07 LC 34
0941
Senate
Resolution 68
By:
Senator Williams of the 19th
A
RESOLUTION
To
dedicate the William H. "Sonny Boy" Skipper Maintenance Headquarters; and for
other purposes.
WHEREAS,
William H. "Sonny Boy" Skipper served as the Georgia Department of
Transportation Highway Maintenance Foreman for Long County from December 18,
1968, to April 30, 1999; and
WHEREAS,
he served the Department of Transportation as an outstanding ambassador and
served the citizens of Long County as an outstanding public servant;
and
WHEREAS,
he was elected to the Long County Board of Commissioners in November, 2004, and
was supposed to take office in January, 2005; however, due to his untimely death
on December 31, 2004, he never took the commission seat to which his fellow
citizens had elected him.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that the Georgia
Department of Transportation Long County Maintenance Headquarters be dedicated
as the William H. "Sonny Boy" Skipper Maintenance Headquarters in memory of the
outstanding public service he rendered and that the Department of Transportation
is authorized and directed to place and maintain appropriate markers dedicating
the William H. "Sonny Boy" Skipper Maintenance Headquarters.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed
to transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to the family of William H.
"Sonny Boy" Skipper and to the Department of Transportation.