Supervisors BREH AND ARGOTSINGER offered the following Resolution and moved its adoption:

RESOLUTION APPROVING EXPANDED COUNTY AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR PROGRAM

WHEREAS, Resolution 269 of 2003 adopted the Fulton County Policy for Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) Units and authorized a collaborative agreement with the County of Fulton and Dr. John Glenn, MD to supervise an AED Program; and

WHEREAS, NYS Public Health Law requires that a policy be established identifying protocol and guidelines for usage of said units; and

WHEREAS, after reviewing said plan, medical director Dr. John Glenn and the Civil Defense Director/Fire Coordinator recommend expanding the County Automatic Defibrillator Program to improve the treatment potential available to a cardiac arrest patient; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the “Fulton County Policy for Automatic External Defibrillator Units” be expanded to include eleven (11) additional County building locations in accordance with the Civil Defense Director/Fire Coordinator’s plan memorandum, dated September 7, 2021, describing said expanded AED Program and submitted to the Standing Committee on Public Safety on October 25, 2021; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That the Civil Defense Director/Fire Coordinator and EMS Coordinator do each and every other thing necessary to further the purport of this Resolution; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That certified copies of this Resolution be forwarded to the County Treasurer, Public Health Director, Sheriff, Civil Defense Director/Fire Coordinator, All County Departments and Administrative Officer/Clerk of the Board.

Seconded by Supervisor HOWARD and adopted by the following vote:

TOTAL: Ayes: 18 Nays: 0 Absent: 2 (Supervisors Goderie and Potter)