"To pass the resolution" means to officially approve or agree upon a decision or action during a meeting or discussion.
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The plan for the new magnets was sparked when the board
passed a resolution in 2012 to start addressing declining enrollment.
Within days, a dozen city council members sent a similar letter, while the county board of supervisors unanimously
passed a resolution calling for local ownership.
It is powerful for local school committees to
pass resolutions support state senate and house bills to demonstrate support from the local level.
I serve as a director on the board of a local bank, and I must tell you that our board recently
passed a resolution against becoming involved in real estate brokerage services.
That is the question being posed by county lawmakers who
passed a resolution seeking consultants willing to conduct a feasibility study on such a project.
The next year, the civil rights
group passed a resolution against charter schools arguing they are not subject to the same accountability standards that public schools are.
In addition, 130 local school committees (district school boards) have
now passed resolutions opposing the ballot measure.
Encourage your local community group or school board to
pass a resolution in support of the school funding lawsuit and send the resolution to your area newspapers, your lawmakers, and the governor.
Based on the program's success, the school
board passed a resolution to remove junk food by the start of the 2003 - 2004 school year.
The Tioga County
Legislature passed a resolution Tuesday in support of a local landowner group that is looking to frack for natural gas using gelled propane.
Mark - Viverito's fashion statement came four days after the City Council
passed a resolution urging President Obama to grant him clemency.
On June 16, the Trenton City
Council passed a resolution calling for a statewide ban, and earlier this year, Highland Park, NJ became the first town in the country to call for a state and national ban on fracking.
The ACSM's 16 - member board was so incensed by this false inference that it unanimously
passed a resolution asking that this misuse of its name be retracted, since the ACSM has taken no official position on the projection.
Congress could quickly overturn the FCC's rules
by passing a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, if a majority of the House and Senate voted for it within 60 legislative days.
Joining the chorus of criticism, the American Medical
Association passed a resolution at its annual convention urging physicians to circumvent the ruling by giving patients advance prescriptions for the contraceptive.
With Steven McDonald's wife and son in attendance, the state
Senate passed a resolution honoring McDonald and then approved a bill renaming a portion of the Southern State Parkway in Long Island after the detective who died in January.
The Buffalo Board of Education
passed a resolution at a special meeting yesterday afternoon giving Carl Paladino until this afternoon to resign from the nine - member panel before calling on the state education commissioner to remove him.
#WeChoose coordinates national actions on October 9th; the Buffalo Public Schools board of
education passes a resolution calling for a moratorium on new charter schools; Schott Foundation to host webinar on October 25th.
The Town Board also
passed a resolution Tuesday on behalf of Pearl River murder victim Paula Bohovesky, aimed at keeping one of her convicted killers in prison for the equally infamous killing of the popular local teenager.
The House committee is following the lead of the European Parliament, which
passed a resolution last month saying ISIS» behavior fits the definition in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
DACA recipients were set to begin losing their status in March, and the ABA House of
Delegates passed a resolution urging Congress to put legislation in place allowing DACA recipients and others to apply for permanent legal status and citizenship.
The Senate today
passed a resolution honoring veteran Gannett Albany Bureau Chief Jay Gallagher, who died Monday at the age of 63 after a nearly yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer.
International relief committees were formed, Christian and Jewish religious organizations sent aid to the Armenians, and the U.S.
Congress passed a resolution condemning the massacres.
To please Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, the City Council on
Wednesday passed a resolution urging President Obama to grant clemency to Puerto Rican terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Analysts said that the shares also rose because of a
recently passed resolution by the Republican National Committee, which said the claims of private Fannie and Freddie investors should be resolved «in a manner that honors and respects the rule of law governing the rights of corporate stockowners.»
Brian Shea, Mayor Kathy Sheehan's chief of staff, said council
members passed a resolution in 2014 setting the standard work day at six hours, which makes them eligible.
LIPA had preferred to build a substation on the island near the Shelter Island Historical Society, but vocal residents opposed that plan and the Shelter Island Town Board
passed a resolution banning such construction last year.
On August 13, 1983 the National Council of
Representatives passed a resolution authorizing the Association to seek leave from the Supreme Court of Canada to intervene in this case and to instruct counsel accordingly.
In a sign he is digging in, Gambia's National
Assembly passed a resolution on Wednesday to allow Jammeh to stay in office for three more months from Wednesday.