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38 <br /> The Governor of the State of North Carolina encourages people to observe Juneteenth as an <br /> opportunity to reflect, rejoice, and plan for a brighter future as society continues to address <br /> racial injustices. Juneteenth is not a federal holiday, but many states and the District of <br /> Columbia recognize it as a state or ceremonial holiday. <br /> Juneteenth will be observed on June 1911 each year. If June 1911 falls on a Saturday, the holiday <br /> will be observed on Friday, June 1811, and if June 191n falls on a Sunday, the holiday will be <br /> observed on June 20tn <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: <br /> The total annual cost for FY2020-2021 for permanent salaries, social security, Medicare and <br /> retirement is $63,733,708. A daily cost of$245,129. The financial impact of adding an extra <br /> holiday (changing from a regular workday to a holiday) is on average approximately $61,000. <br /> Commissioner Price read the resolution: <br /> RES-2020-045 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> RESOLUTION DESIGNATING JUNETEENTH AS AN <br /> OFFICIAL COUNTY PAID HOLIDAY <br /> WHEREAS, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation <br /> Proclamation, a document that declared: "all persons held as slaves within any State or <br /> designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United <br /> States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;" and <br /> WHEREAS, the Emancipation Proclamation, primarily a wartime measure, intentionally <br /> excluded people in the slave-holding border-states and the areas of the Confederacy that <br /> already had come under Union control; and <br /> WHEREAS, on April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to United States General <br /> Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia, and on April 26, 1865, US Major- <br /> General W. T. Sherman and General Joseph E. Johnston finalized the terms of surrender at the <br /> Bennett Farm House in Orange County [now Durham]; and <br /> WHEREAS, on June 10, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger was given command of the <br /> Department of Texas, and on June 19, 1865, two and one-half years after the signing of the <br /> Emancipation Proclamation, the Union soldiers led by Major General Granger arrived at <br /> Galveston, Texas with the long-awaited news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved <br /> people were now free; and <br /> WHEREAS, upon his arrival in Galveston, Major General Granger read General Order Number <br /> 3, which began: "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from <br /> the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of <br /> rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore <br /> existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer"; and <br />