HR 111 (LSB 6149HH (3) 85)

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 Development Centers and honor 2013 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 2013 award winners for the centers’ two special entrepreneur awards; and
   WHEREAS, Heidi Bell, the owner of From The Ground in Leon, is the 2013 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, Michael Sexton, the founder and owner of Real Time Ag in Rockwell City, has received the 2013 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; and
   WHEREAS, the two special entrepreneur awards will be presented to the winners in a special ceremony on March 4, 2014, at the State Capitol in Des Moines; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That the House of Representatives honors award winners Heidi Bell and Michael Sexton, 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.