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City revises cold-weather shelter threshold to 35'F; central intake and language access emphasized
Summary
Bill Wilson, interim director in Austin's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said the city simplified its cold-weather shelter trigger and emphasized centralized intake, free CapMetro transport and multilingual alerts.
Bill Wilson, interim director of the City of Austin Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, told the Public Safety Commission the city revised its cold-weather activation threshold and is emphasizing centralized intake, transport and multilingual outreach for winter events.
"So we thought it was much easier just to go ahead and make the decision that we're gonna activate it 35 degrees or or colder," Wilson said, describing the city's updated activation rule and the rationale to simplify criteria publicly.
Wilson said the city's cold-weather intake remains centralized at 1 Texas Center. During activations the city partners with CapMetro to provide free transportation to the intake site; the Homeless Strategy Office contracts an initial vendor to shelter the first 300 people and the city staffs and supplies operations if demand…
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