1000 Total General Fund $340,000 TOTAL 340,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: June 4, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,470 NO. 30695 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30,531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026” to appropriate funds to the City Council to cover Wisner litigation and general litigation costs incurred by Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C.; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That Ordinance No. 30,531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSFERS OPERATING BUDGET – FUND 6699 7998 – Intergovernmental Transfers 600 – Grants, Contrib., & Fund Transfers $340,000 TOTAL $340,000 TO: GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET– FUND 1000 2010 – Council Central Office $340,000 200 – Other Operating TOTAL $340,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS JUNE 24, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON JUNE 29, 2026 APPROVED: JULY 1, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON JULY 7, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 NOCP 9229 197866-678606-aug 19-1t $ 5,821.20

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pp Coffee, LLC Request: Conditional Use to permit a neighbor‐ hood commercial estab‐ lishment in a HU-RD1 His‐ toric Urban Neighbor‐ hood Two-Family Resi‐ dential District Property description: Square 43, Lot 9-A, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Panola, Audubon, Spruce and Broadway Streets Address(es): 2045 Broad‐ way Street Zoning Docket 087/26 Applicant(s): 3157 Tchoup, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a live perfor‐ mance venue and the re‐ tail sale of packaged al‐ coholic beverages in an MU-1 Medium Intensity Mixed-Use District Property description: Square 19, Lot A, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Harmony Street, Tchoupitoulas Street, Ninth Street, and St Thomas Street Address(es): 3157 Tchoupitoulas Street Zoning Docket 088/26 Applicant(s): Bonne Terre Property, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a Neighbor‐ hood Commercial Estab‐ lishment in an HMR-3 Historic Marigny/Treme/Bywater Residential District. Property description: Square 238, Lot 4, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Burgundy, Lesseps, Dauphine, and Poland Streets Address(es): 814 Poland Avenue Zoning Docket 089/26 Applicant(s): Christopher Meehan Request: Conditional Use to permit a Multi-Family Dwelling – Limited to 4 Units Maximum in an HMR-3 Historic Marigny/Treme/Bywater Residential District. Property description: Prairie Lands All That Portion of Fort Pike Mili‐ tary Reservation In Sec‐ tion 19 T S10 S R 15 E, in the Third Municipal Dis‐ trict, bounded by North Claiborne Avenue, Columbus Street, North Robertson Street and Kerlerec Street Address(es): 1515 Ker‐ lerec Street Zoning Docket 090/26 Applicant(s): Beau Land Co, LLC Request: Conditional Use to permit a Commercial Short Term Rental in an HMC-2 Historic Marigny/Tremé/Bywater Commercial District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District Property description: Square 369, Lot B or Pt. 7, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Saint Claude Avenue, Saint Roch Avenue, North Rampart Street, and Music Street Address(es): 2404-2406 Saint Claude Avenue Zoning Docket 091/26 Applicant(s): West Rigo‐ lets Lighthouse, LLC Request: Zoning Change from an NA Natural Area District to an M-MU Mar‐ itime Mixed-Use District Property description: Square 227, Lot X, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur Highway, Hospi‐ tal Road, and Lake Pontchartrain. Address(es): 27501 Chef Menteur Highway Zoning Docket 092/26 Applicant(s): Crescent West, LLC Request: Zoning Change from an S-RS Single-Fam‐ ily Residential District to a C-3 Heavy Commercial District Property descrip‐ tion: Square 72, Lots 16, 17, 18, 29, 30 and 31, in the Fifth Municipal Dis‐ trict, bounded by Wagner Street, Erle Street, Hendee Street and Gen‐ eral de Gaulle Drive Address(es): 1723 Gen‐ eral de Gaulle Drive Zoning Docket 093/26 Applicant: Saint Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart Request: Conditional Use to permit the expansion of a secondary educa‐ tional facility in a HU-RD2 Historic Urban Neighbor‐ hood Two-Family Resi‐ dential District Property description: Square 1507, Lots A, B, 6, and 7, in the Third Munic‐ ipal District, bounded by George Nick Connor Drive, Law Street, Hope Street, and Republic Street Address(es): 2600-2606 George Nick Connor Drive and 1863-1869 Law Street Zoning Docket 094/26 Applicant(s): Lake Catherine Investments, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a commercial short term rental in an M-MU Maritime Mixed-

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Use District and the Tran‐ sient Lodging Interim Zoning District Property description: Lot 540, Cedar Bayou Subdi‐ vision, in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur High‐ way, Bayou Delasaire, Chef Menteur Pass, and the Rigolets Address(es): 24855 Chef Menteur Highway

Statute 39:1307 relative to public participation in the budget process for the Year Ended March 31, 2027. Notice of availabil‐ ity for public inspection and public hearing was held in compliance with applicable statute. Jon S. McGill, Sr. / Presi‐ dent, TNIBD Board of Di‐ rectors / August 19, 2026.

Zoning Docket 095/26 Applicant(s): S Z & S, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a motor vehicle service and repair facility (minor) in an S-B1 Neigh‐ borhood Business Dis‐ trict Property description: Square 11, Lot 16, Pine Village, in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District, bounded by Downman Road, Dwyer Road, and Babylon Street Address(es): 4901 Down‐ man Road Zoning Docket 096/26 Applicant(s): Shel-Shar Properties, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a commercial short term rental in an M-MU Maritime MixedUse District and the Tran‐ sient Lodging Interim Zoning District Property description: Lot 7, Lake Catherine Land Company - Three, Section 36, T10S R14E, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur Highway and Lake Saint Catherine Address(es): 25894 Chef Menteur Highway Zoning Docket 097/26 Applicant(s): Sedrick Gilbert Request: Amendment to the text of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to amend Article 16, Section 16.2 to allow Motor Vehicle Service and Repair as a permit‐ ted use in the BIP Busi‐ ness-Industrial Park Dis‐ trict

In person public comment: The City Planning Com‐ mission, in accordance with Article 4 of the Com‐ prehensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance, Ordinance No. 4,264 M.C.S., as amended, will hear proponents and opponents to the above proposed changes to the Comprehensive Zoning Law of the City of New Orleans. All interested parties are encouraged to attend and all relevant comments concerning the proposed changes are encouraged. The CPC has established public hearing rules within its Administrative Rules, Policies, & Procedures, which are available on the CPC website (www. nola.gov/cpc).

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PUBLIC NOTICE --24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NUMBER: 876375 DIVI‐ SION: K SUCCESSION OF AM‐ MERETTE RIEUX MOORE NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROP‐ ERTY AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS, the court ap‐ pointed Administrator, Kelly Calhoun Richards, of the above estate has made an application to the court for the sale of the following immovable property hereinafter de‐ scribed: ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all buildings and im‐ provements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances, prescrip‐ tions and advantages thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining or attached, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that por‐ tion thereof known as - - HARLEM SUBDIVISION, in SQUARE NUMBER - - 142, bounded by Berwick and Andover Streets, Causeway Boulevard (formerly Harlem Avenue and the Coster Canal), and the Property now or formerly belonging to Hyman, and which said lot of ground is desig‐ nated by the NUMBER SEVEN (7), commences at a distance of one hun‐ dred eighty (180’) feet from the corner of Berwick Street and Causeway Boulevard, and measures thence thirty (30’) feet front on BERWICK STREET, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of one hun‐ dred twenty (120’) feet, between equal and paral‐ lel lines; all according to sketch of survey made by Errol E. Kelly, Sur‐ veyor, dated January 16th, 1965, a blue print copy of which is annexed to and made part of an‐ other Act of Sale passed before Allain C. Andry, Jr., Notary Public, this date, for reference. The improvements thereon are designated by the NUMBERS 30153015-1/2 BERWICK STREET. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS: (a) The purchase price to be paid is Sixty Thou‐ sand Dollars ($60,000.00). (b) The buyer has war‐ ranted that they have cash readily available to close the sale and it is not conditioned on their ability to obtain ﬁnanc‐ ing. (c) The purchase is being made “as is” without warranties of any kind and with the purchaser waiving all rights against redhibition. (d) At closing, the Sellers shall pay 3% of the Sale Price toward the Buyer’s Broker’s compensation. Notice is hereby given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of

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the Decedent herein, and of this estate, that any opposition to the pro‐ posed sale must be ﬁled within seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of this notice. Atty.: Logan H. Green‐ berg; 4038 Oak Bend Lane; Madisonville, LA 70447; (844) 999-9912; logan@sunriselawgroup. com 198051-AUG 20--21-2T $106.64 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2024-11167 DIVISION “E” SECTION 7 SUCCESSION OF EUGENE JENKINS LEE FILED:__ ______ ____________ __ DEPUTY CLERK NOTICE OF PETITION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL MOTOR VEHICLES AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN, to the creditors of this Suc‐ cession, to all known heirs, and to all other in‐ terested persons, that JOAN B. DELATTE and EARLESS ANTHONY BABIN, Co-Administrators of the Succession of Eu‐ gene Jenkins Lee have pursuant to the provi‐ sions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 3288, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell the fol‐ lowing motor vehicles at private sale for the price of Fifteen Thousand Six Hundred Dollars and XX/100 ($15,600.00) as is, without warranty except for the warranty of title: a. 1956 Buick, VIN No. GC1184474, titled in the name of Eugene Lee. The Order granting such authority may be is‐ sued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of publication of this Notice. Any Opposi‐ tion to the Petition for Authority to Sell Motor Vehicles at Private Sale must be ﬁled prior to the issuance of the Order. Publication:

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LOT 28 of SQUARE 5, bounded by Jasmine Street, Violet Street, Elaine Street, and Mid‐ lothian Street, Lot 28 measures 30 feet front on Midlothian Street by a depth of 110 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines.

Attorney: David G. Koch, Michelle Lorio St. Martin, Riley F. Huntington, and Hannah Gale Keller KOCH-ST. MARTIN, LLC Address: 201 Napoleon Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 Telephone: (225) 612-9700 198086 Aug. 20, 1t $54.36 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

The improvements thereon bear the Munici‐ pal No. 52405 & 52406 Midlothan Street, New Orleans, LA 70126. An order authorizing Ex‐ ecutrix to do so may be issued after ten (10) days from the date of the pub‐ lication of this notice. An opposition to the appli‐ cation may be ﬁled at any time prior to the is‐ suance of such an order.

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NOTICE OF SUCCESSION NOTICE IS GIVEN that Rhowena Elizabeth Bur‐ rell, Executrix of the Suc‐ cession of Alvin Peter Burrell, is applying for authority to sell at pri‐ vate sale, on terms of ELEVEN THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($11,000.00) DOL‐ LARS under a sale, the immovable property owned by The Succes‐ sion of Alvin Peter Bur‐ rell, described below. TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, situated in the City of New Orleans, in what is known as GEN‐ TILLY PARK PLACE in the THIRD DISTRICT, and as delineated on a survey made by B.S. Daniel, Civil Engineer, dated May 14, 1912, and which property is situated in that portion of the Third District known as Gentilly Boule‐ vard, to-wit: LOT 27 of SQUARE 5, bounded by Jasmine Street, Violet Street, Elaine Street, and Mid‐ lothian Street, Lot 27 measures 30 feet front

described below. TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, situated in the City of New Orleans, in what is known as GEN‐ TILLY PARK PLACE in the THIRD DISTRICT, and as delineated on a survey made by B.S. Daniel, Civil Engineer, dated May 14, 1912, and which property is situated in that portion of the Third District known as Gentilly Boule‐ vard, to-wit: LOT 27 of SQUARE 5, bounded by Jasmine Street, Violet Street, Elaine Street, and Mid‐ lothian Street, Lot 27 measures 30 feet front on Midlothian Street by a depth of 110 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. LOT 28 of SQUARE 5, bounded by Jasmine Street, Violet Street, Elaine Street, and Mid‐ lothian Street, Lot 28 measures 30 feet front on Midlothian Street by a depth of 110 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. The improvements thereon bear the Munici‐ pal No. 52405 & 52406 Midlothan Street, New Orleans, LA 70126. An order authorizing Ad‐ ministrator to do so may be issued after ten (10) days from the date of the publication of this notice. An opposition to the ap‐ plication may be ﬁled at any time prior to the is‐ suance of such an order.

PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2006-5182 DIVISION “J” DOCKET NO. SUCCESSION OF MORRIS BURRELL, JR., and wife CLARA BURRELL FILED: _______ DEPUTY CLERK

By Order of the Court, _____________ CLERK OF COURT ___________________ ADAM L. LALIBERTE, LBN 39950 8020 Crowder Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70127 (504) 242-7882 adam@bayoutitle.com

NOTICE IS GIVEN that Eric C. Burrell, Administrator of the Succession of Mor‐ ris Burrell, Jr., is applying for authority to sell at private sale, on terms of ELEVEN THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($11,000.00) DOL‐ LARS under a sale, the immovable property owned by The Succes‐ sion of Morris Burrell, Jr.,

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN RE:

§ § Case No. 26-10678 CROSBY MARINE § SECTION: A TRANSPORTATION, LLC1 § § Chapter 11 Debtors. § Complex Case § ________________________________________________________________ NOTICE OF BAR DATE FOR FILING PROOFS OF CLAIM TO ASSERT A MARITIME LIEN NOTICE: Your rights may be affected. You should read these papers carefully and discuss them with your attorney, if you have one in this bankruptcy case. If you do not have an attorney, you may wish to consult one. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE on March 23, 2026 (“Original Petition Date”), Crosby Marine Transportation, LLC (“Transportation”), Crosby Tugs, LLC (“Tugs”), Crosby Dredging, LLC (“Dredging”), and Bertucci Contracting Company, L.L.C. (“Bertucci” and collectively, “Original Debtors”), as Debtors in Possession, each filed for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code thereby commencing these cases (the “Chapter 11 Case(s)”). PLEASE TAKE NOTICE on July 16, 2026, (“Additional Debtor Petition Date”), Crosby Inshore Marine Services, LLC, Crosby Marine Repair, L.L.C., Crosby Offshore Marine Service, LLC, Kurt Crosby, LLC, Tala Marine, LLC, Webb Crosby, LLC, Crosby Inland Marine, LLC, Crosby Real Estate, LLC, Tala Real Estate, LLC, and Crosby Enterprises, L.L.C. (the “Additional Debtors” and together with the Original Debtors, the “Debtors”), as Debtors in Possession also filed for relief under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, commencing the Additional Debtors’ chapter 11 cases. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE on August 5, 2026, (“Additional Debtor Petition Date”), Susan Marie, LLC; Vinton Crosby, LLC; Tara Crosby, LLC; and Crosby & Son Towing, LLC (the “Additional Debtors” and together with the Original Debtors, the “Debtors”), as Debtors in Possession also filed for relief under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, commencing the Additional Debtors’ chapter 11 cases. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE the Court previously set July 30, 2026, (the “Original Bar Date”) as the deadline for any person or entity that holds a claim against the Original Debtors as of the Petition Date (referred to as “Creditor” or “Creditors”) to file a Proof of Claim as modified by the Order establishing the Original Bar Date. The Original Bar Date applies only to those Creditors who are not listed in the Original Debtors’ Schedules, unless such Creditor asserts a lien (other than preferred ship mortgage) under the Commercial Instrument and Maritime Lien Act (46 U.S.C. §§ 13101–13143 (“CIMLA”) against an asset owned by an Original Debtor, or whose claim is scheduled as contingent, disputed,

ERS FILED:__ ________________ _____________________ __ DEPUTY CLERK NOTICE OF FILING PETI‐ TION FOR AUTHORITY TO PAY DEBTS AND EXPENSES OF THE SUCCESSION OF CYRIL YARLING BOWERS, JR. and STELLA REID BOWERS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Cyril Yarling Bowers, III, Administrator of the Suc‐ cessions of Cyril Yarling Bowers, Jr. and Stella Reid Bowers, filed a Peti‐ tion for Authority to Pay Debts and Expenses of the Successions of Cyril Yarling Bowers, Jr. and Stella Reid Bowers, and the petition can be ho‐ mologated after the expi‐ ration of seven (7) days from the date of publica‐ tion. Any opposition to the Petition and Tableau of Distribution must be filed prior to homologa‐ tion. New Orleans, Louisiana, this ______ day of _______________, 2026. _____________________ DEPUTY CLERK, CIVIL DIS‐ TRICT COURT ASON R. ANDERS (#26171) ANDERS LAW FIRM 650 Poydras Street, Suite 2430 New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 407-2552 Facsimile: (504) 369-3448 Email: jason@andersl awfirm.com Attorney for the Succes‐ sion

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or unliquidated. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Court has set August 31, 2026 (the “Additional Bar Date”) as the deadline for any person or entity that asserts a lien (a “Maritime Lien”) (other than preferred ship mortgage) under the Commercial Instrument and Maritime Lien Act (46 U.S.C. §§ 13101–13143 (“CIMLA”) against a vessel owned by an Additional Debtor as of the Petition Date (referred to as “Creditor” or “Creditors”) to file a Proof of Claim as modified by the Order establishing the Additional Bar Date. The Additional Bar Date applies only to those Creditors who assert a Maritime Lien against an Additional Debtor’s vessel. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if you previously filed a proof of claim against an Original Debtor and are now asserting a lien against an Additional Debtor’s vessel, you must file an additional proof of claim and identify the information above. Further information, including how to file a Proof of Claim and all forms and attachments, is available at https://cases.stretto.com/ crosby/file-a-claim/. The website also contains a copy of the Order approving this Notice. IF YOU ARE NOT ASSERTING A MARITIME LIEN, THIS NOTICE DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU. _____________________________ The Court entered an Order directing joint administration of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Crosby Marine Transportation, LLC [No. 2610678], as lead case, with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of (i) Crosby Tugs, L.L.C. [No. 26-10679], (ii) Crosby Dredging, LLC [No. 26-10678], and (iii) Bertucci Contracting Company, L.L.C. [No. 26-10681], on March 24, 2026, [No. 26-10678, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-10679, ECF Doc. 4; No. 26-10680, ECF Doc. 4; No. 26-10681, ECF Doc. 4]. The Court entered an Order directing joint administration of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Crosby Marine Transportation, LLC [No. 26-10678], as lead case, with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of (i) Crosby Inshore Marine Service, L.L.C. [No. 26-11734], (ii) Crosby Marine Repair, L.L.C. [No. 26-11735], (iii) Crosby Offshore Marine Service, L.L.C. [No. 26-11736], (iv) Kurt Crosby, L.L.C. [No. 26-11737], (v) Tala Marine, L.L.C. [No. 26-11738], (vi) Webb Crosby, L.L.C. [No. 26-11739], (vii) Crosby Inland Marine, LLC [No. 26-11740], (viii) Crosby Real Estate, LLC [No. 26-11741], (ix) Tala Real Estate, LLC [No. 26-11742], and (x) Crosby Enterprises, L.L.C. [No. 2611743], on July 21, 2026. [No. 26-10678, ECF Doc. 663; No. 26-11734, ECF Doc. 10; No. 26-11735, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11736, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11737, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11738, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11739, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11740, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11741, ECF Doc. 9; No. 2611742, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11743, ECF Doc. 9]. 1

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‘the rose tattoo’ New Orleans loves a good Tennessee Williams play and seems to have fallen deeply for the latest production of the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company, prompting an extension of the show about a Sicilian widow living somewhere in Mississippi with her daughter, who deiﬁes her late husband, in spite of his alltoo-human foibles, sheltering herself and her daughter. She begins to come out with the arrival of another truck driver named Alvaro. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Loyola’s Marquette Theater, 6363 St. Charles Ave. Tickets start at $45. twtheatrenola.com.

fan etiquette at 1850 house A big fan of history? There’s lots more to the hand-held fan than stirring a cool breeze on a warm day. Victorian life was packed with rules, both spoken and unspoken, about behavior, romance and public displays. The 1850 House, part of the Louisiana State Museum, will feature a behindthe-screen look at the odd etiquette rules of the period and the “language” of the fan from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at 523 St. Ann St. Tickets start at $10. louisianastatemuseum.org.

coming to america “5 Languages, 4 Countries, 3 Continents, 2 Citizenships, 1 Life WellTraveled” will be the next installment of Deutsches Haus’ free lecture series about the adventures, struggles and triumphs in the journey to the American dream. German native Undine Corinna, now a Crescent City resident, talks about her unique passage to New Orleans at 2 p.m. Sunday at 1700 Moss St. deutscheshaus.org.

newcomb commemoration Two exhibits will be featured Thursday as part of the Newcomb Art Museum’s 30th anniversary and commemoration of the artist legacy of H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College. “Quiet Reserve: Stitching an Ambitious New Woman” looks at the PROVIDED PHOTO By THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTIONS college’s embroidery program and how it bolstered a generation of artists. “The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery” shows how the work inﬂuence perceptions of the South. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 50 Newcomb Circle on the Tulane University campus. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu.

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louisiana vintage festival From clothing vendors to Mardi Gras costumes, the House of Blues features lots of fashions plus food, music and photo ops this weekend. Vendors put out a wide range of styles for everyone, ranging from Victorian apparel to Y2K on Saturday. And costumers get the spotlight on Sunday, with concepts for Carnival, Halloween and any other reason New Orleanians have to masquerade. The indoor festival is from noon to 4 p.m. both days, with an early bird option starting at 10:30 a.m., at 225 Decatur St. in the French Quarter. Tickets start at $22. lousianavintagefestival.com.

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Polar Express ride returns for 2026 season BY VIOLET BUCARO Staff writer

Can you hear sleigh bells ringing in the distance? Maybe it’s the sound of a train horn blaring to signal the return of The Polar Express Train Ride in New Orleans for the 2026 holiday season. Tickets are on sale for the popular Christmastime attraction planning a return to south Louisiana for the ﬁrst time since 2024. Now that the Amtrak passenger train is up and running between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, the holiday train ride will be back at Union Passenger Terminal from Dec. 11-31, running up to ﬁve times a day from noon to 9 p.m. on a short route that runs toward Mid-City and back. “This will mark 10 years off and on of operating there, and we’ve greeted over 400,000 guests in New Orleans over the past decade,” said Jarrette Ireland, vice president and general manager of Rail Events Inc. & Rail Events Productions. Passengers can ride a real locomotive with a live-action cast reenacting scenes from the 2004 “Polar Express” movie, along with Yuletide carols and readings from Chris Van Allsburg’s classic 1985 children’s book. The train will trundle along with dancing chefs serving hot chocolate and shortbread while a cast of characters sings Christmas songs to those aboard. The event encourages all who ride to wear pajamas. Unlike previous years, the production will not include an outdoor North Pole set, Ireland said, “based on feedback from our guests and a continued emphasis on improving the show inside the train.” There are also no more advanced group ticket

sales. Santa will still greet passengers aboard and hand out silver sleigh bells. New this year is a sensoryfriendly ride accessible to people with disabilities, including those on the autism spectrum. The train has softer audio levels and sound effects and limited flashing lights, and interactions with the cast will be modified and slowed down, Ireland said. Closed-captioning is also available on all trains. “We felt like there was a group of families, specifically looking at those parents that wanted to give their kids the same holiday experience, but needed us to modify, maybe tone it down,” Ireland said. “Ultimately, we want to make sure the Polar Express is for everyone.” The sensory-friendly ride is scheduled for 10 a.m. Dec. 18. Rail Events Inc. licenses “Polar Express”- and “Peanuts”themed rides to operators across the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom. The only other “Polar Express” rides listed on the Rail Events website in the Southeast are in Galveston, Texas; Miami; and North Carolina. The Polar Express Train Ride debuted in New Orleans in 2016, but was canceled from 2020 through 2023 because of the pandem-

ic, stafﬁng shortages and Hurricane Ida. It ran in 2024, then in 2025, it was canceled again due to conﬂicts with the new Amtrak service to Mobile, which started that August. “We are very excited about welcoming everyone back in New Orleans,” Ireland said. Tickets start at $78 for adults and $70 for children 2-11 years old. Premium tickets (for highdemand time slots) are $99 for adults and $90 for children. Late arrivals are not accommodated, and all tickets are nonrefundable. The ride is approximately an hour long. For tickets and information, visit nolathepolarexpressride. com. Reach Violet Bucaro at violet.bucaro@ theadvocate.com.

ABOVE: A family takes photos with Santa while aboard the 2017 Polar Express Train Ride in in New Orleans that took holiday revelers on a festive trip through the city. STAFF FILE PHOTO By SCOTT THRELKELD

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team at Jewel of the South, though details of the cocktails have not been shared. There is also “lower overall beer Good news for Saints fans looking pricing” along with more variety in forward to the ﬁrst regular-season both the 12-ounce and 16-ounce beers, home game next month: The team is along with a broader selection of “locelebrating its 60th year with a new value menu that includes $6 beer. cal craft beers.” Saints fans have stuck with the team And just like the trend catching on through its highs and lows ever since in movie theaters, souvenir cups will the NFL named a new franchise on All be new this year. Saints’ Day in 1966. Saints faithful will see rotating To celebrate, the New Orleans specialty food items throughout the Saints and food vendor Legends season, including po-boys and hot Global are offering fans a value menu dogs, smash burgers, pork and alligaat certain concession stands in the tor burgers, and Dome nachos with Caesars Superdome. choice of carnitas, chicken tinga or The menu includes $6 domestic seafood queso. draft beer, hot dogs, popcorn, pretzels, Fan favorites such as étouffée, nachos and bottles of Dasani water. meat pies, cochon de lait, jambalaya, Legends Global Vice President of gumbo, red beans and rice, seafood Hospitality Miles Tully Jr. said the nachos, beignets and Hubig’s pies will Superdome is working to bring constill be available. The celebration of the 60th annivercession costs down while delivering “a best-in-class food and beverage ex- sary and 20 years since returning afperience that feels unmistakably New ter Hurricane Katrina continues with Orleans.” other fan experiences on Wednesday, This season, there are also more the Saints 5K race and a limited-edichanges to the alcoholic beverage option commemorative coin giveaway at the home opener on Sept. 27. tions in what Legends Global calls “a major refresh.” Two new cocktails were made in Email Chelsea Shannon at partnership with the award-winning cshannon@theadvocate.com.

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T “I’m a Louisiana girl and I grew up eating (sno-balls). It’s the iconic summer treat.” KITTEN LaRUE

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Bywater frozen treat spot Chance in Hell puts on performance as artsy as its owners

ABOVE: Chance in Hell Snoballs has made a splash in the Bywater with its colorful facade. STAFF PHOTO By DOUG MacCASH

TOP: At Chance in Hell, making snoballs is a performance, and the raised counter where customers order is the stage. STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

Chance in Hell Snoballs down on Louisa Street in the deepest Bywater is more than a business — it’s a stage with candy-colored, art deco design that resembles a movie set. The counter is built above eye level, so even those at the back of line can watch the sno-ball making, which is a performance in itself. Doug Both the application of ice and MacCash syrup are two-step processes, requiring a pair of sno-ball makers working in unison, as if choreographed. Instead of a pointy top, the snow piled high above the rim of the cup is plowed ﬂat, to a frosty plateau where condensed milk can puddle. It’s a timeconsuming task. A Chance in Hell sno-ball doesn’t just appear, it is gradually revealed, like a striptease you might see in one of the nightclub acts by owners and operators Kitten N’ Lou, a neo-vaudeville dance duo. What started as their summertime side hustle has helped the two talented women make ends meet. They’ve ﬁgured out how to live the artistic life, even while they’re working their day job.

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Lou Henry Hoover makes a sno-ball using a vintage SnoWizard at Chance in Hell Snoballs in New Orleans. Kitten LaRue holds up a finished snoball.

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Melissa Araujo confirmed that she has closed her second location of Alma, at 301 N. Carrollton Ave.

Alma closes second location of Honduran fare BY IAN McNULTY

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Honduran food has had a strong, if unheralded, presence in New Orleans. The restaurant Alma gave this cuisine a higher profile, with a modern menu and stylish dining rooms at two locations. They garnered their chef/ owner Melissa Araujo two nominations for James Beard awards. The first Alma in the Bywater closed last summer, and now the second in Mid-City has followed suit. People turning up to dine over the last few weeks found the doors locked at 301 N. Carrollton Ave. and a sign in the window advising that the restaurant was temporarily closed awaiting repairs. Now the dining room has been cleared out. Araujo confirmed the restaurant has closed, though she said it wasn’t necessarily the end of Alma. She said the restaurant could return, though offered no further details. She said she needed a break from the business and determined it was in her best interest to close. She’s now working as a corporate chef consulting other restaurants, she said. The first Alma location opened in the Bywater 2020. In addition to Honduran standards like baleadas, pastelitos and pollo chuco, Araujo introduced a dinner menu with dishes like scallop crudo, aguachile, whole fish and duck confit. The Mid-City Alma opened early in 2025. A few months later, Araujo was arrested on counts of government benefits fraud related to Medicaid, in a case that remains pending. She closed the Bywater restaurant in August 2025. That location, 800 Louisa St., is now home to the Mexican breakfast spot Casimiro.

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People wait at Chance In Hell SnoBalls on the front porch of a on Burgundy Street house in 2023.

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A ‘showmance’

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Kitten N’ Lou perform in Vaudeville Revival variety show in 2024.

Lou Henry Hoover is from Lexington, Massachusetts. Kitten LaRue’s dad’s side of the family are multigenerational New Orleanians. The two women, who are both in their 40s, have always been dancers, studying ballet, tap, modern movement and such in college before setting off on showbiz careers. They met in Seattle, where LaRue had formed a burlesque troupe called the Atomic Bombshells, and soon fell into a serious “showmance,” as they put it. That was 16 years ago. The couple made their home in New Orleans soon after, but 13 years ago, they returned to Seattle to get hitched, since samesex marriage wasn’t yet per-

mitted in the Bayou State. Somewhere in there, they became Kitten and Lou, which is styled Kitten N’ Lou for branding purposes. Their act is a throwback to early 20th-century live variety shows, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers-style MGM movies. Except, it’s “subversively queer,” as LaRue puts it. Hoover performs as a drag king, with relatively masculine costuming and fake glitter mustache. LaRue does the Victor Victoria thing, playing a woman, pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman, with big hair and abundant eye makeup. Their personae are “exaggerated versions of ourselves,” LaRue said. Onstage and in videos, they dance to pop tunes, vamp and campily cavort in costumes that are either concealing or revealing. Their sexy, slapstick act has taken them

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LEFT: Kitten N’ Lou symbolized their commitment to the sno-ball business with matching tattoos. STAFF PHOTO By DOUG MacCASH

FAR LEFT: The menu hangs outside at Chance in Hell Snoballs in New Orleans. STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

from Australia to China, and all over the U.S. The duo just got back from gigs in New York City and — though it may be suffocatingly hot outside — they’re already preparing for the annual fall Halloween show and the big holiday extravaganza called “Jingle All the Gay.”

Business snowballs Hoover said they once toured so much that LaRue began craving something to anchor them to New Orleans. That wish came true during the pandemic, when the curtain came down on live entertainment everywhere. It was the ﬁrst time Hoover planted seeds in her garden, and actually got to see them grow. It was during that anxiously languid time that they began serving sno-balls from the front porch of their Bywater shotgun house. At ﬁrst, it was just something to do. But soon it, uh, snowballed into a neighborhood attraction, with folks sometimes lined up down the block. LaRue said she chose to create snoballs, because “I’m a Louisiana girl and I grew up eating them. It’s the iconic summer treat.” LaRue said she and Hoover saw people meet, propose marriage and conceive children while waiting for a sno-ball. Well, not conceive children, she corrected, but the rest. A sno-ball community evolved as

friends and acquaintances contributed basil, shiso, plums, figs and loquats to be cooked down into syrup. Hoover swears she and LaRue tried to secure the proper permits, but City Hall was not as accessible during the pandemic. So, their front-porch business operated as a sort-of speakeasy, which they called, “your favorite semi-secret snowball shop.” Once, an officer of the law cruised slowly by in a patrol car and gave the scene the once-over. When he pulled to the curb and stepped out, LaRue and Hoover thought they were busted for sure. But no, he just got in the sno-ball line. They eventually sought a storefront location, but the bank “laughed in our faces,” Hoover said, when they applied for a loan to buy a modest, old building on Louisa Street. Happily, the owners of the building — who were moving to the West Bank to raise goats — offered to privately finance the property. LaRue said the name of the new business was based on an expression her grandmother sometimes used, “a snowball’s chance in hell.” Architect Jenny West designed the Chance in Hell interior to match LaRue and Hoover’s concept. It was West who recommended the sno-balls be produced on a stage, not behind a counter. LaRue and Hoover got a vintage SnoWizard brand, New Orleans-style shaved ice machine for authenticity’s

sake, and they got a liquor license in case anybody desired a shot of bourbon in their sour cherry and condensed milk sno-ball. And who among us would not? After they opened last March, LaRue and Hoover hired part-time sno-ball makers from the local burlesque community, who understood the vibe. This allows the dancers to travel professionally when opportunity calls. The

shop is open from shortly after Mardi Gras to Halloween. As a symbol of commitment, LaRue and Hoover got identical sno-ball tattoos on the back of their arms. To put the tats side by side for a photo is almost physically impossible, but it’s funny to watch them try. Email Doug MacCash at dmaccash@ theadvocate.com.

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BENSON BOONE

Keith Spera SOUND CHECK

An arena-level pop rock star of recent vintage, a blues legend and a peculiar ’80s New Wave band are among this week’s live music options in New Orleans. BUDDY GUY TUESDAY, SAENGER THEATRE Born in the rural Louisiana town of Lettsworth on July 30, 1936, Buddy Guy eventually made his way to Chicago, where he helped deﬁne electric blues guitar. At 90, he is one of the last living blues giants of his generation. In the tradition of the late B.B. King, Guy is staying musically active decades beyond retirement age. In 2025, he earned a Grammy Award — his ninth overall — in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for his “Ain’t Done with the Blues.” Believing he was nearing the end of his touring life in 2023, he embarked on the “Damn Right Farewell Tour.” With more gas in the tank, he then hit the road for his “Damn Right Encore Tour.” Still not ﬁnished, he’s crisscrossing the country for the “Buddy Guy 90 Tour” (is a Buddy Guy 100 Tour out of the question?). The tour stops at the Saenger Theatre on Tuesday. Ruston-born blues guitarist D.K. Harrell opens the show at 8 p.m. Tickets are available starting at $36, including fees.

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SUNDAY, SMOOTHIE KING CENTER If he hadn’t already, Benson Boone firmly established that backflips are his thing at the 2025 Grammy Awards. His perfectly timed flip off the top of a piano — after Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser had torn away his tuxedo at their table to reveal his striking powder blue jumpsuit — early in his performance of his smash “Beautiful Things” became one of the ’25 Grammy telecast’s signature moments. And Boone’s career momentum has only picked up speed since then. The former high school competitive diver from Washington competed on the 2021 season of “American Idol.” But after being greenlit to advance to the Hollywood tapings, he withdrew from the show — given how quickly he’d gained a national profile, he no longer needed “Idol.” Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds signed Boone to his Night Street Records, which released Boone’s debut album, “Fireworks & Rollerblades,” in 2024 in conjunction with Warner Bros. Records. “Beautiful Things” ended up as one of 2024’s most streamed songs. Soon, Boone was opening for Taylor Swift in London during “The Eras Tour.” At the 2025 Coachella festival in southern California, he covered Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” with that band’s guitarist, Brian May, sitting in. That year, he released his second album of pop rock, “American Heart,” with a cover depicting the cut, tanned and shirtless Boone posed dramatically against an American flag. The video for his latest single, “The Time of My Life,” is a lavish, cinematic minimovie co-starring Alix Earle (and yes, he backflips in it — while holding a sword, no less). In two months, the video already has more than 10 million YouTube views. Boone brings his “Wanted Man Tour” to the Smoothie King Center on Sunday. Luna Li opens the show at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $51 for the upper balcony, $154 for the lower balcony, $167 for the general admission floor and $206 for the pit areas inside the main stage. Ads for the “Wanted Man Tour” note “backflips and magic included.”

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Former Saintsation cast in ‘The Traitors’ show

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OTHER NOTEWORTHY SHOWS THURSDAY New Orleans-based pianist and composer Karen Shiraishi earned a Chamber Music America Performance Plus grant, indicative of her melodic and harmonic skills. She has backed both traditional and modern musicians across the city’s jazz spectrum and plans to release her debut album this year. Shiraishi performs at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. She’ll be backed by Julian Lee on saxophone, Max Moran on bass and Jarrell Allen on drums. Tickets are $30. Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble are featured for this week’s Zydeco Night at Rock ’N’ Bowl. Admission is $17. New Orleans drum legend Johnny Vidacovich is joined by trumpeter Ashlin Parker and organist Joe Ashlar at the Maple Leaf Bar at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18.

FRIDAY Modern jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Victor Goines, a Wynton Marsalis collaborator and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra member since the 1990s, leads a quartet at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $40.

Steve Kelly headlines this Friday’s installment of the summer-long Free Fridays concert series at Tipitina’s. Zoomst opens the show at 9 p.m. Admission is free. Horn-heavy cover band the Boogie Men is at Rock ’N’ Bowl. Tickets are $17.

SATURDAY Honduran-born, New Orleansbased pianist Oscar Rossignoli is well-versed in classical music as well as Latin jazz, New Orleans jazz and modern jazz. He brings all those inﬂuences to bear in his especially rich and ﬂuent playing. He’ll perform two shows at Snug Harbor on Saturday, at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $35. Tipitina’s hosts “Gimme Gimme Disco,” a disco dance party inspired by ABBA, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $23. The Mixed Nuts celebrate the music of the 1990s at Rock ’N’ Bowl. Tickets are $20; a VIP option is also available.

SUNDAY Joe Krown, the longtime keyboardist for GateKrown mouth Brown and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, is joined by guitarist Papa Mali, bassist Cass Faulconer and drummer Eric Bolivar at the Maple Leaf at 8 p.m. Tickets

are $18. Modern jazz saxophonist Rob Wagner’s trio plays a free happy hour show at Snug Harbor at 4:30 p.m. Later Sunday, Snug Harbor presents trombonist and Loyola University instructor John Mahoney’s Little Band at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.; tickets are $30.

TUESDAY Remember Devo, the ’80s band with the funny red hats that encouraged listeners to “whip it, whip it good”? Devo brings its “Mutate Don’t Stagnate Tour” to the Fillmore on Tuesday. Tickets start at $68.

WEDNESDAY The Fillmore hosts a night of contemporary R&B with the “Us Over Dem Tour” featuring Jacquees and K Camp, plus opening act Lihtz. Tickets start at $71. Vocal trio BRW sings soul, gospel and R&B classics during a free happy hour show at Snug Harbor starting at 5 p.m. Later Thursday, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra swing out at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $45. Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

Kriste Lewis made headlines when she joined the Saintsations at 40 years old, and now the Mississippi Coast native is back in the spotlight. Now 52, Lewis is joining the cast of “The Traitors: New Blood,” a popular Peacock reality TV show that’s breaking its own mold this year with a cast of everyday people rather than celebrities. The show brings people together to ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO live in a Scottish castle and form Kriste Lewis made the relationships to Saintsations cheer team in suss out who among 2014 at age 40. them are “faithfuls,” or contestants working together to win the game and split the prize money, or deceptive “traitors” who can manipulate, disrupt and scheme their way to the top. When Lewis, a dance instructor and mother of two, made the New Orleans Saints’ cheer team in 2014, she was just one of two NFL cheerleaders over 40. And she dominated the sidelines while battling a rare kidney disease. Now a Realtor living in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the Moss Point native has said she enjoyed representing her hometown and the Gulf Coast as a member of the Saintsations, now called the Saints Cheer Krewe. She’ll be one of 22 new contestants competing for up to $250,000 on “The Traitors: New Blood.” She told Entertainment Weekly she hopes she’s cast as a traitor. But viewers won’t know how things shake out until the season premiere Sept. 17 on NBC. Lewis isn’t the only “Traitors” contestant with ties to New Orleans. Season two co-winner Trishelle Cannatella lives in the Big Easy and is a professional poker player and inﬂuencer. Cannatella was a faithful on her season of the show.

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