HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1972.09.07 - 15947September 7, 1972
MISC. RESOLUTION
RE: Designation of October 11, 1972 as "Opportunities Industrialization
Center Day"
BY: JAMES MATHEWS
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, in May, 1972, the City of Pontiac became the home of
Michigan's newest Opportunities Industrialization Center, which now serves
greater Oakland County from its headquarters at 44 State Street; and
WHEREAS, the international OIC family of more than 100 centers across
the United States, South America and Africa offers new approaches to the search
for meaningful work for unemployed and underemployed persons; and
WHEREAS, the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Oakland
County has developed a program of job training, placement and on-the-job
counseling aimed primarily at minority group members ages 16 and over; and
WHEREAS, Pontiac's OIC is beginning to develop a local "job bank' so
that a trainee's progress in work attitudes as well as basic and specialized voca-
tional skills may lead directly to actual employment; and
WHEREAS 01C's across America have already trained and placed over
100,000 unskilled jobless persons, providing an alternative to the welfare cycle
through self-help; and
WHEREAS, OIC Day, October 11, 1972, has been proclaimed in Michigan
by Governor William Milliken and will be observed across the nation under a
Presidential proclamation;
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners that October 11, 1972, be designated as ''OPPORTUNITIES
INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER DAY" in the County of Oakland, and that all
citizens be urged to support the efforts of our local OIC to generate meaningful
lob opportunities for the unemployed and the underemployed; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be presented to
Mr. Albert Shaw, Executive Director of the Pontiac Opportunities Industrialization
Center.
Moved by Mathews supported by Harrison the rules be suspended for
immediate conSideration of the resolution.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Mathews supported by Harrison the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
(ss.
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that.] have compared the annexed copy of
Resolution #6113 adopted by the Oakland:County .Board ofCommissioners
at their September 7, 1972 meeting
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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—
this .
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• Lynn D. Allen •• •.•• •.•• • ...... ....• ............. Clerk
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