Senate Resolution 106 - Introduced

PAG LIN

                                    S.R. ________ H.R. ________


  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2            BY  DOTZLER, HARTSUCH, and NOBLE
  1  3 A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business
  1  4    Development Centers and honor 2007 award winners
  1  5    Anna Bradley and Marguerite White.
  1  6    WHEREAS, since 1981, the Iowa Small Business
  1  7 Development Centers have provided expert and
  1  8 confidential business counseling services and training
  1  9 workshops to entrepreneurs in all 99 Iowa counties;
  1 10 and
  1 11    WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development
  1 12 Centers provide a wide variety of services to foster
  1 13 the growth of Iowa business, including one=to=one
  1 14 professional business counseling; learning
  1 15 opportunities == workshops, courses and classes,
  1 16 internet=based learning, telephone and e=based
  1 17 contact, and print and electronic materials; resource
  1 18 connections == financing sources, state and federal
  1 19 programs, associations, databases, local and regional
  1 20 programs, host institutions, and communities; and
  1 21 specialty programs and assistance == business
  1 22 succession, market research, strategic planning,
  1 23 MyEntreNet, introduction to international business,
  1 24 and community building; and
  1 25    WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development
  1 26 Centers have announced the 2007 award winners for its
  1 27 two special entrepreneur of the year awards; and
  1 28    WHEREAS, Anna Bradley, Chief Executive Officer of
  1 29 Criterion 508 Solutions, Inc., is the 2007 Deb Dalziel
  1 30 Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award winner, an award
  2  1 which honors an Iowa woman entrepreneur who has
  2  2 significantly changed or improved her life and the
  2  3 lives of others; and
  2  4    WHEREAS, Marguerite White has been selected to
  2  5 receive the Neal Smith Award, an award named in honor
  2  6 of the long=serving Iowa congressman, given to an Iowa
  2  7 entrepreneur who has been in business a minimum of
  2  8 three years and has been significantly assisted by an
  2  9 Iowa Small Business Development Center; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 10    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2 11 honors award winners Anna Bradley and Marguerite White
  2 12 and congratulates them on their success, and
  2 13 recognizes and expresses its thanks to the Iowa Small
  2 14 Business Development Centers for their ongoing work in
  2 15 making Iowa a better place to live and work.
  2 16 LSB 6503SS 82
  2 17 jr/rj/24