HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2013.09.19 - 21037REPORT September 19, 2013
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE — Christine Long, Chairperson
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AND HUMANITIES MONTH 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
September 9, 2013 hereby recommends that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the acceptance of the
foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Hatchett absent.
Miscellaneous Resolution # 13230
BY: Commissioner Shelley Goodman Taub, District 12
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DECLARAING OCTOBER 2013 AS ARTS AND
HUMANITIES MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
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Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the month of October has been recognized as National Arts and Humanities Month
by thousands of arts and cultural organizations, communities, and states across the country,
as well as by the White House and Congress for more than two decades; and
WHEREAS the arts and humanities embody much of the accumulated wisdom, intellect, and
imagination of the human mind; and
WHEREAS the arts and humanities enhance and enrich the lives of every American; and
WHEREAS the arts and humanities play a unique role in the lives of our families, our
communities, and our country: and
WHEREAS the nonprofit arts industry also strengthens our economy by generating $135.2
billion in total economic activity annually and by supporting the full-time equivalent of 4.13
million jobs; and
WHEREAS Oakland County has a world-class selection of professional theatres, art
museums, cultural destinations and historical sites. It is home to Cranbrook Educational
Community (which includes the Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Art
Academy and Cranbrook House & Gardens), Detroit Zoo and Meadow Brook Hall.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby proclaims October as National Arts and Humanities Month in Oakland County and calls
upon our citizens to celebrate and promote the arts and culture in our nation and to specifically
encourage the greater participation by those said citizens in taking action for the arts and
humanities in their communities.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
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Resolution #13230 August 29, 2013
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
nhjection.
Resolution #13230
September 19, 2013
Moved by Long supported by Taub the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Long supported by Taub the General Government Committee Report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the report was accepted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Runestad,
Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bosnic, Crawford, Dwyer, Gershenson, Gingell,
Gosselin. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
t HEREBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, 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 September 19,
2013, 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 19 th day of September 2013.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County