Key West City Commissioners will dive into a packed, 30-item meeting agenda tonight, May 4.
The agenda is slated to cover big items like recommending changing South Roosevelt Boulevard to one lane each way with a center turning lane; an overview of the fiscal year 2021-22 city budget, where budget workshops are starting this week; and a resolution instructing the city manager to work with members of the Frederick Douglass Black Educators Memorial Project to find an appropriate space in Bahama Village for a museum dedicated to honoring former teachers from The Douglass High School. Those teachers educated generations of Black students from 1871 to 1965, when the schools in Key West and Monroe County were finally desegregated.
we urge everybody to stay inside. if you don t need to be out, don t go out. and in this kind of situation, you don t need to go out, stay off the streets, it s very dangerous. joining us now by phone is major general diana holland, the south atlantic division commander for the army core of engineers, thank you very much. we understand that you met with governor mcmaster earlier today. so what did he want you to focus on? he will get well, he s got the same focus for us as he does nor everyone which is to be vigilant and be as ready as possible. and to be ready to respond to whatever as the storm passes. paramedics are going to be out there. what s your biggest concern as you watch all of this damage and all of this flooding? well, of course, you hear a lot about the flooding.
let s go to todd who is with the army core of engineers. thank you for joining us. as we re talking about flooding, we re talking more about flooding in the united states with this storm than we are about other types of structural damage. talk to me about the work the army core of engineers have done and what s underway now. thank you for asking that question. before i get into what the core is doing, it s important that everybody knows that this is really been a phenomenal effort by the entire team. we have done about 15 of these major storms. you and i talked last year in the middle of florence. everybody is cross talking, states, local governments, the army, erbe is all in. and after 15 storms, i m not sure that the coordination before the storm could have been any better. agility is a big thing here. this storm has been all over the map. so everybody both the states and federal government has had to move a lot of the teams around
sort the problem out of the asylum seekers down there, in the northern triangle and also worked with mexico on the migrant protection program, now that they go back to mexico to wait and in addition, this threat of the tariffs really got and i can tell you because i ve been down in the southern border for about the last three or four weeks he s got the mexican marines and the mexican military up on the northern border to stop the cartels this is all about the cartels. they control the border on the mexican side. what president trump is doing is trying to break the back of the cartels and now like your previous guest said from a couple of weeks ago or last week getting that defense money that 2.8 billion president trump and the army core of engineers are starting to build a new wall and replace old wall on the southern border so i think things are heading in a positive direction, but that s because president trump having fought everybody from congress to the media to the progressive lef
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