HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.05.13 - 34427MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21182 May 13, 2021
BY: Commissioners Thomas Kuhn, District#11; David Woodward, District#19; Charlie Cavell, District 18;
Bob Hoffman, District #2; Adam Kochenderfer, District #15; Marcia Gershenson, District #13; Christine
Long, District#7; Gary McGillivray, District#20; Chuck Moss, District#12; Philip Weipert, District#8; Penny
Luebs, District #16; 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; Michael Spisz, District #3; and Michael Gingell, District #1
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - DESIGNATION OF MAY 2021 AS ASIAN AND PACIFIC
AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month is a national celebration during the month of May
to recognize the tremendous contributions of Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent; and
WHEREAS Asian and Pacific Islander Americans have become the fastest growing population group in the
United States; and
WHEREAS the Asian and Pacific American population grew in the United States by 25.7% between 2010
and 2017; and
WHEREAS the total Asian and Pacific American population in the U.S. in 2017 was 23.8 million; and
WHEREAS the City of Novi Asian population has grown to 23.22% of the overall total; and
WHEREAS Asian and Pacific Americans have enriched our culture, excelling in many fields, including
education, business, science, technology, government, sports, and the arts; and
WHEREAS countless Asian and Pacific Americans have answered the call to protect the cause of freedom
by serving in our Armed Forces; 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 the City of Troy is home to the largest number of Asians in the region, comprising almost
24.65% of the total population; and
WHEREAS the entrepreneurship and innovation of Asian and Pacific Americans have strengthened
Oakland County's economy; and
WHEREAS Asian and Pacific Americans contribute greatly to the economic, social, cultural, and civic life
of Oakland County.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
designates May 2021 as Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month in Oakland County and encourages
our citizens, governmental agencies, businesses, and schools to celebrate and recognize the achievements
of Asian Americans.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resol on.
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LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #21182
May 13, 2021
Moved by Gingell seconded by Nelson the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted (with
accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn,
Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted
(with accompanying reports being accepted).
RESCLUT�Chl TO BECOME EFFECTM
WITHOUT COUNTY EXECUTIVE
SIGNATURE.
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 May 13, 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 1311 day of May, 2021.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County