HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2011.08.18 - 18680REPORT (MISC. #11163) August 18, 2011
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE — Christine Long, Chairperson
RE: MR #11163 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 11 — 17,
2011 AS MICHIGAN PATRIOT WEEK IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having considered the above titled resolution on
August 8, 2011 hereby recommends that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the acceptance of the
foregoing report.
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Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Crawford absent.
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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 11163
BY: Commissioners Bob Hoffman, District #2 144- \Nt- rrn-`5 73--,-,11 A . .
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 11 — 17, 2011, AS MICHIGAN
PATRIOT WEEK IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the year 2009, marked the inaugural observation of Michigan Patriot Week in Oakland County as
a celebration to "Reinvigorate the American Spirit and Constitution"; and
WHEREAS the history and the founding principles of the United States of America should serve as the
cornerstone of civic education In great reverence to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, we acknowledge that
American citizens must take time to honor the principles and events that led to the creation of our nation, its
founders, documents, and symbols of our history; and
WHEREAS the events that led to the signing of The Constitution of the United States of America by the
delegates of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, have significance for every American and
are honored in public schools across the nation on September 17 as Constitution Day; and
WHEREAS our nation was founded on the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence, which
include:
1. All men are created equal.
2. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
3. These basic rights are: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
4. Governments are to be instituted among men to secure these rights.
5. Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed.
6. The people may alter or abolish the government if it destroys these stated principles; and
WHEREAS exceptional, visionary, and indispensable Americans such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John
Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Anthony, Thomas Jefferson, Cesar Chavez and James Madison founded and
advanced the United States; and
WHEREAS the Bennington Flag work of Betsy Ross, American Flag, Suffragist Flag, Union Flag, Gadsden
Flag, and the flag of the State of Michigan are key physical symbols of American history that should be studied
and remembered by each American citizen.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby designate
September 11-17, 2011, as Michigan Patriot Week, in Oakland County - symbolically beginning this
celebration on September 11, and concluding on Constitution Day.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urges the citizens,
government agencies, municipalities, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and schools of the State of
Michigan to recognize and participate in this extended holiday by honoring and celebrating the First Principles,
key historical figures, founding documents, and symbols of America so that they may offer the reverence that
is due to our free republic.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of this adopted resolution to the Michigan Council for Social Studies, Michigan Center for Civic
Education, State Board of Education, Oakland Schools, State Bar of Michigan, Oakland County Bar
Association, Oakland County Circuit Court, and Governor Rick Snyder.
Chainaecson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #11163 July 21, 2011
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.
Resolution #11163 August 18, 2011
Moved by Crawford supported by McGillivray the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Covey, Crawford, Dwyer, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchett, Hoffman,
Jackson, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Nuccio, Potts, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Taub,
VVeipert, Woodward, Zack, Bosnic. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda
were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
I HEREBY
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Bill Bullard Jr., Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on August 18, 2011,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at Pontiac,
Michigan this 18th day of August, 2011.
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Bill Bullard Jr., Oakland County