City Council lays out two-year, four-year to-do lists: Preparedness, ‘whole gamut of housing’ to be addressed – March 23, 2021

City Council lays out two-year, four-year to-do lists: Preparedness, ‘whole gamut of housing’ to be addressed – March 23, 2021

At a goal-setting session in January 2019, the city aimed to reestablish its community emergency response team, stream live meetings and work with the school district to bring a reservoir to the new campus. They helped accomplish all three. The CERT team is in operation and populated with volunteers, meetings are presented electronically on the city’s youtube channel, and the reservoir at the new campus are complete.

“Our feeling is, if you set goals, they need to be measured and accounted for,” Mayor Jay Barber said at the time….

Read the article in the Seaside Signal here.

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