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for adoption of Ordinance 07-2022 on second reading. A roll call vote was taken as follows: Yeas —Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Litten, O'Malley, Rader, Shachner Nays —None Motion passed. The rules were suspended. Motion by President O'Malley, seconded by Vice President Litten to adopt Ordinance 07-2022. A roll call vote was taken as follows: Yeas —Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Litten, O'Malley, Rader, Shachner Nays —None Motion passed. Ordinance 07-2022 was adopted. 3. Health& Human Services Committee report regarding meeting held March 7, 2022. (to be provided) Health& Human Services Chair Kepple provided the following oral report: The Health & Human Services Committee met Monday March 7h at S:00 p.m. We were joined by Cuyahoga County Board ofHealth Commissioner Terry Allan for a COVID update. It has been almost exactly two years. March 9,h 2020 was the County's first case of COVID. Since then, they have taken 52,000 calls, isolated 300,000 people, vaccinated 106,000 homebound individuals and managed over 200 vaccination clinics. Currently, in Lakewood, our vaccination rate is 76.5%, compared to Cuyahoga County overall is 63%. "Fully vaccinated" is defined as two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one dose of Johnson &Johnson. "Up-to-date" is considered boosted. 55% of Cuyahoga County is boosted. Commissioner Allan reported that the CDC recommends that even people who have had COVID should get boosted. He estimated that the vaccine campaign saved 1.lmillion lives nationally. Commissioner Allan emphasized that 94% of those hospitalized and 95% of those who have died from COVID were not fully vaccinated. Currently, the Board is focusing on health equity. Of those fully vaccinated, 43%are African- American, 64%are white, and 58% are Hispanic. They are also emphasizing that pregnant women, who are particularly at-risk, get vaccinated as well as teens and children. We did talk about the mental health crisis coming out of this and how much of a toll responding to the pandemic has taken on the Board ofHealth, healthcare workers,first responders, and our community at large. So, that will also be a focus of the Board ofHealth moving forward. The CDC now assesses Cuyahoga County as low risk, which means that they recommend that everyone stay up-to-date on vaccinations (that means boosting when recommended), testing if symptomatic and high-risk folks should talk to a doctor about masking and additional boosters. Commissioner Allan's opinion is that we are at the end of the acute phase and are moving into more of an endemic phase. We have had low rates of transmission. We have been waiting for the magic number of 50 cases per 100,000 and we are now at 41 cases, compared to 1,300 per 100,000 at our peak. The Committee thanked Commissioner Allan. This will most likely be his last meeting with us due 2