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Greeting
Everyone!
As City-Works'
first full time employee, let me thank you all for your patience while
we set our programming for this year.
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New Executive Director
Jim Livingston has been hired as City-Works'
first Executive Director. As a native of Miami, FL, Livingston
experienced Hurricane Andrew and its aftermath as well as the
rebuilding effort in the early 1990s. Livingston became involved as a
program manager for a statewide environmental organization in Florida
after graduate school at the University of Florida, but quickly realized
that the biggest environmental issue facing Florida, the encroachment
of development, was not adequately addressed by environmental
organizations trying to stop all development. What was needed instead
was attention to the areas that had been developed but were being
abandoned. Economic redevelopment serves as a tool to fix the areas
that would prevent the sprawl of suburbia and in turn keep market
forces from overwhelming green spaces. Realizing this, Livingston took
the position as Executive Director of two non-profit economic
development agencies in North Carolina to support built community
revitalization. After Katrina, Livingston moved his family to New
Orleans to participate in the grandest redevelopment project in the
history of the United States. Livingston said: "I feel very
privileged to be able to help with the rebuilding efforts here and will
do everything I can to support the 'transformative' rebuilding of New
Orleans."
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Neighborhood Mapping Project
With the assistance of Tulane students through
the Center for Public Service, we will be re-contacting the
neighborhood associations we were not able to reach in our August
effort. The framework and scope of the project and the out standing work done by our volunteers this past
summer has been instrumental to producing the map. Thanks to all of you
who have worked so hard on the map. We will now complete the project
surveys and present the map online and in a searchable form. Look for
this and an updated website late this spring.
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Policy Breakfasts
City-Works has been asked by Dr. Ed Blakely, New Orleans'
new recovery director, to convene a monthly policy breakfast for
non-profits engaged in the rebuilding process. This fits our desire to
be a convener of organizations and people to make sure that policy
makers have the very best information to make their decisions.
City-Works is an organization that can talk with all parties in the
city.
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