House Resolution 102 - Introduced HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 102 BY HANUSA and RUNNING-MARQUARDT A Resolution to recognize the Iowa Small Business 1 Development Centers and honor 2016 award winners. 2 WHEREAS, since 1981, the Iowa Small Business 3 Development Centers have provided expert and 4 confidential business counseling services and training 5 workshops to entrepreneurs in all 99 Iowa counties; and 6 WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 7 provide a wide variety of services to foster the growth 8 of Iowa business, including one-to-one professional 9 business counseling, learning opportunities, 10 workshops, courses and classes, and a variety of other 11 services; and 12 WHEREAS, the Iowa Small Business Development Centers 13 have announced the 2016 award winners for the centers’ 14 two special entrepreneur awards; and 15 WHEREAS, Sarah Novacek, the founder of Legacy 16 Logistics Freight, Inc. of Mason City, is the 2016 Deb 17 Dalziel Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award winner, 18 an award which honors an Iowa woman entrepreneur who 19 has significantly changed or improved her life and the 20 lives of others; and 21 WHEREAS, Tony Halsted, owner of Hoover’s Hatchery 22 Company, LLC of Rudd, has received the 2016 Neal Smith 23 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an award named in honor 24 of the long-serving Iowa congressman, given to an Iowa 25 entrepreneur who has been in business a minimum of 26 three years and has been significantly assisted by an 27 Iowa Small Business Development Center; NOW THEREFORE, 28 -1- LSB 6030YH (2) 86 rj/nh 1/ 2

H.R. 102 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That 1 the House of Representatives honors award winners Sarah 2 Novacek and Tony Halsted, congratulates them on their 3 success, and recognizes and expresses its thanks to 4 the Iowa Small Business Development Centers for their 5 ongoing work in making Iowa a better place to live and 6 work. 7 -2- LSB 6030YH (2) 86 rj/nh 2/ 2