HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2009.09.02 - 9954Miscellaneous Resolution # 09200
BY: Commissioners Shelley G. Taub, District #16, David Woodward, District #18, Bill Bullard,
District #2
RE: Board of Commissioners — Designating September 11 — 17, 2009, as Michigan Patriot
Week in Oakland County
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Whereas, the history and the founding principles of the United States of America should serve as
the cornerstone of civic education. In great reverence to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, we
acknowledge that American citizens must take time to honor the principles and events that led to the
creation of our nation, its founders, documents, and symbols of our history; and
Whereas, the events that led to the signing of The Constitution of the United States of America by
the delegates of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, have significance for every
American and are honored in public schools across the nation on September 17 as Constitution
Day; and
Whereas, our nation was founded on the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence,
which include
1. All men are created equal
2. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
3. These basic rights are: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
4. Governments are to be instituted among men to secure these rights.
5. Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed.
6. The people may alter or abolish the government if it destroys these stated principles.
Whereas, exceptional, visionary, and indispensable Americans such as Thomas Paine, Patrick
Henry, John Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass,
Martin Luther King, Jr., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Anthony, Thomas Jefferson, and James
Madison founded and advanced the United States; and
Whereas, the Bennington Flag, work of Betsy Ross, American Flag, Suffragist Flag, Union Flag,
Gadsden Flag, and the flag of the State of Michigan are key physical symbols of American history
that should be studied and remembered by each American citizen.
Now, Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby designate
September 11-17, 2009, as Michigan Patriot Week, in Oakland County -symbolically beginning this
celebration on September 11 and concluding on Constitution Day.
Be It Further Resolved, that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urges the citizens,
government agencies, municipalities, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and schools of the State
of Michigan to recognize and participate in this extended holiday by honoring and celebrating the
First Principles, key historical figures, founding documents, and symbols of America so that they
may offer the reverence that is due to our free republic.
Be It Further Resolved, that the copies of the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deed is requested
to forward copies of this adopted resolution to the Michigan Council for Social Studies, Michigan
Center for Civic Education, State Board of Education, Oakland Schools, State Bar of Michigan,
Oakland County Bar Association, Oakland County Circuit Court, Speaker of the House Andy Dillon,
Senator Michael Bishop, and Governor Jennifer M. Granholm.
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Resolution #09200 September 2, 2009
Moved by Taub supported by Woodward to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION
#09200 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 11 — 17, 2009, AS MICHIGAN
PATRIOT WEEK IN OAKLAND COUNTY.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Greimel, Hatchett, Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts,
Runestad, Schwartz, Scott, Taub, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Capello, Coleman, Coulter,
Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #09200 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 11 — 17, 2009, AS
MICHIGAN PATRIOT WEEK IN OAKLAND COUNTY carried.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Greimel supported by Nash to amend the resolution in the 4th WHEREAS paragraph to include
Cesar Chavez.
Vote on amendment:
AYES: Hatchett, Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts, Runestad,
Schwartz, Scott, Taub, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Capello, Coleman, Coulter, Douglas,
Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts, Runestad, Schwartz,
Scott, Taub, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Capelio, Coleman, Coulter, Douglas, Gershenson,
Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchet (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution, as amended, was adopted.
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 September 2, 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 2nd day of September, 2009.
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Ruth Johnson, County Clerk