00:01Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back. Thank you for joining us again. July 5th today, Judge Carter of Tom Green County.
00:10We are coming back to do an overall assessment again. One more release as we have been overnight from yesterday's
00:19events, the substantial rain event that we saw with the flooding northeast side of town and the north sector 2105
00:25ranging down all the way to Bell Street was with the main affected areas.
00:30First of all, what I'd like to do is thank all of the agencies that have been involved with county
00:37and city, all the first responders between sheriff's department and the San Angelo police department, all of the volunteer fire
00:45departments, the San Angelo fire department. We had many responders out there making sure that the life and safety of
00:53all of our citizens were being taken care of and all the rescue efforts were complete in a
00:59in a good manner. Tremendous efforts through it all. I'd also like to thank Teetum, the Texas Department of Emergency
01:07Management, Sean Baxter and his team here. He is our chief for emergency management in this area. It has been
01:15a tremendous effort working with them to make sure that we get all of the documentation side of it,
01:24all the paperwork side of it, the administrative side of it that you don't think about in a disaster like
01:30this taken care of. It's been truly a pleasure so I thank them. DPS, I want to thank DPS and
01:37the helicopter with the two pilots,
01:40with Justin Baker, also their efforts with aerial views, the ride that Mayor Thompson and I were able to get
01:49up in the air and assess that area to see exactly where we were truly effective and then we've formulated
01:57a map out of that to show on a GIS map to see exactly how extensive it was. State and
02:04federal officials, August Pflueger's office,
02:08Congressional District 11, Drew Darby, Senator Charles Perry, thank you all for reaching out, making sure the efforts that we
02:18needed were being taken care of and asked always if there's anything that we need. We're still formulating through it
02:24to see exactly how we'll be reaching out in the future. All of the local non-profits, the United Way,
02:31Cameron, thank you. I think she's, she might have, she hiding behind,
02:37Thank you, Cameron. It's been a tremendous effort working with all the non-profits, the United Way, the volunteer sector
02:44of it. We live in a great community. When a disaster like this happens in Tom Green County and San
02:52Angelo and the surrounding areas, our citizens come out in droves to make sure that we're taking care of our
02:57own. So thank you all very much.
02:59Paul Ann Church, Paul Ann Church, they were able to open up one of their facilities for the housing of
03:06the individuals that were displaced. Thank you for that, along with taking in the donations.
03:12Contra Valley COG, Contra Valley Transit, they were able to help and aid in the transport after being rescued for
03:19the individuals that were displaced. And the general citizens, like I said, of Tom Green County and the city of
03:27San Angelo and the surrounding areas. Thank you so much for that.
03:31I want to emphasize more now on what we've touched base on a couple times now in the last two
03:37press conferences, what is called the ISTAT. That is the documentation needed for individuals to gain assistance, hopefully, from the
03:47federal level if it meets thresholds.
03:51One sector that we have not touched on is the agriculture sector. If you have any agricultural loss, whether it
03:58be fencing,
