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Claudia Garofalo couldn’t enter the newly renovated Nix Public Library branch on Monday morning (March 6). During the five-month, $320,000 library renovation, the city neglected to make the 1930 building Americans with Disabilities Act compliant. Watch as Landrieu and the city’s Communications Director Tyronne Walker discuss the matter with Garofalo.

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