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Office of the Mayor W
City of Okeechobee, Florida •
WHEREAS, Mobility Week is a cooperative effort by the Florida Department of
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Transportation and its partner agencies to promote awareness of safe,
multimodal transportation choices by hosting an annual collection of outreach
events; and -
. WHEREAS, Mobility Week is an ideal time for counties, cities, and transportation
agencies to highlight transportation achievements, roll out new initiatives,
and/or implement new policies promoting multimodal transportation; and
WHEREAS, Mobility Week is an opportunity for individuals to explore how
• various active travel choices like walking, biking, riding transit or carpooling
reduces traffic congestion and can be excellent alternative travel choices; and
WHEREAS, since inception more than 1,000 Mobility Week events have been held
statewide with over 500,000 safety materials to improve safety of people; and
i, WHEREAS, during Mobility Week 2023, over 220 workplaces and 1,000 Floridians .
recorded almost 18,000 trips through carpool/vanpool, biking, transit, and
walking; and
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i? WHEREAS, Mobility Week is consistent with the City of Okeechobee's key r`"
priorities of exploring how active and various travel choices like walking,
i� biking, riding transit, or carpooling reduces traffic congestion and can be
.1 excellent alternative travel choices. •
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 week of October 25, through November 2, 2024, as "Mobility Week"
in the City of Okeechobee and encourage all citizens to explore transportation
';: options available to them and to participate in "Mobility Week" events.
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In witness whereof, on October 15, 2024, I have
set my hand and caused this seal to be affixed. F
Dowling R. Watford, Jr., Mayor
Attest:
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
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