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Committee asks communications team to run PSA prompting residents to sign up for town emergency alerts
Summary
The Public Safety Committee approved a request that the communications department post a public‑service announcement with a link for residents to register for the town’s Alert Miami Lakes mass‑notification system.
The Public Safety Committee voted July 23 to ask the town communications department to publish a public‑service announcement encouraging residents to register for the town’s mass‑notification system, Alert Miami Lakes.
Committee members said the town’s emergency notification system is underused and urged a social‑media PSA and other posts linking residents to the registration page, particularly with hurricane season underway. The committee discussed who manages the notification system and identified the town’s special projects manager for emergency management (named in the meeting as John P. Ganes) as an internal contact for the platform.
A motion to run a PSA with a registration link passed on a voice vote. Committee members requested that communications include a plain‑language explanation of how Alert Miami Lakes works, and that staff confirm who in town is authorized to issue mass notifications in emergencies.
No change to the town’s notification policy was approved at the meeting; the committee only authorized outreach to increase resident enrollment in the existing Alert Miami Lakes system.
