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City highlights National Preparedness Month; staff urges alert signups and household kits
Summary
The city’s emergency management team presented outreach and preparedness metrics — including thousands of alert contacts, distributed preparedness passports and household kits — and flagged joint regional deployments and preparedness events for residents and schools.
Alicia Gimbel, Richardson’s director of emergency management, briefed council on National Preparedness Month and described recent outreach and operational work aimed at building household and community resilience.
Gimbel said the communications team has issued thousands of alerts in recent months (for example, dozens of severe‑weather messages), distributed about 5,500 preparedness passports over two years and more than 2,000 household preparedness bags through community events, and engaged roughly 78 scouts in a public‑safety merit‑badge day. She recommended residents sign up for local alerts at cor.net/alerts and described regional deployments where Richardson personnel assisted flood response in other Texas counties, bringing lessons learned back to the city.
Council members thanked staff and suggested continued focus on outreach to diverse language communities and posting materials online so residents can easily build emergency kits and plans.
