NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Mayor LaToya Cantrell embarked Monday (Sept. 18) on her second taxpayer-funded trip to France in the past 14 months, City Hall announced.
A statement from the mayor’s office said Cantrell is making a six-day sojourn to the European nation in order to renew a “sister city” agreement with the French town of Orleans, and also to experience the Orleans Loire Festival and the inaugural Paris New Orleans Jazz Festival.
The mayor is scheduled to return to New Orleans on Sunday (Sept. 24).
It was in July 2022 that Cantrell journeyed to France to sign a “sister city” agreement with the mayor of Antibes Juan-les-Pins, a chic resort town near Nice on the French Riviera.
That trip for Cantrell and three aides cost more than $40,000, according to records obtained by Fox 8. The mayor’s first-class flight alone cost almost $18,000.
Cantrell eventually was forced to repay more than …