HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 06111991 - 1.22 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF Honoring Mr. Paul )
C. Watt on the event of his retirement)
as Director of Community Planning and )
Assistant City Manager with the City )
of Pleasant Hill, California. ) RESOLUTION NO. 91/ 378
WHEREAS, Mr. Paul C. Watt, a resident of Pleasant Hill,
graduated from the University of Illinois in 1949 with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Landscape Architecture and City Planning; and
WHEREAS, since 1949, Mr. Watt has been extensively involved
in city planning and transportation issues through his work as,
among other things, Director of the National Capitol Regional
Planning Council in Washington, D.C. , as Director of the Planning
Department of the Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department in
Miami, Florida, as an Associate Partner in the Washington, D.C.
office of Harland Bartholomew and Associates, a planning
consultancy firm and as Deputy Executive Director of the Tri State
Transportation Commission in New York; and
WHEREAS, from 1970 to 1978, Paul Watt served as Executive
Director of the Bay Area' s newly formed Metropolitan
Transportation Commission and worked to prepare, adopt and
implement the Regional Transportation Plan for the nine county San
Francisco Bay Area; and
WHEREAS, as the Director of the Community Planning Department
for the City of Pleasant Hill since 1978, and as Assistant City
Manager for thepast two years, Mr. Watt has had a sizable
.influence on the development of central Contra Costa County; and
WHEREAS, Paul Watt has been affiliated over the years with
the American Institute of Planners and the Transportation Research
Board and is Past Chairman of the Transportation Section of the
Commonwealth Club of California; and
WHEREAS, after forty-two years working in the areas of
transportation and city planning, Mr. Paul C. Watt retired in
April, 1991 and will be honored with a dinner on June 22, 1991.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of Contra Costa County THANKS Paul C. Watt for his contributions
to the Contra Costa County community and WISHES him and his wife,
Grace much health and happiness in their future endeavors.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by unanimous vote of the Board members
present on this 11th day of June, 1991.
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 date aforesaid.
Witness my hand and the
Seal of the Board of
Supervisors affixed this
` •, 11th day of June, 1991.
PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors
andiTz
mini ator
By. 6
Depu Clerk
INTRODUCED BY:
ROBERT I. SCHRODER
District III