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in the garage area it’s not that vulnerable to fire; if there were a fire we would probably have a partial loss
and we could recover that through insurance. The joint decision that we made involving the people that |
mentioned and the Risk Manager and a couple of other people was that the best course was to simply
leave the garage as it is and up the insurance and not spend $100,000. In any event | think we are
getting a good start on that project and | think we can accomplish a number of things by undertaking it
which we have discussed before and I’m sure we will discuss again but | wanted to update you on what
had happened. With that, Mr. President, | will conclude.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
Alderman McCarthy
| will comment that while | have tried to make all of the Ward meetings, | will not unfortunately be able to
make the one for Ward 5 which is the Ward | live in, of course, because it conflicts with the JSSBC
meeting.
Alderman Lopez
I'd like to make a comment on the task force for the opioid epidemic. |’m really glad that you are taking
the initiative to really move this forward and address such an important need in our city and I’m also
impressed with the inclusion of somebody who is experiencing or working their way through a recovery
program through one of the stakeholders that you are looking for the task force. | think that will give you
some real insight into the current state of recovery services and act as a necessary party to the table.
I’m just curious if you have thought of coordinating with the drug court program to identify somebody who
might be able to do that who is going through that at this time?
Mayor Donchess
| don’t know if we put on our list that the drug court was there represented by one of the attorney’s.
Maybe it’s not on the list but yes, that’s a good avenue we want to use. | would just say for those who
want to learn more, because | learned quite a bit by watching it, there is a HBO documentary out called
Heroin Cape Cod USA and it’s about heroin addiction on Cape Cod and the focus of it is a series of
interviews with families and mostly younger people who are addicted to heroin and it’s very chilling. It’s
filmed over about six months and there are people who have overdosed and died and one woman
disappeared. It gives you some insight as to what we are really up against. It’s a very worthwhile
learning experience.
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