New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell says she turned over the keys to the controversial Pontalba apartment some time ago, but did not specify when in a new statement sent out around one o' clock this morning.
The administration insists that, "The French Market Corporation... has had custody and control of the keys."
This comes as New Orleans City Council Vice President J.P. Morrell this week said that Cantrell missed a Monday deadline to surrender the keys.
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The council was set to take up eviction proceedings at tomorrow's meeting.
The Council passed a law over the mayor's veto months ago to rent the Pontalba apartment to the public instead of letting the mayor use it for her own purposes.
It's not clear why... if she surrendered the keys, she didn't tell the council and the French Market Corporation didn't say they have the keys to the apartment.
Cantrell says, "There have been no impediments restricting The French Market Corporation from entering the unit since the City Council Ordinance was passed."
Her release says the French Market Corporation has been in Unit 530B "on multiple occasions to make assessments of that unit" since the council demanded the mayor get out.
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