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Dr. Dwight McKenna says budget cuts have hurt his office s ability to do its job. Author: Danny Monteverde / Eyewitness News Published: 8/3/2021 7:17:10 PM Updated: 7:17 PM CDT August 3, 2021
NEW ORLEANS With all of the violent crime and the raging delta variant, New Orleans coroner says the workload is too much for his staff and he’s asking the City for more money to keep his office going.
City Hall got about $388 million in COVID-19 relief, and city leaders are looking to spend $70 million of that to shore up pandemic-related losses.
One office looking for a cash infusion: the Orleans Parish coroner. We ve been operating on a shoestring budget,” Orleans Parish coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna said.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved Tuesday to plug the holes in her cabinet by handing the permanent jobs to two acting department heads.
Andrea Holthouse Cheng, a 16-year veteran of the Department of Water Management who has held down the fort since the January ouster of Commissioner Randy Conner, will be Conner’s permanent, $174,600-a-year replacement.
The same script was followed in the Department of Family and Support Services. First Deputy Commissioner Brandie Knazze, who’s been riding herd since the Feb. 26 resignation of Lisa Morrison Butler, gets the $180,276-a-year permanent job.
Both new commissioners assume their roles at a time of unprecedented turnover in the mayor’s cabinet.
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