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New Orleans Sets Budget Meetings For Public Input

New Orleans is launching its annual series of community budget meetings.

It’s designed to gather residents' opinions on spending priorities for the 2015 fiscal year.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls it the Budgeting for Outcomes process.

A budget meeting will be held in each city council district along with the district council member. Others set to attend are the city's deputy mayors, police chief Ronal Serpas, fire chief Tim McConnell and other department and agency heads.

The first of the meetings is set for Monday and will cover priorities for the city's District C, which includes the French Quarter.

The following lists community meetings, in order of date:

District C
Monday, August 18, 2014
L.B.Landry High School
1200 L.B. Landry Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70114

District A 
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Lakeview Christian Center
5885 Fleur De Lis Dr.
New Orleans, LA 70124

District E 
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church
5600 Read Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70127

District B
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Touro Synagogue
4238 St Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70115

District D
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Arthur Ashe Charter School
1456 Gardena Dr.
New Orleans, LA 70112

Eileen is a news reporter and producer for WWNO. She researches, reports and produces the local daily news items. Eileen relocated to New Orleans in 2008 after working as a writer and producer with the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. for seven years.

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