III.1. Proclamation Honoring Barb Westmoreland; Gadd/Mornson (Memo)City Manager
CITY OF HOPKINS
Memorandum
To: Honorable Mayor and Council Members
From: Mike Mornson, City Manager
Date: June 6, 2017
Subject: Proclamation Honoring Barb Westmoreland
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The City of Hopkins would like to recognize Barb Westmoreland. Together with Barb
Westmoreland, her family and friends we will declare Saturday, July 1, 2017 as Barb
Westmoreland Day in Hopkins.
A Proclamation Honoring Barb Westmoreland
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland is retiring after 28 years of service to the Hopkins School
District where she has served as Youth Activities Supervisor, a Coordinator of Volunteer
Service, and in her current role as Coordinator of Volunteers and Partnerships, and
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland is a founding member of ResourceWest, serving as
Interim Executive Director multiple times, and
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland helped bring Empty Bowls to Hopkins in 1998 and led the
event for 19 years, raising over $1,000,000 benefitting ResourceWest and ICA Food Shelf,
and
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland helped initiate the Blake Road Corridor Collaborative
establishing programs and youth activities with the School District, and
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland is founding member of the Hopkins Race and Equity
Initiative, and
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland was dedicated to Hopkins by serving on numerous groups
through the years including the following:
Hopkins Rotary Member
ResourceWest Board Member
Hopkins Women’s Club
Hopkins Business & Civic Association Board Member
Hopkins Multicultural Advisory Committee
WHEREAS, Barb Westmoreland has been a mentor to those she has worked with and
partnered with over the years.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Molly Cummings, Mayor of the City of Hopkins in the State of
Minnesota, along with my fellow Council Members, do proclaim Saturday, July 1, 2017 as
Barb Westmoreland Day in Hopkins, and ask all residents to join me in proudly honoring
and celebrating all of her service and accomplishments, and the many lives that she has
touched.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the Seal of the City of
th
Hopkins, Minnesota to be affixed this 6 day of
June in the year 2017.
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Molly Cummings, Mayor