HomeMy Public PortalAboutr 99:71No. 99-71 Date of AdoptionFebruar¥ 18, 1999
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE 50 STATES
COMMEMORATIVE COIN PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, The United States Congress created the 50 States
Commemorative Coin Program to honor the 50 states, to increase knowledge of
the history and geography of the individual states, and to encourage young
people and their families to collect memorable tokens of the states for the face
value of the coins; and
WHEREAS, The 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act provides
for the redesign of the reverse side of the United States quarter with designs
emblematic of each of the 50 states to be issued in the sequence that the states
ratified the Constitution of the United States or were admitted to the Union, in
a series of five quarters each year from 1999 through 2008; and
WHEREAS, For the New Jersey commemorative quarter, the New Jersey
Commemorative Coin Design Commission, with approval of Governor Christine
Todd Whitman, selected the image of George Washington Crossing the Delaware
River as portrayed in the famous 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze; and
WHEREAS, Production of the first circulating commemorative state
quarters is projected at more than 500 million circulating quarters for each of the
five states to be honored in 1999, with the New Jersey quarters to be available
for shipment to the Federal Reserve Banks in May 1999; and
WHEREAS, The United States Mint arranged a 50 States
Commemorative Quarter Program Launch on December 7, 1998, at the
Philadelphia Mint at which the United States Treasurer, the Director of the
United States Mint, the Governor of Delaware and other invitees started the
presses for the production of the Delaware commemorative quarter; and
WHEREAS, The commencement of the production of the New Jersey
commemorative quarter deserves no less a ceremonial start.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the governing body of the
Borough of Carteret, County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey, that this body
urges the United States Mint to commence the production of the New Jersey
commemorative quarter in a public ceremony at the Philadelphia Mint.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be
sent to the Director of the United States Mint and the New Jersey
Commemorative Coin Design Commission.
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of a resolution adopted by
the Borough of Carteret at a meeting held on February 18, 1999.
· Adopted this 18th of February, 1999
and Certified as a true copy of the
original on February 19, 1999.
KATHLEEN M. BARNEY, RMC/CMC
Municipal Clerk
COUNCILMAN
GRII.I.E¥
FAZEKAS
GUTOWSKI
X - Indicate Vote
RECORD OFCOUNCILVOTE
I YES NO NV A.B. COUNCILMAN
X NANCUSO
X O'BRIEN
X QUINONES
AB - Absent
{ES NO NV A.B.
x
NV - Not Voting XOR - Indicates Vote to Overrule Veto
Adopted at a meeting of the Municipal Council
February 18,1999
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