CodeRED continued with $87K Grant
On Nov. 3, the ETCOG Executive Committee approved an eighth year of funding CodeRED, a reverse emergency notification system, for the East Texas region as a part of its public safety program. The CodeRED system, funded by a Homeland Security grant, is a telephone communication service that allows the county/city Emergency Management Coordinator to quickly notify citizens about emergency situations such as: Tornados and storm events; Drinking water contamination; Utility outage; Evacuation notice and route; Missing person; Fires or floods; Bomb threat; Hostage situation; Chemical spill or gas leak; andOther emergency incidents where rapid and accurate notification is essential.
The CodeRED system has been contracted through the Emergency Communications Network since 2009 for all of the counties served by ETCOG. A total of eight years of billing with a sum of $985,310 has been granted by ETCOG, to date, to provide East Texas with CodeRED. The new service agreement is for the period of Jan. 1, 2017 – Dec. 31, 2017 and was approved for $87,623.
