City of SantaClara
WHEREAS, Historic Preservation is an effective tool for managing growth and sustainable development, revitalizing neighborhoods, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability; and WHEREAS, Historic Preservation encourages and promotes community reinvestment, saving resources and socially, culturally, and economically rich communities; and WHEREAS, Historic Preservation is relevant for communities across the nation, both urban and rural, and for Americans of all ages, all walks of life, and all ethnic backgrounds in telling our individual, city, state, and national story; and WHEREAS, it is important and valuable to celebrate the role of history in our lives and the contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the heritage that has shaped us as a people; and WHEREAS, "People Saving Places" is the theme for National Preservation Month 2024, and serves to shine a spotlight on everyone doing the work of saving places, in big ways and small.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, LISA M. GILLMOR, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor, and on behalf of the entire City Council, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2024, as Historic Preservation Month
in the City of Santa Clara and call upon the people of Santa Clara to join in recognizing and participating in this special observance.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the City of Santa Clara, California, this 28th day of May, 2024.
LISA M. GILLMOR
MAYOR
City of Santa Clara
Draft Proclamation
Proclamation