Any decision we make will have to be based on cost savings, ... I'd like to see a full proposal on how the county could save some money. |
I am extremely concerned that there will be donor fatigue, ... This is the fifth or sixth major disaster in a span of 18 months, and we worry and we pray that the American public will continue to come through. |
I am pleased to stand before you and report: Jasper County is in good standing. |
People are responding at a record pace, |
The driving issue right now is the evacuation of New Orleans and where we're going to house all those people. We've got 23,000 people being bused to Houston today, |
The Salvation Army is preparing to respond to two of the largest natural disasters in our nation's history, simultaneously, ... Our sole focus is to ensure that our resources are safe and in place to meet the immediate needs of people affected by Rita, and to ensure that our care for Katrina survivors continues unimpeded. |
We are running out of food, running out of supplies, and are finding it extremely difficult to find food and supplies. |
We don't intend to let SPA stop our progress or to just sit on the land until they eventually come up with a plan of their own. We will seek legal proof that they even have an economically viable plan for developing this property. |
We don't know if this is going to work, but we're going to try it and I very much cast this as a first attempt. The odds are by 2 [o'clock] in the morning, you may have more people headed home than headed elsewhere. |
We felt that in light of the guilty plea that the integrity of the gift had been compromised. |
We have a plan and financing to make this project a reality while providing wide public benefits. |
We're getting phone calls asking for teams to rescue people still trapped in their homes, |
We're going to let our attorneys review the ruling and see what we can do to get our port built. Obviously, there are more hurdles we have to jump. |
We've tried desperately to rescue 250 people trapped in a Salvation Army facility. They've been trapped in there since the flood came in. Many are on dialysis machines. |
When things were not moving as fast as we thought they should, that's when we went out and found a private developer to try to get this thing built. |