HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 97-C150RESOLUTION NO. 97-C150
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA PROCLAIMING THE WEEK
OF OCTOBER 26 THROUGH NOVEMBER 1, 1997
AS WORLD POPULATION AWARENESS WEEK
WHEREAS, the 21st Century offers enormous environmental and societal challenges for
State and Local Governments that include diminishing farmland, urbanization, traffic congestion,
inner city decay, and climate change, and
WHEREAS, these challenges call for innovative leadership to ensure resource conservation,
protection of open space, waste prevention, sanitation management and a higher quality of life, and
WHEREAS, these challenges are inextricably linked to patterns of considerable
demographic change, such as areas west of the Mississippi River doubling in population size as
rapidly as Africa, the world's fastest growing continent, and
WHEREAS, the Untied States Bureau of the Census has stated that the current United
States population of 267 million is on course to reach 400 million by the year 2050, and
WHEREAS world population is projected to reach 6 billion before the end of this century
and could reach between 8-12 billion, or even higher, before leveling off, with 98 percent of
population growth now and through the foreseeable future projected to occur in the least developed
countries of the world, and
WHEREAS, demographic problems are not limited to the least developed nations and,
indeed, concern the Untied States and the industrialized world, with our consumptive lifestyle, as
well.
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Azusa hereby resolves to proclaim the
week of October 26 through November 1, 1997, as "WORLD POPULATION AWARENESS
WEEK" in the City of Azusa and calls upon all citizens thereof to reflect upon these challenges and
seek rational, humanitarian, community-based solutions.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of October, 1997
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution No. C150 was duly adopted by the
City Council of the City of Azusa, at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 20th day of October,
1997, by the following vote of the Council.
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, ROCHA, BEEBE, MADRID
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
COUNCILMEMBERS: