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Proclamation
Building Safety Month –May 2025
WHEREAS,the City of Hastings is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength
depends on the safety and essential role our homes, buildings, and infrastructure play, both in
everyday life and when disasters strike, and;
WHEREAS, our confidence in the resilience of these buildings that make up our community
is achieved through the devotion of vigilant guardians –building safety and fire prevention officials,
architects, engineers, builders, tradespeople, design professionals, laborers, plumbers and other in the
construction industry –who work year-round to ensure the safe construction of buildings, and;
WHEREAS, these guardians are dedicated members of the International Code Council, a
nonprofit that brings together local, state, territorial, tribal and federal officials who are experts in the
built environment to create and implement the highest-quality codes to protect us in the buildings
where we live, learn, work and play, and;
WHEREAS, these modern building codes include safeguards to protect the public from
hazards such as hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, wildland fires, floods and earthquakes, and;
WHEREAS, Building Safety Month is sponsored by the International Code Council to
remind the public about the critical role of our communities’ largely unknown protectors of public
safety –our local officials –who assure us of safe, sustainable and affordable buildings that are
essential to our prosperity, and;
WHEREAS, “Game On!,” the theme for Building Safety Month 2025, encourages us all to
raise awareness about building safety on a personal, local and global scale, and;
WHEREAS, each year, in observance of Building Safety Month, people all over the world
are asked to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience and economic
investment at home and in the community, and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all
of us by local, state, tribal, territorial, and federal building safety, fire prevention departments,in
protecting lives and property.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mary D. Fasbender, Mayor of the City of Hastings, do hereby
proclaim the month of May 2025 as Building Safety Month. Accordingly, I encourage our citizens to
join us as we participate in Building Safety Month activities.
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Mary D. Fasbender, Mayor
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