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A album of photos of NSCNA’s 2016 Independence Day Parade and Celebration has been posted on NSCNA’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/nscna
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CM Leslie Pool’s office is hosting a North Central Austin Flood Mitigation Forum at Northwest Recreation Center next Wednesday, Aug 10th from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. It will focus on the Flood Mitigation Task Force recommendations presented to City Council in May 2016. Some of the former Flood Mitigation Task Force members will be presenting and there will be time for a question and answer session. Council Members Pool and County Commissioner Shea are confirmed to attend. This meeting will be a great opportunity for North Austin neighbors to bring flooding issues to the attention of elected officials.
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Registering with WarnCentralTexas allows emergency personnel in your local community to directly contact you by phone, text or email during a disaster or public safety event. Using WarnCentralTexas, emergency response teams can warn residents about dangerous conditions and situations as events unfold. They can quickly give specific directions that affect your neighborhood such as evacuation orders and directions to shelters.
Residents must register cellphone numbers and email addresses to get alerts sent to their mobile devices, but CAPCOG has already registered landline phones.
Protect your family, property and self. Sign up for emergency warnings in your neighborhood by voice, text, or email.
CAPCOG’s current vendor for operating this emergency warning tool is CodeRed. Clicking the link below will take you to the CodeRed website to register. CAPCOG and CodeRed will not distribute any information you provide by following the link. Your information will solely be used by your local government to send warning notifications.
http://warncentraltexas.com/
If you can’t register on the website, call 866-939-0911.
From the City of Austin’s Public Information Office
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Austin’s 311 service is more than the non-emergency equivalent to 911. It’s also a convenient, single point of contact for all City of Austin departments. If you have questions, complaints, or compliments (yes, those too!) about City of Austin services, call 311.
All 311 service requests are logged into a database and tracked. Over the years, this database, which is named Socrata, has become a treasure trove of data which is mined by City administrators when budgeting, looking for patterns (for example, graffiti popping up in a new area), and setting priorities (what area has the highest number of reported sidewalks needing repair near schools?).
The more consistently and persistently residents report service needs, the better Socrata’s data. This system puts the burden on us, the neighborhood residents, to tell the City where services are needed. I learned this during a discussion of traffic in our neighborhood. Although there were several complaints about increased traffic on Primrose, a City administrator said they’d only received one complaint via 311. Ouch.
The point I’m making here is, when it comes to City services, say something when you see something. Don’t assume someone else will do it. The goal isn’t to artificially inflate our neighborhood’s priority but rather to provide enough data to realistically portray what our neighborhood’s needs are.
You can download Austin’s 311 app and view data from Socrata at the Austin 311 webpage: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/311.
Posted by Sharon Justice, Chair,NSCNA Media Committee
