HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01011967 - 67-43 IN THE BOARD OF SUPMtVISORS
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STAVE OF CALIFORNIA
In the utter of
National. Civil Service 1 eek. ) RESOLUTION C. 67/43
WHEREAS National Civil Service Week marks the 84th
,anniversary of the Federal. Civil Servide Act of 1883F and
WHEAS the work and the responsibilities of the
federal government affect the life of every American each days
and
WHMPAS the scope of federal employment encompasses
virtually every profession, trade, and skip.., inclusive of 155,000
Scientists, engineers, and technicians engaged in vital work in
hundreds of laboratories and related installations S and
WHEREAS federal employees engage in vital and, diverse
activities, such as printing and minting our money, controlling
narcotics, regulating immigration, conserving natural resources,
bringing electricity into rural homes, operating the social
security program, and forecasting the weather, and in fact
participate in hundreds and hundreds of services that affect the
public health, welfare, economy, and national security; and
WHEREAS nearly half of the cork forces of the federal
government are employed in direct support of air, ground, and sea
forces 1 and
WHEREAS most of the employees of the federal govern-
ment are assigned to positions in communities throughout the
United States and to posts all around the worldr and
NOWl THEREFORE* SS IT BY THIS BOARD RESOLVED in
recognition of the vital and, indispensable role of the federal
government and the civil service staffing of its central, regional,
and local offices that the period from January lb, 1957 through
Januar* 22 1967 be designated as Civil Service Week; and
BE IT BY THE BOARD FURTHER RESOLVED that all residents
of the county are urged. to ,loin with federal agencies and. employees
in the observation of the 84th Anniversary of the signing of the
Federal Civil. Service Act.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of January, 1957 by
the following vete of the Board:
AY S# Supervisors James P, Fenny, Alfred X. Dias,
James_B. Moriarty' Thomas John Coll,
q��,g.,+'� ♦ Edmund. A. Linscheid.
NOES. None,
AS7ti;7iuENTt Non'.
RESOLUTION NO. 67,/4.3