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RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING JANUARY AS RESOLUTION NO. 2008/39
NATIONAL BLOOD DONOR MONTH
WHEREAS, National Blood Donor Month has been declared since 1970 to help ensure an
adequate blood supply and to stress the importance of giving the "Gift of Life" through the donation of
blood; and
WHEREAS, National Blood Donor Month is a month-long observance that shows us that donating
blood is a simple, safe, life-saving and selfless gift that millions of Americans can do; and
WHEREAS, National Blood Donor Month makes us aware that every day blood is needed in
hospitals and emergency treatment facilities for patients with cancer and other diseases, for organ
transplant recipients, and to save the lives of accident victims; and
WHEREAS, National Blood Donor Month addresses the need for constant replenishment of blood,
especially during the winter months when blood is traditionally in short supply due to reduction in
donor turnout because of the holidays, busy travel schedules, inclement weather and illness, which
can put blood inventory at a critical low; and
WHEREAS, National Blood Donor Month helps us understand that thirty-eight percent of the US
population is eligible to donate blood but only about eight percent do, contributing an annual total of
about 16 million units to the American Red Cross, that in turn are transfused to approximately four
million patients; and
WHEREAS, in Northern California, the American Red Cross provides 140,000 units of blood per year
for the protection of patients, and there is a need for additional healthy, regular volunteer donors to
join the ranks of those who already give of themselves so generously.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County does
hereby proclaim January 2008 as
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PASSED this 22nd day of January, 2008.
JOHN GIOIA N. PIEPHO
District I Supervisor ct III Su
SUSAN A. BONILLA EDERAL D. GLOVER, Chair
District IV Supervisor District V Supervisor
GAYL B. LKEMA
District II Supervisor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an Order
» _ f entered into the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
• ..� ...='F :' ' John Cullen,County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
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