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PROCLAMATION NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH 2018 WHEREAS, more than 115,000 men, women and children in the United States currently need life- saving organ transplants and nearly 3,000 of those people are North Carolinians; and WHEREAS, an average of 20 people awaiting transplants die each day because there is a severe shortage of donated organs; and WHEREAS, every eight minutes, another name is added to the national transplant waiting list; and WHEREAS, providing facts about donation and dispelling misinformation and myths are key to increasing the number of people who sign up as donors; and WHEREAS, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NC DMV) plays a critical role with over five million North Carolinians in the state's donor registry having registered when receiving a driver's license or state ID card; and WHEREAS, one organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people and improve many more lives through tissue and comes donation; and WHEREAS, North Carolinians are encouraged to get the facts about donation, discuss their wishes with their family and sign up as donors via the NC DMV or online at www.donatelifenc.org/register; and WHEREAS, Residents of Cabarrus County have been touched by donation as recipients of life- saving transplants and as members of donor families who have literally given others a second chance at life; and NOW, BE IT RESOLVED, we, the members of the Cabarrus Board of County Commissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April, 2018 to be NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH In Cabarrus County and urge our residents to give serious thought to the importance of eye, organ and tissue donation and to consider joining the North Carolina Donor Registry and further, to notify their family members that they have done so. Adopted this 19" day of March 2018. Stephen M. Morris, Chairman Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners AWachmenl number 1 in C-3 Page 30