San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg announced on Tuesday that he would be forming a new committee to discover how the city can better prepare for situations like last week’s winter storm in the future.
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San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg is creating a committee of council members to review what went wrong at CPS Energy, the San Antonio Water System and emergency responses during the statewide winter storm and energy crisis.
The committee will be responsible for reviewing the preparedness, communication to the public since the storm began and resilience for any future storms. In a memo to the City Council, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said the community deserves answers.
While the water and power utilities will likely conduct their own reviews, Nirenberg said this new committee is meant to conduct a full public accountability on all fronts.
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Community advocate Queta Rodriguez helps Arnulfo Lopez, 65, who is legally blind, set his thermostat for heat shortly after electricity returned to his apartment after several days without at Col. George Cisneros Apartments in San Antonio on Feb. 16, 2021. Lopez had never used the heat due to sinus issues in his five years of living there but felt he had to have heat now and could not read it on his own.Lisa Krantz, Staff / Staff photographer
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenbeg has appointed a panel to investigate whether city government could have done more to prepare San Antonio residents for last week’s devastating winter storm, which cut off power, heat and water to a significant chunk of the city.
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