“Building Safety Month Proclamation”
May 2025
WHEREAS, the City of Goodland recognizes 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, electricians and others in the construction industry – who work year round to
ensure the safe construction of buildings; and
WHEREAS, these modern building codes and standards 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 code 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 get
involved and 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, and federal building safety and fire prevention departments in protecting lives and property,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jason Showalter, Mayor of the City of Goodland, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as Building Safety Month and encourage our community and citizens to join us as we participate in Building Safety Month activities.
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Jason Showalter, Mayor
For More Information: https://www.iccsafe.org/advocacy/building-safety-month/building-safety-month/