HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2009.05.07 - 9882Miscellaneous Resolution # 09115
BY: Commissioner Eric Coleman, District #23
RE: Board of Commissioners — Observance of National Missing Children's Day on May
25th and the "Take 25" Initiative
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the "Take 25" campaign was launched in 2007 by the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children (NCMEC) as an initiative to encourage parents and educators to take 25 minutes
on May 25th to talk to children about ways to be safer; and
WHEREAS the roots of National Missing Children's Day goes back to the 1970s and 1980s, when a
number of high profile child abductions revealed there existed no organized plans and efforts to find
missing children. The first case was Etan Patz who disappeared from a New York City street while
on his way to school, on May 25, 1979; and
WHEREAS the United States Department of Justice estimates that more than 50,000 children will
be victims of non-family abductions each year. While the rate of recovery in such kidnappings is
approximately 99 percent, the trauma of abduction affects far too many. No young person in
America should ever know the terror of abduction, and no family should ever have to experience the
nightmare of having a loved one suddenly taken; and
WHEREAS in 1983, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25 as National Missing Children's
Day. Each administration since has honored this annual reminder to the nation to renew its efforts to
reunite missing children with their families and make child protection a national priority; and
WHEREAS National Missing Children's Day is a reminder to all parents and guardians of the need
for high-quality photographs of their children for use in case of an emergency, and to remind
everyone to pay close attention to the posters and photographs of missing children; and
WHEREAS on National Missing Children's Day we join with families, law enforcement officials, and
child advocates to highlight our commitment to stopping the abduction and exploitation of children.
During this year's observance, we celebrate the progress we have made in safeguarding children,
and we renew our dedication to protecting our most vulnerable citizens and our most valuable
resources; and
WHEREAS not just on Missing Children's Day, but every day each of us, in our own way, must do all
we can to bring our missing children home.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
proclaims May 25, 2009, as National hissing Children's Day in Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners calls upon
Oakland County families, Jaw enforcement officials, and child advocates to join in commemorating
this observance by participating in the "Take 25" initiative and celebrating those children who have
been returned to their loved ones, remembering those young people who are missing, and
continuing to work together on every front to protect our children from those who would seek to harm
them.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk is requested to forward copies of this
adopted resolution to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Oakland
County Child Abuse and Neglect Councif,
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I HEREBY OVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
Resolution #09115 May 7. 2009
Moved by Coleman supported by Greimel to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION
#09115 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS —OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN'S DAY ON
MAY 25TH AND THE "TAKE 25" INITIATIVE.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Coleman, Coulter, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchett, Jackson,
Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Runestad, Schwartz. Scott, Woodward, Zack,
Bullard, Burns, Capello. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #09115 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL MISSING
CHILDREN'S DAY ON MAY 25 THE "TAKE 25' INITIATIVE carried.
Moved by Coleman supported by Greimel the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Coulter, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchett. Jackson, Jacobsen,
Long, McGillivray, Middleton. Nash, Potter, Runestad, Schwartz, Scott, Woodward, Zack, Bullard,
Burns, CapeIlo, Coleman. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
Discussion followed.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Ruth Johnson, 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 7, 2009, 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 County of Oakland at Pontiac,
Michigan this 7th day of May, 2009.
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Ruth Johnson, County Clerk