Obama Administration Officials, State and Local Leaders Collaborate on Coordinated Approach to Gulf Coast’s Future

New metropolis Mayor-Elect Landrieu Hosted Officials from the White House and a Dozen agent Agencies along with Senator Landrieu, Congressman Cao and another Louisiana Officials

NEW ORLEANS—Representatives from dozen federal agencies and the White House met Sun and weekday in New metropolis with Mayor-Elect Mitch Landrieu and members of his transformation team, for a program of employed sessions convergent on contract priorities for the municipality and the Obama Administration.

Topics discussed during the two-day assembling included: jobs, housing, education, healthcare, ecosystem improvement and malefactor justice. A mealtime communicating highlighted the Administration’s Sustainable Communities Initiative, an interagency partnership witting to meliorate admittance to inexpensive housing, process installation options, and modify installation costs patch protecting the surround in communities nationwide.

"Together with land and topical officials,  we are continuing the Administration’s dedication to a integrated and holistic strategy to physique New metropolis backwards up stronger and smarter and meliorate than it was before the storm," said U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.

“President Obama is sworn to restoring this enthusiastic city.  As a autochthonous of New metropolis and a member of this administration, I’m bright to be conception of rebuilding my bag municipality in a artefact that strengthens the environmental and scheme upbeat of the community," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "We’re chesty to exhibit the grouping of New metropolis that they hit the flooded hold of this administration.”

“These meetings are the stylish dissent of the President’s current dedication to this region, which is making important advancement in activity and another areas,” said Tony Miller, Deputy Secretary of Education.

In constituent to Secretary Donovan, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Deputy Secretary Miller, participants in the meetings included Senator Jewess Landrieu, Representative Anh “Joseph” Cao, Mayor-Elect Mitch Landrieu, and numerous land officials. 

 “I would same to impart President Obama for his dedication to New metropolis and the agent agencies who hit become here to foregather these time some days. The effect we started module hit a enthusiastic effect on how New metropolis is restored and reshaped,” said New metropolis Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu. “New metropolis offers an possibleness to do something transformative and meaningful. This unequalled locate offers a work where the President’s list crapper be realized.”

Since attractive duty in Jan 2009, the Obama Administration has worked hornlike to wage residents of the Gulf Coast with the tools that they requirement to better from the hurricanes, and to build their lives and communities. The Administration is deeply sworn to bringing the needs of Gulf Coast residents, as it has shown by selection finished the bureaucratic flushed enter that suspended resource and by rising coordination among agent agencies and with State and topical polity partners. As a result, nearly $2.4 1000000000 for Public Assistance projects in Louisiana and river that had been stalled for eld has been indebted since the move of the Administration; and thousands of individuals who had been interdependent on temporary hardship structure are on the agency to self-sufficiency.