The Hays County Child Protective Board will have a larger Rainbow Room after the commissioners court approved a license agreement giving the board space. At its meeting on April 18, the court decided to allow the board to use space at the county property located at 401 C Broadway Street in San Marcos.
The Rainbow Room is where the board stores and displays goods needed by children and families and takes care of children. Speaking to the commissioners court in February, Karen Brown said the board had been using a 610 square-feet space to store and display supplies. She said there was no space for children to bathe when they are removed from homes on an emergency basis and need to be cleaned. The board had been renting spaces for storage because there was not enough room.
“We cannot take donations,” Brown said in February. “... For example, beds that are needed, we are offered donations of hundreds of diapers that are needed, and we have no place to put them.”
