HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 12051989 - 89-762 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Congratulating )
Ann Jenkins )
The Orinda Association ) Resolution No. : 89/762
Volunteer of the Year, 1989 )
WHEREAS Ann Jenkins has been selected as one of The Orinda
Association' s Volunteers of the Year in recognition of her
leadership, intuition, service, and dedication to preserving one
of California' s most artistic historic structures--The Orinda
Theater; and
WHEREAS Ann Jenkins learned to her horror that the Orinda
Theater was to be demolished and replaced with an office
building in 1982 ; and
WHEREAS Ann Jenkins sprang into action by getting on the
telephone and co-founding the Friends of the Orinda Theater, a
group of local citizens and Art Deco admirers who went to work
trying to save the Orinda Theater and its Anthony Heinsbergen
murals from the wrecking ball ; and
WHEREAS Ann Jenkins coordinated publicity and made anyone
in the Bay Area who read a newspaper or watched television aware
that a unique theater and its irreplaceable murals were at risk;
and
WHEREAS Ann Jenkins applied her public relations and poli-
tical savvy and skillful research to the successful campaign to
have the Orinda Theater nominated by the State Historical
Resources Commission to the National Register of Historic Places .
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, California, hereby CONGRATULATES
Ann Jenkins on her selection as one of The Orinda association' s
Volunteers of the Year, COMMENDS Ann Jenkins for her determined
efforts to save and preserve the Orinda Theater for generations
to come, and APPLAUDS Ann Jenkins for taking on such a large
civic project as a private citizen.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board EXTENDS to Ann
Jenkins its best wishes for much further civic and professional
achievement as she turns her attentions to other works for the
betterment of Orinda.
Passed and adopted on December 5 , 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 fifth day of December, 1989 .
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors and
County Administrator.
By p Deputy Clerk
Introduced by:
Superviso Nancy C. Fanden
Di rict II