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    The resolution acknowledges Tampa's history of racial discrimination against African Americans through systems like slavery, Jim Crow laws, and discriminatory policies. It formally apologizes to current and former Black residents for the city's role in this harmful history. The resolution declares support for creating a reconciliation commission to study ongoing impacts and propose solutions to promote racial equity, such as reducing inequality, reforming policing, eliminating mass incarceration, and educating residents. It authorizes city officials to implement the resolution's provisions.

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    The resolution acknowledges Tampa's history of racial discrimination against African Americans through systems like slavery, Jim Crow laws, and discriminatory policies. It formally apologizes to current and former Black residents for the city's role in this harmful history. The resolution declares support for creating a reconciliation commission to study ongoing impacts and propose solutions to promote racial equity, such as reducing inequality, reforming policing, eliminating mass incarceration, and educating residents. It authorizes city officials to implement the resolution's provisions.

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    The resolution acknowledges Tampa's history of racial discrimination against African Americans through systems like slavery, Jim Crow laws, and discriminatory policies. It formally apologizes to current and former Black residents for the city's role in this harmful history. The resolution declares support for creating a reconciliation commission to study ongoing impacts and propose solutions to promote racial equity, such as reducing inequality, reforming policing, eliminating mass incarceration, and educating residents. It authorizes city officials to implement the resolution's provisions.

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    RESOLUTION NO.

    2020-

    A RESOLUTION ACENOWLEDGING TAITA'S HISTORY WIIICH


    CoNTRIBUTHD To A conffLEx sysTEM oF RAclALL¥ MOTIVATHD
    DISCRIMII\IATI0N AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS; FORMALLY
    APOLOGIZING T0 ALL FORRER AND CURRENT AIRICAN ARERICAN
    REslDENTs OF THE clTy OF TAnffA FOR ANT AND ALL PAST
    PARTICIPATION IN THE DAMAGH THIS SHAMEFUL HISTORY HAS
    CAUSED; DHCLARING SUPPORT FOR THE CREATION 0F A
    RECONCILIATION COMMISSION WITH A MISSION 0F STUDYING -AND
    DEVELOPING PROPOSALS TO REDRESS THE ENDURING NEGATIVE
    EFFHCTS 0F THE INSTITUTIONS OF SLAVERY AND THE SUBSEQUHNT
    S¥STEMlc DIScRInmNATloN DIRECTED AT TAnmA's AFRICAN
    ARERICAN RESIDHNTS BY PROMOTING RACIAL AND SOCIAL EQUITY;
    PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATH.

    WHEREAS, in order for the City of Tampa to ftylly embrace the change necessary to move our
    community forward, the City Council believes it is necessary to recognize and acknowledge the slavery
    that flourished in the State of Florida and in Tampa constituted an immoral and inhumane deprivation of
    Africans' life and liberty; and .

    WHHREAS, following the abolition of slavery, Tampa continued to perpetuate, condone,`and


    profit from practices that continued to brutalize and disadvantage African Americans, including
    sharecropping, convict leasing, Jim Crow laws, redlining, unequql education, and disproportionate
    treatment at the hands of the criminal justice system; and

    WHEREAS, such practices were often overt, but more often covertly adopted or incorporated
    under the guise of legitimate policy, and. fomed a complex system of racially motivated discrimination
    against African Americans, including economic, political, educational, and social discrimination,
    resulting in African Americans continuing to suffer debilitating economic, educational, and health
    adversities; and

    WHEREAS, to heal and not to divide, the City Council of the City of Tampa seeks to redress the
    harms of those who came before us and the injustices that continue to surround us so that`we do what we
    can to make the City of Tampa and its institutions and communities more just and equitable for future
    generations.

    NOW, THEREFORE,

    BE IT RHSOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL


    OF THE CITY 0F TAMPA, FLORIDA:

    Section 1. The City Council hereby acknowledges Tampa's history which contributed to a
    complex system of racially motivated discrimination against African Americans, and formally
    apologizes to all former and current African American residents of the City of Tampa for the damage
    this shameful history has caused.
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    Section 2. The City Council apologizes for any and all past participation in sanctioning
    segregation and systemic discrimination of African Americans.
    Section 3. The City Council of Tampa hereby declares its support for the creation of a
    reconciliation commission, with a mission of studying and developing proposals to redress the enduring
    negative effects of the institutions of slavery and the subsequent systemic discrimination directed at
    Tampa's African American residents by promoting racial and social equity. Such a commission may
    address:
    a. Public-private partnerships to encourage and facilitate investment in low-income areas to reduce
    inequality in income and wealth by making targeted and thoughtful investments to uplift both
    low-income communities and communities of color; .
    b. Reforms to policing that reduce racial disparities and provide for the safety and vitality of
    communities of color and ensure representation and advancement of African Americans and other
    persons of color amongst the officers that serve the City of Tampa and such communities;
    c. Policies that eliminate the disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color and provide
    opportunities for meaningful rehabilitation and reentry into the community for those affected by
    such incarceration;
    d. Policies that protect the right to vote from discrimination based on race;
    e. Strategies that promote race-neutral policies in education, employment, healthcare and housing;
    and
    f. Policies and programs that educate City of Tampa residents about the injustice of slavery and
    racial discrimination.

    Section 4. That the proper officers of the City of Tampa are hereby authorized to do all
    things necessary and proper in order to carry out and make effective the provisions of this resolution.

    Section 5. That this resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.

    PASSED AND ADopTED 8¥ THE clT¥ couNclL oF THE clT¥ oF TAnffA,


    FLOREA, ON

    ATTEST:

    SHIELEY F OXX-KNOWLES GUIDO MANISCALCO


    CITY CLERE CIIAIRMAN, TANIA CITY COUNCIL

    APPROVED AS TO FORM:

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    n4ARTIN slHLBV
    CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY

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