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CONTRA COSTA.COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA 1
-In the Nutter of Honoring Paul E Allen, ).
Superintendent of the Mt. Diahlo _` ) � RES6LUTION NO. 9912ji
Unified School District on the
r Occasion of his retirement
91T VEAS,, Paul Allen served as an owstan ding leader in education from. 1960 to 1999 as teacher; Vice
Principal, Pnwpak C onsukant,Director of Elementary Education,.associate Superintendent of Administrative
Services,and Superintenden> of the Mt. Diablo School District;and
97-M S frmin -1973 to 1975 on'leave of absence from the ML Diablo Unified District, he served as - y
Assistant Headmaster of the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon, a program for children with ' h
learning disabilities;and _ __.
UgWR AS_Mr. Allen t+ias in dull fat in the passage of Measure:A in 1989 to improve facilities in the Mt
Diablo Unified Schoen District and he mponded promptly to the usbestoa crisis at North Cate High School, has
�.been instrumental in securing ft uancing for abatement; instrumental-in converting a $1,436,548 district loan
f into a grand and-
WHEREAS, he developed a partnership beftmen Mfr Diablo t 1nifted School District and the City of Walnut
Cmeek for construction of-a-community gymnasium and arranged a school site in Pittsburg,to house a new
Elementary School and neptiiated financing for construction of the school;and w
W,tMR&4as Superintendent he was insmanentatin the ftnancing development, and construction of a new
building to replace the unsafe, dilapidated building that housed the entire staff of the district's Maintenance and
Operations Department, and implemented as well a frost of ideasthat served to foster goodwill among faculty,
_ parents,and staff. -
NOW, THEREFORE, . BE IT nSt<wm that the Board of Supervisors does hereby.-
-. acknowledge that on June 8, 1999 Paul E. Allen wilt retire. -
PASSED AND ADOPTED-ON May 25,, 1999, by a unanimous vote of the Board members
- present:
Mark DeSaulnier
Af
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John C` ` y _
_ Gay . Uilkerna
Don C1 - _ Joe Canciamilla, Chair
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a"true and correct copy of an order entered on the Minutes of-
said
fsaid Board of Supervisors ori the aforesaid date. -
4 Witness my hand-and the Seal of the Board of
` Supervisors affixed this 25*-day of May, 1999: _
PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of the Board_.of -
_ Supervisors and County Administrator.
By
Deputy Clerk
Introduced by Supervisor _� y
Mark DeSaulnier, District IV _