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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2020-170
File ID: AB2020-170 Version: 1 Status: Approved
File Created: 04/06/2020 Entered by: DBrown@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Council Office File Type: Resolution
Assigned to: Council Final Action: 04/07/2020
Agenda Date: 04/07/2020 Enactment #: RES 2020-013
Primary Contact Email: DBrown@co.whatcom.wa..us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Resolution proclaiming the week of April 6 - 12 National Public Health Week
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Resolution proclaiming the week of April 6 - 12 National Public Health Week
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body: Action: Sent To:
04/07/2020 Council APPROVED
Aye: 7 Browne, Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Frazey, Elenbaas, and Kershner
Nay: 0
Absent: 0
Attachments: Resolution, AGENDA REVISION NOTICE FOR 4.7.2020
Whatcom County Page 1 Printed on 411012020
PROPOSED BY: HEALTH
INTRODUCTION DATE: APRIL 7, 2020
RESOLUTION NO. 2020-013
PROCLAMING NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK
WHEREAS, the week of April 6-12, 2020, is National Public Health Week; and
WHEREAS, since 1995, National Public Health Week has educated the public,
policymakers and public health professionals about issues important to improving the
public's health; and
WHEREAS, public health professionals help communities prevent, prepare for,
withstand and recover from the impact of a full range of health threats, including disease
outbreaks, natural disasters and disasters caused by human activity; and
WHEREAS, public health action, together with scientific and technologic advances,
has played a major role in reducing and in some cases eliminating the spread of infectious
disease, and in establishing today's disease surveillance and control systems; and
WHEREAS, public health professionals in Whatcom County have expertise in
environmental health, community health improvement, epidemiology, health
communication, performance management, communicable disease control and prevention,
behavioral health, housing, substance use disorder, veterans' services, and developmental
disabilities.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the Whatcom County Council hereby
proclaims the week of April 6-12, 2020, as National Public Health Week 2020 in Whatcom
County and calls upon the people of Whatcom County to observe this week by helping our
families, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and leaders better understand the value of public
health and supporting great opportunities and to celebrate public health's accomplishments.
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