Senate Resolution 7 - Introduced PAG LIN S.R. ________ H.R. ________ 1 1 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 1 2 BY DOTZLER, COURTNEY, and DVORSKY 1 3 A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business 1 4 Development Centers and honor 2008 award winners 1 5 Sally Nichols and John Lohman. 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 2008 award winners for its 1 27 two special entrepreneur of the year awards; and 1 28 WHEREAS, Sally Nichols is the 2008 Deb Dalziel 1 29 Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award winner, an award 1 30 which honors an Iowa woman entrepreneur who has 2 1 significantly changed or improved her life and the 2 2 lives of others; and 2 3 WHEREAS, John Lohman has been selected to receive 2 4 the Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an 2 5 award named in honor of the long=serving Iowa 2 6 congressman, given to an Iowa entrepreneur who has 2 7 been in business a minimum of three years and has been 2 8 significantly assisted by an Iowa Small Business 2 9 Development Center; NOW THEREFORE, 2 10 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate 2 11 honors award winners Sally Nichols and John Lohman and 2 12 congratulates them on their success, and recognizes 2 13 and expresses its thanks to the Iowa Small Business 2 14 Development Centers for their ongoing work in making 2 15 Iowa a better place to live and work. 2 16 LSB 1932SS 83 2 17 jr/rj/24.1