HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01012002 - 2002-618 F44T It-7/
In the Matter of Declaring October 2002
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As National Head Start Awareness Month RESOLIMON NO.2tl02/6â–º18
WHEREAS,Head Start was created by the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965;and
WHEREAS,Head Start was designed to help bier the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-
income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional,social,health,nutritional,and psychological
needs;and
WHEREAS,Head Start has enrolled over 20 million children nationwide since it Began in 1965;and
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County
Department's Head Start program has grown from a few
children in we building in , two thousand Head start c today ;
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
standardpart-day;part-year Head Start program to a full-day,full-year program,by collabo� rating'with the State of
California Departmeint of Education;and
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County Community Services Department's Head Start program has initiated building a
new,state-of--the-art facility in Richmond in collaboration with the Rosie the Riveter historic landmark renovation;
and
WHEREAS,Contra Costa,C906ty Cttmunnriity Services Department's Head Start program is the first in California
and only the second in the region to receive the"{duality Program of Achievement!°in.April 2002,from the National
Head Start sociarion;sad,
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County Community Services Department has received the"Excellence in Community
Action!'award for the Western.Region,from the CaliformalNevada Comraitnity Action Association(Cal-Deva,)in
April 2002;'
V®W,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED,that the Board of Supervisors does hereby declare October 2002 as
NATIONAL MEAD START AWARENESS MONTH in Contra Costs County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED ON October 8,2002 by a unanimous vote ofthe Board members present.
JOHN GIQIA
Chair
District I Supervisor
GAYLE B.UILKEMA DONNA BER
District u Supervisor District III or
MARK DeSAULNIER c. FE ERAL D.G OVER
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 Boayj of Supervisors.
Deputy Clerk