Year: 2023
Aging Area plan receives abundance of community input
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The Area Agency of Aging of the Capital Area, a CAPCOG division, is drafting its 2024-26 Area Plan after receiving an outstanding number of input from stakeholder meetings held in each county and online surveying done throughout May. The plan,

CAPCOG seeks solid waste project applications
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CAPCOG has issued a call for solid waste projects to local governments in the 10-county region that seeks to fund about $60,000 worth of equipment or community collection events. The deadline to apply for the solid waste funding is June

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21 become peace officers, graduate from RLEA
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The CAPCOG Regional Law Enforcement Academy graduated 21 cadets who all passed their Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Basic Peace Officer Exam on their first attempt. The cadets completed almost 1,100 training hours during the course that started in November

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AAACAP conducts needs survey for 2024-26 area plan
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The Area Agency on Aging of the Capital Area (AAACAP), a division of CAPCOG, is conducting a community needs survey for input on what matters most to older adults and caregivers who live in the 10-county region and to develop

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CAPCOG recommends SHSP grant projects to OOG
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The CAPCOG Executive Committee reviewed and recommended 22 projects seeking State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) grant funding for the Office of the Governor (OOG) at its regular March meeting. CAPCOG has estimated regional projects could receive about $900,000, based on

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March blows in region’s Ozone season
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Public education and outreach efforts are underway for this year’s Ozone Season which started in March and lasts through October. This is when conditions have the greatest chance of producing harmful ground-level ozone pollution according to CAPCOG’s Air Quality Program

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CAPCOG offers BPOC in Hutto
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The CAPCOG Regional Law Enforcement Academy (RLEA) has partnered with the Hutto Police Department to offer an evening basic peace officer course at its facilities in the northeastern part of the region which will make it more accessible to residents

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April honors emergency telecommunicators, educates about 9-1-1
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CAPCOG, in its capacity as the Capital Area Emergency Communications District, will recognize the community service emergency telecommunicators perform for the region during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week — April 9 through 15, and support National 9-1-1 Education Month —

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CAPCOG accepts comments on CDBG MIT-MOD
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CAPCOG is in the public comment period to finalize use of HUD CDBG Disaster Mitigation funding in partnership with the region’s four eastern counties — Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette and Lee. Two public hearings have been scheduled to get input on

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Criminal Justice Program sets grant review meetings
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The CAPCOG Criminal Justice Advisory Committee will review 49 grant applications requesting more than $15.9 million from six criminal justice grant program categories, in which CAPCOG helps prioritize for the Office of the Governor (OOG), during presentations meetings March 20

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