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Holtville staff move to buy 100,000 emergency notification texts; council discussion on opt-ins and rollover
Summary
Staff moved to purchase the maximum package of 100,000 text messages for $750 to sustain the city's emergency/text-notification program; council and staff discussed opt-in counts, message usage, rollover, geofencing and subscriber controls. The transcript records the motion but does not provide a complete vote tally.
Holtville staff moved to purchase an expanded emergency/text-notification package (100,000 messages) for $750 and described current usage and subscriber patterns to the City Council.
The staff presenter said the city currently has “a little over a thousand” opted-in phone numbers and that a prior allotment (50,000 messages) lasted roughly seven months; staff proposed buying one hundred thousand messages to carry through the remainder of the contract and into the next year.
Staff described operational details of the service: messages can be targeted by drawing a map area, the database is populated in part…
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