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To honor and recognize Leta "Bobbie" McVicker for her years of service to the North Harding Road Area Block Watch and to the citizens of the City of Columbus.
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WHEREAS, Bobbie McVicker founded the North Harding Road Area Block Watch in 1994; and
WHEREAS, Bobbie McVicker served as the organization's coordinator for nearly nine years expanding the block watch from just one street with 39 homes to 422 homes, and 27 area businesses today; and
WHEREAS, Bobbie McVicker built an outstanding relationship between the community and the police officers of the 9th precinct and community liaison Officer Napoleon Bell; and
WHEREAS, Bobbie McVicker improved her neighborhood by taking the lead in the community's drive to get street lights in 1995 and by targeting drug houses for clean up; and
WHEREAS, Bobbie McVicker worked with the owners of the Woodland Meadows apartment complex to bring improvements to the development and worked to bring the residents of the North Harding Road Area community together with the Woodland Meadows community to solve their common problems; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That we applaud what Leta "Bobbie" McVicker has done to better her community and that we put forth her work as a model for other neighborhoods to follow when looking for solution to the problems they may face.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution be presented to Leta "Bobbie" McVicker as a token of our esteem.