HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 06121990 - 90/381IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Congratulating Resolution No: 90/381
Johnson A. "Skid" Thomas
Lafayette Citizen of the Year, 1990 )
WHEREAS Skid Thoma's has been named Lafayette ' s forty-first
Citizen of the Year; and
WHEREAS Skid Thomas settled in Lafayette in 1941 , and with
his wife , Norma, raised their two children, Ron and Susan, in
their home on Moraga Boulevard; and
WHEREAS Skid Thomas served his country as a surgical
technican. at an Army hospital in France for three years; and
WHEREAS Skid Thomas served his county as a trustee
of the Alamo-Lafayette Cemetary District , which operates the
Lafayette Cemetary at the south end of Lafayette as one of the
oldest tax-supported cemetaries in the county; and
WHEREAS Skid Thomas poured ten years of his time into
membership on the East Bay Municipal Utility District Water
Commission in Lafayette in the 195O ' s , and when the Commission
disbanded, saw to it that Commission-controlled monies went to
the purchase of new fire hydrants for the Lafayette Fire District ;
and
WHEREAS -Skid Thomas managed the Lafayette Veterans Memorial
Building for over thirty years ; and
WHEREAS Skid Thomas donated his time generously to the young
men of Lafayette as he worked with them on the American Legion .
Post #517 ' s Boys State program and the baseball teams ; and
WHEREAS Skid Thomas has been an exceptionally active and
hard-working member of Lafayette Rotary for over thirty-one
years, and a member of the Masons and Elks Lodge , as well .
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of the County .of Contra Costa, California, hereby CONGRATULATES
Skid Thomas on his selection as Lafayette ' s forty-first Citizen
of the Year, COMMENDS Skid Thomas for his unstinting giving of
his time and talents to the youth, citizens and municipality
of Lafayette, and EXTENDS TO Skid Thomas its best wishes for
much further civic accomplishment and happiness.
PASSED and ADOPTED this twelfth day of June , 199O, .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 twelfth day of June, 1990.
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors and
County Administrator.
By rjlyvk& Deputy Clerk
Introduced by:
Supervisorancy C . Fanden
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