How we fix New Orleans
The root cause is bad management.
New Orleans doesn’t lack ideas; it lacks execution. We’ll modernize drainage, rebuild streets with drainable materials, and put pumps, drainage, and streets under one accountable chain of command.
Balance Economy
Build Lean Government
Revamp Infrastructure
Implement strategies to achieve a balanced economy in New Orleans, fostering growth and sustainability for all residents and businesses.
Learn about initiatives to streamline government operations, increase efficiency, and ensure transparency in serving the community.
Find out about plans for a comprehensive overhaul of the city's pump, drainage, and Sewerage & Water Board systems to enhance resilience and safety.
Effective Management
Effective management means a city that works - streets get fixed, services run on time, and citizens finally get the results they've been promised.
Lean Government you can see
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Map every service (permits, potholes, 311) → remove steps → set deadlines.
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Publish department scorecards (on-time %, backlog, cost per fix).
Strategies
The core principle that is destroying our city is poor management. Every problem this city faces, from crime to flooding stems back to poor management of capital, resources, and talent. This city will not get better until our management improves.
Innovation
Poor Management stifles innovation and holds down ideas that could save our city. To truly move forward, we need leadership that can manage systems with discipline and drive innovation - turning smart ideas into real results that improve how this city works.
Communication
Communication is key to changing the direction of this city. This city has a top- down communication model and that does not allow key information to make it through the management chain to the administrators to make adjustments and improve decision making.
Balance the Economy
My strategies generate diversified income streams across sectors. It ensures inclusive prosperity across income brackets and geographies. It is resilient to national or global economic shocks. Invests in infrastructure, human capital, and innovation. And prioritizes quality of life, not just GDP
Ideal Economic Balance
25% Tourism, Culture, & Events
Focus on converting tourism into creative exports-music, fashion, food franchises, and film licensing.
Expand year-round events that benefit local neighborhoods, not just the French Quarter.
25% Light Industry, Manufacturing & Logistics
Grow this rapidly-especially in New Orleans East and Almonaster Corridor.
Clean Manufacturing, Modular housing production, Marine logistics, food packaging & supply chain hubs.
Use our Free Trade Zones, tax abatements, and infrastructure bonds to attract investment.
20% Tech, Healthcare & Higher Education
Build tech corridors & research incubators around Tulane, LSU Heath, Delgado, Uno,
Attract AI firms, digital health startups, and bio-research labs.
Invest in internet infrastructure, modern zoning, and quality-of-life guarantees to lure remote workers and young professionals.
15% Local Small Business & Cultural Economy
We must support independedt grocery stores, repair shops, tradespeople, and local creative enterprises. Protect against franchise saturation and displacement. While building public-private funds that provide low-interest startup loans in underserved areas such as Gentilly, Algiers, and the East.
10-15% Blue Economy, Urban Agriculture & Green Energy
The blue economy is built around coastal restoration, aquaculture, solar energy, and water-based innovation. Turn climate risk into opportunity by exporting flood control tech, water management consulting, and climate engineering jobs. We need to fully lean into urban farming and vertical agriculture in food desert zones such as the East.
The Bottom Line
I am not fixing a city, I am fixing an economy, one that has stalled and is imploding day by day. New Orleans is over-reliant on tourism, festivals, and government jobs, which makes the economy fragile at best- whether it's a hurricane, pandemic, or political gridlock. The working class is shrinking, the middle class is leaving, and the neighborhoods in the East and Algiers are economically stranded. Serious action is needed now.
Lean Government
Lean Government is about making government work better — not bigger — and cities around the country are proving it works. Lean management principles, first developed in the private sector, are now helping cities like Phoenix, Indianapolis, Denver, and Grand Rapids cut waste, streamline services, and deliver better results for citizens. It means eliminating bureaucracy, simplifying processes, using technology to speed up service, and continuously improving how government operates. In Grand Rapids, Lean cut permit processing times by over 50%. In Phoenix, it helped save millions on fleet maintenance and improved public works response times. The goal is simple: less red tape, more accountability, better service — so every tax dollar goes toward real results, not bloated overhead. That’s what Lean Government delivers — and it’s how more cities are turning dysfunction into progress.
Lean Process in Government
Lean Government means eliminating waste and streamlining how government works — and it’s proven to deliver. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lean practices cut building permit approval times from 21 days to just 8 days — saving time, cutting costs, and improving service to citizens. It’s about using every tax dollar wisely: removing bureaucracy, fixing broken processes, and making government efficient, responsive, and accountable. That’s the kind of leadership that you the taxpayer deserves.
Eliminate Waste & Streamline Processes
Good government isn’t about politics — it’s about performance. The best-run cities manage by data, not by backroom deals. That means tracking real outcomes, measuring progress, and holding every department accountable to results the public can see. In Boston, their CityScore system uses live data dashboards to monitor everything from pothole repairs to 911 response times — and they publish it so the public can hold them accountable. When you manage by data, you cut waste, improve service, and rebuild trust. That’s how I believe New Orleans should be run: based on facts, not favors.
Manage by Data Not Politics
Government’s job is simple: focus on value and deliver results to you the taxpayer. Every tax dollar should result in visible, reliable service — streets that are safe, water that’s clean, permits that move, and departments that answer when you call. Cities that focus on value get results. Louisville, Kentucky built its entire Metro government around LouieStat — a data-driven system that tracks performance in every department and publicly reports on it. The result? Faster service, smarter budgeting, and greater public trust. That’s how I believe government should work: delivering value you can see and feel
Deliver Value to the Citizens
Infrastructure Overhaul
New Orleans doesn’t just need another patch job — it needs a full infrastructure overhaul. Our roads, drainage, water systems, and power grid are decades behind where they should be. Potholes aren’t the real problem — they’re the symptom of a city that has settled for short-term fixes instead of building for the long haul. We need to modernize drainage with smart engineering, rebuild streets with drainable materials, overhaul the Sewerage & Water Board with accountable leadership, and invest in infrastructure that supports a strong economy — not just for the Super Bowl. I’m running to deliver a city where the basics actually work: clean streets, reliable water, and infrastructure built to last.
Projects
Modernizing Street Maintenance
Modernizing the Power Grid
New Orleans needs to stop filling potholes and start building streets that last. For too long, we’ve patched crumbling roads with cheap fixes that wash away with every storm. It’s wasteful and it’s disrespectful to you the taxpayer. We need to modernize street maintenance with durable materials and smarter design — including porous asphalt, which allows water to drain through the surface instead of destroying it. This technology not only extends the life of our streets, it helps reduce flooding and protects our drainage system.
Our power grid is stuck in the past — and every storm proves it. Flickering lights, week-long outages, dangerous heat waves with no air conditioning — this isn’t normal, it’s negligence. New Orleans needs a modern, resilient grid built for the 21st century, not the 1950s. That means hardening transmission lines, investing in microgrids and localized backup power, and holding utilities accountable to the people, not profits. We can’t build a strong economy or protect public safety with a fragile grid.
Dissolve the Sewerage & Water Board
The Sewerage & Water Board is a relic of the past — and it’s failing us. It operates as an unaccountable, bloated bureaucracy with no real oversight and no incentive to improve. Meanwhile, citizens pay the price through sky-high bills, constant boil water alerts, and streets that flood after every storm. It’s time to modernize. I will fight to dissolve the Sewerage & Water Board and consolidate its operations under a streamlined, accountable Department of Public Works. One agency. One chain of command. One mission: delivering clean water, working drainage, and streets that serve the people
Effective Management
Effective management changes everything. It means streets that are repaired instead of patched. It means drainage that works when it rains. It means no more boil water events. It means holding departments accountable, cutting waste, and treating citizens like customers, not obstacles. With effective management, New Orleans becomes a city where government serves its people, infrastructure supports its economy, and neighborhoods can finally thrive. We don’t have to accept dysfunction — we can fix it. And it starts with leadership that knows how to manage.
Installing Effective Management
Comprehensive Budget Audit
You can't manage what you can't see. Right now, too much of New Orleans' budget disappears into programs that no one measueres or questions. We need a comprehensive, independent budget audit - line by line - to expose waste, track spending, and ensure tax dollars are going where citizens need them the most. Every departemtn must be held accountable to the public for how it spends your money.
Management & Operations Audit
Fixing this city requires more than moving money - it requires changing how government works. That means conducting a full management and operations audit: looking at staffing, leadership, process efficiency, and organizational culture across departments. We need to find where bureaucracy is clogging service delivery - and fix it. Smart cities do thsi regularly. New Orleans hasn't done it in years. That ends the day I take office.
Data-Driven Performance Management
Politics can't drive government - performance must. We need a data-driven performance system where every key city service is tracked, measured, and published for the public to see. Citizens should be able to see how fast potholes are fixed, how quickly 911 responds, and how efficiently building permits are processed. If the numbers slip, leadership must answer for it. That's how you run a city that works.