HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 86-42 - Registration Awareness Month - Selective Service System - RESOLUTION NO.
86 42
WHEREAS, the continuation of the program for peacetime
registration for the Selective Service System contributes to
national readiness by reducing the time required for a full
defense mobilization; and
WHEREAS, over one million United States citizens have
sacrificed their lives to protect the rights and freedoms of all
Americans and registration for Selective Service is an integral
part of current preparedness to preserve these rights and
freedoms in the future; and
WHEREAS, more than 96 percent of potential registrants
have registered with the Selective Sservice System since the
resumption of rEgistration and by so registering have enhanced
United States national defense preparedness; and
WHEREAS, the Selective Service System has been tasked with
assisting in the process of improving our readiness by calling
upon eighteen year old male citizens to comply with the law by
simply registering their name, address, date of birth and social
security number at the Post Office within thirty days of their
eighteenth birthday;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Eden Prairie do hereby support
continuation of registration with Selective Service and do hereby
declare April , 1986 as
REGISTRATION AWARENESS MONTH
ADOPTED by the Eden Prairie City Council on Tuesday, March
2.5, 1986.
ary D. et r'son, Mayor
ATTEST:
of rave, City Clerk SEAL