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Public Safety Committee approves summer outreach program and asks for larger FY26 budget
Summary
The committee approved a social-media push and a small paid run in the Miami Laker for four public-safety topics, and voted to request a higher FY2025–26 budget allocation to fund ongoing awareness and materials.
The Public Safety Committee voted to launch a multi-topic public-awareness push this summer and to pursue paid local advertising to amplify messages.
Committee members agreed the campaign will cover water and pool safety, school-zone safety during back-to-school, elderly safety (including phone-scam and fall-prevention outreach) and fireworks safety. Carlos, the committee chair, moved that the committee pursue social-media posts and a paid insertion in the Miami Laker; Nancy Rogers seconded the motion and the committee approved it by voice vote.
The committee also approved immediate funding reallocations from its current-year line items and voted to request a larger FY2025–26 allotment. For the current fiscal year the committee voted to move $1,500 to educational materials, $1,740 to the awareness account and $100 for shirts; that motion passed by voice vote. For the next fiscal year the committee voted to ask the town to increase its committee budget to $6,000, proposing an allocation of $5,000 for community awareness and $1,000 for educational materials.
Why it matters: the town’s outreach aim is to get quick, high-contact reminders to residents before seasonal hazards (for example, pool season, summer and fireworks) and to sustain year-round messages about school-zone safety and elder scams. Committee members and staff stressed social media as the first, no-cost step and agreed the town’s communications team would adapt an existing “Lock it or Lose it” visual for reposting. “We want to make your job super easy,” the chair said while discussing the ad creative and sheriff badge update.
The committee asked staff to coordinate the timing of posts with school schedules and other seasonal campaigns and to track outreach performance; staff said they would also provide postcards and flyers for neighborhood distribution and to include Vision Zero outreach where relevant. The motions carried by unanimous voice votes (ayes; no opposed votes were recorded).
