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RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION FOR W. JAKE WICKER
WHEREAS, for 47 years, W. Jake Wicker has served the people of North Carolina as a
faculty member and administrator at UNC-Chapel Hill's Institute of Government; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wicker has given of his time and energy as a dedicated public servant,
gifted mediator and invaluable resource, sharing with local government officials his vast
expertise in the areas of municipal and county administration, city-county consolidation,
public purchasing, water and sewer services, and solid waste administration; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wicker is Gladys Hall Coates Professor Emeritus of Public Law and
Government and Assistant Director Emeritus of the Institute of Government; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wicker is the author of over 300 articles, bulletins, monographs and
special studies, and he co-edited the publications Municipal Government in North
Carolina, 2nd Edition and County Government in North Carolina, 4th Edition; and
WHEREAS, over the years, Mr. Wicker taught countless county and city managers,
department directors, police chiefs, planners, fire marshals, city council members, county
commissioners, and other officials about how local government works as director of the
Institute of Government's Municipal and County Administration program; and
WHEREAS, in October of this year, the Institute of Government officially named its
new $300,000, 162-person, 3,000-square-foot auditorium classroom in honor of Jake
Wicker; and
WHEREAS, at the naming ceremony, Mr. Wicker also was presented the Order of the
Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina's highest honor for service to an organization; and
WHEREAS, through his selfless devotion to the Institute of Government and thousands
of local government administrators and staff inembers, W. Jake Wicker has distinguished
himself as a true public steward and an example to all the citizens of Orange County and
North Carolina.
NOW THEREFORE, WE, the members of the Orange County Board of
Commissioners do hereby designate Friday, December 13, 2002, as Jake Wicker Day in
Orange County to express our appreciation to W. Jake Wicker for his dedication to the
citizens he has graced with his patience, humility and professionalism, and congratulate
him for nearly a half-century of devotion to the understanding of local government in
North Carolina.
This the tenth day of December, 2002
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Margaret W. Brown, Chair ~