HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.04.29 - 34354MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21146 April 29, 2021
BY: Commissioners Penny Luebs, District #16; Bob Hoffman, District #2; Adam Kochenderfer, District #15;
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; Eileen Kowall, District#6; 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; and Marcia Gershenson, District #13
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — PROCLAIMING APRIL 22, 2021 AS EARTH DAY IN OAKLAND
COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS April 22, 2021 marks 51 years of celebrating Earth Day; and
WHEREAS Earth Day was established to raise awareness about a wide range of environmental issues and
to inspire people to take personal action to address them; and
WHEREAS the first Earth Day in 1970 is credited with launching the modern environmental movement; and
WHEREAS it also launched a wave of actions, including the passage of landmark environmental laws in
the United States such as the Clean Air Acts which include the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, Clean Air
Act of 1963, Air Quality Act of 1967, the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970, and Clean Air Act Amendments
in 1977 and 1990, as well as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970; and
WHEREAS today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest civic event, marked by more than a billion
people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy
changes; and
WHEREAS in 2016, the United Nations chose Earth Day as the day when the historic Paris Climate
Agreement was open for signature at its headquarters in New York City; and
WHEREAS the theme for Earth Day 2020 is climate action because climate change represents the biggest
challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make our world habitable; and
WHEREAS the Earth Day message about the personal responsibility we all share to "think globally and act
locally" as environmental stewards of planet Earth has never been more timely or important.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners proclaims April
22, 2021 as Earth Day in Oakland County and encourages all residents to take action and make a
difference.
Chairperson, w� a move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Commi i ner Penny Luebs Commissioner Bo ffman
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Commissioner Adam Koche rfer Commissioner Thomas Kuhn
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LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #21146 April 29, 2021
Moved by Long seconded by Luebs the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliet, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham,
McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
I 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 April 29, 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 29th day of April, 2021, (r
Lisa Brown, Oakland County