84R9166 MGB-D
By: Button H.R. No. 530
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Members of the Garland Chamber of Commerce are
visiting the State Capitol on February 25, 2015, and this occasion
provides a welcome opportunity to pay tribute to this outstanding
community organization and the city it serves; and
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.