HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 09261989 - 89-639 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Proclaiming )
the Week of October 15-21, 1989 ) Resolution No. : 89/639
NATIONAL BUSINESS WOMEN'S WEER )
WHEREAS The National Federation of Business and Professional
Women unites over 140,000 working individuals in more than
60 countries for the promotion of their common interest in
education and industrial, scientific and vocational
activities; and
WHEREAS Since 1919 Business & Professional Women have been
instrumental in countless reforms, among them a bill
requiring equal pay for equal work, permitting a wife to
possess her own paycheck, revision of state inheritance tax
laws, the establishment of Status of Women Commissions, a
bill outlawing sex discrimination in employment, and support
for- an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; and
WHEREAS Business and Professional Women have been vitally
interested in elevating the standards for women in business
and in the professions; and
WHEREAS Central Contra Costa, Pittsburg and East County, and
Todos Santos Business and Professional Women are associated
with the National and California Federation of Business and
Professional Women and have helped to promote betterment of
our community and its citizenship:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, California hereby PROCLAIMS
the week of October 15 - 21, 1989, as NATIONAL BUSINESS
WOMEN'S WEEK and calls upon all citizens to recognize the
service given to the community by Business and Professional
Women.
Passed and adopted on September 26, 1989, by the unanimous
vote of the Board members present.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of a resolution entered in the minutes of the Board of
Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
INTRODUCED BY:
Nancy C anden
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om Powers Robert Schroder
District I District III
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Sunne Wright MCPeak Tom Torlakson
District IV District V
Witness my hand and the seal of the
Board of Supervisors affixed this
twenty-sixth day of September, 1989
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board
and County Administrator.
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