HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1977.08.18 - 13084Miscellaneous Resolution August 18, 1977
BY: Hubert Price, Jr., Commissioner
RE Mexican-American History Week in Oakland County
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Americans have traditionally supported and celebrated the struggles
and victories of nations seeking democracy; and
WHEREAS, /Vlexico,eur southern neighbor, is celebrating the 167th anniversary of
Mexican Independence on September 16; and
WHEREAS, Mexican-Americans constitute a minority group with strong linguistic,
religious and cultural ties to Mexico; and
WHEREAS, Mexican-Arnericans have contributed to the social, economic and
cultural growth of the United States of America.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
that the week of September 11-17, 1977, be hereby declared Mexican-American History
Week in the County of Oakland; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all citizens of Oakland County accept this
opportunity to acknowledge the many contributions that Mexican-Americans have made
to this County, our State and country by joining in the week long festivities beginning
on September 11, 1977, at 11:00 a.m. with a parc+, and a flag raising ceremony at
12:00 p.m, at the Pontiac City Hall; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
recognizes that the Mexican Independence Festivities provide a time of sharing and
increasing the understanding of this viable ethnic group and further provides an opportunity
of insuring that Mexican-Americans share equally in the Constitutional Mandates that
govern our great Nation.
Hubert Price, Jr., Commissioner
District #8
#8143 August 18, 1977
Moved by Page supported by Patterson the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the resolution.
AYES: Doyon, Fortino, Gorsiine, Kelly, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt,
Montante, Moxley, Murphy, Page, Perinoff, Peterson, Price, Simson, Wilcox, Daly,
DiGiovanni. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Price supported by Simson the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
T, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this day of,...Ugu5t....„.19„27
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By..,....... ......... ----Deputy Clerk