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File #: 151701    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/29/2016 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/24/2016
Effective date:    
Title: Substitute resolution approving a memorandum of understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin relating to an analysis of heroin and other opiate-related overdoses in Milwaukee County.
Sponsors: ALD. MURPHY
Indexes: AGREEMENTS, DRUGS
Attachments: 1. Letter to Karen McKeown, 2. Memorandum of Understanding, 3. Letter to Stephen Hargarten from Ald. Murphy, 4. 888 Bodies and Counting
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultTallyAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
5/27/20161 MAYOR SIGNED   Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/20161 COMMON COUNCIL ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Meeting details Video Video
5/12/20161 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION

Minutes note: Appearing: Sponsor, Ald. Murphy Dr. Brook Lerner - Medical College 		Pass4:0 Action details Meeting details Video Video
4/21/20161 CITY CLERK DRAFT SUBMITTED   Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/20160 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR

Minutes note: Appearing: Ald. Michael Murphy - President of Common Council - Sponsor Sarah Zarate - Staff Assistant 		Pass3:0 Action details Meeting details Video Video
3/1/20160 COMMON COUNCIL ASSIGNED TO   Action details Meeting details Not available

Number

151701 

Version

SUBSTITUTE 1

Reference

 

Sponsor

ALD. MURPHY

Title

Substitute resolution approving a memorandum of understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin relating to an analysis of heroin and other opiate-related overdoses in Milwaukee County.

Analysis

This resolution approves a memorandum of understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) relating to an analysis of heroin and other opiate-related overdoses in Milwaukee County.

Body

Whereas, Since 2005, Milwaukee County has seen a 495% increase in heroin-related deaths; and

 

Whereas, As of August 2015, heroin represented nearly half of all drug-related deaths in Milwaukee County; and

 

Whereas, Naloxone, an opioid reversal agent, is readily available in the community; and

 

Whereas, The estimates of how often Naloxone is utilized are not being tracked, and it is unclear if these cases are entering the healthcare system to address the underlying causes of the overdose; and

 

Whereas, The Department of Emergency Medicine of the MCW, the City, and the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner have proposed a project to study the heroin and opiate epidemic in southeastern Wisconsin; and

 

Whereas, The attached Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin details the community-based, data-driven project; and

 

Whereas, The goal of this project is to use data to drive targeted policies that will have a measureable impact in the community; now, therefore, be it

 

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council approves a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin relating to an analysis of heroin and other opiate-related overdoses in Milwaukee County, a copy of which is attached to this file; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That the City shall provide $25,000 in 2016 toward this partnership as directed in a 2016 budget amendment sponsored by Ald. Michael J. Murphy and unanimously approved by the Common Counsel; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That the appropriate City officials are directed to execute the Memorandum of Understand on behalf of the City.

 

Requestor

Drafter

LRB163651-2

Adam Wickersham

04/21/2016