WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:08.3720000" NOTE recognizability:0.863 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.550 Then the people have spoken. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:02.480 Starting in January, NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:04.202 the New Orleans City Council will NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:04.202 --> 00:00:06.359 have final say over who the mayor NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:06.359 --> 00:00:07.949 appoints to certain top position. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:07.950 --> 00:00:09.774 Yeah, the City Council supported the NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:09.774 --> 00:00:12.208 change that was on the ballot this week. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:12.210 --> 00:00:13.730 The mayor, not so much. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:13.730 --> 00:00:15.250 Paul Murphy's joining us in NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:15.250 --> 00:00:17.068 studio with more on that tonight. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:17.070 --> 00:00:19.510 Paul Sharise as a result of that vote, NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:19.510 --> 00:00:21.442 the City Council will soon have approval NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:21.442 --> 00:00:23.458 powers over the mayor's top appointees. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:25.406 Supporters of the amendment said it was NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:25.406 --> 00:00:27.409 not designed to target Mayor Cantrell. NOTE Confidence: 0.85622805 00:00:27.410 --> 00:00:30.700 She doesn't see it that way. New NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:30.700 --> 00:00:32.896 Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell says she NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:32.896 --> 00:00:35.668 will abide by the will of the people. NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:35.670 --> 00:00:36.735 Tuesday, voters overwhelmingly NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:36.735 --> 00:00:39.220 approved a change to the city charter, NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:39.220 --> 00:00:41.308 giving members of the City Council NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:41.308 --> 00:00:43.475 the authority to confirm or deny NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:43.475 --> 00:00:44.895 City Department heads, including NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:44.895 --> 00:00:46.670 the police and fire superintendents. NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:46.670 --> 00:00:49.141 Until now, the mayor had the sole NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:49.141 --> 00:00:51.290 power to select the city's top NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:51.290 --> 00:00:53.768 appointees. We are a strong mayor city, NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:53.770 --> 00:00:56.914 a home rule charter. And so I do NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:56.914 --> 00:00:59.403 believe that it has been proposed NOTE Confidence: 0.87580353 00:00:59.403 --> 00:01:02.530 with taking a shot at me. The vote NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:02.530 --> 00:01:05.370 came as a major blow to the mayor, NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:05.370 --> 00:01:07.771 who lobbied against the proposition in a NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:07.771 --> 00:01:09.946 recent quality of life survey conducted NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:09.946 --> 00:01:12.112 by the University of New Orleans. NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:14.542 Only 31% of the respondents said they NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:14.542 --> 00:01:17.087 approved of the job Cantrell is doing. NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:17.090 --> 00:01:19.004 Uno pollster Dr Ed Chervenak said NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:19.004 --> 00:01:20.990 because the mayor is struggling, NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:20.990 --> 00:01:23.426 she did not have the political capital NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:23.426 --> 00:01:25.838 to fight off the charter change. NOTE Confidence: 0.87415063 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:26.180 If NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:26.180 --> 00:01:28.518 she had come out and forcefully said, NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:30.550 well, we can't do this, they're NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:30.550 --> 00:01:32.650 probably would have been even more NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:32.650 --> 00:01:35.220 vote for it as a result, because she's NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:37.899 not very popular right now, sherbak is not NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:37.900 --> 00:01:39.028 surprised the amendment passed. NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:39.028 --> 00:01:42.069 When you you put it in terms of transparency NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:42.069 --> 00:01:43.600 and accountability, that's what NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:44.852 people are buying into. NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:44.852 --> 00:01:47.146 Cantrell believes the real focus of the NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:47.146 --> 00:01:48.956 proposition is eliminating the powers NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:50.964 of the mayor. The real impact NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:50.964 --> 00:01:52.978 is not me. The real impact NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:52.980 --> 00:01:54.900 is on the governing structure of NOTE Confidence: 0.8448751 00:01:54.900 --> 00:01:57.950 the city of New Orleans. Beyond me. NOTE Confidence: 0.8834865 00:01:59.450 --> 00:02:01.465 Current city Department heads can NOTE Confidence: 0.8834865 00:02:01.465 --> 00:02:04.112 keep their jobs, but any top mayoral NOTE Confidence: 0.8834865 00:02:04.112 --> 00:02:05.902 appointees after January 1st will NOTE Confidence: 0.8834865 00:02:05.902 --> 00:02:08.369 be subject to Council confirmation.