CITY OF FRESNO
____________________________________________ __________________________________________ JERRY P. DYER, Honorable Mayor TYLER MAXWELL, Council President
_____________________________________________ __________________________________________ ANNALISA PEREA, Council Vice President MIKE KARBASSI, Councilmember, District 2
_____________________________________________ __________________________________________ MIGUEL ARIAS, Councilmember, District 3 LUIS CHAVEZ, Councilmember, District 5
_____________________________________________ __________________________________________ GARRY BREDEFELD, Councilmember, District 6 NELSON ESPARZA, Councilmember, District 7
Office of Council President Tyler Maxwell
Hereby Recognizes:
Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission
WHEREAS, The Community Action Partnership established National Community Action Month in May to highlight the critical role Community Action Agencies play in helping low-income families achieve economic self-sufficiency; and
WHEREAS, In August 1964, former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act : a set of social initiatives designed to improve underprivileged Americans’ education, health, employment, and well -being. In the same year, the Economic Opportunity Act created Community Action Programs administered by Community Action Agencies, which are regional private and public non- profit organizations in the U.S.; and
WHEREAS, Nearly 900 locally based Community Acton Agencies were established throughout the nation to obtain equal opportunities in education, employment, health, and living conditions for every American in our country; and
WHEREAS, Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission, known as Fresno EOC, is a widely recognized agency and is one of the largest nonprofit Community Action Agencies in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Fresno EOC has spent over five decades investing in people and helping them become self -sufficient. They employ over 1,200 full and part -time staff members committed to transforming lives with over 30 programs to serve their community.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that we, Mayor Jerry P. Dyer, and the Fresno City Council, do hereby proclaim May 2023, in the City of Fresno, as:
“Community Action Month”
in the City of Fresno
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the Great Seal of the City of Fresno, California, this 25 th
day of May of the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Three.