CITY OF FRESNO
Office of Mayor Jerry Dyer & The Fresno City Council
WHEREAS, Donor Network West serves as the federally designated Organ Procurement Organization in Northern/Central California and Nevada and works in close partnership with families, doctors, nurses, and coroners in hospitals to connect donors to recipients; and
WHEREAS, There are more than 100,000 people on the national waiting list and of those about 20,000 are waiting in California alone; and
WHEREAS, A single individual’s donation of the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and small intestine can save up to eight liv es; donation of tissue can save and heal the lives of up to 75 others; and
WHEREAS, California residents can sign up with the Donate Life California Donor Registry when applying for or renewing their driver’s licenses or ID cards at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, Mayor Jerry Dyer and the Fresno City Council in recognition of April 2023 to be hereby proclaimed “National Donate Life Month” in the City of Fresno, and in doing so we encourage all Californians to check “YES!” when applying for or renewing their driver’s license or ID card or by signing up at donornetworkwest.org.
“NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH”
in the City of Fresno.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have
hereunto set our hands and affixed
the Seal of The City of Fresno,
California, this 20th day of April 2023.
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MAYOR JERRY DYER COUNCIL PRESIDENT TYLER MAXWELL
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VICE PRESIDENT ANNALISA PEREA COUNCILMEMBER MIKE KARBASSI
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COUNCILMEMBER MIGUEL ARIAS COUNCILMEMBER NELSON ESPARZA
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COUNCILMEMBER LUIS CHAVEZ COUNCILMEMBER GARRY BREDEFELD