County looks into emergency app
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Anita Miller
Daily Record Staff
Riding on the success of the county’s emergency website, plans are in the works to develop an app for mobile phones that would have the same function.
Haysinformed.com was launched last year and proved to be an invaluable resource during the Oct. 31 flood, as well as on occasions since then. The county’s Emergency Coordinator Kharley Smith told commissioners and Hays County Judge Bert Cobb on Tuesday that the app would be owned by the county but free for users to download onto their mobile phones. “It’s just in the concept stage right now,” she said.
Commissioners voted to authorize Cobb to apply to the Texas Department of State Health Services for one-time supplemental funding in the amount of $14,660 under the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program.
“We think it would be a great use of these funds,” Smith said.
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