Report to Mayor and City Council
Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Consent
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDER ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION DECLARING JUNETEENTH AS AN ANNUAL CITY OF CARSON RECOGNIZED HOLIDAY (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
In June 2021, President Joe Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday after a measure doing so made it through Congress. Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19th, became the first new federal holiday since the addition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Since that time many States and cities have added Juneteenth as an additional holiday.
This resolution, if adopted by the City Council, would declare Juneteenth as an annual City holiday beginning this year. This year, because June 19th falls on a Sunday, the holiday would be observed by the City for personnel purposes on Monday, June 20.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
WAIVE further reading and ADOPT Resolution No. 22-120, "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING JUNETEENTH AS AN ANNUAL CITY OF CARSON RECOGNIZED HOLIDAY BEGINNING IN 2022."
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III. ALTERNATIVES
Take any action deemed necessary, subject to compliance with applicable law.
IV. BACKGROUND
On June 19, 1865, about two months after the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended, putting into effect the Emancipation Proclamation issued more than two and a half years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln. Juneteenth Day is a holiday to celebrate freedom and to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
In June 2021, President Joe Biden signed legislation that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday after a measure doing so made it through Congress. Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19th, became the first new federal holiday since the addition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in...
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