EXECUTIVE ORDER  EO 79-05

 

RESCINDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 71-08

 

     WHEREAS, this administration recognizes a commitment to provide job opportunities for veterans and to alleviate unemployment among this group; and

 

     WHEREAS, Executive Order No.  71-08 signed December 6, 1971, has not resulted in measurable benefits to veterans; and

 

     WHEREAS, various state agencies, including the Employment Security Department, and the Department of Veterans Affairs and the following veterans organizations, American Veterans, American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars agree to and endorse the revocation of Executive Order Re. 71-08; and

 

     WHEREAS, it appears other avenues are available to assist veterans in employment and increase productivity and efficiency in state government and it is in the best interest of this administration;

 

     NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dixy Lee Ray, Governor of the state of Washington, do hereby rescind Executive Order No. 71-08.

 

                                                            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto

                                                            Set my hand and caused the seal of the state

                                                            of Washington to be affixed at Olympia

                                                            this 3rd day of October A.D. nineteen hundred

                                                            and seventy-nine.

                            

                                                            DIXY LEE RAY

                                                            Governor of Washington

 

BY THE GOVERNOR:

 

 

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Secretary of State