Proclamation National Disability Voter Registration Week

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PROCLAMA►TION REV CSP "National Disability Vater Registration Week" WHEREAS: in July people with disabilities and our supporters celebrate the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); and WHEREAS: there are over 50 million people with disabilities of all ages living in communities throughout the United States; and WHEREAS: the disability community has a critical interest in policies enacted at local, state, and national levels that effect the integration of people with disabilities, young and old, into our communities; and WHEREAS: getting the disability community involved in influencing public policies is essential if these policies are to meet the real needs of people with disabilities to live in the community; and WHEREAS: voting is one way for the disability community to exert their influence at local, state and national elections; and WHEREAS: there are multiple efforts to develop state disability coalitions around the issue of voting; and WHEREAS: REV UP America * Register—Educate—Vote Use your Power is a national effort to encourage state and local disability community voting coalitions; and WHEREAS: members of national disability rights community are organizing a National Disability Voter Registration Week(NDVRW) for July 16-20, 2018; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that Kittitas County supports the growing involvement of the disability community in the political process; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners hereby designate the week of July 16-20, 2018 as "National Disability Voter Registration Week" in Kittitas County.