2004/06/08 City Council Resolution (10)RESOLUTION NO. 2004 -145
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
HONORING AND RECOGNIZING MARIA E. McCONNELL,
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT ON THE
OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT
WHEREAS, Maria McConnell has retired after giving 15 years of outstanding service to
the City of Rohnert Park and its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, Planning Commission and staff are appreciative of the
wonderful job Maria has done and wish to honor her publicly at this time; and
WHEREAS, Maria has handled a multitude of phone calls and situations over the years,
handling difficult people with aplomb while retaining her great sense of humor and her guiding
belief that everyone is essentially good, especially if they listen to the Grateful Dead and have
memorized most of their lyrics; and
WHEREAS, Maria's experience has provided her with more knowledge of the dos and
don'ts of residential fence location than she could ever have imagined needing; and
WHEREAS, Maria now has a deeper appreciation and an almost Zen -like awareness of
what the old adage "you can't make all of the people happy all of the time" really means,
particularly when it comes to one neighbor's sudden desire to place a storage shed in a
location that another neighbor really thinks is better used as "private open space "; and
WHEREAS, Maria has sent out thousands of hearing notices, with only a handful of the
notices coming back marked "Insufficient Address" or "Just Whom Do You Think You're
Sending This To ? "; and
WHEREAS, Maria has sat through thousands of Planning Commission meetings and
has taken hundreds of minutes for those meetings, resorting only a few times to the use of the
phrases "the speaker went on and on for several minutes" and "blah, blah, blah... "; and
WHEREAS, Maria survived the reigns of five different Planning Directors without
choking a single one of them anywhere near death; and
WHEREAS, Maria will be sorely missed by those who had the pleasure to work with her
for all or a portion of those 15 years.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Rohnert
Park extends best wishes to Maria McConnell on the occasion of her retirement.
DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED this 8th day of June, 2004.
I LOBES: AYE MACKENZIE: AYE SPRADLIN.- AYE
VIDAK- W&RTINEZ: AYE NORDIN: AYE
AYES: (5), NOES: (4) ABSENT: (0) ABSTAIN: (0)