We get back on our feet. We will pay you back 100 fold. Mark my last question. The federal government, where do you see them in your community now . Doris icn this point, they are at this point see theyre beginning to pull out. The process,ith they have a longterm Recovery Team in place, but most of that support system is being withdrawn. Longterm presence, but a longterm smaller presence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] announcer thursday, Hurricane Katrina attend anniversary coverage continues. Joinema administrator environmentalist, journalists and others as they evaluate recovery. Norlinpresident obama in new orleans to meet with residents. Our live coverage begins at 5 00 p. M. Here on cspan. Coming up next on cspan, november 2005 townhall meeting in norlins, moderated new orleans, moderated i the mayor. By the mayor. 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Victims anurricane opportunity to voice concerns about the lack of services, inadequate emergency housing and other issues. Former mayor c. Ray nagin moderate. Moderated. As you come forward, take your time and lineup. You know the routine. You dont have to hurt yourself, because we will be here for at least two hours. We will take all of your information. Spunkly appreciate the iness coming out of a citizens. Lets keep going. Before we start, just a reminder that each question, comment about war concern is at a two minute time limit. I will alert you before cutting your mike. We do have a copy of the report which the mayor just went over. We do have contact phones and emails for all of louisiana house and senate representatives, and all of your u. S. Congressman. Tableare all on the back as you go out. With that, you can begin your first question. Do not forget to fill out your questionnaires. Me before i do that, i see a couple of elected officials. We have the councilmember, rene gill pratt. Councilmember lewis is in the back. We have District Attorney, eddie jordan. The office is being represented. We do have some other elected officials here. Moving forward is the hardest direction. If the world would just know what you and the rest of us have gone through, it seems like the images i am getting from my friends in los angeles, everything is fine, we are all ok. We need to let them know we are not all ok. Two that i would like to discuss, i represent the musicians of new orleans probably. I have about 800 that have united. We have been committee communicating for the first time in history. The songs being written now will be some forever. We need to unite, get behind you, you are our leader. Between now and election, you have a lot of work to do. We cannot just wait for elections and get behind anyone, we need to get behind you now. These next 12 weeks will be history for music as we know it in america. Thank you. Thank you. It is good to hear that the musicians are organized. That is one of the areas i have been worried about. Musicians, andur senior citizens. It is good to hear that musicians are coming back, thank you. Good afternoon. , want to speak to the mayor you talked about bring back new orleans. You had this committee i saw on tv. I kept saying to myself, where people . The new orleans these people are making decisions about our property . That is one concern. The next concern as, you say you would like for us to flood the congress. To do the ought oldfashioned thing that Martin Luther king used to do, lets go on the bus. Lets go on the bus and not leave until we get an answer. all right. I am not talking about going there i am talking about getting an answer. Country,an destroy a and build it up again, why cant they fix the state. amen. Nagin [applause] maam, just to let you know the Commission Members are made up of new orleans people. We have subcommittees available for any member of the public to participate in. We can get you information on when they need, you can join any committee you want to. Thank you. Yes maam. I am from theoon, leroux bed and breakfast. As blessed ended up get and did not get water. Unfortunately i cannot operate properly because of a lack of gas. I know that the gas people may be doing work, but they are not in my estimation, as a business person, a retired business teacher, they are not doing the best they can do. I am educated, i have done everything i could. I emailed Don Hutchinson. I have gone to your office, i have gone to energy. I am one who clearly understands how gas operates. I did not have water. They said they are pumping water out. It has been eight weeks. I am in the cold. I cannot do business. I cannot take advantage of all of the Business People coming here, i am concerned. I think we need a commission, a group or something of people to let you know what energy is doing. I do not think there properly handling the areas the way they should. There are a lot of people who do not understand exactly what to do. Six on my side when i saw this happen. I absolutely need your help. I do not think energy is understanding that i did not have water. I really want my gas so i can take advantage of all the People Living in the city, perhaps survived this dramatic situation. I would like to help anyone else who needs help, jumping over hurdles. A lot of people do not know how to answer or stand up for what they need to have done. I need gas. C. Ray nagin what area . . Avenue is flynn a i am at esplanade avenue. C. Ray nagin maybe he can address your concerns. The area youre talking about, we did have a lot of water. The lowpressure gas lines were affected. Although you may not have had water in your neighborhood or in your house, because of the design of the gas system, it is a network system, built like a spider web. The water can enter the system from an area a mile away. Ant to get there, it is process we use where we have to tap into the main, and stuck the suck the water out. In this case, we have a lot of water. Under our houses next to mine that have gas. The lady to the right has gas. The good news is, if the house is near you are getting gas, you are not far behind. , they call it chased water trouble chase water trouble. Apparently the area you are being served by is a low point preventing gas to get to your area. Exactly, if you can see me and give me your specific address, i will go ahead and get the information specifically for your area to let you know what the eta is. C. Ray nagin we will try to accommodate your. Accommodate you. I am a senior, you said you were worried about them. Online ousecleaning a house leaning on mine. I have no hope until it is off. C. Ray nagin it is still leaning . Yes. let me get your address again. Give that to me before we leave. I will personally follow that. Afternoon. Asked ask, who am i . I am a new orleans at citizen who has a vested interest in the recovery. It is hard to believe the United States is spending nearly 1 billion per week in iraq and here, in new orleans, the United States, we are being neglected. Eg e have to tag b electedplead with our officials that we need help. [applause] this is the United States of america. The young lady mentioned earlier, we did revealed japan after destroying it. , a specificorleans cultural design. I love new orleans. , we as new orleans citizens, our first step is to show the country that we are rebuilding. Highrise and the you come down, there is no signs of rebuilding. We need to clean up those roads. The state will not do it, we need to do it. Get some prisoners there. Pick up the trash. We need to show them that we are actively participating in our recovery. [applause] 15 seconds. The person who handles the wardens, get out there and pick up the litter. Show them that we are trying to start somewhere. Right where it stands now, new orleans, United States of america, we are citizens, we demand that our president steps up. Step up and be there for us. We have paid our taxes. Thank you. C. Ray nagin thank you. [applause] good evening. Eloise, as a community activist, mr. Mayor, i do not you do not see me too often, but i am there to say look at my community. Right now what i see i do not like. Katrina has passed and gone, but we are still living in debris. We organize to move all of this out of the way so work can be done. It is months now. I came homee on the fifth of november. To this day i am trying to get caught get my utilities back. Cable sent me a bill. Saying . What im we need to stop playing games. Stop playing thanking everyone is naive. I dont want to pay Energy Anything and say i will wait later for them to pay me back. They will not. I am not looking to pay no 200 upfront. At the party that told you not to have money. I was not there. I am not going to be responsible for anything that is not my doing. You,ayor, i want to say to thank you. Bus, no fair. Fare. I could not believe it. I said, thank you mr. Mayor for that. There is a whole lot of things that are keeping us from functionally functioning properly. , my home was not damaged, but a little bit. Because of the debris and all of this, i cannot get anything done. C. Ray nagin you said you live in algiers . In the cut. That ladyin see behind you, give her your address. We will get the debris taken care of. All right, thank you. Mr. Mayor, i am reverend howard. Can you get closer to the microphone. Dont cut me off. Two minutes. [laughter] i amam here because appalled. First of all at fema. Mr. Mayor, you gave them your parks. R the trailer one. E seen is, what isas fema need to have to put those trailers where the requests were made . Where are they . What is wrong with you . Does that mean that you are that incompetent . All of our citizens want to come back home. Speak for yourself. I cannot find a place. I even requested a trailer be placed on my home. That was in october. I have not heard from them. Energy to come up with some foolishness that you what . Ut in to get power . Why have you not call for help to put the power back on the lines, like parrish avenue. What is wrong with you . The citizens want to come back, but what are you doing . Sitting on your behind. Tired. I am hurt. Representativeis who submitted legislation to the state letting the state take over the School System where our citizens are suffering in new orleans. Where was your common sense . We are suffering. Dont take that lightly. Want the assistance i am supposed to get. I have not gotten it yet. I have to get out of the hotel room by the third. I have been waiting on the trailer since october. The measurements have not been taken. It is unfair. Mr. Mayor, demand a Public Service call for help. I went to a river in oklahoma. Those people in those communities did not mind helping one another, just like here. You need help. You cannot do it by yourself. reverend, if you could, lets get fema to help you. If you could come on the side. You are a little fired up right now. I trust, he is a reverend. It will be all right. Next question please. , i am not a reverend, but i am fired up because you said all of the debris hauling is going out to people from new york, chicago, california. Anytime a man bring a truck from that far, you know there is money involved. We as local people did not get any of that. That a mangone shame lives in the city of new orleans , house is paid for, we dont get nothing. That is a shame. C. Ray nagin i agree. I will get you with Don Hutchinson and see if we can help. , another thing i want to say all of the contracts in november, they went out to the , cousins,s friends state representatives, city council people. That is not right. [applause] at a labor rally in baton rouge, she asked me to have a truck that loads from the rear, if i had the contract, i couldve had that truck, it did not matter. We need the contracts. It is not right. You are talking about new orleans coming back, my house is paid for. If we live like this, it is not right. C. Ray nagin lets see if we can do to help. I will get you with Don Hutchinson. He has been able to help some businesses. Maam. Good afternoon, i have a home in algiers. The high water cuts are electricity off every afternoon. I have lost food. Fema put us in apartments with no refrigerators. Another thing, bring people back to new orleans. Where will the kids go to school . 90 of new orleans has kids. On Algiers Point there is a school open in good condition, they fired 30 teachers at one of the toprated schools here. Me tod mimi reregister a 10yearold adopted child. She is going to stay in jefferson parish. Rta drivers are driving at will. Hourspicked up after two on a bus. She was driving slowly and not picking up passengers. Lastly, the people coming in from baton rouge on the bus is terrible. They need to leave them in baton rouge. This morning i got off of the bus, i had to step over bags of clothing that they just throw from canal street all the way to tulane. It is a disgrace. Our future is our children, if they do not open the new orleans School System it will be a disaster. No one will get Social Security past 2006. C. Ray nagin thank you. It is my understanding the School System is starting to open up some schools. Can i Say Something . Five days from 10 00 until 2 00. C. Ray nagin all right. Thank you. I was here before and at the last meeting. I was instructed to talk to the derailment, i have never heard back. In the meantime, i was waiting on him to get a job, i bought a truck. Explain to me about those zones. The reason i am saying this is i pick up the debris in front of my house. Dishwashers,waves, im in my house, picking up my washer and dryer. A gentleman pulled up and said you are in the wrong district. He said, this is my zone. I said yes, this is my house. The fact is, that was my washer. Make the money off of it, not him. Explain to me how my city, if i go across the street from where i live, it is a zone. Somebody from mississippi. Somebody from maryland, somebody from washington dc, because i am in their zone that is federal property, they go to jail. Enough is enough. Who sold new orleans . When did this happen . Where did the zones come from . In,can Big Companies come big trucks come in and i have microwaves and dishwashers piled up to the ceiling. I lost everything. Up asaying, i cant pick washing machine, if i pick it up, i go to jail. I have to pay a license to the city to pick up trash . Who gave them permission to zone off new orleans . No one can me. O me explain it to thank you for your question. C. Ray nagin are you ready . Pickup is basically being managed through federal contracts they come through the core of energy engineers. This is my understanding. I believe, dont quote me on this, there were four or five major contracts left. As they were left, they divided the city of into zones. I think there are four zones. Each contractor was given the responsibility for the pickup of the debris in that particular zone. I think that is what you are running into. There is no scenario that i can think of where if you are picking up debris, you would go to jail for violating a zone. I laughed at him. I called the police for him. Saying is, how in the world can you tell me you have a zone. C. Ray nagin let me make sure you understand the situation that were in. The city is has no revenue. Begging fored to loans from the federal bank, all, and chase of the money that is being used to clean up the city is being controlled at a home of the level. Hold other level. All we can do is say we want this lady to participate. We are having some success, we dont have other success. That is what is happening. That is how the zone thing happened. Revenue coming in . i wish i could tell you pay you to do the work. You are not hearing me. Getting half of what i make. I get half of that. C. Ray nagin it is a little deeper. What can we do help . I should be illegal anywhere be able to go anywhere. dawn, can you help her get through the bureaucracy of the debris cleanup. She knows what she is talking about. Fallon, i would like to thank you and the numbers of the council that are here today for all of your efforts. At times it seems like a think thankless job. These are difficult times and i am proud of everyone that is works for the city and us. I am hoping you can help me with my problems, they are minor compared to others. My house did not flood. Our neighborhood where i have been living for a number of years, the crime there is bad. I am not getting a lot of help from the police. There are people that have moved into dilapidated houses in my neighborhood. These are people who are not working. They are drunk in the morning, at night. Theyre selling drugs in front of my house. I have called the police. I have been referred to different sergeants in the department to call. I have called them, i have left my name, number. I have gotten no response. One night last week a group of these guys living in this one house or having a major party with a bonfire. They were shooting off firecrackers, bottle rockets, this was before the rain. Saidled the police, they they will let someone know to dr