HomeMy WebLinkAboutII (C3) Proclamations: Community Action Month Agenda 5-04-99
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Proclamation
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WHEREAS, the Economic Opportunity Act signed in 1964, mandated the creation of many
local community action agencies (CAAs) to help fight poverty by implementing
education, employment/training and work experience programs at the grassroots
level; and
WHEREAS, the City of Ocoee is committed to providing the greatest level of prosperity and
quality of life through facilitating community action for all residents; and
WHEREAS, community action in Orange County has a proud history of working to improve
the lives of Florida's disadvantaged residents by restoring dignity and self-
sufficiency to individuals and families in need; and
WHEREAS, our local CAA, the Orange County Office of Community Action, conducts
numerous beneficial programs to meet the needs of our citizens including Head
Start, housing, energy assistance, home rehabilitation and wcatherization, job
training and placement, emergency assistance, counseling, health, education,
nutrition, and many others; and
WHEREAS, community action agencies in partnership with elected officials, the private
sector and community residents, continue to identity poverty conditions and
proactively find solutions,
A"ct'ie, [, Scott Vandergrift, Mayor of the City of Ocoee, do hereby proclaim the
month of May, 1999 as
COMMUNITY ACTION MONTH
in the City of Ocoee, in recognition of the many years of service to the residents that include
providing economic opportunity as a primary approach to reducing poverty and increasing
their economic self-sufficiency.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto
have set my hand and caused the Great Seal
of the City of Ocoee, Florida to be affixed
at Ocoee, Florida, this 1" day of May, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
ninety-nine.
S. Scott Vand rg rift, May rc _- -