HomeMy Public PortalAboutResolution - 05-06- 20050309 - Wangari Memorial Grove RESOLUTION NO. 05-06
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE MIDPENINSULA REGIONAL OPEN SPACE
DISTRICT TO RENAME THE INTERNATIONAL OPEN
SPACE CONFERENCE MEMORIAL GROVE AT THE
PURISIMA CREEK REDWOODS OPEN SPACE PRESERVE
TO THE WANGARI MAATHAI GROVE
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
was honored to join with the Save-the-Redwoods League at the 1990 International Open Space
Conference to dedicate and name a memorial grove in the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open
Space Preserve as the International Open Space Conference Memorial Grove; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Wangari Maathai, founder of Africa's Green Belt Movement, was a key
contributor and inspirational speaker at the International Open Space Conference; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Maathai was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the
first African woman and the first conservationist to win the world's most prestigious civilian
honor for her work in planting more than 30 million trees across Africa over the last three
decades since the inception of the Green Belt Movement; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors supports Ms. Maathai's and the Green Belt
Movement's goal of creating a society of people who consciously work for continued
improvement of their environment and a greener, cleaner Kenya; and
WHEREAS, Save-the-Redwoods League agrees with the District's proposal to rename
the International Open Space Conference Memorial Grove to the Wangari Maathai Grove; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of the
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District hereby renames the International Open Space
Conference Memorial Grove in honor of Wangari Maathai, as a keynote speaker at the 1990
International Open Space Conference.
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RESOLUTION NO. 05-06
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space
District on March 9, 2005, at a Regular Meeting thereof, by the following vote:
AYES: J. Cyr, M. Davey, N. Hanko, L. Hassett, D. Little, K. Nitz, P. Siemens
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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Board of Directors Br6ard of Directors
I, the District Clerk of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, hereby certify that
the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors of
the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District by the above vote at a meeting thereof duly
held and called on the above day.
District-Clerk