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Shelter operator urges more county support; court adopts dating-violence proclamation

Hays County Commissioners Court · February 3, 2026
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Summary

Southside Community Center told the court it operates Hays County's only regularly activated weather shelter and asked for more county support; the court also adopted a proclamation declaring February 2026 Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month and heard from local women—enter leadership.

At the start of the meeting Jessica Cain, Director of Neighborhood Engagement at the Southside Community Center, told the court that Southside runs the only regularly activated weather shelter in the county and that since the shelter's first overnight on Dec. 5 the organization had invested about $8,000 this winter season.

"Southside is the only regularly activated weather shelter in a county of…

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