HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2017.04.26 - 22861REPORT (MISC. #17079) April 26, 2017
BY: Christine Long, Chairperson, General Government Committee
IN RE: MR #17079 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - OAKLAND COUNTY DESIGNATION OF THE
WEEK OF SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017 AS DAYS OF
REMEMBRANCE AND MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017 AS THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE
VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above referenced resolution on April 17, 2017,
reports with the recommendation 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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Commissioner Christine Long, Distric
Chairperson, General Government imittee
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Kowall and Kochenderfer absent.
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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #17079
BY: Commissioners Shelley Taub, District #12; Bill Dwyer, District #14; Hugh Crawford, District #9;
Marcia Gershenson, District #13, Gary McGillivray, District #20; Michael J. Gingell, District #1; Tom
Berman, District #5; Eileen KowaII, District #6; Wade Fleming, District #16; Nancy Quarles, District #17;
Adam Kochenderfer, District #15; Bob Hoffman, District #2; and Doug Tietz, District #11
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - OAKLAND COUNTY DESIGNATION OF THE WEEK OF
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017 AS DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE AND
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017 AS THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE
HOLOCAUST
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) (196,000 to 200,000); people with disabilities (250,000); and Poles (50,000 to 100,000); were
also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons; and millions more,
including homosexuals (70,000); Jehovah's Witnesses (1,900); Soviet prisoners of war (2.9 million); 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 23, 2017
through Sunday, April 30, 2017, including the Day of Remembrance known as Yom Hashoah, April 24,
2017.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners designate the week
of Sunday, April 23, 2017 through Sunday, April 30, 2017 as Days of Remembrance and Monday, April
24, 2017 as Yom Hashoah, the Day of Remembrance, in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in
honor of the survivors as well as the rescuers and liberators.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, as citizens of Oakland County sho_plek,work to promote human
dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs.
Chairperson, I mov ...ttsici.optjon of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution *17079 March 30, 2017
Vice-Chairperson Tom Middleton referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There
were no objections.
Resolution #17079 April 26, 2017
Moved by Berman supported by Bowman the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Crawford, Dwyer, Fleming, Gershenson, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long,
McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Tietz, Weipert, Zack, Berman, Bowman. (19)
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 APPW E FIESOLLMON
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 April 26, 2017,
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 26th day of April, 2017.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County