RESO 1986-12 - Curtis Morris RetirementRESOLUTION NO. 86-12
WHEREAS Mr. Curtis Morris is retiring from a very active and productive
professional career with Sam Houston State University; and
WHEREAS, during his professional career, he has consistently answered the
call of his community to lend his special expertise and dedicated
efforts in voluntary service; and
WHEREAS, from December 6, 1965, until October 1, 1981, Mr. Morris served on
the City of Huntsville Planning Commission via appointments by Mayors
Raymond Wright, Ben Blalock and Morris Waller; and served as Chairman
of the Commission for six of his sixteen years of service; and
WHEREAS, during his term of voluntary service with the City, Mr. Morris
participated in numerous milestone studies and projects such as:
Surface Water Supply for the City from T.R.A.;
East and North Loop Transportation Arteries
1972 B.J.I. Master Plan with draft Subdivision and Zoning
Ordinances;
City Hall Siting Study;
Public Improvement Construction Standards;
Town Branch Drainage Study;
Mobile Home Park Ordinance;
Future Landfill Study;
L.A.N. Traffic Study Plan; and
Geometric Street Standards Study;
and
WHEREAS, upon stepping down from the position held for the sixteen years
that encompassed a period of rapid growth and development in the City,
Mr. Morris accepted appointment (four years) to a special Utilities
Master Plan Committee of the Comprehensive Plan Effort which
culminated in the adoption of the first Comprehensive Plan in
Huntsville history;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, that
MR. CURTIS MORRIS
be singularly recognized and commended for his 20-year total of
distinguished voluntary service to his community that he so selflessly
gave contemporaneously with his professional career contribution to
Sam Houston State University. Our congratulations and heartfelt
thanks go out to Curtis and his lovely wife, Elizabeth, on the
occasion of his retirement.
PASSED AND APPROVED on this the 16th day of September, A.D. 1986.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
ATTEST:
h DeShaw, City Secretary