CC RES 2020-043 RESOLUTION NO. 2020-43
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, ESTABLISHING A
SISTER CITIES PROGRAM WITH SAKURA CITY,
TOCHIGI PREFECTURE, JAPAN.
WHEREAS,, our world has become a world of cities, with the majority of the world's population
residing in urban communities; and
WHEREAS, the common concerns of our citizens transcend dividing lines of language,
customs, ideology, and geography; and
WHEREAS, international exchanges between cities, counties, states and similar jurisdictions
abroad and their citizens are vital to the global community because they motivate friendship, mutual
respect, and understanding; and
WHEREAS, friendship unites people of all ages and backgrounds, and surmounts barriers of
distance, culture, language, and politics; and
WHEREAS, the Sister Cities Program is-committed to the process of providing an active role
in international affairs to all communities and their citizens for the ultimate goal of world peace; and
WHEREAS, the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States of America and the
111 City of Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, wish to enhance their mutual understanding and
strengthen the friendly cooperation between the two cities, and based on friendly consolation desire to
enter into an agreement to engage in reciprocal exchanges to carry out programs of mutual interest
and benefit, and
WHEREAS, bearing in mind the principles of equality and mutual benefit and pursuing the
common development and prosperity, both sides will be committed to various forms of exchanges and
cooperation in the fields of culture and education; and
WHEREAS, the leaders and relevant departments of both sides desire to maintain regular
correspondence with each other to facilitate consultation on matters regarding the exchanges and
cooperation between both sides as well as issues of common concern.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Mayor and Members of the City Council of
the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on the basis of friendly cooperation, equality and mutual
benefit, do hereby acknowledge the effort to establish a relationship between the City of Sakura City,
Tochigi Prefecture, Japan and the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, to promote and broaden cultural and
educational exchanges between the two cities, and on that basis of do hereby proclaim this
commemorative event to celebrate the union of the sister cities.
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The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED on this 21st day of July 2020.
Ait,..............i
John Cr ikshank, Mayor
Attest:
Emily Colborn,�Cit�ler
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Emily Colborn, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that the above
Resolution No. 2020-43 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said City Council at
a regular meeting thereof held on July 21, 2020.
( mily Colborn, CftXrk
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