Bill Text: IL HR0322 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Suzan Nash on her retirement from Community Action after 38 years of service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-04-24 - Resolution Adopted [HR0322 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0322-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Suzan Nash on her | ||||||
4 | retirement from Community Action after 38 years of service; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Suzan Nash started with the Western Illinois | ||||||
6 | Regional Council as an intern in 1978 and has dedicated her | ||||||
7 | life to fighting the war on poverty and meeting the
needs of | ||||||
8 | the less fortunate; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Suzan Nash became the first female director of a | ||||||
10 | regional planning agency in Illinois in
1981 when she assumed | ||||||
11 | the leadership of the Western Illinois Regional Council; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Suzan Nash established the Western Illinois | ||||||
13 | Regional Council as a Community Action
Agency in 1982; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Under the leadership of Suzan Nash, the Western | ||||||
15 | Illinois Regional Council established the
Victim Services | ||||||
16 | Program, providing free and confidential services in a safe | ||||||
17 | environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual | ||||||
18 | assault in Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, and Warren Counties; | ||||||
19 | and
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20 | WHEREAS, Suzan Nash has served on the boards of the |
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1 | Illinois Association of Regional Councils and the National | ||||||
2 | Association of Development Organizations Midwest Region; she | ||||||
3 | served on the Board of the Illinois
Association of Community | ||||||
4 | Action Agencies for over 10 years, most recently
serving as | ||||||
5 | vice-chair; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Suzan Nash has been an active member of her | ||||||
7 | community; she served as a Radio
Information Services reader, a | ||||||
8 | Youth Assistance Program founding board member, a Quality of | ||||||
9 | Life
committee member, YMCA president and board member, a | ||||||
10 | McDonough County United Way
volunteer and campaign chair, and | ||||||
11 | as the finance chair at St. Paul Parish; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Suzan Nash has received the Macomb Feminists | ||||||
13 | Network "Writing Women into
History Award", and the Western | ||||||
14 | Illinois University Department of Parks, Recreation and | ||||||
15 | Tourism
Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990; therefore, be it
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16 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
17 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
18 | congratulate Suzan Nash on her retirement from Community Action | ||||||
19 | after 38 years of service and we wish her well in her | ||||||
20 | retirement and with all future endeavors; and be it further
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21 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
22 | presented to Suzan Nash as an expression of our esteem and |
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1 | respect.
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