House Resolution 111 - Introduced HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 111 BY HANUSA , RUNNING-MARQUARDT , KAUFMANN , DEYOE , WOOD , DUNKEL , THOMAS , JORGENSEN , JACOBY , ALONS , FRY , HIGHFILL , SCHULTZ , HEARTSILL , MURPHY , OURTH , T. OLSON , GUSTAFSON , WORTHAN , BACON , COHOON , J. SMITH , GASKILL , STUTSMAN , SHAW , GASSMAN , LOFGREN , ROGERS , SHEETS , BALTIMORE , COSTELLO , SODERBERG , DRAKE , WATTS , MOORE , HAGENOW , R. TAYLOR , H. MILLER , ISENHART , BEARINGER , ABDUL-SAMAD , KEARNS , and HEDDENS A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business 1 Development Centers and honor 2013 award winners. 2 WHEREAS, since 1981, the Iowa Small Business 3 Development Centers have provided expert and 4 confidential business counseling services and training 5 workshops to entrepreneurs in all 99 Iowa counties; and 6 WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 7 provide a wide variety of services to foster the growth 8 of Iowa business, including one-to-one professional 9 business counseling, learning opportunities, 10 workshops, courses and classes, and a variety of other 11 services; and 12 WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 13 have announced the 2013 award winners for the centers’ 14 two special entrepreneur awards; and 15 WHEREAS, Heidi Bell, the owner of From The Ground 16 in Leon, is the 2013 Deb Dalziel Woman Entrepreneur 17 Achievement Award winner, an award which honors an Iowa 18 woman entrepreneur who has significantly changed or 19 improved her life and the lives of others; and 20 -1- LSB 6149HH (3) 85 jr/rj 1/ 2

H.R. 111 WHEREAS, Michael Sexton, the founder and owner of 1 Real Time Ag in Rockwell City, has received the 2013 2 Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an award 3 named in honor of the long-serving Iowa congressman, 4 given to an Iowa entrepreneur who has been in business 5 a minimum of three years and has been significantly 6 assisted by an Iowa Small Business Development 7 Center; and 8 WHEREAS, the two special entrepreneur awards will 9 be presented to the winners in a special ceremony on 10 March 4, 2014, at the State Capitol in Des Moines; NOW 11 THEREFORE, 12 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That 13 the House of Representatives honors award winners Heidi 14 Bell and Michael Sexton, congratulates them on their 15 success, and recognizes and expresses its thanks to 16 the Iowa Small Business Development Centers for their 17 ongoing work in making Iowa a better place to live and 18 work. 19 -2- LSB 6149HH (3) 85 jr/rj 2/ 2