HR 104 (LSB 6339HH (4) 88)

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 104

BY  HANUSA and RUNNING-MARQUARDT

A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business Development Centers and honor 2020 award winners. 

   WHEREAS, since 1981, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers have provided expert and confidential business counseling services and training workshops to entrepreneurs in all 99 Iowa counties; and
   WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers provide a wide variety of services to foster the growth of Iowa business, including one-to-one professional business counseling, learning opportunities, workshops, courses and classes, and a variety of other services; and
   WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers have announced the 2020 award winners for the centers’ two special entrepreneur awards; and
   WHEREAS, Sue Tyrrell of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the chief executive officer and owner of Hands Up Communications, is the 2020 Deb Dalziel Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award winner, an award which honors an Iowa woman entrepreneur who has significantly changed or improved her life and the lives of others; and
   WHEREAS, Dr. Martin Gross of Slater, Iowa, the president and co-founder of Gross-Wen Technologies, has received the 2020 Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an award named in honor of the long-serving Iowa congressman, given to an Iowa entrepreneur who has been in business a minimum of three years and has been significantly assisted by an Iowa Small Business Development Center; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That the House of Representatives honors award winners Sue Tyrrell and Dr. Martin Gross, congratulates them on their success, and recognizes and expresses its thanks to the Iowa Small Business Development Centers for their ongoing work in making Iowa a better place to live and work.