AUSTIN, Texas — Uvalde’s mayor and its state senator say a one-stop resiliency center created to provide aid to victims’ families in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting is failing to provide adequate aid and should be taken over by the state.
The accusation came in a letter from state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to remove Uvalde’s district attorney from oversight of the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.
They said in a letter to the governor’s office that the center has only provided “meager” benefits in the form of two weeks of bereavement pay to the families of the 19 children and two teachers killed in the May 24 shooting.
