The supply warehouse was included in a $3.4 billion budget City Council approved Thursday.
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“When we needed to buy bottled water after [Uri] … we were on the phone with Arkansas trying to get 18 wheelers down here. We had no stock on hand,” Walsh told reporters in a budget presentation last month. “Twice in the last two and a half years we’ve had to scramble because we didn’t have the inventory of water on hand, or emergency supplies or meals ready to eat,” said Walsh.Elsewhere in the budget, the city plans to fund fourthroughout the city where residents can come to escape extreme weather. They’ll also be used to distribute basic supplies during disasters.
Walsh said the city was still determining where the emergency supply storage would be located and whether officials would construct something new or purchase and renovate an existing space. . That amount does not include the cost of supplies to stock the warehouse.
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