The damage is not as serious as we had expected it to be. The evacuations worked. |
The damage is not as serious as we had expected it to be. The evacuations worked. |
The efforts at issue were performed independently of the State to fulfill the organizations' own public service mission. In addition, an accurate valuation for much of these services cannot be determined given that the State did not accept a donation for which it tracked time spent and other costs. |
The process of recovery is difficult and we continue to provide rental assistance, apartment locater services and housing referrals to help evacuees take the next step in securing longer-term housing. |
There is no reason for anyone who sustained hurricane losses not to make that call and get whatever assistance they are eligible to receive. |
These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution. |
This has to be a partnership, because ultimately the communities are entitled to take responsibility and empower themselves. |
This is not going to be easy folks, it's not going to be fast. Recovery is a slow, methodical process. |
We are going to have situational awareness over this storm to make sure that we know what's going on and we can provide the equipment and the supplies that that particular community needs. |
We are not making any assumptions in this storm. We are asking questions. |
We have caseworkers down there, and most people have already received rental assistance. I just gave approval to purchase 10,000 more travel trailers. We're working also with some of the apartment owners to rehab some of the apartments down there. We are going to make sure that people are taken care of. But the judge recognized that, and recognized that the right thing to do is to get them out of hotels and into some decent housing. |
We lost roofing tiles and our prized pink grapefruit tree. |
We will now use competitive strategies everywhere possible placing priority on the use of local and small disadvantaged businesses as we move into the long-term recovery phase. |
We're going to get people out of the shelters. We're going to move on and get them the help they need. |
We've been doing surveillance of the refineries. So far what we see is minimal damage and we hope that holds, but we'll continue monitoring that to make sure that we can get those refineries back on line as quickly as possible. |