HomeMy WebLinkAboutProclamation 2018 - 01 KIMBER RICKS RETIREMENTKIMBER RICKS' RETIREMENT
Mayor Jerry Merrill
35 North Ise East mayor®rexburg.org Phone: 208.359.3020
Rexburg, ID 83440 www.rexburg.org Fax: 208.359.3022
PROCLAMATION
No. 2018 - 01
KIMBER RICKS
MADISON COUNTY COMMISSIONER
C I TY OF
REXBURG
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WHEREAS: Kirnber Ricks has volunteered for over twenty years to encourage Madison County
Economic Development, including playing a key role in the Rexburg Business Park; also, serving on the
Rexburg Urban Renewal Agency Board of Directors; and
WHEREAS: He has had a distinguished professional career as a Certified Public Accountant, and
eleven years as our Madison County Commissioner serving on the Health Board, Eastern Idaho Fair
Committee, Tri County Probation, Five C Detention, Drug Court Executive Committee, ECIPDA Board,
Idaho Rural Partnership and High Country RC & D; and
WHEREAS: It is fitting and proper to accord official recognition to Kimber Ricks for his
contribution to the City of Rexburg and his contribution to protect and enhance the health, welfare and
safety of the Citizens of Madison County while serving as Chairman of the Madison County Commissioners
for five years; and
WHEREAS: He was a driving force in creating the Madison County Centennial Park in front of the
Madison County Court House; and
WHEREAS: Kimber and his wife Dorothy Ann Ricks were recognized by the Rexburg Chamber of
Commerce as "Grand Marshals" for the 2017 Fourth of July Parade, including recalling the couple's
experience overseeing the 1993 Whoopee Days Celebration which that year's Fourth of July parade was
interrupted by a blizzard during the parade;
NOW, THEREFORE I, Jerry Merrill by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City
of Rexburg do hereby proclaim the week of January 22" through January 27d , 2018 as
KIMBER RICKS WEEK
AND ask our citizens to recognize Kimber Ricks for his dedicated service as a Madison County
Commissioner for the past eleven years and his contribution to the Rexburg Redevelopment Agency to help
in the growth of Rexburg.
ATTEST:
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Blair D. Kay, CITY CLE {
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Seal of the City of Rexburg to be affixed this 22nd day of
January of the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen.
APPROVED:
jWy Aferrill, MAYOR