2024-05-07 IV. B. Exhibit 1, P&P Building Safety MonthExhibit 1�.
Office of the Mayor"'
City of Okeechobee, Florida
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WHEREAS, the City of Okeechobee is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength
depends on the safety and essential role our homes, buildings, and infrastructure play, both in
everyday life and when disasters strike; and
WHEREAS, our confidence in the resilience of these buildings that make-up our community is
achieved through the devotion of vigilant guardians: building safety and fire prevention officials,
architects, engineers, builders, tradespeople, design professionals, laborers, plumbers, and others
in the construction industry, who work year-round to ensure the safe construction of buildings;
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iEREAS, these guardians are dedicated members of the International Code Council, a nonprofit,
that brings together local, state, territorial, tribal, and federal officials who are experts in the
built environment to create and implement the highest quality codes to protect us in the
buildings where we live, learn, work, play; and
WHEREAS, these modern building codes include safeguards to protect the public from hazards
such as hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, wildland fires, floods, and earthquakes; and ,
IS ` WHEREAS, Building Safety Month is sponsored by the International Code Council to remind the
public about the critical role of our communities' largely unknown protectors of public safety,
our local code officials, who assure us of safe, sustainable, and affordable buildings that are
essential to our prosperity; and
WHEREAS, "Mission Possible," the theme for Building Safety Month 2024, encourages us all to
raise awareness about building safety on a personal, local, and global scale-, and
WHEREAS, each year, in observance of Building Safety Month, people all over the world are asked
to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience and economic investment at
home and in the community, and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all of us by
local and state building departments, fire prevention bureaus and federal agencies in protecting
lives and property.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dowling R. Watford, Jr., by virtue of the authority vested in me as
Mayor of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2024 as
"Building Safety Month."
In witness whereof, on May 7, 2024, I have
set my hand, and caused this seal
!tto he affixed.
D ling Watfor r., a
Attest:'
La*e Gamiotea, NC, Cit
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