House Resolution 24 - Introduced HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 24 BY HANUSA , RUNNING-MARQUARDT , BYRNES , HESS , ROGERS , L. MILLER , GASSMAN , SALMON , KOESTER , DOLECHECK , GARRETT , STANERSON , JORGENSEN , DUNKEL , MAXWELL , JACOBY , HEARTSILL , R. TAYLOR , GRASSLEY , KELLEY , STAED , OLDSON , STUTSMAN , STECKMAN , DEYOE , THOMAS , LOFGREN , GASKILL , ALONS , H. MILLER , WOOD , KAUFMANN , MOORE , BEARINGER , OURTH , SHEETS , and HEDDENS A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business 1 Development Centers and honor 2012 award winners 2 Chuck Dirks and Christina Moffatt. 3 WHEREAS, since 1981, the Iowa Small Business 4 Development Centers have provided expert and 5 confidential business counseling services and training 6 workshops to entrepreneurs in all 99 Iowa counties; and 7 WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 8 provide a wide variety of services to foster the growth 9 of Iowa business, including one-to-one professional 10 business counseling, learning opportunities, 11 workshops, courses and classes, and a variety of other 12 services; and 13 WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 14 have announced the 2012 award winners for the centers’ 15 two special entrepreneur awards; and 16 WHEREAS, Christina Moffatt, owner of Creme Cupcake 17 + Dessert, of Des Moines, is the 2012 Deb Dalziel 18 Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award winner, an 19 award which honors an Iowa woman entrepreneur who has 20 significantly changed or improved her life and the 21 lives of others; and 22 -1- LSB 2141HH (3) 85 jr/nh 1/ 2

H.R. 24 WHEREAS, Chuck Dirks, president of CQM Systems LLC, 1 of Coralville, has been selected to receive the 2012 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; NOW THEREFORE, 8 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 9 That the House of Representatives honors award winners 10 Chuck Dirks and Christina Moffatt, congratulates them 11 on their success, and recognizes and expresses its 12 thanks to the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 13 for their ongoing work in making Iowa a better place to 14 live and work. 15 -2- LSB 2141HH (3) 85 jr/nh 2/ 2