HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01311989 - 89-63 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUN'T'Y, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Congratulating )
Peirce McKee ) Resolution No. 89/63
Orinda Citizen of the Year, 1989)
WHEREAS Peirce McKee has been named Orinda's thirty-ninth
Citizen of the Year; and
WHEREAS Peirce McKee and his wife, Rosina, settled in Orinda
in 1965, where they raised their three sons, Jeffrey, John
and James, all Eagle Scouts like their father; and
WHEREAS Peirce McKee joined the Orinda Rotary in 1970,
served as president from 1977 to 1978, has been the Club's
secretary ever since,talked up and set up the Rotary Club
Orinda Endowment Funds and devised an honor for Orinda
Rotary members who had been named Citizen of the Year which
provided $1,000 Paul Harris Fellowships for students to
study abroad, little knowing that one would be funded in his
name, too; and
WHEREAS Peirce McKee was elected to The Orinda Association
Board of Directors and worked on the Orindawoods
Architecture and Liaison Committee, which was a demanding
and sometimes controversial job; and
WHEREAS Peirce McKee aided two county supervisors as a
member of the selection committee to pick the seven members
of the original Orinda Area Planning Commission and later to
select replacement commissioners for Supervisor Nancy
Fanden; and
WHEREAS Peirce McKee is bullish on the benefits of volunteer
work for Orinda.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, California, hereby
CONGRATULATES Peirce McKee on his selection as Orinda's
thirty-ninth Citizen of the Year, COMMENDS his generous
donation of his time and talents to the citizens of Orinda
and EXTENDS to Peirce McKee its best wishes for much more
personal and professional success.
PASSED and ADOPTED on the thirty-first day of January, 1989,
by unanimous vote of the Board members present.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of a resolution entered in the minutes of the Board of
Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
Witness my hand and the seal of
the Board of Supervisors affixed
this thirty-first day of January,
1989.
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors and County
Admini t for
By puty Clerk
Introduced by
Superviso ancy C. Fanden
District II