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MOU__N_DitSVVftW City of Mounds View Staff R, Item No: 8D Meeting Date: June10, 2024 Type of Business: Council Business Administrator review: To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Nyle Zikmund, City Administration Item Title/Subject: Resolution 9336, Community Engagement Committee Introduction: DEI — Diversity Equity Inclusion is a high priority with the Mounds View Council as over 30% of the 2024 population are diverse. A Human Rights Task Force was created shortly after COVID but dissolved when key members have life events prevent their further participation. Mayor Lindstrom reached out to residents Shauna Bock and Andre Koen seeking their input and desire to re -start an effort/group to ensure all resident/guests are heard, represented, and cared for. Both have agreed to Co -Chair an effort to advance diversity and equity issues. Discussion: Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. Early celebrations date back to 1866, at first involving church -centered community gatherings in Texas. They spread across the South amongst newly freed African American slaves and their descendants and became more commercialized in the 1920s and 1930s, often centering on a food festival. Participants in the Great Migration brought these celebrations to the rest of the country. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, these celebrations were eclipsed by the nonviolent determination to achieve civil rights, but grew in popularity again in the 1970s with a focus on African -American freedom and African -American arts. Beginning with Texas by proclamation in 1938, and by legislation in 1979, every U.S. state and the District of Columbia has formally recognized the holiday in some way. Juneteenth is also celebrated by the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped from slavery in 1852 and settled in Coahuila, Mexico. The day was recognized as a federal holiday in 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was adopted in 1983 Strategic Plan Strategy/Goal: Make Mounds View a Livable Community Financial Impact: None The Mounds View Vision A Thriving Desirable Community