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Despite our best efforts at prevention, the Public Safety Department continues to respond to <br />opioid overdoses with unfortunate regularity. With the increasing presence of even more toxic <br />opioid combinations and the threat those drugs place upon the victims and responders, the Public <br />Safety Department reached out to a local foundation, to partner with to purchase the Naloxone <br />responder kits. <br /> <br />The For Jakes Sake Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Jake, a victim of the opioid <br />epidemic, has donated to the City of New Brighton 20 Naloxone First Responder Kits to be used <br />in saving lives. The Public Safety Department will be placing these kits in to service and they <br />will allow us to immediately administer the drug to counteract the physiological effects of an <br />opioid overdose. Staff sincerely appreciates the donation of these kits, and despite the <br />immeasurable tragedy of losing a loved one to this epidemic, staff is confident that the memory of <br />Jake will live on in all of the lives these kits will be responsible for saving. <br /> <br /> <br />________________________________________ <br />Trevor Hamdorf <br />Deputy Director of Public Safety. <br /> <br />Attachments: <br />• Resolution <br />