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ELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21065 March 11, 2021
BY: Commissioner Marcia Gershenson, District#13; Bob Hoffman, District#2; Adam Kochenderfer, District
#15; Eileen Kowall, District #6; Thomas Kuhn, District #11; Christine Long, District #7; Gary McGillivray,
District #20; Chuck Moss, District #12; Philip Weipert, District #8; Charlie Cavell, District #18; Yolanda
Charles, District#17; Janet Jackson, District#21; Karen Joliat, District#4; Penny Luebs, District#16; Gwen
Markham,. District #9; William Miller, District #14; Kristen Nelson, District #5; Angela Powell, District #10;
David Woodward, District#19; Michael Spisz, District #3; Michael Gingell, District #1
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — RECOGNITION OF MARCH 2O21 AS WOMEN'S HISTORY
MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Women's History Month originally began as a local, week-long celebration in 1978 in Santa
Rosa, California, which subsequently spread across the country as other communities initiated their own
Women's History celebrations; and
WHEREAS the month of March is now nationally recognized as Women's History Month, providing the
opportunity to honor and celebrate the vital role of women, past and present, in American history; and
WHEREAS in 1987, the United States Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as Women's
History Month; and
WHEREAS women of every race, class and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the
growth and strength of our nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; and
WHEREAS women have played and continue to playa critical economic, cultural and social role in every
sphere of the life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and
outside of the home; and
WHEREAS women have taken on a unique role throughout the history of the nation by providing the
majority of the volunteer labor force of the nation; and
WHEREAS women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic and
cultural institutions in our nation; and
WHEREAS women have been leaders in critical roles and at crucial points of history to help create a fair
and just society for all; and
WHEREAS the year 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote; and
WHEREAS the National Women's History Alliance publishes a yearly Women's History Theme and has
carried over the Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced as the 2021 theme in celebration of
the women who have fought for women's right to vote in the United States and to capture the spirit of these
challenging times; and
WHEREAS Oakland County women took an active role in the women's suffrage movement including the
formation of the Oakland County Equal Suffrage Association in 1912.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, in recognition
of the 1 gth Amendment, honors women from the original suffrage movement and also 20th and 21 st century
women who have continued the struggle to ensure voting rights for all.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby designates March
2021 as Women's History Month in Oakland County and encourages residents, governmental agencies,
businesses and schools to celebrate the generations of women who have left enduring imprints on our
history.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Commissioner Eileen Kowall Commissioner'Gwen Markham
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Commissioner Thomas E. Kuhn
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Commissioner Angela Powefl
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Commissfoi r Philip J. Weipert
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LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Kochenderfer absent.
Resolution #21065 March 11, 2021
Moved by Gingell seconded by Gershenson the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Vote on Consent Agenda:
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs,
Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda were adopted.
Moved by Spisz seconded by Weipert to amend MR #21064, MR #21065, MR #21066 and MR #21067 as
follows:
Add all Commissioners as co-sponsors of these resolutions.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor the amendment carried.
HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
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 March 11, 2021,
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 11th day of March, 2021.
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County