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Washington County tables ordinance to expand multilingual emergency text alerts
Summary
Justice Rivera Lopez moved to table an ordinance intended to fund multilingual emergency text alerts and related "right to prepare" measures; the motion was seconded and tabled indefinitely. Committee members discussed the 10,000-speaker threshold and Census Bureau language data during the exchange.
The Washington County County Services Committee voted to table indefinitely an ordinance proposed by Justice Rivera Lopez that would have supported emergency text alerts and related "right to prepare" measures, including funding for translated notifications.
Justice Rivera Lopez moved to table the ordinance, saying the county's third-party vendor currently lacks capacity to implement the program and she did not want "to put the county in a position to do something that it can't do." Justice Rickard seconded the motion; the chair called…
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