Who Elected the LRA ?
Why is the LRA running the show?
Who is the LRA?
According to the LRA website
33 Board Members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate
UPDATE
Here is the LRA Support Board
Just familiarize yourself with a few of the names.
Walter Isaacson
He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, DC, and in Aspen, Colorado.
Boysie Bollinger
He even won an award named after himself
Boysie Bollinger was awarded the Louisiana Republican Partys “Donald G. Bollinger Award
Walter Leger
Leger is a co-owner and past President of the New Orleans Zephyrs Triple A Professional Baseball Team and is also a partner in the law firm of Leger & Mestayer. He was appointed by the Governor to serve on the NFL Stadium Advisory Commission and is a member of the New Orleans Saints Community Advisory Committee
Linda Johnson
Johnson is co-owner of the Off the Rack dress shop and DIA-LIN Corporation.
Kim Boyle
A lawyer with Phelps-Dunbar in New Orleans, Kim Boyle is actively involved in improving the city of New Orleans, serving on the Bring New Orleans Back Commission
and Oh by the way on the Board of GNOF
AND the CSO
How does she find time for her day job. 3 Board positions !!
Mary Matlin
Mary and her husband who is from New Orleans reside in Virginia with their daughters.
actually he is NOT from New Orleans, but they may have been to a crawfish boil here once.
David Voelker
He is also on the CSO
Now if you have nothing to do or you fear for the future of the City, play the cross refrence game.
It is fun and easy and all you need is a computer
Spend an evening cross refrencing Board Members and help out the New Orleans Acronym Wiki
Since I am supposed to be on vacation for 4 days I am just sending out a little food for thought.
Who is it that is pulling the strings?
August 10th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Corrected link to the Board page.
Looks like it’s time to Fisk some Board members.
August 10th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Ryan. Thanks for fixing that. Now I understand the concept of Fisk the Board, but don’t know the rules.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
The rules are as simple as can be; you are free to dissemenate anything about any Board member that you wish, it just must be true. And, unlike those to be Fisked, we do so in public, with sources and a dash of wit.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I still don’t follow exactly where the NOCSF (New Orleans Community Support Foundation, for those who might be new to the recovery acronyms) ends and the CSO (Community Support Organization) begins.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
August 7—August 18, 2006: The NOCSF Coordination Team and the Community Support Organization foundation representative will define a proposed scope and fees for each of the planning projects. Planning teams will then be assigned based on preference, capacity and cost.
I took this off the UNOP website, Don’t they have to actually announce who it is BEFORE they can deliberate?
August 10th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
[…] Reading Karen’s Who Elected the LRA? post and its links today, I was surprised to find out (where have I been?) that just as the UNOP is supposed to be administered by the CSO, which is overseen by the NOCSF, which was in turn established by the GNOF to manage $4.5 million in grants to create a planning process (acronym and abbreviation help), it looks to me like the information-gathering and planning of LRA’s long-term recovery planning initiative, “Louisiana Speaks,” is being funded largely by the LRA Fund, which was established by the pre-existing Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF), and will be administered by the LRA Support Foundation, created separately from the LRA Fund, once it gets its IRS qualification as a charity. (Gasp.) For now, as far as I can tell, the LRA Fund Committee is holding the purse-strings. […]
August 10th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
[…] Reading Karen’s Who Elected the LRA? post and following its links today, I was surprised to find out (where have I been?) that just as the UNOP is supposed to be administered by the CSO, which is overseen by the NOCSF, which was in turn established by the GNOF to manage $4.5 million in grants to create a planning process (acronym and abbreviation help); the information-gathering and planning of LRA’s long-term recovery planning initiative, “Louisiana Speaks,” is being funded significantly by the LRA Fund, which was established by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF), and will be administered by the LRA Support Foundation (created separately from the LRA Fund) once it gets its IRS qualification as a charity. (Gasp. I wish I had a flowchart) For now, as far as I can tell, the LRA Fund Committee is holding the purse-strings. […]