Ord 17-2024 Opioid Abatement Settlement Funding for Naloxone Vending Machine 05/21/2024 Ordinance No. 17-2024
Ordinance appropriating $3,000 of funding received from the Texas
Opioid Abatement Settlement Funding to provide funding in
assistance to Action Against Opioids for the purchase of a Naloxone
Vending Machine
WHEREAS, Opioid abuse has a deadly impact on the community; and
WHEREAS, the City of Wichita Falls has received funding from the Texas Opioid
Abatement Settlement; and
WHEREAS, the City of Wichita Falls supports efforts to prevent or reduce deaths
from opioid overdoses or other opioid-related harms, including through increasing the
availability or distribution of naloxone or other opioid antagonists for use by health care
providers, first responders, persons experiencing an opioid overdose, families, schools,
community-based service providers, social workers, or other members of the public; and
WHEREAS, Action Against Opioids of Wichita Falls is a nonprofit organization
created to promote and raise awareness for the prevention of opioid use and addiction
within Wichita Falls and the surrounding area; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to partner with Action Against Opioids to purchase
Naloxone dispensing equipment in the community.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
There is hereby appropriated in the General Fund to provide $3,000 in funding to
Action Against Opioids towards the purchase of a Narcan vending machine, and the City
Manager is authorized to execute an agreement with Action Against Opioids of Wichita
Falls.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 21st day of May 2024.
C MAYOR
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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