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ORDINANCE NO. 3(o�U
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles, Washington adding a new
Chapter 1.30 to the Port Angeles Municipal Code, and recognizing
Indigenous People's Day.
WHEREAS, the City of Port Angeles recognizes that it sits on Klallam ancestral lands
and recognizing that Klallam people have lived on this land since time immemorial; and
WHEREAS, the City strives to promote tolerance, understanding and friendship, and to
combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination; and
WHEREAS, the city values the many contributions Indigenous People have made to our
community with their knowledge, labor, technology, science, philosophy, arts, and the deep
cultural influences which have shaped the character of our city; and
WHEREAS, the idea of Indigenous People's Day was first proposed in 1977 by a'
delegation of Native nations to the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on
Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas; and
WHEREAS, in 2011, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, representing fifty-nine
Nations from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Northern California, Western Montana, and Alaska
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passed resolution #11-57 to "Support to Change Columbus Day (second Monday of October)'
to Indigenous People's Day; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Angeles joins a growing number of cities that recognize the
second Monday of October as Indigenous People's Day, creating an opportunity to promote'
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appreciation, tolerance, understanding, friendship and partnerships among all peoples.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, do
ordain as follows:
Section 1. A new Chapter is added to the Port Angeles Municipal Code as follows:
Chapter 1.30 Special Recognitions.
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Section 2. A new section is added to Port Angeles Municipal Code Chapter 1.30 as
follow:
Section 1.30.010 Indigenous People's Day.
The City of Port Angeles shall recognize Indigenous People's Day on the second
Monday of October each year. On this occasion, the City encourages its officials and
employees, and local organizations and the community, to acknowledge that City of Port
Angeles sits on Klallam ancestral lands and to recognize the many contributions that Klallam
people, as well as other Indigenous People, have made to our community with their knowledge,
labor, technology, economics, science, philosophy, arts, and the deep cultural influences which
have shaped the character of our city.
Section 3. If any provisions of this Ordinance or its applications to any person or
circumstances is held to be invalid, the remainder of the Ordinance or application of the
provisions of the Ordinance to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
Section 4. The City Clerk and the codifiers of this ordinance are authorized to
correct scrivener's errors references ordinance numbering,
be mg, section and subsection numbers
and any references thereto.
Section 5. This Ordinance exercises authority granted exclusively to the City
Council and is not subject to referendum. It shall be in force and take effect 5 (five) days after
publication according to law.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles by a vote of one more than
the majority of all members of the legislative body at a regular meeting of said Council on the
21 st day of July, 2020.
Kate
Dexter, Mayor
ATTEST: APPR . ED AS TO FOR
Kari Martinez-Baffle , itv err � tlliaa ... Bloor, City Attorney
PUBLISHED: �.
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Summary of Ordinances Adopted by the Port Angeles City Council on July 21, 2020
ORDINANCE NO. 3660
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles, Washington adding a new Chapter 1.30 to the Port
Angeles Municipal Code, and recognizing Indigenous People's Day.
ORDINANCE NO. 3661
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, adding a new section 1.40 of the Port
Angeles Municipal Code,recognizing Juneteenth.
These Ordinances,being an exercise of a power specifically delegated to the City legislative body,
are not subject to referendum. These ordinances shall take effect five(5) days after passage and
publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the title.
The full texts of Ordinances are available at City Hall in the Clerk's office, on the City's website
at www.._�ia o� or will be mailed upon request.
Kari Martinez-Bailey
City Clerk
Published by summary: Sunday, July 26, 2020