HomeMy WebLinkAboutPROCLAMATION Red Cross Month Regular Agenda
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
FROM: Adiel McKnight,Executive Assistant
DATE: March 3,2025
SUBJECT: PROCLAMATION re: Proclaiming the month of March 2025 as Red Cross
Month
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
Red Cross Month is an international celebration that calls attention to the importance of ordinary
individuals that lend a helping hand to make an extraordinary difference for neighbors in need. The
program provides emergency shelter, food and comfort for families displaced by home fires and other
disasters, and conducts blood drives for patients, accident victims, and people with sickle cell disease
and other life-threatening conditions. They support military members and veterans, along with their
families and caregivers.
Red Cross also provides first aid and CPR training to help others survive medical emergencies. They
also deliver international humanitarian aid,reconnect loved ones separated by crises around the world
and have been operating since 1881.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact to Jefferson County.
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve Proclamation re: Proclaiming the month of March 2025 as Red Cross Month.
REVIEWED BY:
Mark McCauley ounty Administrator Date
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that eases people's suffering during
life's emergencies throughout Washington, Oregon, across the United States and around the world; and
WHEREAS, South Puget Sound and Olympics Red Cross has a long history of helping our neighbors in
need by delivering shelter, care, and hope during disasters. Also, making our community safer with Preparedness
Programs, CPR and First Aid Training; supporting military and Veterans and their families; and providing
lifesaving blood to our medical community; and
WHEREAS, caring for one another is at the heart of our community and exemplified by the people of
Jefferson County, whose simple acts of kindness including through the Red Cross provide help and hope in
people's most difficult moments; and
WHEREAS, Red Cross Month is an international celebration that calls attention to the importance of
ordinary individuals that lend a helping hand to make an extraordinary difference for neighbors in need. The
program provides emergency shelter, food and comfort for families displaced by home fires and other disasters,
and conducts blood drives for patients, accident victims, and people with sickle cell disease and other life-
threatening conditions. They support military members and veterans, along with their families and caregivers; and
WHEREAS, Red Cross has provided first aid and CPR training to help others survive medical emergencies
and has delivered international humanitarian aid and reconnected loved ones separated by crises around the world
since 1881; and
WHEREAS, the Red Cross continues to carry out the organization's 144-year mission of preventing and
alleviating suffering. People have stepped up to help others in need, whether it was responding to disasters across
the country or rolling up their sleeves to give more than 148,500 units of blood in our Region when our country
faced a severe blood shortage; and
WHEREAS,the lifesaving work of the Red Cross is vital to strengthening our community's resilience;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Board of County Commissioners, does hereby
proclaim March 2025 as
RED CROSS MONTH
We invite you and others to join the Red Cross mission by volunteering, giving blood, learning lifesaving skills
or making a financial donation.
APPROVED this Yd day of March, 2025.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
SEAL: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Heidi Eisenhour, Chair
ATTEST:
Greg Brotherton, Member
Carolyn Gallaway, CMC Clerk of the Board Heather Dudley-Nollette, Member