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In the Matter of Honoring � .
Opera on Access
for its ten years of service RESOLUTION NO. 20031521
4 ERAS Operation Access is a non profit organization that brings together Bay Area health care
organizations and skilled medical volunteers to provide countless uninsured members in our county, as well as
in the other five counties across the Bay Area, with free outpatient surgeries; and
W EREAS Operation Access fills the gap in access to outpatient surgical services for the uninsured low.
income population, including the working poor, part time workers, low-income immigrants and the
unemployed; and
4WER 4S during the past ten years Operation Access has served over 1,100 uninsured patients and
saved local public health systems in excess of$4 million dollars; and
9 ERE.AS" Operation Access will mark the significant milestone of ten years of service with a major event
on September 18 at the San Francisco Maritime Museum to further expand its visibility and extend
private/public collaboration and to broaden its support base.
NOW, T HEREFORE, B'EITRESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County
hereby congratulates Operation Access for its ten years of service to the people of our County and for the role
they have played in easing the burden on public health systems in the Bay Area, and wishes them every
success as they expand to meet the needs of an ever growing national health crisis.
PASSEDANDA.Z7OPTED ON September 9, 2003 003 try a unanimous vote of the Board members present.
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MARK DeSA ULNIER
Chair
District IV Supervi r
JOHN GIOIA GAYL ILKEMA
District I Supervisor District II Supervisor
AB_S ENT
MILLIE GREENBERG FEDERAL D. GLOVER
District 1H Supervisor District V Supervisor
I hereby certify that the foregoing act trine and correct copy of an
order entered on the Minutes of said Board of Supervisors on the
aforesaid date.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Board of Supervisors affixed
this 9th day of September 2003.
JOHN SWEETEN, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and
County inistrator.
By
Deputy Clerk
Introduced.by Supewisor dark DeSauW r