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ORDER-2022-118 : Acceptance of the FY22 AED Grant Program awarded to the Melrose Fire Department by the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Office of Grants and Research (OGR), in the amount of $2,500.00.
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ORDER-2022-118 Grant Acceptance of the FY22 AED Grant Program awarded to the Melrose Fire Department by the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Office of Grants and Research (OGR), in the amount of $2,500.00. Ought to Pass
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▶ 36:01 Jen Grigoraitis: yes, so that carries and chief. If you can just bear with us for one second for some procedural gymnastics. We can get all of your things done in one while you're sitting up there. So I would entertain a motion to take order 2022-18 out of order. some of the second so you have a motion to take order 2022-18 out of order made by counselor Stewart's seconded by Councilor Williams all in favor. Aye any approaches Okay. So now before us is 2022-2018 acceptance of the fy22 AED grant program awarded to the Melrose fire department by the Executive Office of Public Safety and securities office of Grants and research in the amount of 2,500.
▶ 36:47 Speaker 2: Anything you'd like to say Chief. It's pretty straightforward.
▶ 36:50 Speaker 3: It's it was a grant. That we applied for and received. There's no matching to it. It's up to 2500 dollars.
▶ 37:00 Speaker 4: They
▶ 37:02 Speaker 3: AED that would like to purchase it's the same of the ones that we already have on
▶ 37:10 Speaker 3: the trucks on the engines the ambulance have the bigger. They're
▶ 37:12 Speaker 7: not automatic there were life
▶ 37:15 Speaker 4: pack, but this is what would go on the engines the
▶ 37:18 Speaker 7: cars.
▶ 37:22 Speaker 4: It's a free AED. There's no reason why not take to get it. It does across the city anything and if
▶ 37:29 Speaker 7: we would have one to go down. Now we'll have a new brand new one ready to be put
▶ 37:33 Speaker 4: right in towards place.
▶ 37:37 Speaker 3: it also
▶ 37:38 Speaker 4: will allow us the the benefit that if we
▶ 37:42 Speaker 4: had a detail we could actually give the
▶ 37:46 Speaker 7: say an event though Memorial Hall has their own
▶ 37:48 Speaker 4: ad we could give it to the detail person to take it as part of their package. you know to just have with them in the event that's needed but
▶ 38:00 Speaker 3: yeah, it's
▶ 38:04 Speaker 4: pretty straightforward. I don't know the lifespan of these aeds
▶ 38:08 Speaker 3: the ones we commonly have I think are close to 10 years.
▶ 38:09 Speaker 4: And they operate just fine. So
▶ 38:15 Shawn M. MacMaster: Council McMaster, thank you manager Chief. Is this an adult
▶ 38:17 Speaker 8: sized AED?
▶ 38:18 Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah, so the agz.
▶ 38:22 Speaker 7: If it was an infant we'd have to put on. Oh certain age. You wouldn't actually use it at
▶ 38:26 Speaker 4: all but infant pads or an adult pad, depending.
▶ 38:33 Speaker 4: On the knee but yes can handle a doubt.
▶ 38:36 Speaker 6: Thank you.
▶ 38:40 Speaker 2: What is the counsel articles? I was
▶ 38:42 Speaker 5: gonna make a motion to recommend for passage second. So you
▶ 38:44 Jen Grigoraitis: have a motion to recommend for passage order 22 2022-18 made by counselor Eccles seconded by Vice chair. Migliorelli any discussion. Seeing none all in favor any opposed. Okay, so that has passed with the recommendation for Passage.