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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, September 25, 2017 <br />Page 11 <br />this is a free course for anyone 18 years or under. Anyone over 18 we charge $25 for the <br />course to cover the fee. This allows you to jet ski on the ocean. <br />Council President Saponaro added, also on October 4t" is the Healthy Mayfield? <br />Mr. McAvinew replied, correct. October 4"', next Wednesday at the High School Stadium we <br />will hold Healthy Mayfield. We will hold all kinds of different activities in conjunction with a <br />handful of partners. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, a collaborative effort between Cleveland Clinic and <br />Community Partners to promote optimal health and wellness. <br />Mr. McAvinew stated, yes. And that will also include Mayfield High, Mayfield Village, <br />Highland Heights, Health 360 and a handful of other partners: It will be a fun event. Free to the <br />community. Come down. We are hoping to play bubble soccer which is basically getting in a <br />bubble and bouncing around with a ball. It's fun for the whole family. Council President Saponaro asked, and the time is 5:30-7:30? <br />Mr. McAvinew replied, yes. If you have any questions, feel free to stop by and ask. <br />Chief Richard Edelman (Police) - You may have seen the article in last week's Sun Messenger <br />about Safe Passages. Before I get into that, I have a couple of statistics I wanted to throw out <br />from SPAN from the Drug Enforcement Unit. For those of you who don't know what SPAN is, <br />it's our local network with communities around. It stands for Suburban Police Anti-Crime <br />Network and it's a network of cities and police departments in the area. It's Mayfield Village, <br />Mayfield Heights, Lyndhurst, Richmond Heights and Highland Heights. We join forces and <br />combine our resources. We are all small cities and we don't have the money or resources to do <br />some things so we do them together. One of the things we do is we have a Drug Enforcement <br />Unit that has been in the works since 2013. What Safe Passages is, if you haven't seen the <br />article, it's a program to help with people who are drug addicted. In Mayfield Village, in 2016, <br />we had two fatal overdoses and eight non-fatal overdoses. So far in 2017, we have had two fatal <br />overdoses and one non-fatal overdose. In all of SPAN in 2016, there have been 17 fatal <br />overdoses. So far in 2017, there have been a lot of fatal overdoses. The year is not over yet. <br />The bottom line is the drug problem keeps getting worse and worse and worse. What the Drug <br />Enforcement Unit has found is that you just can't keep arresting and arresting and arresting and <br />arresting and very often it's the same people who wind up going to jail and there has to be <br />something more to this process than to just locking people up and then having them come back. <br />Unforiunately, they are winding up dead. That's something we have to address head-on. A lot of <br />times what happens in society, whether it's mental health, drug addiction or a lot of other <br />prolileins, when society can't handle it, these kind of things are dumped on the police to handle. <br />With our resources, sometimes we don't even know ourselves what to do with this. Safe Passage <br />is the way that we have found as an avenue to help addicted persons.