Item 69 — Thursday, September 24, 2026
In plain language — from agenda source text
This resolution asks the City Manager to draft an ordinance broadening which public spaces and businesses must keep an automated external defibrillator on site, including any Title 25 land development code changes needed to make it work. It also directs staff to look at ways to better coordinate and open up access to lifesaving equipment when someone goes into cardiac arrest. As a resolution, it sets the assignment and timeline rather than changing the rules today s the actual requirements come back to Council later as a proposed ordinance.
Current official agenda wording
Approve a resolution directing the City Manager to propose an ordinance to expand the number of public spaces and places of business required to provide automated external defibrillators onsite; initiating amendments to City Code Title 25 (Land Development) to the extent necessary; and directing the City Manager to explore opportunities to improve coordination and access to life saving equipment during cardiac emergencies.
"without objection, the consent agenda is adopted with the Mayor Watson being shown, voting no on items 48 through 59 and Council Member Alter being shown voting no on item number 49. [00:45:01]" — meeting transcript (unofficial)
What got said
Attributed statements from the meeting transcript, not official agenda values.
- High school student Kayla Williams urged AED expansion, recounting her pastor's fatal cardiac arrest and her Kayla Cares project.