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Latino Advisory Board launches bilingual WhatsApp channel; trustees support recognizing it as official town outreach
Summary
The newly formed Latino Advisory Board told trustees it will roll out a bilingual, one-way WhatsApp channel for town announcements and asked the board to recognize it as an official communication channel; trustees expressed support and urged two-way contact options for residents.
Members of Carbondale’s Latino Advisory Board gave an update to the Board of Trustees on a new outreach plan and asked the town to recognize a bilingual WhatsApp channel as an official communication platform.
The board, which launched in January and has been meeting weekly, said it plans a two-phase rollout for the WhatsApp channel. Phase 1 will transmit one-way notices such as meeting alerts, trash-pickup information and safety alerts; Phase 2 will expand to trusted…
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