Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago - July 14, 1993
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Source: Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago
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JOURNAL-CITY COUNCIL-CHICAGO
7/14/93
Rules Suspended-CONGRATULATIONS EXTENDED TO
MS. SAN JUANITA GARZA ON RECEIVING
MINORITY SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP FROM
PENNSYLVANLA STATE UNIVERSITY.
Alderman Suarez moved to Suspend the Rules Temporarily for the purpose of going out of the regular order of business for the immediate consideration of and action upon a proposed resolution. The motion Prevailed.
The following is said proposed resolution:
WHEREAS, Ms. San Juanita Garza has been named the Minority Scholar Fellow for the year 1993 - 1994 by Pennsylvania State University; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garza has been a Legislative Assistant in the City Council Division of the Office of the City Clerk since June, 1989; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garza is an accomplished poet, having had her poetry appear in numerous publications, including New American Writing, Naming the Daytime Moon, Columbia-Poetry Review and Chicagos own phone-in-poetry line, Dial-A-Poem Chicago!; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garza has founded No Roses Review, an international, award-winning literary publication; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garzas writing talents have been tremendously relied upon by the City Council Division, where her assignment has been to synopsize referred legislation during the City Council meetings; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garza has coordinated the "Call of the Wards" segment of the City Council meetings for four years, synopsizing and referring over eight thousand ordinances, orders and resolutions, as well as fielding questions from Aldermen, pages and audience members during the Council meetings; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garzas fellowship is the first minority award granted by the Graduate School of English at Pennsylvania State University in the last ten years; and WHEREAS, Ms. Garzas fellowship was granted by unanimous decision of the Selection Committee, which enlisted the talents of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carolyn Forche, and National Endowment for the Arts recipient Bruce Weigl; now, therefore, Be It Resolved, That we, the Mayor and members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, gathered here this fourteenth day of July, 1993, do hereby express our heartiest congratulations to Ms. San Juanita Garza on
