Backup Documents 05/25/2010 Item # 4BPROCLAMATION 4"
WHEREAS, in December 2007 Congress declared the first week of June each year
as National CPRIAED Awareness Week, and
WHEREAS, the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association, together,
support National CPRIAED Awareness Week and the national goal is to
encourage states, cities and towns to establish organized programs that
provide CPR and AED trainings and increase public access to AEDs, and
WHEREAS, National CPR /AED Awareness Week would help increase public awareness
by further educating Americans about the necessity of CPR and AED
training and use to reduce death and disability from sudden cardiac
arrest; and
WHEREAS, the American Heart Association has the goal of training one mil /ion
people during the year 2010, and
WHEREAS, each year approximately 325, 0010 coronary heart disease deaths occur
out of a hospital or m an emergency room and about 95 percent of
cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital; and
WHEREAS, sudden cardiac arrest, which occurs when the heart's electrical system
ma /functions and the heart stops beating, is one of the leading causes of
death among adults /n North America; and
WHEREAS, the Collier County EMS Department has stepped up to the challenge,
setting an organizational goal of reaching a// county employees with the
vita / knowledge and skills to respond to a life- threatening situation with
confidence over the next eighteen months, and
WHEREAS, June 1 through 7, 2010 marks the 501h anniversary of modern -day CPR
as well as National CPR and AED Awareness Week.
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida, that the week of Tune 1 through June 7, 2010 be
designated as
COLLIER COUNTY CPR AND AED AWARENE55 WEEK
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 25th Day of May, 2010.
ATTEST.•
DWI T E. BROCK, CLERK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA