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Emergency management highlights public outreach and warns state funding cut for WebEOC could cost county
Summary
Pinellas County emergency management described robust outreach and preparedness work and warned that a state funding cut for county WebEOC subscriptions would force the county to absorb roughly $125,000 annually for that critical incident-management platform.
Pinellas County Emergency Management briefed commissioners on preparedness outreach, sheltering operations and a newly identified funding shortfall for the county’s WebEOC incident‑management subscription.
Kathy Perkins, director of Emergency Management, said the office has heavily ramped outreach and preparedness activities: the county’s disaster website received more than 850,000 hits during the hurricane expo day and the department ran more than 140 community training events in the fiscal year, reaching roughly 13,000 residents. Perkins highlighted recent outreach to Spanish‑speaking residents and the…
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