Bert Rapp
City of Fillmore, Public Works Director

Bert Rapp, Fillmore's long time Public Works Director, has resigned from the City of Fillmore. Below is his resignation letter:

December 16, 2010

Yvonne Quiring, City Manager
City of Fillmore 250 Central Avenue Fillmore CA, 93015

Dear Yvonne;

I am submitting my resignation as the Public Works Director for the City of Fillmore, I request that my last day of employment with the City be February 25, 2011 and I plan to take vacation days from January 24,2011 to February 25th. I am honored to have served the greatest City in all of Ventura County as its City Engineer/Public Works Director for the last 19.5 years. I have accepted an offer of employment with the Ventura River County Water District as their General Manager, they are a small water district serving about half as many customers as the City of Fillmore water enterprise.

What I will miss most about Fiilmore are the wonderful people, individuals that give of themselves for the betterment of the community. People tike Gene Wren who faithfully led young boys to manhood through the Boy Scouts or Scott Klittich who continues Gene's work today. And Sara Hansen who tirelessly works to keep Fillmore clean and beautiful. When Rotary donated the beautiful clock for Central Avenue, Sara Hansen, Bill Dewey and Linda Nunes helped pick rocks to protect the clock and directed how they should be placed so they would look nice. And within a month those rocks saved the clock from a runaway car!

On the west side of town people like Doug Wilhelm work tirelessly clean up litter and graffiti. There are dozens more of these dedicated persons who have adopted their corners of the City and keep them clean and take care of them. In North Fillmore Max Pina works at the police store front bringing peace, stability and hope to the residents. Ralf Reese never stops serving and just recently restored a beautiful 1800's buggy and is helping preserve and restore Rancho Camulus. Can anyone's life be the same once they knew Chappy Morris Senior? He was a very special person. For every person I have mentioned there are a 100 more that are equally special. Fillmore would be a poorer community without the contributions of these faithful volunteers.

One of the most enjoyable things to do in Fiilmore is to walk the tree lined streets and greet the people working in their front yard or relaxing on their front porch. But you better watch out for the traffic jam on the bike paths on warm summer evenings as moms and dads push their baby strollers in the refreshing westerly trade winds that make life so pleasant in Fillmore.

Fillmore has rivers and mountains that physically restrict the size of the town and will help keep it the last best small town in California with beautiful vistas of the mountains and agriculture. I will miss the hard working employees at the City and Fillmore's wonderful citizens.

Very Truly Yours
Bert J. Rapp, P.E.