TITLE: Recognizing February 25, 2015, as Garland Chamber of Commerce Day at the State Capitol.

SUMMARY: Recognizing February 25, 2015, as Garland Chamber of Commerce Day at the State Capitol.

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WHEREAS, For more than 117 years, the Garland chamber has worked to ensure the economic vitality of Garland; when the city needed to broaden its economic base beyond agriculture in the mid-20th century, the chamber recruited a variety of companies that have since expanded to become such world-famous enterprises as General Dynamics Corporation, Raytheon Company, Hatco Corporation, and Kraft Foods Group, Inc., and KARLEE and Garrett Metal Detectors, which grew from shops in garages to internationally renowned industry leaders, and are among the nearly 400 manufacturing enterprises located in Garland today; and WHEREAS, The Garland chamber is the creator of a variety of programs to support small businesses, manufacturing companies, retail firms, and the local education system, acting on the principle that success in each of these areas depends on success in all of them; the chamber is the founder of the BEST Education Foundation and the first chamber of commerce to host an office of the Small Business Development Center, and it has actively participated in the development of the Dallas County Manufacturers' Association, the Women's Business E-nitiative, and Leadership Garland; and WHEREAS, Garland has become the fifth largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and one of the fastest growing regions in the nation, home to nearly 235,000 residents and rated among the top 100 best places in the country in which to live by CNN and Money magazine in 2008; the chamber is an essential member of the Garland Economic Development Partnership, which has been responsible for the creation and retention of more than 18,000 jobs and a $1.5 billion tax base in the city; and WHEREAS, Operating under the acronym PRIDE, for Passion, Respect, Integrity, Discipline, and Excellence, the Garland Chamber of Commerce has been a dynamic and inspiring "connecting source" in its community, and it is indeed deserving of recognition for the vital role it has played in this Lone Star success story; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas Legislature hereby recognize February 25, 2015, as Garland Chamber of Commerce Day at the State Capitol and extend to the visiting delegation sincere best wishes for a meaningful and memorable visit to Austin. Button Burkett Sheets Straus Guerra Otto Allen Guillen Paddie Alonzo Gutierrez Parker Alvarado Harless Paul Anchia Hernandez Pe a Anderson of Dallas Herrero Phelan Anderson of McLennan Howard Phillips Ashby Huberty Pickett Aycock Hughes Price Bell Hunter Raney Blanco Isaac Raymond Bohac Israel Reynolds Bonnen of Brazoria Johnson Riddle Bonnen of Galveston Kacal Rinaldi Burkett Keffer Rodriguez of Bexar Burns Keough Rodriguez of Travis Burrows King of Hemphill Romero, Jr. Button King of Parker Rose Canales King of Taylor Sanford Capriglione King of Uvalde Schaefer Clardy Klick Schofield Coleman Koop Shaheen Collier Krause Sheets Cook Kuempel Sheffield Craddick Landgraf Simmons Crownover Larson Simpson Dale Laubenberg Smith Darby Leach Smithee Davis of Dallas Longoria Spitzer Davis of Harris Lozano Springer Deshotel Lucio III Stephenson Dukes M rquez Stickland Dutton Martinez Thompson of Brazoria Elkins Martinez Fischer Thompson of Harris Faircloth McClendon Tinderholt Fallon Men ndez Turner of Collin Farias Metcalf Turner of Harris Farney Meyer Turner of Tarrant Farrar Miles VanDeaver Fletcher Miller of Comal Villalba Flynn Miller of Fort Bend Vo Frank Moody Walle Frullo Morrison White of Bell Galindo Mu oz, Jr. White of Tyler Geren Murphy Workman Giddings Murr Wray Goldman Naishtat Wu Gonzales Nev rez Zedler Gonz lez Oliveira Zerwas Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 530 was adopted by the House on February 26, 2015, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House