HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.03.25 - 34258MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21099 March 25, 2021
BY: Commissioner Kristen Nelson, Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - CONDEMNING HATE CRIMES, HATEFUL RHETORIC, AND
HATEFUL ACTS AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS all people, including our Asian American brethren, are respected and valued and are vital to
Oakland County's shared prosperity; and
WHEREAS Oakland County is home to the second largest Asian population in Michigan and nearly half of
Asians in the tri-county area; and
WHEREAS culturally insensitive rhetoric regarding COVID-19 has contributed to a spike in discrimination
and hate crimes toward Asian Americans; and
WHEREAS more than 30 percent of Asian Americans have reported being subjected to discrimination since
the beginning of the pandemic; and
WHEREAS according to Stop AAPI Hate, 3,795 incidents have been reported between March 19, 2020,
and February 28, 2021, from all 50 states, including 16 in Michigan; and
WHEREAS incidents have included verbal harassment, shunning, workplace discrimination, refusal of
service, online harassment, physical assault, and even death; and
WHEREAS all Oakland County residents can play a significant role in establishing a safe and welcoming
community by intervening and reporting instances of hate and discrimination; and
WHEREAS reporting these incidents is critical to holding perpetrators accountable and fully addressing the
issue.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
condemns and denounces all forms of anti -Asian sentiment, including those related to COVID-19.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners condemns all manifestations and
expressions of racism, xenophobia, discrimination, anti -Asian sentiment, scapegoating, and ethnic or
religious intolerance
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners recognizes that the health and safety of all
Oakland County residents, no matter their background, must be the upmost priority. The Board encourages
all who experience, or witness hate crimes to report such incidents to local law enforcement, the Michigan
Attorney General's Hate Crime Unit, and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of the adopted resolution to the Governor of the State of Michigan, The Michigan Attorney General,
the Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. the State Senate Majority and Minority leaders, the
State House Speaker and Minority leader, the members of the Oakland County delegation to the Michigan
Legislature.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Commissioner Kristen Nelson, District #5
Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and
Government Operations Committee
LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Commissioner David Woodward
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Commissioner Eileen Kowall
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CGIom sOoner Charlie Cavell
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Commissioner 1dreia Gershenson
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Commissioner Adam Kochen rfer
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6u6missioner Christine Long
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Commissioner Kuck Moss
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Commissioner Michael Spisz
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Commissioner Gwen Markham
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Commissioner Ka en Joliet
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Commissioner William Miller
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Resolution #21099 March 25, 2021
Moved by Weipert seconded by Luebs the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn,
Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward,
Cavell. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
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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 25, 2021,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seall of the �Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 251h day of March 2021.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County