St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer created a 15-member committee to help the city's Office of Recovery shape the immediate tornado repair priorities and execute them with thoughtful community input.

During its meeting on Wednesday, the Tornado Recovery Advisory Committee focused on short-term solutions for winter shelter, case management, creating resource hubs, identifying funding gaps and winter outreach.

“This effort is too big for the city to solve, but we also recognize we've lacked the coordination with the groups on the ground and with all of us more broadly to actually drive that collective effort,” said Julian Nicks, St. Louis’ chief recovery officer. “We're excited to have this committee finally here to … figure out how we drive better planning, how do we think and drive our coll

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