91-048 Resolution - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

CITY OF NORTH OLMSTID RESOLUTI~T N0. 91-48 BY: MAYOR BOYLE AND THB ENTIRE COUNCIL A RESOLUTION COM[IF~IDING THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF CLEItR OF COUNCIL, FLORENCE E. CAMPBELL WHEREAS, Florence E. Campbell provided invaluable service to our City as Clerk of Council for the City of North Olmsted; and wHF.RF.AS, it is the desire of the Council to commend that public service by setting forth herein her outstanding achievements, her personal abilities and public contributions: Florence E. Campbell served as Clerk of Council from September 5, 1978 through January 16, 1991. During that time she served under four Council Presidents and eighteen Council persons. She spent countless hours preparing agendas, recording and transcribing minutes, preparing ordinances, certifying legislation, obtaining signatures, preparing and publishing legal notices, signing plat linens, processing approved liquor applications, transferring cemetery lots, forwarding ballot language to the Board of Elections, fielding citizen inquiries, working on recodification of ordinances, playing nurse maid to councilmen, being a walking thesaurus, putting out brush fires, lighting fires of confidence under reluctant councilmen, acting as an arbitrator, acting as a mediator, negotiating treaties, helping end wars, being pleasant when it was hard to do and basically acting as chief cook and bottle washer for City Council. Florence E. Campbell will always be remembered by the Administration and Council as being a dedicated, hard working, pleasant colleague and friend. Some people who are born with the gift of gab are accused of responding to a question as to the time by telling you how to make a clock. With Florence, she would simply tell you how to make a clock in three different languages. This may account for why her phone extension was always busy. Florence E. Campbell was required to work in a political environment. This required her to remain neutral, yet, at the same time, to be active in the Democratic Party from whence she came. Her balancing act of knowing when to remain neutral and when to discharge her duties as a political loyalist was performed in the tradition of the best of the Walendas. All the while that Florence pursued her career as Clerk of Council she managed to be a friend and wife to her husband Ken to whom she has been married for 47 years. She has also managed to enjoy the comfort and companionship of her four children and seven grandchildren.