The Tuesday, March 18 filing comes a week after Council President JP Morrell expressed his “dismay and concern” surrounding Cantrell’s recent trip to Washington D.C.
Cantrell was attending the Yale Mayor’s College Conference when a letter was penned to Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montaño and Director of Finance Romy Samuel.
It read that on Feb. 27, the council adopted Ordinance Cal. No. 34,984, a Travel Moratorium “temporarily banning precisely this kind of non-essential travel and the incurrence of nonessential-travel-related expenses”.
“It is legally irrelevant that the Mayor’s latest lark was announced before the Travel Moratorium
took effect. The law clearly prohibits employees both from “engag[ing] in non-essential travel”
and “incur[ing] any non-essential-travel-related expense” between March 9 and April 30. So,
even if the expenses were approved, the act of travel itself is also prohibited. This interpretation
is underscored by Section 1(f) of the Travel Moratorium, which contemplates reimbursement for
travel expenses already incurred when travel must be cancelled because of the ban. If preapproved or pre-paid travel was exempt from the ordinance, then this provision would not be necessary,” said Morrell.
He adds that Cantrell did not veto the bill ultimately making it law.
The restraining order reads:
IT HEARBY ORDERED that Petitioner’s Application for a Temporary Restraining is GRANTED, and that a Temporary Restraining Order is entered against Defendants, The City Council of New Orleans and, Council Members Jean-Paul Morrell (President), Joseph Giarrusso III, Eugene Green, Lesli Harris, Frederick King III, Helena Moreno and Oliver Thomas in their official capacity as members of the City Council of New Orleans, enjoining, restraining, and prohibiting Defendants from enforcing the provisions of Ordinance 30239 due to the Ordinance being unconstitutional an its face and violation of Home Rule Charter.
The order will remain in effect for at least 10 days or until the date of the hearing on Petitioner’s request for issuance of a preliminary injunction.
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