The new-look management team that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will introduce during a 1:30 p.m. news conference includes the former director of the state agency that ran the controversial Road Home program, a veteran state legislator, a pair of trusted advisers from the lieutenant governor's office and others with extensive experience in state and city government.
Atop Landrieu's organizational chart, which features a revamped chain of command headed by six deputy mayors, is Andy Kopplin, who was hand-picked by former Gov. Kathleen Blanco to head the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the powerful panel that acted as the conduit for more than $25 billion in federal recovery aid following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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