WHEREAS Community Living Ontario develops policy solutions and advocates for changes that increase the community participation, inclusion and belonging of people labelled as having an intellectual disability;

AND WHEREAS this includes the more than 250,000 people who have an intellectual disability and their families in Ontario who Community Living Ontario has been advocating for and with for over 70 years.

AND WHEREAS Community Living Month is a province-wide annual awareness campaign to recognize the accomplishments of the Community Living movement.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, Shawn Pankow, Mayor of the Town of Smiths Falls, do hereby proclaim May as Community Living Month in The Town of Smiths Falls.
AND THAT I encourage all residents to join Community Living Ontario as they show why #Authenticlnclusion matters for people who have an intellectual disability and their families!