Certified an ambulance autoloader as harm reduction

The FY2026 report lists a new program named Autoloader for new ambulance at 34,044.07 funded and spent, recipient Stryker Sales Corporation (pp4 to 6). It files the program under primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with Treatment as a second category and Connections to Care and First Responders as its Schedule B strategies. It reports 11,000 people served. It states the problem and the purpose as protecting patient and employee when loading stretcher into ambulance. Every performance indicator reads unable to track. Asked how the program addresses opioid use disorder, it answers will assist with transport of users. The books show two payments from account 5-01-25-752-180. Stryker purchase order 25-02332, Autoloader New Ambulance, first encumbered 10/09/2025, was paid 33,841.37 by check 53638 on 04/07/2026. EMSAR purchase order 25-01563, Stretcher Loader Repair, was paid 202.70 by check 52711 on 08/04/2025. Together they make the certified figure to the cent. The report's launch date, 10/09/2025, is the date the Stryker order was opened, and its funding date, 04/07/2026, is the date of the check. A powered stretcher loader moves patients into an ambulance. It is not a harm reduction service. Exhibit E's First Responders category adds two uses to the first-responder items in sections C, D and H: education about fentanyl and other drugs, and wellness services for first responders. No overdose program using the autoloader is documented, and no listed use in C, D, H or I covers ambulance loading equipment.