Office of the City Clerk - Record #: R2011-613

• Record #: R2011-613
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• Intro date: 5/4/2011
• Final action: 5/4/2011
• Title: Declaraton of "Amateur Radio Week" in Chicago June 20 - 26, 2011
• Sponsors: Schulter, Eugene

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/4/2011	118386	City Council	Adopted
5/4/2011		City Council	Introduced (Agreed Calendar)

A Resolution Honoring Chicago Suburban Radio Association

WHEREAS, Amateur Radio has historically played a significant role in developing world wide radio communications; and,

WHEREAS, Amateur Radio Operators have also provided countless hours of community services thorough these decades; and,

WHEREAS, these same individuals have further demonstrated their value in public. assistance by providing free radio communications for local parades, bike-a-thons, fairs and other charitable events such as the Chicago Marathon; and,

WHEREAS, Amateur Radio once again proved its undisputed relevant in the modern world by providing emergency communications when other systems failed in the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and other local and international disasters; and,

WHEREAS, the ARRL, Amateur Radio Field Day exercise and demonstration of the Radio Amateurs' skills and readiness to provide self-supporting communications even in the fields without further infrastructure will be held on June 25^th and June 26^th, 2011;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Mayor and members ofthe City Council of the City of Chicago, gathered here this 4^th Day of May, 2011 A.D. do hereby declare June 20^th through June 26^th, 2011 to be known as Amateur Radio Week in recognition of the important emergency preparedness exercise and call upon all citizens to pay tribute to the Amateur Radio operators in our City.

 

Alderman Gene Schulter

iiUj  ij Ai:l

J ■ 1

.1H1 -10 30930

NOfSjAtO -liONnOD A113 03A!333y