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Nueces County risk manager asks commissioners for AED maintenance funds and an assistant to preserve institutional knowledge
Summary
Risk management requested roughly $5,000 in annual operating funds to support a planned increase in AEDs from 26 to 42 and asked for a junior clerk to capture decades of staff knowledge before a planned retirement. Officials told commissioners the existing AED models are no longer supported and parts are hard to obtain.
Lance, the county’s risk manager, told the Commissioners Court that the office’s only proposed change to its standard operating budget is an increase of about $5,000 to cover annual maintenance for newly planned automated external defibrillators (AEDs) as the department seeks to expand units in county locations from 26 to 42. “We only have 1 increase, which is about $5,000 for supporting the new AEDs that we anticipate rolling into our current number,” Lance said during the hearing.
Lance said the county’s older AEDs (the…
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