File #: 15-1170    Version: 1 Name: Resolution honoring Gary Wallace Howard
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 1/14/2015 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 1/21/2015 Final action: 1/21/2015
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION RESOLUTION HONORING GARY WALLACE HOWARD ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND ZONING WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard served in the United States Army until 1969 when he was injured and subsequently Honorably Discharged for Medical Reasons as a Disabled Veteran; and WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard, after his discharge, worked as a Laborer for a union plumbing contractor, and in 1977 he became an Apprentice Plumber and thereafter a Journeyman Plumber with Local 130; and WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard has been a Journeyman for 37 years and served as a foreman on several major projects including The Deep Tunnel Project, the Calumet Expressway, the Freedom Center for the Chicago Tribune Printing Plant and the Southport Sewage Treatment Plant in Indianapolis, Indiana; and WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard attended the University of Illinois at Edwardsville and the University of Rochville; and WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard ...
Sponsors: JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI, TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), LUIS ARROYO JR, RICHARD R. BOYKIN, JERRY BUTLER, JOHN P. DALEY, JOHN A. FRITCHEY, BRIDGET GAINER, JESÚS G. GARCÍA, ELIZABETH "LIZ" DOODY GORMAN, GREGG GOSLIN, STANLEY MOORE, JOAN PATRICIA MURPHY, TIMOTHY O. SCHNEIDER, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS, ROBERT STEELE, LARRY SUFFREDIN
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

RESOLUTION HONORING GARY WALLACE HOWARD ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND ZONING

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard served in the United States Army until 1969 when he was injured and subsequently Honorably Discharged for Medical Reasons as a Disabled Veteran; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard, after his discharge, worked as a Laborer for a union plumbing contractor, and in 1977 he became an Apprentice Plumber and thereafter a Journeyman Plumber with Local 130; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard has been a Journeyman for 37 years and served as a foreman on several major projects including The Deep Tunnel Project, the Calumet Expressway, the Freedom Center for the Chicago Tribune Printing Plant and the Southport Sewage Treatment Plant in Indianapolis, Indiana; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard attended the University of Illinois at Edwardsville and the University of Rochville; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard is the Immediate Past President of the Illinois Plumbing Inspectors Association, the current Vice President of the American Society of Plumbing Engineering, has been a member of the Political Action Task Force for 27 years and has served with volunteer groups of professionals for the American Society of Sanitary Engineering; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard began his service to the people of Cook County on December 21, 1998 at Cook County Hospital as a plumber where he excelled at protecting the public and the patients; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard transferred to the Cook County Department of Building and Zoning in June 2006 where he became a Certified Plumbing Inspector for Cook County, and for the past 6 years Gary has been a member of the Department of Building and Zoning Annual Task Force; and

WHEREAS, Gary Wallace Howard has been married to Coralie H. Lipa since December 26, 1970 with whom he is the proud parent to 5 children, including the late Vikki Hele...

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