TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Supervisor Brown
MEETING DATE: August 18, 2020
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Supervisor Brown
PHONE:
463-4221
ITEM TYPE: Consent Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: N/A
AGENDA TITLE:
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Adoption of Proclamation in Honor of the 100TH Anniversary of the 19TH Amendment to the United States Constitution
(Sponsor: Supervisor Brown)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Adopt Proclamation honoring the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution; and authorize Chair to sign same.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
On October 3, 2011 the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors recognized the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in California.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
The sponsorship of a proclamation is to recognize the organizational work of the Mendocino Women's Political Coalition (MWPC) for the Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution within Mendocino County.
As historically documented the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. Initially introduced to Congress in 1878, several attempts to pass a women's suffrage amendment failed until passing the House of Representatives on May 21, 1919, followed by the Senate on June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee was the last of the necessary 36 ratifying states to secure adoption. The Nineteenth Amendment's adoption was certified on August 26, 1920: the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage at both state and national levels
ALTERNATIVE ACTION/MOTION:
Do not adopt Proclamation.
SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT: ALL
VOTE REQUIREMENT: Majority
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