I was glad to see the city released this graphic . . . 3 months later. What is frustrating is that when the storm hit, the city was begging for volunteers (which I agreed with) but was not bothering to tell citizens that the city was chipping in also. As you can see from the graphic, city employees helped, quite a bit (this is also good). So why did the administration think this had to be a big secret at the time? To prove we have amazing volunteerism in this community? I think a lot of us knew that already. I really believe the city did not decide to move forward with city assistance until pressure was put on the administration by certain city councilors. While I think spreading praise to volunteers is a good, why did it take 3 months to talk about the contribution of city workers we pay for with our taxes and Federal disaster relief? When the next natural disaster occurs (which I understand could be this spring with even worse flooding) I highly suggest the city department in charge of communicating assistance (mayor’s office) to the citizens does it promptly, and doesn’t wait 3 months to put up a graphic on Facebook.

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  1. "Very Stable Genius" on December 17, 2019 at 8:54 pm said:

    As one who lives in one of the neighborhoods hit by a tornado in September, I just want to thank everyone for their help. 🙂

    ( and Woodstock adds: “Yah, and my new nest is even better than the pre-tornado one”…..)

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