Connor Lonning
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And then on top of it, we're also we're setting aside money that will help subsidize some of the replacement costs because it can get it can get costly to replace batteries and pads.
One of the one of the things that we've done with with our other partner, with State Senator Brad Paff, he's our state senator that represents lacrosse here.
we are in the middle of getting Bubba's Law passed at the state level, which would create a million-dollar fund through the Department of Children and Families that would provide two-thirds of the cost of an AED to any child care facility in the state.
If they can come up with the other third, the state would fund two-thirds of that, including replacement parts.
a situation where you know, 10, 15 years from now, everyone knows when they're driving down the road,
that any childcare facility that they go past has an AED in it.
And if there's a bus stop out in front of it, that bus driver knows that if someone has a sudden cardiac arrest within the bus, the closest is to run into a childcare center.
So we're looking at this from a very holistic perspective and a very long-term and sustainable perspective.
And at its core, a community effort, whether that's at a town level, city level, state level, and we hope someday on the national level.
And we've gone through and looked at everything.
There's been a few state initiatives where they've tried to pull this off to get them in all areas.