NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 02: New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks onstage through the 2022 Essence Pageant of Tradition on the Ernest N. Morial Conference Heart on July 2, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photograph by Paras Griffin/Getty Pictures for Essence)
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Mayor LaToya Cantrell attends the U.S. Convention of Mayors’ 91st Annual Assembly (USCM) this weekend in Ohio.
The USCM convention will interact with prime federal officers and talk about challenges impacting cities throughout the nation, together with public security, local weather, state preemption, reasonably priced housing, and psychological well being.
The convention will particularly concentrate on addressing well being outcomes within the metropolis with Cantrell on the panel dialogue titled “Advancing Local weather and Fairness Plans: A Framework for Neighborhood Design Excellence,” alongside USCM Second Vice President Mayor Andrew Ginther of Ohio.
On Saturday (June third) Mayor Cantrell will take part in an Surroundings Standing Committee Roundtable. The panel will share the revolutionary greatest practices from mayors on a of environmental matters, resembling local weather change and resiliency, inexperienced transportation, renewable power methods, utilizing streetlights as EV charging stations, lead pipe removing and making certain environmental fairness.
Whereas in Ohio the Mayor may also attend a panel titled “The Energy of Coverage: A Well being-Centric Method to Governing” on Sunday (June 4th).
That convention will hear from mayors who’re taking a health-centered strategy to governing resembling bettering the accessibility of metropolis streets and making certain households have entry to protected and reasonably priced housing.
“Taking part on this 12 months’s annual assembly of the U.S. Convention of Mayors with my brother and sister mayors and numerous top-level federal brokers will proceed to make sure that we’re using a holistic strategy to draw initiatives and initiatives that can uniquely profit the residents we serve,” mentioned Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
“Federal officers lean on the shared experiences of mayors and converging over 170 mayors in a single house is one of the best ways to relay and have interaction with our federal companions. Now greater than ever, we, as mayors, have to be intentional and artistic in our strategy to creating our cities extra equitable by prioritizing infrastructure enhancements, crime prevention, workforce growth applications, psychological well being initiatives and addressing our elevated challenges offered by local weather change.
I’m honored to proceed augmenting our partnerships on the native, state and federal degree by way of the U.S. Convention of Mayors,” she mentioned.
