HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01012004 - 2004-035 IN RECOGNITION OF THE ERIC RESOLUTION NO.2004/35
ALEXANDER REWARD FUND
WHEREAS,Eric Alexander played football for El Cerrito High School and Los
Medanos College; and
WHEREAS, Eric Alexander coached a youth recreational football team in his home
neighborhood of southeast Richmond; and
WHEREAS,Eric Alexander volunteered for community events with the 'West Contra
Costa Youth Service Bureau,which his mother directs; and
WHEREAS,Eric Alexander worked for the United States Post Office; and
WHEREAS,Eric Alexander had earned nearly enough college credits for a degree;and
WHEREAS,Eric Alexander was killed by gunfire in Richmond on January 4,2004;
WHEREAS,Eric Alexander was the city's first homicide victim of the year; and
WHEREAS,the Richmond community is working with the Richmond Police
Department to solve Eric Alexander's murder; and
WHEREAS,an Eric Alexander Reward Fund has been established at Mechanics Bank in
Richmond to help law enforcement make an arrest and conviction in the case; and
WHEREAS,the Richmond Police Department is eligible to receive matching funds from
the state for the Eric Alexander Reward Fund;
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Contra
Costa County hereby expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Eric
Alexander,and announces the establishment of the Eric Alexander Reward Fund,via Ms.
Rea Parks,Manager, the Mechanics Bank, 3170 Hilltop Mall Road,Richmond, 94806.
PASSED by unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors members present on this 9th day of March 2004.
FE EItAL D. GLovER
Chair
District V Somi-visor,
GAYL MILLIE GREENBERG
District II Supervisor District III Supervisor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a
resolution entered on the minutes of said Board of Supervisors
on the aforesaid date.
Witness my hand and the Seat of the Board of Supervisors
affixed this 9*day ofmarch 2044.
JOHN SWEETEN County administrator and Clerk of the Board
of superviso s.
By
Deputy Clerk
Introduced by Supervisor John Gioia
(Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier absent)