BATON ROUGE - One of Mayor-President Sid Edwards’s top workers is moving to a different job focused on efficiency.

The Chief Efficiency Officer position was created by the Metro Council last month, and in the new role, Charlie Davis says he has some plans to run the city-parish differently.

In government, there are a lot of moving parts, and in East Baton Rouge, Pennie Landry keeps her eyes on all of it. She sits at a kitchen table covered in meeting agendas and city-parish budgets.

“If you call adding new positions efficiency, I'd say they're doing very well,” Landry said.

On the mayor-president’s staff, Chief Administrative Officer Charlie Davis is taking on a new role focused on efficiency in East Baton Rouge.

“Right now, our citizens are over taxed and under serviced, and we have

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