HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2015.12.09 - 22150MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #15322 December 9, 2015
BY: Public Services Committee, Bill Dwyer, Chairperson
IN RE: SHERIFF'S OFFICE-ACCEPTANCE OF GIFT DONATION OF NASAL NALOXONE (NARCAN)
FROM COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #83204 adopted a policy for Gift Donations; and
WHEREAS the Department of Community Mental Health would like to donate to the Sheriff's Office
approximately $20,000 worth of Nasal Naloxone (Narcan Kits) which has the ability to assist in a heroin
drug overdose; and
WHEREAS Nasal Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that can be used to counter the effects of opioid
overdose by displacing the opioids from the receptors in the brain that control the central nervous system
and respiratory system; and
WHEREAS the Sheriff's Office has Deputies fully trained in the use of administering Narcan nasal kits,
and
WHEREAS the Sheriff has agreed to accept the donation of the Narcan nasal kits.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners acknowledges
and accepts the gift of the Narcan Nasal Kits to the Sheriff's Office from the Department of Community
Mental Health.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Dwyer absent.
Resolution #15322 December 9, 2015
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee, There were no objections,