HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10082002 - PR.2 In the Matter of Declaring October 2002
As National Head Start Awareness Month RESOLUTION NO.2002/618
WHEREAS,Head Start was created by the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965; and
WHEREAS;Head Start was designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-
income families with a comprehensiveprogram to meet their emotional;social,health,nutritional,and psychological
needs;and
WHEREAS,Head'Start leas enrolled over 20 million children nationwide since it began in 1965;and
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County Community Services Department's Head Start program has grown from a few
children in one building in 1955,to two thousandHead'Start children today at 25 sites;and
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County Community Services Department's Head Start program has received recognition
by the California Child Development Administrators Association in March 2002 for successfully expanding the
standard part'-day,part-year Head Start program to a full-day,full-year program,by collaborating with the State of
Calitrnia Department of Education;and
WHEREAS;Contra Costa County Community.Services'Department's Head Start program
as initiated building a
new,state-of-the-art facility in Richmond in collaboration with the Rosie the Riveter histoiric'landmark renovation
and
WH Contra Costa Com Community Services Department's'Head Start program'is the first in California
and only the second in the region to receive the-Quality Program of Achievement"in April 2002,from the National
Head.Start Associaticin;and.
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County Community Services Department has received the"Excellence in Community
Action"award for the Western Region,from the California/Nevada Community Action Association(Cal-Neva)in
April 2002: :
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT ROLvD That the Board of Supervisors does hereby declare October 1002 as
NATIONAL"HEAD''START AWARENESS MONTH in Contin Costa Courcy.
PASSED AND ADOPTED ON October 8,2002 by a unanimous vote ofthe Board memberspresent.
JOB GIOIA
Chair
,%V,'J��District I Supervisor
GAYLE B.UILKEMA DONNA BER
District II Supervisor District III rv` or
MARK DeSAULNIER
FE ERAL D.G C)VER
District IV Supervisor District V Supervisor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of a resolution entered on the minutes of said
Board of Supervisors on the aforesaid date.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Board of
Supervisors affixed this 8'h day of October 2002.
JOHN SWEETEN,County Administrator and Clerk
of the Boa#of Supervisors./
By ' G '
Deputy Clerk