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Resolution 12459 RESOLUTION NO. 12459 WHEREAS the Honorable MALVIN ENGLANDER has been a member of the City Council of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, continuously since June 7, 1961, and WHEREAS this City Council did, on June 7, 1967, duly elect the said MALVIN ENGLANDER to the office of Vice-Mayor of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, and he thereupon held said office until his resignation on May 15, 1968, and WHEREAS his tenure of office as Vice-Mayor, as well as that of his fellow councilmen, coincided and was contemporaneous with a vital chapter in the history of the community and of its citizens when problems of the utmost gravity confronted the City Council, and the determination of which was fraught with immense consequence for the future well-being of the community, and WHEREAS, when his duties as Vice-Mayor called him to the chair of the presiding office of the City Council, his spirit of imperturbable equanimity evoked the atmosphere and dispassionate deliberation imperative to the effective councilmanic determination of issues of overwhelming concern to the citizens of the community, and WHEREAS the said Honorable MALVIN ENGLANDER, particularly as Vice-Mayor, unfailingly manifested a temperament notably devoid of trepidity, and his tenure of office was characterized by a judicial fairness which transformed the crucible of acrimonious debate into a pervasive union of compassion and fraternal understanding, and WHEREAS the aura of his magnanimity dispelled the vexations which afflict the spirit in times of stress, and WHEREAS the profound depths of his Solomonian wisdom has been of inestimable value to his colleagues, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, that it desires to express, at the time of its reluctant acceptance of the resignation of the Honorable MALVIN ENGLANDER, as Vice-Mayor, its sincere and abiding appreciation of his unexcelled qualities of fidelity and the keen perception of fairness in the performance of duties which he displayed as Vice-Mayor of the City of Miami Beach. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that an appropriate copy of this Resolution be presented to said Honorable MALVIN ENGLANDER. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 26th day of June, 1968. Mayor Attest: /4009 Ate / City Clerk and Finance Director OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY-1130 WASHINGTON AVENUE-MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139 C m LIN z N L 0 J O Q Z 1 Z N — Z U (..7 O — Q F— O = Cr)i C i.. O •— (1) D "6 W C C cc N c0 F O C (j