HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2014.09.04 - 21493MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 14212
BY: Commissioners Jeff Matis, District #15, Michael J. Gingen, District #1, Mike Bosnic, District #16,
Kathy Crawford, District #9, Bill Dwyer, District #14, Marcia Gershenson, District #13,Robert Gosselin,
District #11, Mattie McKinney Hatcheft, District #10, Bob Hoffman, District #2, Janet Jackson, District
#21, Christine Long, District #7, Gary R. McGillivray, District #20, Thomas F. Middleton, District #4,
Nancy Quarles, District#17, Jim Runestad, District #6, John A. Scott, District #5, Mike Spisz, District
#3, Shelley Taub, District #12, Philip J. Weipert, District #8, David Woodward, District #1, Helaine
Zack, District #18
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 11 — 17, 2014, 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 during Patriot Week we celebrate and honor the following:
September 11: Revolution
September 12: The Rule of Law
September 13: The Social Compact
September 14: Equality — Gender
September 15: Equality Race
September 16: Unalienable Rights
September 17: Limited Government
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, 2014, 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.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #14212 September 4, 2014
Moved by Matis supported by Hatchett to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution #14212 -
Board of Commissioners — Designating September 11 — 17, 2014, as Michigan Patriot Week in Oakland
County.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles,
Runestad, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bosnic, Crawford, Dwyer,
Gershenson. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #14212 - Board of Commissioners — Designating September 11 — 17, 2014, as Michigan Patriot
Week in Oakland County carried.
Moved by Matis supported by Hatchett the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Mats, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles,
Runestad, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bosnic, Crawford, Dwyer, Gershenson,
Gingell. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
I HEREBY APPRO-NTE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COLK'Pr' EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO iviCA.. 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 4, 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 4th day of September 2014.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County