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CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
City Council Interoffice Communication
To: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
From: Dave Sullivan, City Council Member
Date: May 27, 2014
Subject: City Council Member Item for the June 2, 2014, City Council
Meeting — New Placement of "In God We Trust" Plaque to
Center of City Council Dais
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
While attending our city's deeply moving Memorial Day ceremony on May 26, 1 realized
that many Americans are cavalier about the principles that so many brave soldiers have
given their lives to preserve from the founding of our nation to the present day.
Our country's motto is "In God We Trust." This simple yet eloquent statement of
America's founding principle is placed front and center above the podium in Congress
and above the front door of the Supreme Court. The majority of a recent Huntington
Beach City Council reluctantly placed our founding principal `off to the side' instead of
front and center.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
I would like to recommend that the 'In God We Trust' plaque be placed in the center of
the dais, above the mayor's position, indicating that Huntington Beach honors and
accepts our nation's founding principle exactly as it is done at our most hallowed
government levels.
xc: Fred Wilson, City Manager
Ken Domer, Assistant City Manager
Joan Flynn, City Clerk
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