HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2014.04.17 - 21286REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
UNDER NEW LIMINESS
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #14088
BY: Commissioners Shelley Taub, District # 12; Bill Dwyer, District; #14;Marcia Gershenson, District# 13;
Helaine Zack, District, #18; Kathy S. Crawford, District #9; Mike Bosnic, District #16
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – DESIGNATION OF THE WEEK OF SUNDAY, APRIL 27, THROUGH
SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014, AS DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN
OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European
Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945—six million were murdered; Roma
Gypsies), people with disabilities, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial,
ethnic, or national reasons; and millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet
prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi
tyranny; and
WHEREAS, the history of the Holocaust offers an opportunity to reflect on the moral responsibilities of
individuals, societies, and governments; and
WHEREAS, the people of Oakland County should always remember the terrible events of the Holocaust
and remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and tyranny; and
WHEREAS, we the people of Oakland County should actively rededicate ourselves to the principles of
individual freedom in a just society; and
WHEREAS, Michigan's Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills provides visitors an opportunity to
fully appreciate not only horrors and evil of the genocidal act but also the strength, courage and
righteousness of survivors; and
WHEREAS, the Holocaust Memorial Center and other area organizations will be providing numerous
opportunities for residents to attend events, learn and renew a shared commitment to the lessons
learned from the Holocaust; and
WHEREAS, the Days of Remembrance have been set aside for the people of Oakland County to
remember the victims of the Holocaust as well as to reflect on the need for respect of all peoples; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Act of Congress, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council has
designated the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust to be Sunday, April 27, through
Sunday, May 4, 2014, including the Day of Remembrance known as Yom Hashoah, April 28, 2014.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners designate the week of
Sunday, April 27, through Sunday, May 4, 2014, as Days of Remembrance in memory of the victims of
the Holocaust and in honor of the survivors as well as the rescuers and liberators, and further proclaim
that we, as citizens of Oakland County should work to promote human dignity and confront hate
whenever and wherever it occurs.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
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Shelley Goodman Tub, District #12
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Helaine Zack, District #10
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Bill Dwyer, District #14
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Mike Bosnic, District #16 Chris Long, District #7
Resolution #14088 April 17, 2014
Moved by Taub supported by McGillivray to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#14088 — Board of Commissioners — Designation of the Week of Sunday, April 27, through Sunday, May
4, 2014, as Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust in Oakland County.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert,
Woodward, Zack, Bosnic, Crawford, Dwyer, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman,
Jackson. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #14088 — Board of Commissioners — Designation of the Week of Sunday, April 27, through
Sunday, May 4, 2014, as Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust in Oakland County
carried.
Moved by Taub supported by Jackson the resolution be adopted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert,
Woodward, Zack, Bosnic, Crawford, Dwyer, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman,
Jackson, Long. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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I HEREBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.659A (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 April 17, 2014,
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 17 th day of April 2014.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County