Amateur Radio WeekPROCLAMATION
VILLAGE OF NORTH PALM BEACH
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
AMATEUR RADIO WEEK
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio operators are celebrating over a century of the miracle of the
human voice broadcast over the airwaves; and
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio has continued to provide a bridge between peoples, societies and
countries by creating friendships and the sharing of ideas; and
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio Operators have also provided countless hours of community
services both in emergencies and to other local organizations throughout these decades; and
WHEREAS, these Amateur Radio services are provided wholly uncompensated; and
WHEREAS, the Village also recognizes the services Amateur Radio's people provide to many
Emergency Response organizations, including The American Red Cross, as well as the
North Palm Beach Police Department and Fire Rescue Department; and
WHEREAS, these same individuals have further demonstrated their value in public assistance
by providing free radio communications for local parades, bike-a-thons, walk-a-thons, fairs and
other charitable public events; and
WHEREAS, the Village of North Palm Beach recognizes and appreciates the diligence of these
"hams" who also serve as weather spotters in the Skywarn program of the US Government
Weather Bureau; and
WHEREAS, the ARRL is the leading organization for Amateur Radio in the USA; and
WHEREAS, the ARRL Amateur Radio Field Day exercise will take place on June 24-25, 2017
and is a 24 hour emergency preparedness exercise and demonstration of the Radio Amateurs'
skills and readiness to provide self-supporting communications without further infrastructure
being required.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Darryl C. Aubrey, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of
the Village of North Palm Beach, do hereby proclaim the week of June 24 through June 25, 2017 as
AMATEUR RADIO WEEK
in the Village of North Palm Beach, Florida.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Village of
J this 8th day of June, 2017.
arryl C. Aubrey, Mayor <t—