2006 Distinguished Service Award Presented
RCC Board of Trustees Honors Randolph County Board of Commissioners
RCC’s Board of Trustees presented its 2006 Distinguished Service Award to the past and present Randolph County boards of commissioners Thursday night at its regular meeting held at the Emergency Services Off-Campus Training Center. Randolph County Commission Chairman Harold Holmes (second from left) accepted the award from RCC Board of Trustees Chairman Jim Campbell (third from left). Also present were commissioners Arnold Lanier (left) and Robert Davis (right).
The Distinguished Service Award, established by the Board of Trustees in 2002, honors an individual, group or organization that has made a long-term, consistent commitment that is extraordinary and has had visible impact or result directly related to the support of the mission of RCC.
Campbell cited several specific instances of support from the county commission, including providing the original land for the development of the Randolph Industrial Education Center in the early 1960s. He noted that the county commission supported the institution with operational monies as well as capital funding through its evolution from that early training center to Randolph Technical Institute, Randolph Technical College, and then to its present name.
Campbell made a special mention of the support of past and present county managers Frank Willis and Richard Wells. He also pointed out that in 1997, the county board gave RCC the 60-acre track of land for the emergency services training center and helped fund the center through a Certificates of Participation (COPS) agreement.
After the presentation, the commissioners and board members viewed a series of demonstrations of the center’s use
by members of the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, Randolph County Emergency Services, Asheboro Police,
Archdale Police, Ash-Rand Rescue and EMS, and the Asheboro, Coleridge, Staley and West Side fire departments.
