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Bolingbrook trustees adopt resolution calling for immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza after resident appeals
Summary
After months of public submissions and a packed public-comment period, the Bolingbrook Mayor and Board of Trustees voted 5-0 on Feb. 13, 2024 to adopt Resolution 24R-007 affirming the village’s commitment to diversity and calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza; trustees amended the resolution before passage.
Bolingbrook’s Mayor Mary S. Alexander-Basta and the Board of Trustees voted on Feb. 13, 2024 to adopt Resolution 24R-007, a measure affirming the village’s commitment to diversity and calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and other regions under attack. The vote was 5-0 (Trustees Michael J. Carpanzano, Jean M. Kelly, Michael T. Lawler, Jose Quintero and Maria A. Zarate voting aye; Trustee Troy J. Doris absent).
The resolution, read into the record at the meeting, “stands for peace and call[s] for the return of hostages and prisoners,” and urges a “durable, sustained humanitarian cessation of hostilities” and “the immediate, continuous, sufficient, and unhindered provision of essential goods and services” to civilians, language…
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