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Emergency Management: overdose counts, warming‑center use and record nuisance flooding highlighted
Summary
Office of Emergency Management briefed the committee on overdose trends by ward, warming‑center activations for unhoused residents during winter weather and a record rise in nuisance flooding; officials said overdose reversals and harm‑reduction work remain central while climate-driven flooding poses growing infrastructure and budget risks.
Kevin Simmons, the city's emergency manager, presented a Ward‑by‑ward summary of overdose data and described the city's winter shelter and warming‑center response, as well as new flooding trends the city faces.
Overdose trends: Simmons reported that in Ward 1 the city recorded seven overdoses in 2024 and that "all of them received Narcan," a milestone he said the city had not seen before. Citywide, the Office of Emergency Management reported roughly 80 overdoses in 2024 with fatal overdoses down from the prior year; Simmons and committee members discussed demographic breakdowns (age and race) and uneven fatality rates by ward. Simmons said outreach and harm‑reduction efforts — including Narcan distribution, test strips and…
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