City Council Member Vanessa Fuentes says, 'We already know we are expecting freezing temperatures starting Thursday. We need to give our community time to make arrangements.'
City Council Member Vanessa Fuentes says, "We already know we are expecting freezing temperatures starting Thursday. We need to give our community time to make arrangements."The City of Austin says it's prepared to activate cold weather shelters, but its policy says decisions on whether to active them are determined no later than 9 a.m. the day of.
City Council Member Vanessa Fuentes is questioning that policy. In a Tweet, Fuentes said, "The issue here is WHY wait until day of to activate the shelters? We already know we are expecting freezing temperatures starting Thursday. We need to give our community time to make arrangements." The Austin Firefighters Association also questioned this policy in a Tweet, saying "When it is highly probable that life threatening weather is coming in…there is no reason to wait, we should show a little leadership, plan ahead and announce the plan to those in the most risk."
The City of Austin policy requires certain criteria to be met before cold weather shelters open. It needs to be 32 degrees with rain or a wind chill of 32 degrees or colder. And, again, the policy says decisions on whether to open the shelters are made no later than 9 a.m. on the day of.
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