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| 2 | 2 | | <BillNo> <Sponsor> |
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| 4 | 4 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 427 |
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| 5 | 5 | | By Massey |
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| 8 | 8 | | SJR0427 |
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| 9 | 9 | | 007148 |
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| 12 | 12 | | A RESOLUTION to honor the Tennessee Department of |
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| 13 | 13 | | Transportation on winning the 2024 Southeast |
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| 14 | 14 | | Roadeo. |
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| 16 | 16 | | WHEREAS, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) team has won the |
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| 17 | 17 | | 2024 Southeast Roadeo, thus claiming its tenth championship out of the seventeen Roadeos |
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| 18 | 18 | | held since 2006; and |
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| 19 | 19 | | WHEREAS, the Southeast Roadeo features leading equipment operators from eleven |
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| 20 | 20 | | states, who compete against each other on a course designed to test their skills in operating the |
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| 21 | 21 | | following equipment: backhoe, single axle dump truck, tandem axle dump truck, skid steer, |
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| 22 | 22 | | lowboy, tractor mower, and motor grader; and |
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| 23 | 23 | | WHEREAS, focusing on efficiency and skill, the Southeast Roadeo provides operators |
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| 24 | 24 | | with the opportunity to display their mastery of vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment; evaluate |
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| 25 | 25 | | their strengths and challenges; improve their techniques; and learn new skills, while engaging in |
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| 26 | 26 | | friendly competition; and |
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| 27 | 27 | | WHEREAS, the Roadeo also helps build relationships and trust among operators; these |
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| 28 | 28 | | relationships are invaluable when operators from across the State come together to work as a |
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| 29 | 29 | | team during emergency conditions and disaster-related situations; and |
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| 30 | 30 | | WHEREAS, the TDOT team won the State's tenth Southeast Roadeo by taking first and |
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| 31 | 31 | | second place in the skid steer category and first and second place in the single axle dump truck |
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| 32 | 32 | | competition; and |
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| 33 | 33 | | WHEREAS, the members of TDOT's 2024 Southeast Roadeo championship team are |
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| 34 | 34 | | Benjamin Bolden and Josh Human representing Region 1; David Bragg, Dewayne Everett, |
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| 35 | 35 | | Ricky Moss, and Ronnie Spivey representing Region 2; Evan Mitchell, Joel Bates, Mike Puckett, |
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| 38 | 38 | | - 2 - 007148 |
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| 40 | 40 | | John Young, and Richard Sullins representing Region 3; and Clint Bowman, Hunter Butler, and |
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| 41 | 41 | | Logan Garner representing Region 4; and |
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| 42 | 42 | | WHEREAS, their victory reaffirms our high opinion of TDOT and its dedicated |
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| 43 | 43 | | employees, who are most deserving of our approbation; now, therefore, |
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| 44 | 44 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH |
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| 45 | 45 | | GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE HOU SE OF |
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| 46 | 46 | | REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, that we honor and congratulate the Tennessee |
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| 47 | 47 | | Department of Transportation team on winning the 2024 Southeast Roadeo, applaud its |
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| 48 | 48 | | members' ongoing commitment to making Tennessee's roads and highways the best in the |
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| 49 | 49 | | nation, and extend to them our best wishes for much continued success and happiness. |
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| 50 | 50 | | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared |
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| 51 | 51 | | for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to |
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| 52 | 52 | | the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear |
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| 53 | 53 | | without House or Senate designation. |
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