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RESOLUTION NO. 08-36
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MIDPENINSULA
REGIONAL OPEN SPACE DISTRICT HONORING LENNIE ROBERTS
FOR OVER 40 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
WHEREAS, Lennie Roberts is one of the Bay Area's most dedicated and effective
environmental advocates having provided advocacy work and leadership statewide and in San
Mateo County since 1958; and
WHEREAS, Lennie has worked for the Committee for Green Foothills for nearly 30 years and
is its current Legislative Advocate for San Mateo County; and
WHEREAS, Lennie has put her innovative ideas and energetic spirit to good use in the service
of many causes and organizations such as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Advisory
Commission to which she was appointed by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt in 1994 and
on which she served until the Commission's work was completed in 2004; and
WHEREAS, Lennie has made life on the Peninsula more healthy, more livable and more fun by
leading the effort to build the Devil's Slide Tunnel, working for voter reauthorization of
transportation tax Measure A, supporting County Park funding, calling for environmental review
of many developments, helping save Bayfront Park, Menlo Park, fighting for the right alignment
of Stanford Trails, advocating for farmland preservation on the coastside, watching out for
logging in YMCA's Camp Jones Gulch, coordinating efforts on Pilarcitos and many other
creeks; and
WHEREAS, Lennie has received a number of well-deserved honors and awards, including the
Carla Bard Award from the Planning and Conservation League, Conservationist of the Year from
the Peninsula Conservation Center, the Josephine Duveneck Award from the Loma Prieta
Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Greenbelt Alliance's Greenbelt Champion Award for her work to
preserve the San Mateo County coastside; and
WHEREAS, she was elected to the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame in 2003, was
named by the Half Moon Bay Review as one of the top 25 people who shaped the San Mateo
County Coast over the past century, has been honored as a Coastal Champion on the 25th
Anniversary of the California Coastal Act; and
WHEREAS, most importantly, Lennie participated in the formation of the Midpeninsula
Regional Open Space District and in 1976 was instrumental in the inclusion of southern San
Mateo County into the District; and
WHEREAS, over the years, Lennie provided sage advice helping the District's Coastside
Protection Program succeed, greatly enhancing the District's effectiveness as a public agency
while steadfastly protecting the District's ability to accomplish its good works.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula
Regional Open Space District, on behalf of its staff and its constituents, does hereby commend,
applaud, and give its highest honors to Mrs. Lennie Roberts for her dedicated and unflagging
work for open space, for making this region and this state a better place to live and for leaving a
legacy of open space preservation to future generations.
Adopted by the Board of Directors
RESOLUTION No.08-36
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space
District on September 24, 2008 at a Regular Meeting thereof, by the following vote:
AYES: Pete Siemens, Mary Davey, Jed Cyr, Nonette Hanko, Larry Hassette,
Curt,Riffle, Ken Nitz
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST: APPROVED:
Secretary President
Board of Directors Board 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.
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