THE PROPOSED AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION I WROTE AND SENT TODAY TO THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AND DISTRICT 1 REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER NATASHA HARPER-MADISON

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April 24, 2020

Dear District 1 Austin City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison,

Thank you again for your consistently prompt and friendly reply notes to me, including several nice e-mail reply messages you have sent me that directly and specifically referred to an issue I had cited to you in writing. I greatly appreciate your strong support for safe and comfortable housing conditions for all Austin residents, including myself.

As I mentioned to you in a phone message I attempted to leave for you on April 8, 2020, at your official City of Austin office phone number, I have several times asked my duly-elected City Council member, Council Member Greg Casar, to sponsor a City Council resolution honoring all of the 311 telephone-referral-and-information service staff members here.

Since Council Member Casar apparently chose not to take action on that, I am hoping that one of more of you people-friendly and very influential Austin City Council Members (I would have normally included the District 9 Council member in the cc's list for this, but I was asked by an Austin Police Department officer in March 2017, during a surprise visit he made to my apartment unit, to myself refrain from directly writing to or directly calling that particular current Council member, who coincidentally is a reported member of a local religious group that does itself politely accept e-mails from me) will be willing to author or co-sponsor a City Council resolution a bit like the rough draft below (my hope being that a supervisor for Austin 311 service and a reference librarian for Austin Public Library will be wiling to check the accuracy of all of the factual information in this resolution, and offer any suggestions for revision or additional information to cite in this much-deserved resolution praising the entire local 311 staff):

WHEREAS, prompt and year-round access to pertinent and accurate authoritative factual information, including about medical issues, is crucial for all Austin residents of today; and

WHEREAS, the 311 information and referral service of the City Government of Austin is currently providing a 24-hour-a-day hotline-type information and referral service for any and all Austinites victimized by or having questions or concerns about the COVID-19 virus; and

WHEREAS, the current COVID-19 medical crisis makes it doubly imperative that all Austinites have immediate access at any and all times of the day or night to pertinent factual information; and

WHEREAS, the 311 staff for the City of Austin offer diligent and consistently polite and high-caliber factual information and referral services on a 24-hour-day and year-round basis; and

WHEREAS, the City of Austin has offered the 311 telephone-information-and-referral service ever since 2001 for Austin residents seeking to make a non-emergency call to the Austin Police Department, with the polite Austin 311 staff member Mason having provided that factual information on the telephone at 1:12 pm. Friday, April 24, 2020;

WHEREAS, the 311 staff for the City of Austin often provide an initial point of contact for Austin residents with a need to contact the Austin Police Department, Austin Fire Department, or Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services (EMS), with a noteworthy percentage of all 311 calls being very promptly transferred by a 311 staff member to a 911 emergency-services dispatcher for the City of Austin; and

WHEREAS, victims of crime and persons reporting evidence of crime in alleged continuous-crimes cases, alleged human-trafficking cases, alleged-sex-trafficking cases, and other types of crime often rely on the Austin 311 telephone information and referral service for an initial point of contact with the Austin Police Department and other law-enforcement agencies with jurisdiction; and

WHEREAS, the noble 311 staff for the City of Austin have a major role in saving thousands of lives each year in the greater Austin area through their dependably 24-hour-a-day-and-every-day-of-the-year news and information service; and

WHEREAS, many thousands of the Austin-based U.S. Government employees, State Government of Texas employees, Travis County Government employees, and City of Austin employees, and many UT-Austin employees and students, Austin Community College employees and students, Austin Independent School District employees and students, and many local businesses and homeowners and apartment tenants rely on the Austin 311 service on a daily and year-round basis, including during periods when the Texas Legislature is in session here in Austin;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, THAT THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR OF AUSTIN HEREBY PRAISE THE ENTIRE STAFF OF THE AUSTIN 311 INFORMATION AND REFERRAL SERVICE FOR THE NOBLE AND VERY CRUCIAL SERVICE THEY PROVIDE THROUGHOUT EACH YEAR IN THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY OF TEXAS.