HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.06.17 - 34686MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 921273 June 17, 2021
BY: Commissioners Charlie Cavell, District #18; David Woodward, District #19; Thomas Kuhn, District
#11; 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
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — RECOGNITION OF THE 156th ANNIVERSARY OF
JUNETEENTH AND DESIGNATION OF JUNE 19, 2021 AS JUNETEENTH NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY
IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Juneteenth National Freedom Day, also known as "Emancipation Day", "Emancipation
Celebration", "Freedom Day", "Jun -Jun", "Juneteenth Independence Day" and "Second Independence
Day", commemorates the survival of African -Americans who were first brought to this country stacked in
the bottom of slave ships in a month -long journey across the Atlantic Ocean known as the "Middle Passage;
and
WHEREAS approximately eleven and one-half million African -Americans survived the voyage to the New
World, the number that died is likely greater, only to be subjected to whipping, castration, branding, rape,
tearing apart of families and forced to submit to slavery for more than 200 years after arrival in the United
States; and
WHEREAS Juneteenth commemorates the day freedom was proclaimed to all slaves in the south by Union
General Granger, on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, more than two and a half years after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln; and
WHEREAS President Barack Obama had proclaimed, "Juneteenth marked an important moment in the life
of our nation. But it was only the beginning of a long and difficult struggle for equal rights and equal
treatment under the law." and
WHEREAS the U.S. Congress passed a resolution officially recognizing June 19th as Juneteenth
Independence Day in the United States in 1997 and efforts are ongoing to create a permanent holiday
designation; and
WHEREAS Michigan is one of 45 states to officially establish a Juneteenth holiday, beginning in 2005.
when state law was enacted designating the third Saturday of each June as Juneteenth National Freedom
Day in the State of Michigan; and
WHEREAS Americans of all colors, creeds, cultures, religions and countries of origin, share in a common
love of and respect for freedom, as well as a determination to protect their right to freedom through
democratic institutions by which the tenets of freedom are guaranteed and protected; and
WHEREAS "Until All are Free, None are Free" is an often -repeated maxim that can be used to highlight the
significance of the end of the era of slavery in the United States; and
WHEREAS on the 1561h anniversary of Juneteenth, Oakland County citizens should be encouraged to
honor and reflect upon the unique sacrifices of African Americans to achieve their freedom, fair treatment,
and equal rights.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
designates June 19, 2021, as Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Oakland County and calls upon our
citizens, governmental agencies, businesses and schools to observe this 1561h anniversary by honoring the
unique sacrifices of African Americans in their struggle for freedom and equality.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk is requested to forward copies of this adopted
resolution to the National Juneteenth Observation Foundation, the Michigan Juneteenth Chapter, the
Detroit Branch of the N NACP, the Southern Oakland County Chapter of the NAACP, the Northern Oakland
County Ch ter of th NAAGP`'6nd Oakland Schools. (///1/
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Commiss�9 er Charlie Cavell Commissioner David Woodward
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Commis io er Penny Lueb
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Di !;21 Commissl r Philip Vlleipert
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Corfimissioner Christine Long
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Commissioner Kristen Nelson
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Commissioner Eileen Kowall
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Commissioner ichae J. Gidgel
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Commissioner 13ob Hoffman
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Commissioner Angela Powell
Commissioner Adam Kocher�yl! rfer/ooc�hheer�ylf rfer
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Commfsion�rGar McGillivray
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Commissioner husk Moss
District #12
Commis4oner Michael Spisz
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Commissioner Gwen Markham
Distric 9
Co"m�iissioner K en Joliet
District #4
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Commissioner Thomas E. Kuhn Commissioner William Miller
District #11 District #14
Commissioner cia Gershenk sonnJ Commissioner
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LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Kochenderfer absent.
Resolution #21273
June 17. 2021
Moved by Gingell seconded by Hoffman 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, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
RESOLUTION TO BECOME EFFECTIVE
WITHOUT COUNTY EXECUTIVE
SICNATUnE.
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 June 17, 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 171h day of June, 2021.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County