Dr. Marion Lee PAD 505- Public Budgeting and Finance May 4, 2014 Abstract This paper will give the Operating Budget for the City Of New Orleans. It will provide the agencies mission, goals, objectives, departments and strategic plan. It will describe the budget of the agency by addressing the Financial Summary, including revenue expenditures, department budgets, funding, capital projects and debt administration. This paper will also perform a Cost Analysis which will include fixed cost, step-fixed
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Running head: HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS Hurricane Katrina and the City of New Orleans Carlos F. Campos Introduction to Public Safety Administration 302 Professor Wertman February 7, 2016 1 HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 2 Abstract Hurricane Katrina hit the southern states of Louisiana and Missouri in late August of 2015 almost as a Category 3 hurricane leaving behind death, devastation, and displaced people. The Washington Times (2005) reported
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9 RUNNING HEAD: LEADERSHIP FAILURES DURING KATRINA Leadership Failures of Hurricane Katrina Mark L. Perkins Webster University MNGT 6000 Professor Lee Trovas February27th2014 Abstract Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent history, not only because of the severity of the storm, which couldn’t be prevented, but
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Governmental Fumble: Hurricane Katrina Things that occur naturally such as tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes are unpreventable and are considered to be natural disasters. However, when man knowingly aids in the destructive power of naturally occurring events to inflect more damage, it is unquestionably a manmade disaster. For many years, both in the past and present, the United States has experienced some of the most devastating natural and artificial catastrophes such as The Dust Bowl
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saved but there was an extreme effort to do so. Hurricane Katrina is now the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Today Katrina is known as the costliest natural disaster, and one of the five deadliest hurricanes known in the history of the United States. August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. This storm was given a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale due to the fact that it brought sustained
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The initial response or lack thereof, to the widespread disaster in the Gulf Coast, caused by Hurricane Katrina, demonstrated high levels of incompetence and disorganization by government officials. Images of desperate individuals awaiting rescue on their rooftops, and masses of people packed together in deplorable conditions in the Super Dome, circulated the globe. There was no hiding from the painful reality and the obvious inaction or inability of those responsible to care for these individual
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possible. Katrina was able to cause a tremendous amount of damage to the city of New Orleans. The situation was made much worse by the failure in communications. The failure was not limited to just the state government, multiple entities were affected by the unsuccessful communications. The communication failures that contributed to the overall disaster occurred during and after the storm. As the storm subsided the levee system had to be repaired and improved upon. When the storm struck New Orleans a tremendous
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Washington Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. The storm is currently ranked as the third most intense United States land falling tropical cyclone, behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille in 1969 (Shah, 2005). In this paper I will tell you about some majors things hurricane Katrina effected
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Ethical Environment of the New Orleans Police Department Melissa Boutte McNeese State University CJUS 630-W Ethics in Criminal Justice Telephone: (337) 888-0633 Email: mboutte@mcneese.edu Instructor: Dr. Wayne Thompson Abstract Society entrusts police officers to protect citizens from harm and to maintain civil order by enforcing laws set before them. The New Orleans Police Department must adhere to a code of conduct which basically means for officers to treat individuals fairly
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Paper: New Orleans Post-Katrina December 8, 2013 New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina, which hit the southeast United States in late August of 2005 was one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes in United States history. The city of New Orleans was arguably hit the hardest by the hurricane. The objective of this paper is to analyze the link between economic, political, and social conditions in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina and the conditions in New Orleans post-Katrina
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