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5 <br /> <br />votes will no longer need to be unanimous. She said Orange County’s board has always been <br />able to work together, and she does not foresee a problem. <br />Commissioner Jacobs said the presentation was very helpful, and he finds the final <br />piece of information a bit unsettling. <br />Commissioner Dorosin asked if it is know who will pick the fourth member. <br />Rachel Raper said that State Board picks the fourth member. <br /> <br />b. Women’s History Month Proclamation <br />The Board officially proclaimed the month of March 2018 as “Women’s History Month” in <br />Orange County, and authorized the Chair to sign the proclamation. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when <br />Congress authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, <br />1982 as “Women’s History Week". Over the next five years, Congress continued to approve <br />joint resolutions designating a week in March as "Women’s History Week”. <br /> <br />In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress designated <br />the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month”. Between 1988 and 1994, Congress <br />approved additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of <br />each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and <br />Trump have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as <br />“Women’s History Month”. <br /> <br />The Department on Aging is celebrating “National Women’s History Month” on Thursday, March <br />29 with a special performance – Maya Angelou’s Celebration of Women. The 2018 National <br />Women’s History theme – NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED: Honoring Women Who Fight <br />All Forms of Discrimination against Women – will be commemorated at the Seymour Center in <br />Chapel Hill with a special dramatic performance by Diane Faison as Maya Angelou. Faison will <br />breathe life and wonder into the words of one of America’s greatest poets, Maya Angelou with a <br />free performance at the Seymour Center on Thursday, March 29 from 2 – 3 p.m. <br /> <br />Commissioner Rich read the proclamation: <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION <br /> <br />WHEREAS , women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic <br />contributions to the growth and strength of our County in countless recorded and unrecorded <br />ways; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS , Orange County women have played and continue to play a critical <br />economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of the County; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS , women of every race, class, and ethnic background served as early leaders <br />in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS , women have been leaders, not only in securing their own rights of suffrage <br />and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the <br />industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, and other movements, especially the <br />peace movement, which create a more fair and just society for all; and <br />