Bill Text: TX HR2223 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Congratulating Lori Barnett Dodson on her retirement from the Garland City Council.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-30 - Reported enrolled [HR2223 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HR2223-Introduced.html

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85R30339 CJM-D
By: Button H.R. No. 2223

R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lori Barnett Dodson concluded her tenure as a member
of the Garland City Council in May 2017, drawing to a close six
years of distinguished service in that office; and
WHEREAS, A native of Garland, Ms. Dodson serves as a
certified public accountant with the real estate investment fund
E2M Partners; she first became involved in local government when
she began working with the city council and the parks and recreation
department to get trees installed in the Shiloh Road median;
admired for her civic engagement, she went on to join the Plan
Commission in 2006, and she was elected in May 2011 as the city
council representative for District 6; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Dodson has further contributed to her community
through her efforts in behalf of the West Garland Neighborhood
Association, the Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association, the
Garland Police Criminal Investigative Division, and the Senior
Source Money Management Program; in addition, she has given
generously of her time and talents to the Garland Parent-Teacher
Association and the North Garland Little League and Band Booster
Associations; and
WHEREAS, Public servants improve the quality of life for
their fellow Texans in innumerable ways, and Lori Dodson has helped
to make Garland an even better place in which to live and work; now,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 85th Texas
Legislature hereby congratulate Lori Barnett Dodson on her
retirement from the Garland City Council and extend to her sincere
best wishes for the future; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for Ms. Dodson as an expression of high regard by the Texas
House of Representatives.