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IN THE MATTER OF HONORING RESOLUTION NO. 2008/429
KIMBERLY ACEVES
FOR .HER YEARS OF TIRELESS COMMITMENT
AND WISHING HER WELL
IN FUTURE ENDEAVOURS
WHEREAS, Kimberly Aceves has worked throughout the community for eighteen years to
empower youth, people of color, working class communities, and members of the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) community- and
WHEREAS, Kimberly Aceves has served on the boards. of numerous advocacy and social Justice
organizations including. the Lavender Youth .Recreation and Information Center, the Astraea
Lesbian L'owidatlon .for.Justice, the i-Iorizons FoLiildation, and Youth Uprising; and
WHEREAS, Kimberly Aceves has served as a coniniu city funding panel member of numerous
advocacy and social Justice organizations including the Women's Foundation, the Horizons
Foundation, the San. Francisco Foundation, the San ..Francisco Department of Children
Youth and "their Families. and the Astraea lesbian Foundation for Justice; and
WHEREAS, Kimberly Aceves has participated as a trainer in a district-wide staff training on sexual
harassment for the Visalia and Fresno Unified School Districts; and
WHEREAS, Kimberly Aceves: has served on Mayor Ron DellUln"s LGBTQ Task .Force in
Oakland; and
WHEREAS, Kimberly Aceves has served as Executive Director for Youth Together for the past
seven years, building. the. leadership and organizing capacity of Oakland, Berkeley, and
Richmond students and helping them address >racial inequalities within their school
communities; and
WIIEREAS, Kimberly Aceves is a Rockwood Leadership Fellow- and has participated as a
LeaderSpring Executive Fellow; and
WHEREAS. Kimberly Aceves has just been hired as the Board:Chair :for the RYSE Youth Center in
Richmond:and serves as a Board Member for SOLJL;.aiid
WIIEREAS, Kimberly Aceves,is well-respected among her peers; acts as a.role model for young
people, and has proven that one person can make a difference within the community;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Contra Costa, County Board of Supervisors
honors Kimberly Aceves for her past contributions and years of service to the citizens and
students of the Bay Area and welcomes her to her new position where she will continue to serve
the youth of Contra GeCounty.
FEDERAL U. GLOVER
Chair
)istrict V Supervisor ;� .X. 4 �• ;!��c a -c.-�
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L't..t •ct I Supervisor ., District iI Supers icor
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1Z N. l'ITPIIO w SUSAN A. BONI.LLA
District iil. Supervisor District IV Supervisor
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct coPy of an
action taken and entered on the minutes of the Bow of
Supervisors on the date shown:
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RAIN CULLL;N, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and
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County t
Administrator
Deputy
Intr•oclrrc.•ec/by Supervisor-Gioiu,''1)islric! I