"Residents and staff are a tight-knit group. Those relationships survived the storm. It became my number one priority to get everyone under one roof again after this horrible tragedy. I consider the residents and staff of St. Margaret’s to be like family and I wanted to bring them back home."

"When I came to the District and toured the buildings, I quickly realized that the schools were in disrepair due to lack of preventive maintenance over a period of years. The equipment was older and in disarray, the louvers were dirty, and the incandescent lights in the gymnasium were buzzing. …