At the Assembly meeting held on Tuesday night, members of the Assembly received a brief update from the mayor’s office on the response to the crisis. Issues from how to feed the evacuees a native diet to long-term housing have come into view.
ANCHORAGE , Alaska -It’s been a little under a week since the Anchorage Assembly adopted an emergency ordinance that Mayor LaFrance signed. At the Assembly meeting held on Tuesday night, members of the Assembly received a brief update from the mayor’s office on the response to the crisis.
Issues from how to feed the evacuees a native diet to long-term housing have come into view. “It’s difficult to import a thousand people, plus or minus, into your community overnight, everybody has needs they came with, the bag they could carry,” Anchorage Assembly Chair, Chris Constant said. “The food services that we have here aren’t like the food that people live with out in Western Alaska, the traditional ways of life, and so, the people responding to this emergency are working really hard to find food that actually meet the needs of these folks.” The briefing comes days after the state made the announcement that evacuees could be back in Western Alaska in a matter of weeks, while city leaders say they’re ready to stick it out for the long haul. ”Winter is approaching, if not already here,” Contant said. “I think that, practically speaking, this whole conversation is going to be in months and years, not in days and weeks.” “I think we all saw the photos from Kipnuk and Kwig and other communities, and we know there was significant damage, not just to individual homes, but all of the infrastructure that people rely on,” Anchorage Assembly Vice Chair, Anna Brawley, said. While the city prepares for the process to take months or even years, the hope exists that a presidential disaster order will come soon to help fund services. “I think that all of the individuals who are responding to this crisis are waiting patiently and in need of that federal declaration. Because at this point, the state is spending, the municipality is spending, the western boroughs are spending, the school districts are spending and so, we definitely need some relief,” Constant said. Even without the declaration, city leaders say they will continue to help the evacuees no matter what. ”We’re the hub of the state when it comes to transportation, emergency services, and so, it is our duty and we will figure out how to get reimbursed, we will do our part, but we’re not going to parse the pennies on the way to taking care of saving lives,” Constant said.‘We started drifting away and going in circles’: Descriptions of homes being lifted and carried away with people insideTexas state parks announce first-ever ‘Fat Squirrel Week’ ‘I tried not to cry’: Evacuee parents watch students head off to Anchorage schools for the first time this week ‘I tried not to cry’: Evacuee parents watch students head off to Anchorage Schools for the first time this week
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