The Texas Emergency Management Assistance Teams program, or TEMAT, is an emergency response framework that brings together participating agencies to assist local jurisdictions during disasters and critical situations.

At a June 2 meeting, the Kyle City Council approved a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with the Texas Division of Emergency Management, the department that coordinates TEMAT, to join the program.

The overview: TEMAT brings trained personnel from participating local and state agencies to serve as a coordinated response team in the case of emergencies, according to agenda documents.

Jurisdictions can authorize their employees to deploy regionally or statewide during a crisis through MOUs, formal, non-binding documents outlining an agreement between two entities.

Diving deeper: Personnel from a variety of city departments could be deployed to an emergency depending on the need and the city’s availability, said Kyle Police Department Chief Jeff Barnett.

Participating TEMAT agencies receive full financial reimbursement from the state to cover responder and backfill staff costs, including wages, benefits, travel and per diem, according to agenda documents.

Editor's note: This article is based on a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations filing. Community Impact will provide updates as more information is available.

Beginning with the 2026-27 school year, Texas State University students will have a new Mexican food option on campus at the Jones Dining Center.

The gist: The university will remodel the dining center to accommodate the city’s first QDOBA Mexican Eats location. Construction is slated to be complete before the beginning of the school year.

The site’s remodel was scheduled to begin on June 1 and be completed on Aug. 15, according to the filing.

On the menu: The chain Mexican restaurant serves classic dishes, from bowls and burritos to tacos and quesadillas.

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Check out six upcoming or ongoing transportation project updates across the Austin metro.

Upcoming projects
Austin will commit $104M to support future I-35 decks: Austin will commit more than $100 million to support future public amenity decks covering portions of I-35, after a scaled-down alternate proposal was tabled this spring. The city would develop larger caps and smaller stitches to cover the interstate, connecting downtown and East Austin with public decks that could house parks, plazas and small buildings or venues. Building all caps and stitches is now estimated to cost about $400 million, added amenities across all decks could cost nearly $260 million, and maintaining the structures will cost about $9 million annually once they're in place. 

Ongoing projects
Construction on Austin Avenue bridges in Georgetown to resume: The southbound Austin Avenue bridge decks will be demolished beginning this month in preparation for new bridge construction. Demolition will take approximately two months, and both bridges are anticipated to be completed and open to traffic next April. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed June 3 that a case of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly, was detected on a cattle ranch in South Texas.

The overview: The case marks the first domestic detection of screwworm in a decade and the first Texas case in approximately 50 years. The flesh-eating parasite is a threat to the state’s $15.5 billion cattle industry.

Zooming in: No additional infestations have been identified, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told reporters. Federal and state officials have emphasized that they do not anticipate issues with the food supply chain, as the screwworm only targets live animals and does not infest meat, fruit or vegetables.

However, experts have warned that a larger, prolonged screwworm outbreak could cause a spike in beef prices.

A widespread infestation is estimated to cost Texas at least $1.8 billion per year in damages, according to a USDA analysis of a 1976 screwworm outbreak. Texas cattle, sheep and goat producers would face about $732 million in annual losses.