Ed Quatrevaux expresses disappointment in airport board
New Orleans Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux said Tuesday that the New Orleans Aviation Board has failed to implement seven of the nine changes it agreed to make in 2009 after auditors told it to change its take-home vehicle policies. The original inspector general's report in 2009 said the board, which runs Louis Armstrong International Airport, did not effectively control fuel use and records, did not properly record or report employees and board members' use of take-home vehicles and did not properly calculate the fringe benefits associated with allowing employees to have the vehicles.
Louis Armstrong International Airport was photographed in January 2007.But upon a follow-up review, the inspector general found the aviation board didn't use a fuel monitoring and tracking system it purchased, didn't comply with city inventory requirements and didn't put controls in place for the disposal of vehicles.
Quatrevaux did say the aviation board managed to reduce the number of take-home vehicles in accordance with the auditors' 2009 recommendation. In January, board director Iftikhar Ahmad stated that all but two vehicles in the take-home fleet had been parked.
But the inspector general expressed disappointment with the board's failures:
"This follow-up review indicates that the NOAB, despite statements to the contrary, has continued to avoid the task of managing its vehicular assets. The OIG will review these findings with the NOAB in 2012."