2001 - Saginaw County

Board of Commissioners April 24, 2001
AFL-CI0, to remember victims of workplace injuries and
disease;
.By calling for a final ergonomics standard, an end to
employee and congressional attacks on workers' safety and
health and workers' rights, the right of workers to organize
and join unions without employer interference or
intimidation, stronger safety and health protection and
enforcement, coverage for all workers under the job safety
law, stronger whistle-blower protection for workers who
report job hazards and injuries, fair and timely compensation
for injured workers, the right of workers and unions to speak
out for strong job safety laws and to have a full voice in
the legislative and political process; and,
.By rededicating ourselves to improve safety and health in
every American work place on the Anniversary of the
Occupation Safety & Health Safety Act.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, I Robert L. Fish, Chairman of the
Saginaw County Board of Commissioners, do hereby proclaim April
28, 2001 as: "WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY" in the County of Saginaw in
recognition of workers killed, injured and disabled on the job.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the County of Saginaw to be affixed this 24th day of April
in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and One.
Respectfully,
SAGINAW COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Robert L. Fish, Chairman
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program has
operates since 1975 to provide local governments with the
resources required to meet the needs of persons of love and
moderate income, and CDBG funds are used by thousands of
neighborhood based non-profit organizations throughout the nation
to address pressing neighborhood and human service needs; and,
WHEREAS, The Community Development Block Grant Program has had a
significant impact on our local economies through job creation and
retention, physical redevelopment and improved local tax bases;
and,
WHEREAS, Saginaw County through it's Housing Rehabilitation
Program has clearly demonstrated the capacity to administer and
customize the CDBG program to identify and resolve pressing local
problems such as affordable housing, housing rehabilitation,
neighborhood and human service needs, job creation and retention
and physical redevelopment of existing housing stock.
NOW, THEREFORE, I Robert L. Fish, Chair of the Saginaw County
Board of Commissioners do hereby proclaim May 14 - 18, 2001 as:
SAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK and May 16, 2001 as:
SAGINAW COUNTY HOUSING, ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DAY in
the County of Saginaw and call upon all citizens to join us in
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