CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE


                    PROCLAMATION

            COMMUNITY ACTION MONTH
                   MAY 2021
       WHEREAS, Community Action connects individuals and families to
approaches that help them succeed and promotes community-wide solutions to
challenges throughout our cities, suburbs, and rural areas; and

        WHEREAS, Community Action builds and promotes economic
stability as an essential aspect of enabling and enhancing stronger communities,
which in turn promotes self-sufficiency, ensuring that all Americans can live in
dignity; and

       WHEREAS, Community Action connects millions of children and
families to greater opportunity, transforming their lives and making our
communities and our nation stronger; and

       WHEREAS, Community Action serves 99% of America’s counties in
rural, suburban, and urban communities, offering life-changing services that
create pathways to prosperity by connecting families to job training, affordable
housing, utility assistance for seniors, promoting community-wide solutions
and sharing expertise; and

       WHEREAS, Community Action will continue to implement innovative
programs that create a greater chance at success for everyone, will continue to
focus on a broader range of community challenges to ignite economic growth
and ensure all families can benefit, and will continue to be a voice for the
disenfranchised.

       NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that I, Nikuyah Walker,
Mayor of the City of Charlottesville, on behalf of City Council, do hereby
proclaim COMMUNITY ACTION MONTH in recognition of the hard work
and dedication of all Charlottesville Community Action agencies.


      Signed and sealed this 3rd day of May 2021.



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                                       Nikuyah Walker, Mayor