The City Council, based on information supplied to it by various sources, finds and declares that:
(A) The addition of fluorides to public water supplies is a process which has been adopted and used in many parts of the United States as a measure for improving the permanent condition of the teeth, in particular the teeth of children, and is a means of benefitting the population generally at a minimal cost and difficulty.
(B) The New Mexico Department of Public Health and the United States Public Health Service recommend and encourage the addition of fluorides to public water supplies so as to maintain an optimum fluoride level in such water supplies of 0.9 parts of fluoride per million parts of water to 1.2 parts of fluoride per million parts of water as public health measures.
(C) It has been found and determined on the basis of study and investigation that the minimum optimum level of 0.9 parts of fluoride per million parts of water does not exist in the present water supply of the city.
(D) Long term studies and the use of water fortified by addition of fluorides to a point where the optimum level of 0.9 parts of fluoride per million parts of water to 1.2 parts of fluoride per million parts of water has been maintained in public water supplies have demonstrated that such process does reduce the incidence of dental caries and tooth decay in the permanent teeth of children and does not produce deleterious effects to any persons; and also is of benefit to adults.
('74 Code, § 8-3-1) (Ord. 151-1970)