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Commissioner ~ moved adoption
of the following Resolution
BOARD OF COUNTY COMIVIISSIONERS
COUNTY OF EAGLE, STATE OF COLORADO
RESOLUTION N0.2002 -
SUPPORTING THE EFFORTS OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL TO ERADICATE
POLIO BY 2005
WHEREAS, Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united
worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations,
and help build goodwill and peace in the world; and
WHEREAS, the Vail-Eagle Valley Rotary club membership represents a cross section of
the community's business and professional men and women, meets weekly and are non-political,
non-religious and open to all cultures, races and creeds; and
WHEREAS, the objective of Rotary is service -service in the community, in the
workplace and throughout the world; and
WHEREAS, the Rotary motto is "Service Above Self'; and
WHEREAS, in 1985, Rotary launched PolioPlus, one of the most ambitious
humanitarian programs ever undertaken by a private entity; and
WHEREAS, PolioPlus was the catalyst for the World Health Assembly's adoption in
1988 of the goal of polio eradication; and
WHEREAS, today, thanks to Rotary and its global partners, the world is on the threshold
of eradicating the polio virus that has destroyed so many lives and hopes as evidenced by the
99.8% drop in the number of polio cases since 1988; and
WHEREAS, more than two billion children have been immunized and four million
spared death or paralysis; and
WHEREAS, Rotary has contributed nearly $500,000,000 in contributions and an untold
number of volunteer hours; and
WHEREAS, the biggest obstacle to victory in the battle against polio is financial; and
WHEREAS, more money is urgently needed to buy additional vaccine and to deliver it
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to children in the few remaining countries where the polio virus still circulates; and
WHEREAS, Rotary has announced a new, one-yeaz polio eradication fund raising
campaign with a goal this year of $80,000,000 in donations and pledges by June 30, 2003.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
CONIlVIISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF EAGLE, STATE OF COLORADO:
THAT, the Eagle County Boazd of County Commissioners applauds the work of the
Vail-Eagle Valley Rotary Club and the Rotary International to eradicate polio by 2005, the
Rotary's 100' anniversary.
THAT, the Eagle County Board of County Commissioners supports the efforts of the
Vail-Eagle Valley Rotary Club and Rotary International to raise the needed donations to conquer
this dread disease.
MOVED, READ AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of the
County of Eagle, State of Colorado, at its regulaz meeting held the ',day of October 2002.
COUNTY OF EAGLE, STATE OF
COLORADO, By and Through Its
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
By:
Tom C. Stone
Commissioner
Commissioner ~Z'~~ seconded adoption of the foregoing resolution.
County Commissioners
Arn M. Menconi
Commissioner
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The roll having been called, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Tom C. Stone
Commissioner Arn M. Menconi ,
Commissioner Michael L. Gallagher
This resolution passed by ~~ "d voce of the Board of County Commissioners of
the County of Eagle, State of Colorado.