02.14.12 Howard Rogers was working for the Bureau of Aging in the 1970s when the New Orleans agency was regulated by the state Department of Health and Human Resources. It wasn't pretty, said Rogers, now the executive director of the renamed New Orleans Council on Aging.

"It really didn't function well because of the bureaucracy," he said Monday.

That's why Rogers and his Council on Aging counterparts in some other parishes are alarmed that Gov. Bobby Jindal wants to move their operations from under the oversight of the governor's office to the state agency now known as the Department of Health and Hospitals. Rogers and Al Robichaux, director of the Jefferson Council on Aging, said they will fight that move as vigorously as they can.