05 .A. ProclamationCITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET
Submittal Date:
Originating Department:
Presented By:
Agenda Item No.:
2/3/09
City Manager
Kevin Carruth
S.A.
Council Date:
2/23/09
RECOMMENDED MOTION:
Not an action item.
POLICY ISSUE(S):
Proclamation
BACKGROUND:
Deb Fleming's fifth grade students at A.M. Aiken Elementary and Justiss Elementary Schools are
working on Project H.O.P.E. (Helping Our Pets through Education), a community service project.
This proclamation declares the week of February 23rd as Project Hope Week.
BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
N /A
EXHIBITS:
Proclamation
ACTION:
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❑ Department Report ❑ Resolution
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Z Presentation ❑ Ordinance
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FISCAL NOTES:
REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY:
Z Administration Z City Clerk ❑ Community Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire
❑ Municipal Court ❑ Legal ❑ Library Z Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utilities
City of Paris
Revised 2/04/08
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1v.~1~'R~'.gs; cats andcCogsprovide com.panionship to, andshare the fiomes of, over
seventy-one miCCt:on peapCe in t(~e 'T.,lnited Sta.tes; and
`tiVHEREA.S, humane societies andsFielters such as the Paris .AnimaCSheCter flave
ta euthanize ayproximateCy four mrtCio-ti cats and dogs eac.(~ year, aCthough many of
tfiem are heaCtGty and adopta6le, due to a Cack of criticaC resources sucf as money,
space andgaod adoptive hoanes; and
`W3-CERE.AS, t~ie pra6Cem of yet overpopulatian costs t~ie taxpayers of tfiis of
couiltry miCCions of doCCars annuaCCy through anima.CeontroCyragrams aimed at coying
lvitfi fioineCess cats and dogs; and
`bV3-fEREAS, spayirtg ancf neutering (as been s~io-wn to drasticaCCy reduce cat and
dog overpopu(ation; and
-V3{EREAS, veterinarians, humane societies, nationaf and tocaC animaC
protection organizations such as Lama,r County 3-Cumane Association, as 1veCC as
otG►er nationmC arid-private citizens worked togetFier to ensure t(1e spaying ancC or
neutering of more than tlventy t~iousand dogs and cats thraug(1
'Pr ject.MOPE 3Yee,("in zoog; a n d
-N3-f'EREA.S, veterinarians, humane societ%es, na.tionaC and CacaC aninuaC
protection orgcznizations, andprivate citizens (1a.ve joined toget6i.er again to ad'vocate
the spaying andneutering of campanion anima(s during 'Pr ject-MOYE?,Yeek" Di zoog.
N01N, 7HEREFORE, I, JESSE J-"ES FREELEN, JWA1fOR OF T3-fE C12 y OF PARIS,
?'E7CAS, 6y the authority vested in me, do h.ere6y proclaim tFie lveek of Fe6ruary 23rc4 zoog, as
"PROJECTHOPE IWEEX»
in Paris, .Camar County, '7'exas, andencourage our citizens to o6serve this week 6y having t~ieir
companion cats or dogs syayedur neuteredor 6y sponsoring the spaying or neutering of anot(1er
person's cat or dog.
IN?'ES?INDNy -W3-CEREOF, I have hereunto set my Fiand'andcausedtFie SeaCof the City
to He affixed at the City of Paris, this the 23`,, day of Fe(ruary, zoog•
.A7'7ES7:
Jesse ,Iames FreeCen, _'Mayar
Janice EClis, Ci.ty CCerk
APPR.ovED As To FoRM:
tiV. :kent ~Mcllyar, City Attorney
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