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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: March 19. 2003
Division:
BOCC
Bulk Item: Yell ~ No
Department: District 5
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval of a Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners ofMomoe County in recognition of
the Late Anna Dagny Johnson.
ITEM BACkGROUND:
Dagny Johnson was a role model for those determined to protect the fragile coral island chain of the
Keys and the hardwood hammocks of Key Largo. She was the President and Co-Founder of the Upper
Keys Citi~en Asaociation and led the campaign that eubninated in the $67 million purcha8e by the
State oemore than 8,000 acres of hammock for preservation.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT ROCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDA110NS:
Approval.
TOTAL COST:
-0.
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
-0-
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes _ No _ AMOUNT PER MONTH_.. Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMBlPurcha3ing _ Risk Management __
DIVISIONDlREcroRAPPROVAL: ~~ ~ ~
. Y E. Nelson
DOCUMENTATION:
Included. ~
To Follow_ Not Rcquired~
AGENDA ITEM # Q I Y
DlsposmON:
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Mayor Pro Te.n MurrllY 1!:. Nelsun
RESOLUTION NO. 2003
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE cOUNTY IN
RECOGNITiON OF THE LATE ANNA DAGNV JOHNSON
WHEREAS. Dagny Johnson passed away on March 5.2003, at the age of 85; and
WHEREAS, Dagny Johnson, who was bom in Norway and came with her family to the United Swes when
she was a young girl, grew up in a Chicago suburb, attended Mount Holyoke College, and studied in Paris in 1937 as an
exchange student, earning a Jaw degree from the University of Chicaso, and moving to the Keys after working as a
labor lawyer in Chicago and Washington, DC; and
WHEREAS. Dagny Johnson was a union organizer, an active civil rights worker and an adamant
environmentalist, and friends remember her as a well-eoMccted "warrior." and "the voice of tnvironmental sanity;" and
WHEREAS, Dagny Johnson was known as the environmental conscience of the Upper Keys by local
politicians, developers and other adversaries because of her tenacity in protecting the island environment she dearly
loved~ and
WHEREAS, Dalny Johnson was a role model for those detennined to prol"t a coral island chain as beauliful
liS it is fragile; she was a pioneer and matriarch of the environmental movement in the Florida Keys, and she foresaw the
crunch Ihat our naturfll resources were Nnning out; and
WHEREAS, Dagny Johnson as president and co. founder of the Upper Keys Citizens Association was at the
forefront of eiTons to protect tht hardwood hammocks of North Key Largo, a campaign that culminated in the $67
million state purcbase of maR than 8,000 acres of hammock for pn:servation: and
WHEREAS, in honor ofht:r tireless work in saving thousands ofaaes, in 2001 an II-mile stretch of pristine
hammock. was renamed the Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park; and
WHEREAS, Dagny Johnson is survived by her brother, Arthur Johnson, three nephews. a cousin, Hennan
Riley Stein oflslamorada, and many grateful environmentalist5throu&hout the World; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA:
Section I: Hereby adopts this Resolution as an expression 10 tht: family of their deepest sympathy in the
passing of the late Dagny Johnson, and in great appreciation ofthe service she gave to her community.
Section 2: Mayor Pro Tern Murray E. Nelson forwards a r.opy ofthis Resolution to the family of Dagny
Johnson expressing the Board's sorrow and gratitude.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Count)' Commissioners of Monroe County. Florida, 8t a meeting
of said Board held on (he day of , A.D., 2003.
Mayor Dixie M. Spehar
Mayor Pro Tem Murra)' E. Nelson
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Charles "Sonny" McCoy
Commissioner David P. Rice
By
Deputy Clerk
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Of MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
APPROVED AS "to fORM Mayor/Chainnan
AND..LlOAl sufFl E Y
8V
(SEAL)
Anul: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, Clt:rk
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