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Item No. 14 <br />Memorandum <br />TO: Mayor & City Council <br />Grayson Path, City Manager <br />FROM: Russell Thrasher, Interim EMS Director <br />SUBJECT: COVID-19 VACCINE CLINIC UPDATE <br />DATE: April 12, 2021 <br />BACKGROUND: In late December 2020/early January 2021, The Mayor and City Manager <br />requested that City Staff begin developing a county wide registry as a method to identify, inform, <br />register and vaccinate the senior population of Lamar County. The creation of an online <br />database and telephone call center were part of the initial requirements. <br />STATUS OF ISSUE: After 11 weeks of vaccinations at places such as PrimeTime, PJC, PHS <br />and Love Civic Center, staff from the City of Paris, Paris Lamar County Health District as well <br />as volunteers from PJC Nursing School and staff, CERT, COP program and others have given <br />more than 16,500 vaccinations to residents in Lamar County and as far away as New Orleans, <br />Oklahoma City, South Padre Island and San Antonio. While large initial registrations have <br />dropped dramatically, we are still having several hundred sign-up per week. We anticipate this <br />to drop below requiring mass vaccination levels by April 30, 2021. <br />BUDGET: CARES CRF Funding and EMS Budget. <br />RECOMMENDATION: This is a presentation only, <br />