April 16, 2012 - Cabarrus County

March 19, 2012 (Regular Meeting)PageWHEREAS,WHEREAS,WHEREAS,WHEREAS,WHEREAS,WHEREAS,LifeShare Of The Carolinas is focused on saving lives byincreasing participation in the North Carolina organ, eye andtissue donor registry; andApril is observed as National Donate Life Month with unwaveringsupport from the nation’s donation and transplantation community;andLifeShare Of The Carolinas, the organ procurement organizationthat serves Cabarrus County, is a part of that community and hasits own programs to highlight the importance of donating to savethe lives of others; andOver 3,400 North Carolina residents and 110,000 people nationwideare in need of life-saving transplants; andResidents of Cabarrus County have been touched by donation asrecipients of life-saving transplants and as members of donorfamilies who have literally given others a second chance at life;andIt is an honor and privilege to have some of those residents inattendance at the Board of Commissioners Meeting of CabarrusCounty to present the Board with a Donate Life flag.NOW, BE IT RESOLVED, we, the members of the Cabarrus Board of CountyCommissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April, 2012 to beNATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTHIn Cabarrus County and urge our residents to give serious thought to theimportance of eye, organ and tissue donation and if so desired, to join theNorth Carolina Donor Registry and further, to notify their family membersthat they have done so.Adopted this the 19 th day of March, 2012./s/ Elizabeth F. Poole________________Elizabeth F. Poole, ChairmanCabarrus County Board of Commissioners(C-2) BOC – Proclamation Declaring March 21, 2012 as “Kick Butts Day 2012”Cabarrus Health Alliance Teen Task Force members Addison White (Seniorat Jay M. Robinson), Emily Gale (Junior at Northwest Cabarrus), Chris Dotson(Senior at First Assembly Christian School), and Bo White (Sophomore at JayM. Robinson) presented statistics on teen smoking and announced a “Kick ButtsDay” event will be held on Wednesday, March 21 st from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at LesMyers Park in Concord. Volunteers will pick up cigarette butts at the Park.Chairman Poole read the proclamation aloud. She also recognized MeganPoole, Cabarrus Health Alliance Program Coordinator, in attendance.UPON MOTION of Commissioner Measmer, seconded by Vice Chairman Burrageand unanimously carried, the Board adopted the Proclamation Declaring April2012 as National Donate Life Month in Cabarrus County and the ProclamationDeclaring March 21, 2012 as “Kick Butts Day 2012”.Proclamation No. 2012-03Proclamation Declaring March 21, 2012 as “Kick Butts Day 2012”Whereas, nationwide, nearly one fifth of all high school students (grades 9-12) are current smokers; along with nearly one out of every fourteen eighthgraders; andWhereas, three million high school students are current smokers; and morethan a third of all kids who ever try smoking a cigarette become new regular,daily smokers before leaving high school; andWhereas, one out of three youth smokers will ultimately die prematurely fromsmoking-related diseases, unless current trends are reversed; andWhereas, smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans each year, representingmore deaths than from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugsand fires combined; andAttachment number 2A-1Page 14