HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 363-12 A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY
AND AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Rochester has historically been committed to diversity
among the City's neighborhoods, residents, and visitors, and has implemented
initiatives to enhance diversity throughout its population; and
WHEREAS, the City of Rochester opposes discriminatory practices that degrade
individuals, foster intolerance, bullying, and hate, and create and intensify unemployment,
substandard housing, the lack of education, ill health, lawlessness and poverty, thereby
injuring the public's health, safety and welfare; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Rochester seeks to prevent and prohibit all discriminatory
practices based on race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex; including
sexual harassment, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, marital status or
status with regard to public assistance; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Rochester seeks to promote greater civility and
understanding of our collective differences and similarities, and is proud of the richness
•that it brings to our community.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Rochester Common
Council that the City endorses the affirmative efforts being taken to achieve greater
diversity among our citizens, and expresses its continued support of its commitment to
equality and inclusiveness for all citizens and visitors to our community.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Comprehensive Plan Policy on Affordable
Housing and Diversity, originally adopted as part of the Comprehensive Plan in 1999, is
hereby adopted in its updated and revised form reaffirming our commitment to an
inclusive community made up of inclusive, integrated neighborhoods.
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• PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS .ZO DAY OF 19zxtsr , 2012.
ACTING PRESQ^T OF SAID
COMMON COUNCIL
ATTEST: Y�
GVFY CLERK
APPROVED THIS -Zl DAY OF , 2012.
MAYOR OF SAID CITY
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Rochester, Minnesota)
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