Fire Marshals Office requests additional staffing

HAYS COUNTY

Hays County Fire Marshal Steve Seddig gave an annual update on his office at the regularly-scheduled Hays County Commissioners Court meeting Tuesday.

“Our population, as everybody knows, is around 300,000 right now, or 680 square miles. The staffing shortages limit our annual business inspections ability, unpermitted development enforcement and the Firewise program, which is a mitigation program,” Seddig said. “We do have a backlog right now because of our inability to do annual inspections.”