Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has issued a new call for a sanitation provider in the French Quarter and Downtown Development District, potentially reviving a controversy that has engulfed City Hall for more than a year as New Orleans transitions to a new mayoral administration.

The new “request for proposals,” released on Oct. 10, calls for a six-month service term to begin on Dec. 23, when an existing one-year emergency contract with IV Waste expires. The start date is three weeks before the inauguration of Mayor-Elect Helena Moreno, who avoided a runoff with an outright victory in the Oct. 11 primary election.

The term is unusually short for a contract that isn’t awarded on a low-bid emergency basis. Council President JP Morrell called it “absolutely bizarre” that Cantrell i

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