A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 7:43 p.m. in the Aldermanic
Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman Ben Clemons led in the Pledge to the Flag.
President McCarthy
Before | ask the Clerk to take the roll, Alderman Deane and Alderman Dowd are participating by
telephone and under the terms of the state law that allows them to do that, they need to explain
why they can’t attend, if they can hear us, and who they are with, if anyone.
Alderman Deane
| am out of town. | am with myself and | can hear you loud and clear.
Alderman Dowd
| can hear you. I’m on vacation. I’m in Lucerne, Switzerland and I’m by myself.
President McCarthy
Acknowledged that those present could hear Alderman Deane and Alderman Dowd as well.
The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present.
Alderman Deane and Alderman Dowd were not in attendance but participated in the meeting via
telecommunication.
Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
President McCarthy
Does the Mayor wish to address the Board?
REMARKS BY THE MAYOR
Mayor Donchess
| wanted to address two issues with you tonight. Both are on the agenda. The first is the Safe Stations
transfer. You have on your desks tonight a report regarding the statistics on the Safe Stations Program
through yesterday. First | want to say and thank the fire department, NFR, the firefighters, Harbor Homes, and
AMR, and everyone who’s been participating in this program. It has been more successful than we thought it
would be in the beginning.
As you can see over 500 people have reported to a safe station. Many of them are in recovery. In addition of
the number of people reporting has been going up from one a day or so at the beginning and now it’s
averaging closer to three a day. As you can see from the overdose report, there apparently has been an
impact on the number of overdoses. Even overdose calls which of course our fire department already
responds to. Even though the drugs are becoming more powerful and you can see that from the level of
Narcan that’s being administered, even though the drugs are becoming more powerful, now we have more
fentanyl, carfentanyl than before. The number of overdoses still bouncing up and down a little bit but is
consistently lower than last year.
