This schedule is in essence a showcase of Nagin's management style. 

“I delegate on a regular basis and I have regular staff meetings and regular one on ones with my key staff people,” he said.

Nagin did have regular meetings with his CAO Brenda Hatfield and Intergovernmental Affairs Director Kenya Smith. But meetings were less frequent – Eyewitness News counted eight - with recovery director Ed Blakely.

On his schedule Nagin met infrequently with key people in Baton Rouge.

“The governor was conspicuous by her absence,” said analyst Ed Renwick. “There didn't seem to be that many meetings with people from Baton Rouge or the national government.”

“His scheduled shows that he's not really plugged in much,” said DuBos. “Ray Nagin will have Fridays where he works out, has lunch with his wife and then does nothing again until 6:30 p.m. on Monday.”

Eyewitness News counted 34 Fridays with few scheduled meetings and many only had a workout scheduled for the morning, paperwork and downtime in the afternoon. It’s a schedule DuBos calls different from past mayors.

“They were working early in the morning, late at night and on Saturdays,” he recalled.

On an important Saturday in November, the Saturday of the Bayou Classic, the schedule shows Nagin was on vacation, as Eyewitness News had previously reported, in Jamaica.

“For a guy who is an African-American rock star in politics to not be here for the biggest African-American event in the south other than the Essence festival,” DuBos said.

That trip also kept him out of town during some of the city council's budget hearings and when he did return - on Wednesday November 28 - he ended the workweek with little on the schedule.   On the day the council voted on his budget he spent the afternoon doing paperwork and having downtime.

DuBos said it shows that Nagin is disengaged from the process, but others say it’s Nagin’s political strategy and management style.

When asked a while back if he would call himself a ‘hands-on’ mayor, Nagin said that he was hands on ‘when the situation requires it.’

“New Orleans has gone through a period where it's used to the mayor being on site – there,” said Clark. “This mayor comes from the business sector.  In the business sector you manage by committee.”

And sometimes that style doesn't require you to work long hours.

“We had a president of the United States who was a 9-5 president - Ronald Regan - and served two terms,” said Clark. “It's style.”

A style and a schedule that analysts we talked to interpret differently.

“Overall, I look at this schedule and I'm wondering where the rest of the time went,” said DuBos.  “There are a lot of holes there. There are some days packed full and to me a mayor's schedule ought to be packed full every day.”

“A mayoral schedule is like a budget,” countered Clark. “You can look at a budget and dissect it and certain aspects you don't like.”