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City to buy 25 AEDs with opioid-abatement funds to expand public access
Summary
Daytona Beach Shores will purchase 25 automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) using $50,000 in opioid-abatement funding from Volusia County; the city must purchase first and will be reimbursed.
Mike Fowler, the city's director of public safety, told commissioners the county approved $50,000 to buy 25 automatic external defibrillators and associated equipment under the opioid abatement funding program.
"This is another step in our strategy to put more AEDs into the community," Fowler said, adding the program requires the city to spend first and then seek reimbursement from the county.
Fowler said the equipment will be distributed among city buildings, parks and some civilian employees' vehicles and that the city currently will have close to 40 AEDs after the purchase. He noted ongoing training with both residents and city employees and said AEDs can substantially raise survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest.
"AEDs, studies have found, raised that survivability to almost 50 percent," Fowler said.
The resolution authorizing the mayor to accept the funds and execute the agreement with Volusia County was approved 4-0 by the commission. Fowler said the only long-term cost will be replacement pads and batteries as devices age.
No city match or shared cost was required, he said; the county award is structured as reimbursement to the city after purchase.
