Orange County Government places top priority on child safety issues and awareness, and education plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of our children.

During the school year, student pedestrian safety is the primary mission for the more than 300 adult School Crossing Guards in Orange County.

Every school day, these highly dedicated men and women are in the street protecting our school children and training them about pedestrian safety.

School Crossing Guards provide an invaluable service to our community and receive little recognition or compensation for their efforts.

School Crossing Guards often face adversarial, dangerous, and hostile conditions in the performance of their duties.

It is the desire of the citizens of Orange County, Florida and the Orange County Board of County Commissioners to recognize the Orange County School Crossing Guards who put their lives on the line each day to protect our children during their commute to and from school.

Richard T. Crotty, by virtue of the authority vested in him as Orange County Mayor, proclaimed Friday, February 5, 2010 as

SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD APPRECIATION DAY

in Orange County, Florida.