Mayor Whitmire’s chief resilience officer departs administration after nearly a year

Angela Blanchard has left Mayor John Whitmire’s administration after serving as its chief resilience and recovery officer for nearly a year.

Blanchard was tasked with determining how the city responds to and recovers from natural disasters, as well as figuring out how to make the city more resilient to storms that might come.

Among the projects Blanchard helped spearhead was Whitmire’s initiative to install generators at critical city facilities that were knocked offline during the mass power outages that came with Hurricane Beryl…

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