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Observations & Comments on 1976 Operating & Capital Budgets, City of New Orleans.  January 27, 1976

October 27 Election: Constitutional Elections & Jefferson Parish Charter Amendment.  October 15, 1979

On the Question of the Third Term & beyond, New Orleans.  October 11, 1985

Operating & Capital Budgets (New Orleans) Observation & Comments.  January 27, 1976

Operating & Capital Budgets (New Orleans) Proposed.  November 26, 1980

Operating Budget (New Orleans), 1971.  November 20, 1970

Operating Budget (New Orleans), 1973.  May 2, 1973

Operating Budget (New Orleans), 1987.  November, 1986

Orleans Assessors Tax Proposal on October 3, 1998 Ballot.  September, 1998

Orleans Assessors.  August, 1981

Orleans Levee District Property Tax Increase Proposal

Orleans Parish Ballot Propositions.  October 14, 1983

Orleans Parish Bond Propositions, November 7, 2000 Ballot.  October, 2000

Orleans Parish Charter Amendment for Utilities Regulation.  April 17, 1985

Orleans Parish Charter Amendment on March 2, 2002 Ballot.  February 2002

Orleans Parish Charter Amendments & Sales Tax Increases.  October 17, 1980

Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff.  August, 1998

Orleans Parish District Attorney.  August, 1998

Orleans Parish Earnings Tax Election.  October 29, 1984

Orleans Parish Judicial/Parochial Agencies.  June, 1991

Orleans Parish Law Enforcement District Propositions, State Constitutional Amendments, & New Orleans Home Rule Charter Amendment Summary for October 7, 1989.  September, 1989

Orleans Parish Public School System.  July? 1986

Orleans Parish Public Schools (see also: Orleans Parish School Board)

Orleans Parish Referenda Issues November 19, 1983.  November 11, 1983

Orleans Parish School Board (see also: School Board)

Orleans Parish School Board 1987 Legislative Package Support.  May 1, 1987

Orleans Parish School Board Additional Property Tax Millage.  October 10, 1974

Orleans Parish School Board Budget: Looking for the Big Numbers.  August, 1993

Orleans Parish School Board Comprehensive Educational Planning.  August, 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Districting Survey [draft].  July 22, 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Educational Legislation, 1987 Summary.  April? 1987

Orleans Parish School Board Five Year Education Reform Plan.  September, 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Millage Proposal for 1986.  September, 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Millage Proposals to Voters May 2(1998).  April, 1998

Orleans Parish School Board Monitoring Project.  Second Year Report, March 1993-February 1994.  March 4, 1994

Orleans Parish School Board Professional Services Contracting.  June, 1998

Orleans Parish School Board Property Tax Increase Request Endorsement.  September 3, 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Proposed Districting Endorsement.  April 29, 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Proposed Property Tax Increase of 19.4 Mill.  March 23, 1988

Orleans Parish School Board Public School System.  July? 1986

Orleans Parish School Board Redistricting Recommendation.  1986?

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Board Sets up Citizens Oversight Committee for Bond-Issue Capital Improvement.  November 13, 1995

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Evaluating the Superintendent: An Appraisal.  April, 1996

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  February, 1993

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Items BGR Is Looking for from the Orleans Parish School Board.  September, 1997

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Louisiana Education Reform Efforts Topic for BGR Breakfast Briefing, February 4.  January 1997

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Orleans Parish School Board Millage Proposals to Voters May 2, (1998).  April, 1998

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Progress Report on the Orleans Parish School Board.  February 1994

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Recap of Selected Legislative & Intergovernmental Action Affecting School Board.  June, 1993

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  School Board Adopts Budget for FY 1995.  September, 1994

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  School Board Builds Policies.  October, 1993

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  School System Takes Building Needs to Public. January, 1995

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  This Year’s School Board Budget: Looking for the Big Numbers.  August, 1993

Orleans Parish School Board Watch.  Volunteer Budget Advisory Group Makes Recommendations, Wants to Continue Work.  November, 1993

Orleans Parish School Board.  December, 1998

Orleans Parish School Board’s & New Orleans’ Bond Proposals Analysis for the July 15, 1995 Ballot.  June 30, 1995

Orleans Parish School Board’s Financing Decision Questioned by Civic Groups News Release.  May 12, 1989

Orleans Parish School Board’s Millage Proposal Report [executive summary].  April 4, 1988

Orleans Parish School Board’s Millage Proposal Report.  March 22, 1988

Orleans Parish School District’s “Legislative Priority Package” Support.  May 18, 1988

Orleans Parish Schools Student-Base Management Information System [follow-up report].  May 24, 1988

Orleans Parish Transit Tax Proposal Support.  December 18, 1984

Overview & Status Report on the New Orleans Capital Program.  October, 2000

Parish of Jefferson Government Matters, Part II.  Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.  December, 1993

Parish of Jefferson Government Matters.  Status Report on Prior Recommendations.  July, 1995

Parochial Agencies in Orleans Parish.  June, 1991

Plaquemines Parish School Board Professional Services Contracting.  June, 1998

Police Forces (New Orleans) Consolidation Feasibility.  May, 1997

Position Paper.  Proposed New Orleans Bond Issue.  March 27, 1984

Press Release (see: News Release)

Principles of Assessing.  January 15, 1970

Privatization of Water & Wastewater Systems in New Orleans;  BGR Analysis of Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans Proposal.  June 15, 2001

Professional Services Contract Procurement Guidelines Analysis for New Orleans.  May, 1992

Professional Services Contracting by Five School Boards: Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard & St. Tammany.  June, 1998

Professional Services Contracting Reform (New Orleans) Challenges.  January, 2002

Property Assessments (New Orleans).  Analysis of the Whann Proposal.  February 12, 1970

Property Assessments (New Orleans).  Whann Proposal.  February 10, 1970

Property Tax 12 Mill Increase (Public Safety) Opposition.  January 9, 1987

Property Tax Increase for Orleans Levee District Proposal& New Orleans Capital Bond Election.  February? 1974

Property Tax Increase of 19.4 Mill for Orleans Parish School Board.  March 23, 1988

Property Tax Increase Request from Orleans Parish School Board Endorsement.  September 3, 1986

Property Tax Millage for Orleans Public Schools.  October 10, 1974

Property Tax Millage Yields Estimation (New Orleans).  September 9, 1986

Property Tax Proposal (4-mill) for Jefferson Parish School Board Opposition.  July, 1998

Property Taxes in New Orleans: Who Pays?  Who Doesn’t?  And Why?  October, 1996

Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, & Economic Development: Summary.  November 18, 1985

Proposal to Include New Orleans Firemen & Policemen in the State’s Municipal Fire & Police Civil Service System.  November 20, 1975

Proposal to Reduce or Eliminate Amusement Tax.  October 17, 1979

Proposed Amendment to the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans.  December 3, 1975

Proposed Amendments to the New Orleans City Charter.  March 15, 1977

Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Remove the Homestead Exemption from Municipal Millage in New Orleans.  August 25, 1982

Proposed Constitutional Amendments.  September 8, 1982

Proposed Jefferson Parish Bond Issue & Sales Tax for Sewerage, Sheriff & Cities.  May 18, 1984

Proposed New Orleans Bond Issue.  March 27, 1984

Proposed New Orleans Operating & Capital Budgets for 1984.  November 19, 1983

Proposed Plan for Solving the Property Tax Relief Fund Distribution Problem.  August 20, 1972

Proposed Public Safety Millage.  January 13, 1987

Proposed Revisions – New Orleans City Charter.  January 24, 1977

Proposed Revisions –New Orleans Charter, Second Version.  March 2, 1977

Proposed Sales Tax for Transit, Orleans Parish.  December 18, 1984

Proposed Sewerage Service Charge Increase.  July 19, 1982

Proposed Water Rate Increase, New Orleans [with addendum].  March 1, 1976

Propositions on the November 6, 1990.  October 1990.

Public Belt Railroad – Charter (New Orleans) Amendment Vote, November 12, 1977.  November 7, 1977

Public Employees (see City Employees)

Public Facilities Financing for New Orleans.  May, 1982

Public Safety Millage (New Orleans) Proposed.  January 13, 1987

Public Safety Property Tax Increase (12 Mill) Opposition.  January 9, 1987

Real Property Service Charge Proposal by the City of New Orleans Review & Analysis.  November 9, 1998

Real Property Service Charge.  September, 1986

Rebuilding New Orleans: Financing Public Facilities.  May, 1982

Referenda Issues in Orleans Parish, November 19, 1983.  November 11, 1983

Regional Transit for the New Orleans Area: Take the Parts & Make Them Whole [précis].  February, 1981

Registration of Voters in Louisiana, Alden L. Rowell & Emmett Asseff.  1951

Removing the Limit on Mayoral Terms in New Orleans.  June 24, 1983

Report on Proposed Louisiana Constitution.  April 5, 1974

Report on the New Orleans Fire Department: The Impact of Recent Budget Reductions on the City’s Fire Fighting Capabilities.  May 1, 1989

Report on the Orleans Parish School Board’s Millage Proposal [executive summary].  April 4, 1988

Report on the Orleans Parish School Board’s Millage Proposal.  March 22, 1988

Restructuring New Orleans City Council.  August 2, 1972

Results of New Orleans Bond Election March 15, 1975.  April 1, 1975

Retirement Plan (New Orleans) Summary.  February 22, 1994

Retirement System (New Orleans Employees).  December 20, 1973

Retirement Systems & Benefits, & Public Employer-Employee Relations Letter to Legislature.  May 29, 1975

Retirement Systems (New Orleans Employees).  December 13, 1974

Review of the 1976 New Orleans City Budget.  August 24, 1976

Roemer (Governor) to Be Guest of Honor & Featured Speaker at BGR Annual Luncheon.  November 5, 1987 (see: vertical file)

Roemer’s (Governor) Tax Restructuring Plan Summary.  April 29, 1989

Roemer’s (Governor) Tax Restructuring Plan Support News Release.  March 30, 1989

Rowell, Alden L. & Emmett Asseff.  Registration of Voters in Louisiana.  1951

Sales Tax Elections in Jefferson Parish.  April 1, 1976

Sales Tax Extension.  March 11, 1983

Sales Tax in the New Orleans Area – When? Where & How Much?.  June 6, 1980

Sales Tax Increase for Jefferson Parish.  January 9, 1981

Sales Tax Increase Support.  May 4, 1982

Sales Tax Increases & Charter Amendment in Orleans Parish.  October 17, 1980

Sanitation Strikes (New Orleans) of 1968 & 1969.  February 9, 1970

School Board (see also: Orleans Parish School Board)

School Board Millage Proposal for 1986.  September 1986

September 13 Election: Hotel-Motel Tax Increase.  September 9, 1980

September 27 Ballot.  September, 1986

September 29 Ballot Propositions in Jefferson & St. Tammany Parishes.  September 12, 1984

Service Charge (Real Property).  September, 1986

Service Contract (Professional) for New Orleans Public Business.  October, 1990

Sewerage & Water Board (see also: New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board, & Water & Wastewater)

Sewerage & Water Board Addendum to the Water Revenue Bond Election.  October 22, 1975

Sewerage & Water Board Drainage Service Charge Proposal.  October 8, 1985

Sewerage & Water Board Fee Proposal.  February, 1999

Sewerage & Water Board Privatization at a Critical Stage.  June 2002

Sewerage & Water Board Sewerage Service Charge Increase.  July 19, 1982

Sewerage & Water Board Special Tax Election.  Nine Mills for Drainage.  May 8, 1981

Sewerage & Water Board Systems in New Orleans Privatization Proposal Analysis.  June 15, 2001

Sewerage & Water Board Water Rates Schedule Approval Recommendation.  March 31, 1976

Sewerage & Water Board Water Revenue Bond Election & the Capital Bond Election of New Orleans.  October 22, 1975

Sewerage & Water Board Water Revenue Bond Election.  October 22, 1975

Sewerage Service Charge Increase.  July 19, 1982

Single Appointed Assessor for New Orleans.  April, 1985

Special Memo.  Analysis of the City’s Finances.  June 3, 1970

Sports Commission’s Proposed Economic Impact & Assessment in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area.  June, 1988

St. Bernard Parish – A Charter?  October 29, 1984

St. Bernard Parish November 19 Ballot Referenda.  November 10, 1983

St. Bernard School Board Professional Services Contracting.  June, 1998

St. Tammany Parish & City of New Orleans Proposed Charter Amendments.  September 8, 1982

St. Tammany Parish Ballot Propositions.  April 22, 1983

St. Tammany Parish Home Rule Charter: An Assessment.  May, 2002

St. Tammany Parish November 19 Ballot Referenda.  November 10, 1983

St. Tammany Parish Referenda March 26.  March 11, 1983

St. Tammany Parish School Board Ballot Propositions.  September 1, 1983

St. Tammany Parish September 29 Ballot Propositions.  September 12, 1984

St. Tammany School Board Professional Services Contracting.  June, 1998

State Problems (see: 976.31(352.05)B952s)

Statement of Louis D. Brown.  City Planning Commission Public Hearing, Audubon Park, Wednesday, June 18, 1975

Status Report on 1995 City Capital Program (New Orleans).  November, 1997

Status Report on the City’s Operations.  August 16, 1974

Stone, Harold A.  Confusion in Our City’s Ranks.  August, 1934   

Story of What the Bureau Is Doing.  December, 1934

Student-Base Management Information System (Orleans Parish School Board) [follow-up report].  May 24, 1988

Study of the Judicial/Parochial Agencies in Orleans Parish.  June, 1991

Subject of Property Assessments.  Comparison of Tax Bills ad valorem vs. Whann.  February 17, 1970

Subject of Property Assessments.  Whann Proposal, Pros – Cons – Conclusions.  February 19, 1970

Subject of Property Assessments.  Whann Proposal.  February 10, 1970

Summary of Governor Roemer’s Tax Restructuring Plan.  April 29, 1989

Summary of Proposed State Constitutional Amendments to Be Presented to the Voters of Louisiana on October 6, 1990.  September, 1990

Summary of Proposed State Constitutional Amendments, Home Rule Charter Amendment, & Orleans Parish Law Enforcement District Propositions… October 7, 1989.  September, 1989

Summary of Recommendations … on the 1948 Constitutional Amendments.  October, 1948

Supporting Removal of the Homestead Exemption from Municipal Taxes in New Orleans.  August 20, 1982

Tax (Amusement) Reduce or Eliminate Proposal.  October 17, 1979

Tax (Convention Center Expansion) Proposition.  November 12, 1987

Tax (Earnings) Orleans Parish Voters Decision.  October 29, 1984

Tax (Hotel-Motel) Increase for September 13 Election, 1980.  September 9, 1980

Tax (Property) Increase for Orleans Levee District Proposal& New Orleans Capital Bond Election.  February? 1974

Tax (Property) Increase of 19.4 Mill for Orleans Parish School Board.  March 23, 1988

Tax (Property) Increase Request from Orleans Parish School Board Endorsement.  September 3, 1986

Tax (Property) Millage for Orleans Public Schools.  October 10, 1974

Tax (Property) Millage Yields Estimation.  September 9, 1986

Tax (Property) Relief Fund (New Orleans) Distribution Problem Proposed Plan.  August 20, 1972

Tax (Public Safety Property) 12 Mill Increase Opposition.  January 9, 1987

Tax (Sales) & Bond Issue Proposed for Jefferson Parish Sewerage, Sheriff & Cities.  May 18, 1984

Tax (Sales) Election (Jefferson Parish).  November, 1979

Tax (Sales) Elections in Jefferson Parish.  April 1, 1976

Tax (Sales) Extension.  March 11, 1983

Tax (Sales) in the New Orleans Area – When? Where & How Much?  June 6, 1980

Tax (Sales) Increase for Jefferson Parish.  January 9, 1981

Tax (Sales) Increase Support.  May 4, 1982

Tax (Sales) Increases & Charter Amendments in Orleans Parish.  October 17, 1980

Tax (Sales) Proposed for Orleans Parish Transit.  December 18, 1984

Tax (Special for Sewerage & Water Board) Election: Nine Mill for Drainage.  May 8, 1981

Tax (Transit) Proposal, Orleans Parish, Support.  December 18, 1984

Tax Bills ad valorem (New Orleans) vs. Whann in Property Assessments.  February 17, 1970

Tax Levies & Assessed Valuations in New Orleans, 1977 & 1978.  January 16, 1978

Tax Levies & Rates (New Orleans) Changes, 1977-1978.  December 14, 1977

Tax Proposal (Orleans Parish Assessors) on October 3, 1998 Ballot.  September, 1998

Tax Proposition for New Orleans Convention Center Expansion.  October, 1987

Tax Restructuring Plan by Governor Roemer Summary.  April 29, 1989

Tax Restructuring Plan by Governor Roemer Support News Release.  March 30, 1989

Taxes (Municipal) Removal of New Orleans Homestead Exemption.  August 20, 1982

Taxes (New Orleans Property).  October, 1996

Taxes (Property), Sales Taxes, & Economic Development: Summary.  November 18, 1985

Taxes (Sales), Property Taxes, & Economic Development: Summary.  November 18, 1985

Taxing Districts (Jefferson Parish) & the September Millage & Bond Issue Elections.  September 6, 1977

Think Ahead: A Review of Planning the New Orleans Metropolitan Area [volumes 1 & 2].  August, 1984

Three Bond Issues in New Orleans Ballot, November 2, 1976.  October, 1976

Transit (Orleans Parish) Sales Tax Proposed.  December 18, 1984

Trust & Confidence in Government: A National Perspective.  July, 1991

Twelve Constitutional Amendments in 1972.  January 17, 1972

Unionization of City Employees.  Rights & Powers of Public Employees to Organization.  February 20, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  January 22, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  January 30, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  Mediation & Arbitration.  February 25, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  Power of a Municipality to Bargain Collectively.  February 13, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  Power of the City of New Orleans to Bargain Collectively.  February 16, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  So What?  March 6, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  The History: Sanitation Strikes of 1968 & 1969.  February 9, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  The History: The 1967 Firemen Boycott of Voluntary Overtime.  February 6, 1970

Unionization of New Orleans City Employees.  The Right to Strike.  February 23, 1970

Urban Renewal & Capital Bond Elections of the City of New Orleans, 1971.  March 23, 1971

Utilities Regulation in Orleans Parish Charter Amendment.  April 17, 1985

Value of Persistence: Our 50th Year, 1982 [no date]

Vieux Carre Demonstration Study.  October 13, 1969

Voters in Orleans Parish to Decide on Earnings Tax.  October 29, 1984

Voters Registration in Louisiana, Alden L. Rowell & Emmett Asseff.  1951

Water & Wastewater (see also: New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board, & Sewerage & Water Board)

Water & Wastewater Systems of New Orleans Privatization  Proposal Analysis.  June 15, 2001

Water Rate Increase, New Orleans [with addendum].  March 1, 1976

Water Revenue Bond Election of the Sewerage & Water Board & the Capital Bond Election of New Orleans.  October 22, 1975

Water Revenue Bond Election of the Sewerage & Water Board Addendum.  October 22, 1975

Water Revenue Bond Election of the Sewerage & Water Board.  October 22, 1975

Whann, Robert J.  Analysis of the Whann Proposal.  February 12, 1970

Whann, Robert J.  Proposal for New Orleans Property Assessments.  February 10, 1970

Whann, Robert J. Property Assessments Proposal, Pros – Cons – Conclusions.  February 19, 1970

Whann, Robert J., Property Assessments Proposal vs. Tax Bills ad valorem.  February 17, 1970

What Every Citizen Should Know “Facts behind the News”, numbers 25-50 (April 15, 1935-December 28, 1936)

What Is BGR?  October 23, 1973

What’s Your Property Worth?  Louisiana State Tax Commission’s New Procedures & Forms.  December, 1976

Why Have a Research Bureau?  February, 1936

Why Should I Contribute to the Bureau of Governmental Research?  April, 1938

Why the Bureau Is Necessary to New Orleans.  December, 1938

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