Item P03
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date:
6/19/02
Division: Mayor McCoy
Bulk Item:
Yes X No
Department: BOCC-3
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval of Resolution committing our full support to the Jewish community and their efforts to
restore their place of worship and learning.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
ST AFF RECOMMENDATION:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes No
COST TO COUNTY:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No AMOUNT PER MONTH YEAR
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
APPROVED BY: County Atty_ OMB/Purchasing_Ris
DOCUMENTATION: Included: X
To Follow:_Not Required:
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM #
Revised 2/27/01
Mayor Charles McCoy
RESOLUTION NO.
-2002
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA,
COMMITTING OUR FULL SUPPORT TO THE JEWISH
COMMUNITY AND THEIR EFFORTS TO RESTORE
THEIR PLACE OF WORSHIP AND LEARNING.
WHEREAS, Monroe County has been the home of Congregation B'nai Zion, the oldest
Jewish congregation in South Florida, having been in continuous operation since 1887; and
WHEREAS, an arsonist seriously gutted the B'nai Zion Synagogue at 750 United Street,
Key West, Florida, in the early morning hours of April 16, 2002; and
WHEREAS, members of the Jewish faith have been our friends and contributing
members of the Keys, our economy and our culture for more than one hundred and fifty years;
and
WHEREAS, the action of this arsonist is a violation of everything that we, as a nation
and a society, hold as basic to our humanity,
NOW THEREFORE, the people of the Florida Keys, by and through their Board of
County Commissioners, hereby condemn the actions of these terrorists and declare ourselves to
be in unity with and in full support of our Jewish community and friends in their efforts to
restore their place of worship and learning.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, at a regular meeting of the Board held on the day of , 2002.
Mayor McCoy
Mayor Pro Tern Spehar
Commissioner Nelson
Commissioner Neugent
(SEAL)
ATTEST: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, CLERK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
By
Deputy Clerk
Mayor/Chairman