INGLESIDE, Texas — For the past couple weeks staff have been moving back into Ingleside City Hall, which had been gutted by Hurricane Harvey.
Water and mold made both Ingleside's City Hall and the next door City Annex unusable since the storm struck two years ago. City Manager David Huseman said it has cost at least $340,000 to renovate the buildings.
"We redid some of the areas to make them function better, and the citizens really have noticed that," Huseman said. "Before we didn't have a conference room like this, so before they'd be going to somebody's office or back here or over there, and now they can come here. We can talk. We can look at the map. The Google Earth. We can look at their properties. They really seem to appreciate it."
Huseman said the City had been doing business out of a storefront at Bay Vista Shopping Plaza but City employees are glad to be back at the redone City Hall.