San Antonio Committee On Emergency Preparedness Seeks Community Input

Press release from the City of San Antonio:

March 9, 2021

SAN ANTONIO (March 9, 2021) — The City of San Antonio’s Committee on Emergency Preparedness is seeking input from the community as they study the preparedness and response to the recent winter weather event and make recommendations on future preparedness efforts.

As a starting point to this process, the City will review and categorize existing qualitative data collected from social media channels and calls for service to 911 and 311. Thousands of residents communicated their needs and opinions in real time during the actual event. Staff will categorize these calls and comments and present them to the Committee for a baseline understanding of public input at the time.

In addition to this information, the committee is inviting residents to ask questions or share comments with the committee. Residents can participate by:

• Visiting www.sanantonio.gov/Emergency-Preparedness-Committee;
• Calling 311 or;
• Texting SAEmergency to 55000.

Comments and questions can be provided in English and Spanish. Residents may submit comments and/or questions through March 31.

Emergency Response Committee Members:

• Chair - Reed Williams, former City Councilmember
• Dr. Adriana Rocha Garcia, City Council District 4
• Ana Sandoval, City Council District 7
• Manny Pelaez, City Council District 8
• Clayton Perry, City Council District 10
• Lisa Tatum, former assistant criminal district attorney and president of Texas Bar Association
• General Edward A. Rice Jr. (RET)

More information about the committee can be found at www.sanantonio.gov/Emergency-Preparedness-Committee.

This press release was produced by the City of San Antonio. The views expressed here are the author’s own.