HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.04.18 - 31344REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 419105 W�1'`"`nA�lYUNDER NEW BUSINESS
BY: Commissioner Shelley G. Taub, District #12�Z�;E' ��
IN RE. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - OAKLAND COUNTY DESIGNATION OF THE WEEK OF
SUNDAY, APRIL, 28, 2019 THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2019 AS DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE AND
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019 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
(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 28, 2019 through Sunday
May 3, 2019, including the Day of Remembrance known as Yom HaShoah, May 2, 2019.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners designate the week
of Sunday, April 28, 2019 through Sunday, May 3, 2019 as Days of Remembrance and Thursday, May 2,
2019 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 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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Resolution # 19105
April 18, 2019
Moved by Taub seconded by Miller to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution #19102 - Board
of Commissioners -- Oakland County Designation of the Week of Sunday, April 28, 2019 Through Sunday, May
3, 2019 as Days of Remembrance and Thursday, May 2, 2019 as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of
the Holocaust.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #19105 - Board of Commissioners — Oakland County Designation of the Week of Sunday, April 28,
2019 Through Sunday, May 3, 2019 as Days of Remembrance and Thursday, May 2, 2019 as the Day of
Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust carried.
Moved by Taub seconded by Long the resolution be adopted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Gershenson,
Gingell, Hoffman, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham McGillivray, Middleton. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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GERALD D. POISSON
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTf11L
ACTING PURSUANT TO PTCI.
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 18, 2019,
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 Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 18th day of April, 2019.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County