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5 <br /> treat all residents with fairness, respect and understanding; <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT we, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, <br /> do hereby proclaim April 2019 as County Government Month and express our appreciation to the <br /> county employees who make our community such a special place to live, to work and to raise a <br /> family. <br /> This the 16th day of April, 2019. <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Dorosin, seconded by Commissioner Price for the <br /> Board to approve the proclamation and authorize the Chair to sign the proclamation. <br /> Todd McGee, Community Relations Director, said staff continues to try to promote all of <br /> the great things the County does throughout the month of April. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> Commissioner Greene said the fact that it is National Government and National Poetry <br /> months is not a coincidence. <br /> c. Resolution in Response to Recent Acts of Racial and Ethnic Intimidation on the <br /> Campus of UNC-Chapel Hill <br /> The Board considered voting to approve a Resolution in Response to Recent Acts of <br /> Racial and Ethnic Intimidation on the Campus of UNC-Chapel Hill and authorize the Chair to <br /> sign. <br /> Chair Rich said five of the Board of County Commissioners attended the 110th NAACP <br /> Celebration, and had conversations with Damon Seils, who penned the resolution for Carrboro. <br /> She said the BOCC took this same resolution and added to it for the County's purposes. She <br /> said in the meantime, there was some anti-Semitic activity on campus, and the Board wants to <br /> call this out, as hatred cannot be the new normal. <br /> Commissioner Greene read the resolution: <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> A RESOLUTION IN RESPONSE TO RECENT ACTS OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC <br /> INTIMIDATION <br /> ON THE CAMPUS OF UNC-CHAPEL HILL <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County is home to many students, employees, and alumnae/-i of the <br /> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including an estimated 29,000 undergraduate, <br /> graduate, and professional students, and the life of the southeastern portion of our County is <br /> intertwined with the life of the University; and <br /> WHEREAS, on March 31, 2019, two persons desecrated the Unsung Founders Memorial in <br /> McCorkle Place on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus by defacing it with racist graffiti and with urine; <br /> and someone vandalized an installation outside Hanes Art Center with racist language; and <br /> WHEREAS, on March 16, 2019, persons associated with a white supremacist group carried <br /> firearms and other weapons onto the UNC-Chapel Hill campus in violation of the North Carolina <br /> General Statutes and campus policy; and an Alert Carolina emergency notification was not <br /> issued; and no arrests were made and no citations or trespass notices were issued; and <br />