HomeMy WebLinkAbout4861-20 Essential Employee Resolution RESOLUTION
No. 4861-20
Passed bythe Common Council of the Cityof South Bend, Indiana
July 13, 20 20.
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Attest: City Clerk
Dawn M. Jones
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Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana
June 13, 20 20
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City Clerk
Dawn M. Jones
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Filed in Clerk's Office
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RESOLUTION NO.4861-20 ( JUL ll 8 2020
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A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY - P1 % . :END,IN
INDIANA, RECOGNIZING AND EXPRESSING APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE
TO OUR COMMUNITY'S FIRST RESPONDERS, MEDICAL & HOSPITAL
PERSONNEL & ALL OTHER ESSENTIAL INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE CONTINUED
TO PROVIDE SERVICES AND NECESSITITES TO OUR RESIDENTS DURING THE
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
WHEREAS, a global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused societies across the
world to shut down in efforts to reduce the spread, flatten the curve, and limit the deaths from severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the disease caused by COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, on March 6, 2020 Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb declared a State-wide Public Health Disaster
State of Emergency by Executive Order 20-02, and extending that State of Emergency on multiple times to at
least July 31, 2020; and
WHEREAS, Governor Holcomb also declared a Stay-at-Home Order effective March 25, 2020 which excluded
only individuals who were needed to carry on"essential" functions necessary to keep communities functioning;
and
WHEREAS, our community's"essential"individuals include: all first(1St)responders such as fire, police and
emergency medical personnel; medical and hospital personnel including doctors, nurses, and all staff; Solid
Waste, Street Department and all other City employees; food service, and grocery and retail workers, and all
others whose daily work is required to ensure that the residents of South Bend continue to receive necessary
goods and services; and
WHEREAS, these"essential" individuals have continued to meet the needs of the City and its residents,
emergency and otherwise, and to provide necessary goods and services to South Bend's residents, and in the
process of performing those functions have put themselves and their family members at heightened risk of
COVID-19;
WHEREAS, although each and every one (1) of the countless works of each of these"essential" individuals
deserves the recognition, appreciation and gratitude of the Common Council, there are not enough words and
time to adequately do so; and
WHEREAS, even now, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten our community, along with the rest
of the world, the Common Council wants these"essential" individuals to know that their sacrifices are not
overlooked or unappreciated.
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH
BEND, INDIANA,AS FOLLOWS:
Section I. The South Bend Common Council hereby acknowledges and recognizes all the essential
individuals serving our community during this pandemic; including but not limited all first(1St)responders such
as fire, police and emergency medical personnel; medical and hospital personnel including doctors, nurses, and
all staff; Solid Waste, Street Department and all other City employees; food service, and grocery and retail
workers, and all others whose daily work is required to ensure that the residents of South Bend continue to
receive necessary goods and services.
Section II. The South Bend Common Council hereby publicly expresses its utmost appreciation and
gratitude to all the essential individuals whose daily work has kept our City functioning and who continue to be
essential to the residents of South Bend for them to receive necessary goods and services during the pandemic.
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Kar L. White,At Large Cou it Member
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Dawn M. Jones, City C erk