Item N05
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: October 20, 2004
Division:
District 1
Bulk Item: Yes
No
Department: Commissioner Dixie M. Spehar
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Resolution to honor the memory of Otha Cox, who passed away on October 4, 2004 at the age of 70.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Otha Cox was Assistant Superintendent of the Monroe County School District where he worked for 35
years; he received an honorary doctorate from Florida Memorial College in 2002, recognizing his
leadership, scholarship and distinguished public service; and he served on the Keys Energy Board of
Directors for the past 26 years.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNTPERMONTH_ Year
APPROVED BY: County Arty _ OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management _
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
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CO issioner Dixie M. Spehar
DOCUMENTATION:
Included L
To Follow~
Not Required_
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM # /I)-S-
Revised 1/03
RESOLUTION NO. 2004
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY IN
RECOGNITION OF THE LATE Dr. Otha Cox.. Jr.
WHEREAS, Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. passed away on Monday, October 4,2004, at the age of 70; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. born in Raleigh, North Carolina, received his Bachelor of Science from North Carolina
A&T University where he met his future wife Betty Towns, moved to Key West after his marriage in 1957, and began his long
career in education as an unofficial historian of the town he adopted as his own; and
Commissioner Dixie M. Spehar
WHEREAS, Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. worked in the Monroe County School District for 35 years, nearly 22 years of which he
spent as an Assistant Superintendent, received his master's degree from the State University of New Yode and doctorate in
administration and higher education while serving on the graduate faculty of the University of Miami: and
WHEREAS, Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. was active in local, state and national civic groups; received an honorary doctorate from
Florida Memorial College in 2002, when the college recognized his leadership, scholarship and distinguished public service;
served as dean of students at the Florida Keys Community College and member of the Board of Trustees for Florida Memorial
College; received the NAACP Leadership and Service Award, the Ida S. Baker Distinguished Minority Educator Award, the
Florida Memorial College Board of Trustees Member of the Year Award, the Charles Stewart Matt Foundation Graduate
Fellowship Award, and the University of Iowa Honors Fellowship Award to Study Science, Technology and Society; was a
member of Phi Kappa Phi. and orp;mi7.ed Key West's annual celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. served on the board of directors of Keys Energy Services for the past 26 years and was
vice-chairman when he died; was the first African-American elected to the Board of directors of the American Public Power
Association; was director of Florida First National Bank and Southeast Bank of the Florida Keys, member of the Monroe County
Private Industry Council, Monroe County Tourist Development Council, Monroe County Education Foundation, Monroe County
Executive Roundtable, American Management Association and a life member of the Association of Naval Aviation.
WHEREAS, Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. is survived by his daughters, Deborah Cox Barnett, of Key West and Marcelyn Cox, of
Miami, his sister Carolyn Cox, of Raleigh; his brother Raymond Headon, of Long Island, N.Y., his aunt, grandchildren, nieces,
nephews, cousins, godchildren and many friends, now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA:
Section 1: Hereby memorializes the County's great appreciation for the service Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. gave to the
community and hereby expresses to his family their regret and deepest sympathy for the passing of the late Dr. Otha Cox, Jr.
Section 2: Hereby adopts this Resolution as a pennanent record of the high esteem and respect in which Dr. Otha Cox,
Jr. was held by the community.
Section 3: A copy of this Resolution will be forwarded to the family of Dr. Otha Cox, Jr. expressing the Board's
Sorrow.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, at a meeting of said
Board held on the day of . AD., 2004.
Mayor Murray E. Nelson
Mayor Pro Tern David P. Rice
Commissioner Dixie M Spehar
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Charles "Sonny" McCoy
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, Oerk
By
ANN A. nON
ASSISTANT co; ;HY~pRNEY
Date . Df'tJ
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Deputy Clerk
By
Mayor/Chairman
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: October 20, 2004
Division:
District 1
Bulk Item: Yes
No
Department: Commissioner Dixie M. Spehar
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Resolution to honor the memory of Otha Cox, who passed away on October 4, 2004 at the age of 70.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Otha Cox was Assistant Superintendent of the Monroe County School District where he worked for 35
years; he received an honorary doctorate from Florida Memorial College in 2002, recognizing his
leadership, scholarship and distinguished public service; and he served on the Keys Energy Board of
Directors for the past 26 years.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNTPERMONTH_ Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management_
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
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Co issioner Dixie M. Spehar
DOCUMENTATION:
Included
To FollowL
Not Required_
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM # }J -S-
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