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Cooling center finder and hours of operation
1:13:37
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Christina Farrell explains how the cooling center finder works, emphasizing the importance of checking for up-to-date information on cooling center availability and hours during heat emergencies. Council Member Narcisse responds with her thoughts on home air conditioning.
- The cooling center finder website is activated in advance of a heat emergency
- Each cooling center location has its own specific hours of operation
- Users need to check the website for current information on which centers are open and when
- Council Member Narcisse reiterates the importance of focusing on providing home air conditioning, especially for seniors
- Narcisse suggests that home air conditioning could be a more cost-effective approach compared to extensive air quality testing
Christina Farrell
1:13:37
Right.
1:13:37
So that's why on the we we list if you go on the cooling center finder today, it will show you the locations, it'll say that we're not in a heat emergency, it'll tell you to check back.
1:13:49
When if say June twenty third of this year becomes a heat emergency, we will activate the website in advance and then you can click.
1:13:58
If your office was a cooling center, you would click on it and it would say it's open nine to five Monday through Friday.
1:14:05
If the cooling if the heat emergency went into Saturday, it would then show that your office is closed.
1:14:11
So we always tell people to check ahead because library like my branch library, I know Thursdays it doesn't open till twelve but it's open till eight.
1:14:19
It's open Saturday ten to five.
1:14:20
Sundays it's not open.
1:14:22
So every location has different hours.
1:14:25
So people, you know, there is a little work you have to do to to make sure that the site is open.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:14:31
I appreciate it.
1:14:32
That's where I go back to trying to get the smartest way out of it, trying to get individuals especially the seniors if they can have the just having a home air conditioning that would be ideal approach right now because we're talking about how expensive it is for us to do the air testing quality and all that.
1:14:52
So now by starting, think that's one of the area we should be pushing for.
1:14:56
So thank you chair, thank you so much.
1:14:58
I'm moving back and forth.
1:14:59
I'm sorry that I'm just sitting in one place because I have two hearing.
1:15:02
I apologize.
Christina Farrell
1:15:02
There's a