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Council backs updating inclement-weather policy, seeks costs for expanding shelter triggers
Summary
Staff recommended updating the city’s 2019 inclement weather policy to name the Denton Community Shelter (run by Our Daily Bread) as the city’s overnight shelter and to replace simple temperature thresholds with a health-based heat-risk metric and an overnight wind-chill test that can include precipitation. Council generally supported the changes
The Denton City Council on Sept. 9 discussed revisions to the city’s inclement weather policy and gave staff direction to adopt administrative updates that reflect current practice and to evaluate changing the temperature triggers for opening overnight shelter space.
Community Services Director Jesse Kent described the staff proposal to formally designate the Denton Community Shelter, operated by Our Daily Bread, as the city’s overnight inclement-weather shelter and to update the policy language so it matches public communications (using the terms “warming” and “cooling stations”). He described three possible heat triggers: the city’s current practice of opening when the heat index reaches 100°F after 7…
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