City of Madison - File #: 78154

• File #: 78154
• Version: 3
• Name: SECOND SUBSTITUTE: Encouraging employers to honor Juneteenth as a paid holiday
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/31/2023
• In control: Council Office
• On agenda: 7/25/2023
• Final action: 7/25/2023
• Enactment date: 7/28/2023
• Enactment #: RES-23-00492
• Title: SECOND SUBSTITUTE: Encouraging employers to honor Juneteenth as a paid holiday
• Sponsors: Amani Latimer Burris, Marsha A. Rummel, Michael E. Verveer, Kristen Slack, Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, John W. Duncan, Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford, Nasra Wehelie, Juliana R. Bennett, Charles Myadze, Barbara Harrington-McKinney, Isadore Knox Jr.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/25/2023	3	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt As Substituted	Pass
7/11/2023	2	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer to a future Meeting to Adopt	Pass
6/21/2023	1	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL WITH THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
6/6/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
5/31/2023	1	Council Office	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.
Title
SECOND SUBSTITUTE: Encouraging employers to honor Juneteenth as a paid holiday
Body
WHEREAS, in 2021, when Juneteenth was signed into law by President Joseph Biden it became one of only five state-specific federal holidays, joining New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Veteran’s Day and Christmas; and,

WHEREAS, Juneteenth honors the quest for freedom in America; and,

WHEREAS, June 19th Juneteenth is Freedom Day; and,
WHEREAS, freedom, ultimately as a collective aspiration, is a virtue to keep and protect as the hallmark of our democracy; and,

WHEREAS, June 19th falls within Honor America Days; and,

WHEREAS, freedom is a hallmark of our democracy, and a rightness to keep and protect; and,

WHEREAS, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in America as it stood and further celebrates the founding of, fighting for and forging of freedom for all, a virtue of fact, embedded into the Declaration of Independence; and,

WHEREAS, slavery was an immoral and inequitably unbalanced inequitable economic and labor engine, which further confined the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and financial prosperity and well-being of so many; and,

WHEREAS, it became apparent that those enslaved, slavery, as an and its institution in America, directly impeached freedom and the concept found thereof in the fFounding dDocuments; and,

WHEREAS, this constitutional contradiction further jeopardized freedom in the Union and its ability to remain a united state; and,

WHEREAS, on June 19th, 1862, Congress, under President Lincoln, outlawed slavery in US territories with under an “act to secure freedom for all persons with in the Territories of the United States;” and,

WHEREAS, this act would eventually free people through the Emancipation Proclamations coupled with ratified by several enforcements and ratified amendments (13th, 14th and 15th) and enforcements; and,

WHEREAS, instead of being enslaved, sold at will, rented out, used as a...