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Garden City police accept $17,422 Firehouse Subs grant for AEDs, training supplies
Summary
Garden City Police Department presented a Firehouse Subs grant award of $17,422 to buy AEDs and training equipment; the council approved use of the funds in a unanimous roll-call vote.
Garden City Police Department employee Heather Terrell told the council on July 14 that the department was awarded a $17,422 grant from Firehouse Subs to purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs), multilingual AED units and assorted CPR/resuscitation equipment for use in patrol and community settings.
"With the amount of citizens that live here as well as the traffic that comes in and out of Garden City, it's a great need of ours to expand on what we have for lifesaving equipment," Terrell said, describing items the grant would purchase, including AEDs with English and Spanish language capability and resuscitation bags sized for infants, children and adults.
Terrell told the council the department currently maintains two AEDs — one station-based and one for patrol — and that the grant would allow expansion of lifesaving equipment for schools, residents and older adults. The council moved to "approve and acknowledge the efforts involved in applying for a grant and approve the usage of that grant money as applied," the council president said; the clerk recorded unanimous roll-call approval from council members present.
Ending: Terrell thanked the council; the city will accept the grant and use the funds for the listed medical and training supplies.
