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HomeMy WebLinkAbout53-22 RESOLUTION113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Resolution: 53-22 File Number: 2022-0202 CITY COUNCIL TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT FOR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY AND THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS': A RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT OF THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY AND THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS' BRAVE DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRY AGAINST THE UNPROVOKED, ILLEGAL, AND BRUTAL RUSSIAN INVASION WHEREAS, Vladimir Putin and his spokesmen since at least November 12, 2021 have consistently and continuously lied about and denied their planned invasion of Ukraine; and WHEREAS, as late as February 16, 2022, Russia's media reported that "Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that some troops deployed from military districts bordering Ukraine were being loaded onto trains and trucks and sent back to their garrison, marking Russia's latest step away from the threat of an invasion" (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette 2-28-22 Editorial); and WHEREAS, immediately before this illegal invasion began, Putin during a personal phone call with French President Macron again lied that no invasion was planned; and WHEREAS, this lie could not hide the truth that Russia began an unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine on several fronts shortly thereafter; and WHEREAS, Ukrainian troops joined by thousands of Ukrainian civilian volunteers have bravely rallied to the defense of their homeland, its democratic government and their own liberty to fight the Russian invaders. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Page 1 Printed on 312122 Resolution: 53-22 File Number.' 2022-0202 Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its admiration and full support for the Ukrainian military's courage and resolve and the Ukrainian patriots' brave and heroic resistance against Russia's unprovoked, illegal, inhumane and intolerable invasion of the sovereign nation and the peace -loving citizens of Ukraine. Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby calls upon all Fayetteville citizens and businesses to visibly and loudly support and honor Ukraine's continuing heroic resistance against the war criminal, Vladimir Putin, and his crony Kremlin supporters. Section 3: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby supports the peace -loving Russian people and request that they continue and increase their public opposition to this unprovoked, illegal, unjust and needless war against their neighbors as well as their opposition to this corrupt tyrant who has even made veiled threats of nuclear war. PASSED and APPROVED on 3/1/2022 Attest: IIIIII►It ry •' Ti' .•; � Lj r• � � Kara Paxton, City Clerk Treasurer= r1CXZ lidjjil Page 2 Printed on 3/2/22 City of Fayetteville, Arkansas 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479)575-8323 Text File File Number: 2022-0202 Agenda Date: 3/1/2022 Version: 1 Status: Passed In Control: City Council Meetinq File Type: Resolution Agenda Number: 1. CITY COUNCIL TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT FOR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY AND THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS': A RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT OF THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY AND THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS' BRAVE DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRY AGAINST THE UNPROVOKED, ILLEGAL, AND BRUTAL RUSSIAN INVASION WHEREAS, Vladimir Putin and his spokesmen since at least November 12, 2021 have consistently and continuously lied about and denied their planned invasion of Ukraine; and WHEREAS, as late as February 16, 2022, Russia's media reported that "Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that some troops deployed from military districts bordering Ukraine were being loaded onto trains and trucks and sent back to their garrison, marking Russia's latest step away from the threat of an invasion" (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette 2-28-22 Editorial); and WHEREAS, immediately before this illegal invasion began, Putin during a personal phone call with French President Macron again lied that no invasion was planned; and WHEREAS, this lie could not hide the truth that Russia began an unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine on several fronts shortly thereafter; and WHEREAS, Ukrainian troops joined by thousands of Ukrainian civilian volunteers have bravely rallied to the defense of their homeland, its democratic government and their own liberty to fight the Russian invaders. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its admiration and full support for the Ukrainian military's courage and resolve and the Ukrainian patriots' brave and heroic resistance against Russia's unprovoked, illegal, inhumane and intolerable invasion of the sovereign nation and the peace -loving citizens of Ukraine. Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby calls upon all Fayetteville citizens and businesses to visibly and loudly support and honor Ukraine's continuing heroic resistance against the war criminal, Vladimir Putin, and his crony Kremlin supporters. City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 1 Printed on 31212022 File Number: 2022-0202 Section 3: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby supports the peace -loving Russian people and request that they continue and increase their public opposition to this unprovoked, illegal, unjust and needless war against their neighbors as well as their opposition to this corrupt tyrant who has even made veiled threats of nuclear war. City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 2 Printed on 31212022 DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY Kit Williams City Attorney TO: Mayor Jordan Blake Pennington City Council Assistant City Attorney Kara Paxton, City Clerk/Treasurer Jodi Batker Paralegal CC: Susan Norton, Chief of Staff Paul Becker, Chief Financial Officer FROM: Kit Williams, City Attorney -- 1L DATE: March 1, 2022 RE: Resolution to support the Ukrainian military and citizen volunteers in their resistance against the Russian invaders After months of lies by Vladimir Putin and his cronies that he was not planning to invade Ukraine despite massing almost all of Russia's army on the Ukraine border, Vlad gave the illegal order for Russia's unprovoked attack guaranteeing thousands of deaths. Ukraine had never threatened Russia nor its people before this massive unprovoked Russian invasion. Putin has now attained war criminal status. If Putin believed that the Ukrainian military and its patriotic citizens would surrender without a fight, he was sorely mistaken. It is clear that the Russian army is much larger and better equipped than Ukraine's military. True heroism occurs when an outmanned and outgunned force stands strong and resolute against a larger and more powerful invader. History has revealed that sometimes, "it is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." Ukraine may eventually be overwhelmed by the much larger invading Russian army, with support of the Russian Air Force and Navy, but one must admire the courage and determination of the Ukrainian military and especially its patriotic leadership and citizens in their defense of the liberty and homeland. Attached is the informative Editorial of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette of Monday, February 28, 2022 detailing Putin's lies and duplicity leading up to this unprovoked and illegal invasion. 6B • MONDAY. FESRUARY 28. 2022 „ Editorial Page NORI HWFsr ARKANSAS Democrat .pn (0flzQtte EDITORIALS . its own sports betting content. The al argument, ... t, .the......._ _...,....",..,s., Ln let the chips fall sccand app could be operated with where they may. Duplicity, you say? Wait here while we clutch our pearls Aiu:ANsm DmOcxnr-GAUrm rve thanks to factcheck.org. many news sites on the inter - net, and our own newspaper archives. Because of them, the rest of US have learned another lesson when dealing with the Russians and Vlad- imir Patin. With this guy, maybe the standard operating phrase should be Don't'lkust, Jost Verify. Nov. lk DinitryPeskat, spokesman for Vlad the ltnpaler, said this about plans his country had for invading Ukraine: The very idea was "a hoUow and nnfount:14M attempt to incite ten- sions." And "Russia dnesn't threaten anyone The inavament of troops On our territory shouldn't be a cause for anyone's concern." Nov. 2L' Mr. Prskov again: "This.hys- teria is being artificially whipped up. We are being accused of some kind of unusual m[litary activity on our ter- ritory by those who havr brought in their armed forces from across the ocean. Tltai is, the United slates of America. It's not really logical or po- lite." Nov. 22: Mr. Peskov in Pravda. which is to say, to his own people: "Russia does not lmrbor any aggressive plans. it N completely wrong to say the opposite, and it is completely wrong to associate any moyement of the Rus- sian Armed Forces across the territory ofourcut, ittry with such plans•'I"his is just lies-- I mean those very fakes:' PuL. 28: in a radio interview. Russian Foreign Minister 5ergey 1 wvrov said: "There won't be a war as far as it de- pcnds on the Russian Federation. We don't want a war. lht we won't let our interests be rudely Iramplcd on and ig- nore&' Feb. 12: Sergey 14 wrov Was on a Phone call with this nation's secretary of state, and accused the United States of "engaging in a propaganda cam- paign agalnst Russia" Can the same slay; Putin's top lareign policy aide Hushed aside all the invasion warnings. saying the situation "]sal simply been brought to the point a rabsu rdi ry." Feb. 13: When American spooks started spreading the Word that the in- vasion could happen any dry, the Rus- slan Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said: "American politicians have lied, are lying; and wilt continue to lie, cre- ating prelext to attack civil Inns around the world" Fell. 14: The Papers say "Russia's Defense Nfinistry said Tbesday that some troops deployed front military districts bordering Ukraine were being: loaded onto trains and trucks and sent back to their garrison, marking Rus- sia's latest step away from the Threat of an hnrtsios>." NA'I'U commanders said thaL sounded good and all, but they hadn't noticed any such thing. Feb. 17: Arxsurding to Bloomberg: COLUMNIST Who but us? entral to much of the skepticism re- OPINION girding America's involvement in the crisis in Ukraine is the question: "Who are we?"Bret Who are we, with our long history of inva• r 11— Stephens lions and interventions, to lecture Vladimir Putin about respecting national sovereignty and international law?- Who are we, Willi our , Jan.�11: At a press conference, the Russian deputy foreign minister in Ge- neva said: ""Essentially it is said that Russia watts to trade its, quote -un- quote, threat against Ukraine for more Flexibility on the part of U.S. and the West. This is not the case because we have no intention to invade Ukraine. And thus, there is nothing to trade with" Jan. 17: The Associated Press report- ed that Russia's top diplomat became angry when rejecting allegations of a looming invasion, accusing the United States of"total disinformation." Jan. 24: At a daily briefing in Mos- cow, the spokesman for President Patin said: "In general, we state and would like to draw your attention to the fact that the escalation of tension is carried out through information ac- tions and concrete actions taken by the United States of America and NATO. Speaking about information actions, I mean the information hysteria that we are witnessing. It is generously framed by a huge amount of false information, Ukraine was underway and none was planned. But the Kremlin said in an official response to the Biden adminis- tration's proposed security assurances that the offers were unsatisfactory and Russia might have to resort to unspeci- fied 'military -technical measures!" resident of France Emmanuel Macron told the pupas late last week that there was "duplicity" on Vladimir Patin's part when they talked on the phone several times be- fore the invasion. "Yes, there was du- plicity," he said. "Yes, there was a de- liberate, conscious choice to launch war when we could still negotiate peace." Do you think? The rest of the world needs to keep this in mind when dealing with these, folks again Breaking News: Friday morning, Russia put out word that it was "open to negotiations" and may agree to talks in regard to Ukraine. Does anybody believe that? Noon tw s•r ARKAws' Democrat700azette Owned and operated by WEHCO Media Walter E. Hussman, Jr., Publisher Brent A. Powers Rusty Turner Greg Harlon President Editor Editorial Page Editor Lisa Thompson Jim Tally Carla Gardner Managing Editor subscriber Services Director Director of Finance Legistar ID No.: 2022- Oc� pa AGENDA REQUEST FORM FOR: Council Meeting of March 1, 2022 FROM: Council Members Teresa Turk and Holly Hertzberg ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION TITLE AND SUBJECT: A RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT OF THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY AND THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS' BRAVE DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRY AGAINST THE UNPROVOKED, ILLEGAL, AND BRUTAL RUSSIAN INVASION APPROVED FOR AGENDA: t'W6 City Council Member Teresa Turk /� v- a w•r► City Council Member Merlzberg City Attorney Kit Williams Approved as to form - -z 9 - -0 - Date Z -zk -Zz Date Date Williams, Kit From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Kit, This looks great, thank you! Holly Hertzberg, Holly Monday, February 28, 2022 5:16 PM Williams, Kit Turk, Teresa; Batker, Jodi Re: Resolution to support Ukraine On Feb 28, 2022 at 5:00 PM, <Kit Williams> wrote: Teresa and Holly, I changed "Ukraine" to "Ukrainian" in a couple of places after I confirmed this was the correct terminology. Kit From: Williams, Kit Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 4:02 PM To: Turk, Teresa <teresa.turk@fayetteville-ar.gov>; Hertzberg, Holly <holly.hertzberg@fayetteville-ar.gov> Cc: Batker, Jodi <jbatker@fayetteville-ar.gov> Subject: RE: Resolution to support Ukraine Teresa and Holly, Both of you emailed me yesterday and asked me to draft a Resolution to support Ukraine for the March 15t meeting. Attached is my proposed draft Resolution for your consideration. If this is what you wanted, please approve it. If changes need to be made, please let me know, and I will change it. Also attached is the Agenda request form. You may approve this by simply saying so in an email back to me. The we will put it into Legistar. Kit From: Turk, Teresa Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2022 9:25 AM To: Williams, Kit <kwilliams fa etteville-ar, ov> Subject: Re: Resolution to support Ukraine Hi Kit, Please let me know if you don't have time and I could try to draft some points. Thanks for all you do for our city, Teresa From: Turk, Teresa Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2022 9:21 AM Williams, Kit From: Turk, Teresa Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 9:37 PM To: Williams, Kit Cc: Hertzberg, Holly; Batker, Jodi Subject: Re: Resolution to support Ukraine Attachments: scan.pdf Thank you Kit! I will sign and scan the agenda request form. Teresa Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2022, at 5:00 PM, Williams, Kit <kwilliams@fayetteville-ar.gov> wrote: Teresa and Holly, I changed "Ukraine" to "Ukrainian" in a couple of places after I confirmed this was the correct terminology. Kit From: Williams, Kit Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 4:02 PM To: Turk, Teresa <teresa.turk@fayetteville-ar.gov>; Hertzberg, Holly <holly.hertzberg@fayetteville- ar.gov> Cc: Batker, Jodi <jbatker@fayetteville-ar.gov> Subject: RE: Resolution to support Ukraine Teresa and Holly, Both of you emailed me yesterday and asked me to draft a Resolution to support Ukraine for the March 15t meeting. Attached is my proposed draft Resolution for your consideration. If this is what you wanted, please approve it. If changes need to be made, please let me know, and I will change it. Also attached is the Agenda request form. You may approve this by simply saying so in an email back to me. The we will put it into Legistar. Kit From: Turk, Teresa Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2022 9:25 AM To: Williams, Kit <kwilliams fa etteville-ar. ov> Subject: Re: Resolution to support Ukraine Hi Kit, Please let me know if you don't have time and I could try to draft some points. Thanks for all you do for our city, Teresa To: Williams, Kit <kwilliams fa etteville-ar. ov> Subject: Resolution to support Ukraine Hi Kit, I had a constituent who reached out to me requesting that the city of Fayetteville pass a resolution supporting the people of Ukraine and to encourage businesses to light their establishments with yellow and blue lights in a show of solidarity. Little Rock has shown their solidarity with the Ukrainian citizens by changing the color of the bridge across the Arkansas River and I think Fayetteville should follow suit. Too bad we don't have such a prominent feature as a bridge. Please give me a call if we need to discuss and I hope we can walk this item on for Tuesday's council meeting. Thanks so much! Teresa Turk City Council Member Ward 4 Position 1 Fayetteville, AR 72701 ward4 poslCa@fayetteville-ar.gov 206.713.2265 RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT OF THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY AND THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS' BRAVE DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRY AGAINST THE UNPROVOKED, ILLEGAL, AND BRUTAL RUSSIAN INVASION WHEREAS, Vladimir Putin and his spokesmen since at least November 12, 2021 have consistently and continuously lied about and denied their planned invasion of Ukraine; and WHEREAS, as late as February 16, 2022, Russia's media reported that "Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that some troops deployed from military districts bordering Ukraine were being loaded onto trains and trucks and sent back to their garrison, marking Russia's latest step away from the threat of an invasion" (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette 2-28-22 Editorial); and WHEREAS, immediately before this illegal invasion began, Putin during a personal phone call with French President Macron again lied that no invasion was planned; and WHEREAS, this lie could not hide the truth that Russia began an unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine on several fronts shortly thereafter; and WHEREAS, Ukrainian troops joined by thousands of Ukrainian civilian volunteers have bravely rallied to the defense of their homeland, its democratic government and their own liberty to fight the Russian invaders. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its admiration and full support for the Ukrainian military's courage and resolve and the Ukrainian patriots' brave and heroic resistance against Russia's unprovoked, illegal, inhumane and intolerable invasion of the sovereign nation and the peace -loving citizens of Ukraine. Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby calls upon all Fayetteville citizens and businesses to visibly and loudly support and honor Ukraine's continuing heroic resistance against the war criminal, Vladimir Putin, and his crony Kremlin supporters. Section 3: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby supports the peace - loving Russian people and request that they continue and increase their public opposition to this unprovoked, illegal, unjust and needless war against their neighbors as well as their opposition to this corrupt tyrant who has even made veiled threats of nuclear war. PASSED and APPROVED this I" day of March, 2022.