League City leaders reflect on COVID-19 during State of the City
Little did they know the city would face a global pandemic just over a month later. While city officials touched on drainage and flooding during the 2021 State of the City held Jan. 29, a lot of the discussion concentrated on League City surviving and even thriving as a result of the pandemic. City Manager John Baumgartner said one of the hardest challenges the city faced was when 11 of the 12 fire marshal’s office employees either contracted COVID-19 or was quarantined. Through that experience, the city adapted, Baumgartner said. For instance, the city began doing fire inspections virtuall...