CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
ADDENDUM
TO THE
SENATE and HOUSE CALENDAR
OF
thursday, may 3, 2007
CONSENT CALENDAR
Concurrent Resolutions for Notice under Joint Rule 16
The following joint concurrent resolutions have been introduced for approval by the Senate and House and will be adopted automatically unless a Senator or Representative requests floor consideration before the end of the session of the next legislative day. Requests for floor consideration in either chamber should be communicated to the Secretary’s office and/or the House Clerk’s office, respectively.
By Senator Campbell,
S.C.R. 22.
Senate concurrent resolution commending the State House cafeteria management and staff for their outstanding work during the first year of the 2007-2008 biennium.
Whereas, Fitz, Vogt & Associates Ltd. has managed the State House cafeteria and catering service since November 2003, and
Whereas, the quality of the firm’s service has been excellent, and
Whereas, under Fitz, Vogt & Associates Ltd.’s management, the cafeteria’s cleanliness is a continual priority, and all public areas of the facility are regularly scrubbed and made shiny, and
Whereas, the cafeteria’s enticing menu of both hot and cold offerings, including the salad bar, offers diners many attractive dining choices, and
Whereas, the catering for special events held in different locations throughout the State House has been of high quality, and the tastiness and freshness of the food, as well as its presentation format, have been superb, and
Whereas, the State House cafeteria staff, including the corporate supervisory manager, Steve Marinelli, the on-site manager, Joanne Prim, and Fitz, Vogt & Associates Ltd. employees Martisha Burke, Paige Young, Daniel Harries, Khadija McGray, Ashleigh Wentworth, Jacob Gurule and Sharese Leggett, have risen to the challenge of meeting its demanding patrons’ expectations for a wellmanaged food service facility that is operated with a strong sense of pride, now therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
That the General Assembly is pleased to congratulate Fitz, Vogt & Associates Ltd. and all of the personnel it has hired to operate the State House cafeteria and catering service for a job well done during the first year of the 2007–2008 biennium, and be it further
Resolved: That the Secretary of State be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Joanne Prim, the onsite manager of the State House cafeteria.
H.C.R. 125
House concurrent resolution congratulating Liz Stephen on her accomplishments as a competitive Nordic skier
Offered by: Representative Klein of East Montpelier
Whereas, Liz Stephen has skied most of her life and was initially an alpine enthusiast, and
Whereas, her competitive skiing potential was sufficiently promising that she opted to enroll at Burke Mountain Academy, one of the nation’s premier skiing schools, and
Whereas, when Liz Stephen was a sophomore, she switched her skiing concentration from alpine to Nordic, and
Whereas, she quickly gained speed and proficiency in her new skiing mode, and impressed everyone as a skier who would go far on the national scene, and
Whereas, although she narrowly missed qualifying for a place on the U.S.Olympic team, Liz Stephen’s accomplishments on the snowy Nordic courses in the last year mark her as a major skier to watch, and
Whereas, she placed seventh in the Junior Worlds competition, an extremely impressive performance for a relative newcomer to cross-country racing, and
Whereas, more recently, at the U.S. Cross Country Championships, Liz Stephen skied a great race in the 10K classic event, earning a bronze medal, and
Whereas, her eagerness to compete was hardly satisfied after this first medal victory, and, the following day, she dazzled and surprised many of the competitors on the course tying for the first place gold medal in the 5K freestyle title event, and
Whereas, Liz Stephen is turning to longer distances and hopes to participate in more 15K and marathon races, and
Whereas, she is excited to continue racing in this fast paced winter sport, now therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
That the General Assembly congratulates Liz Stephen on her accomplishments as a competitive Nordic skier, and be it further
Resolved: That the secretary of state be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Liz Stephen.
H.C.R. 126
House concurrent resolution in memory of former Representative J. Russell Carpenter and of M. Ellen Carpenter
Offered by: Representatives Morrissey of Bennington, Corcoran of Bennington, Krawczyk of Bennington and Mook of Bennington
Offered by: Senators Hartwell and Sears
Whereas, two distinguished members of the Carpenter family of Bennington died this past year, and
Whereas, J. Russell Carpenter was an admired civic leader in the town of Bennington and throughout Vermont, and
Whereas, he graduated from the former Bennington High School and later attended the University of Vermont and Siena College, and
Whereas, during the closing months of the Second World War, and until 1947, J. Russell Carpenter was a member of the United States Navy, and
Whereas, he was extremely proud of his naval service, and for many years he belonged to the Tin Can Sailors, an organization comprised of former naval personnel who were stationed on destroyers, and he was also a member of American Legion Post 13 in Bennington, and
Whereas, J. Russell Carpenter was the proprietor of his family’s business, T.A. Carpenter & Sons Lumber, Hardware and Paint in Bennington, and
Whereas, religion played an important role in his family, and he was a parishioner of Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales Church in Bennington and was also a local and state leader in the Knights of Columbus, and
Whereas, beginning in 1988, J. Russell Carpenter embarked on a public service career when he was elected to the first of two terms in the House of Representatives, and
Whereas, following Representative Carpenter’s legislative service, Governor Dean appointed him to serve on the Vermont State Lottery Commission, and Governor Douglas reappointed him to this panel, and
Whereas, his role as a lottery regulator took him beyond Vermont during his tenure on the Tri-State Lottery Commission on which he served a term as chair, and
Whereas, news of former Representative Carpenter’s death in June 2006 was received with great sadness in Bennington and among his many friends throughout northern New England, and
Whereas, his daughter, M. Ellen Carpenter, died tragically in Boston at the age of 52, exactly six months after her father’s passing, and
Whereas, she had a distinguished career as a federal attorney in Washington, D.C. and Boston, and, in more recent years, as a private sector bankruptcy law practitioner in Boston, and
Whereas, M. Ellen Carpenter served as the first president of the Boston Bar Association who specialized in the bankruptcy legal field, and she was selected to act as the hearing officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers in a highly publicized 2005 legal ethics case, and
Whereas, her untimely passing brought public statements of condolence from leading state and federal judges in Massachusetts and from prominent members of the legal community nationwide, and
Whereas, Russell Carpenter’s wife, Mary Elaine, and her surviving children, Patricia and her husband Robert Bolduc, John and his wife, Sylvia, and Theodore and his wife, Anne Chantal, and three grandchildren, Jesse and Sean Carpenter and Elizabeth Bolduc, are left with wonderful memories of their two departed family members, now therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
That the General Assembly extends its sincere condolences to the family of former Representative J. Russell Carpenter of Bennington and M. Ellen Carpenter, and be it further
Resolved: That the secretary of state be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Mary Elaine Carpenter of Bennington.
H.C.R. 127
House concurrent resolution congratulating the nursing staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center on the center’s second designation as a Magnet® hospital
Offered by: Representatives Morrissey of Bennington, Botzow of Pownal, Browning of Arlington, Corcoran of Bennington, Komline of Dorset, Krawczyk of Bennington, Livingston of Manchester, Miller of Shaftsbury and Mook of Bennington
Offered by: Senators Sears and Hartwell
Whereas, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) is a national organization that develops standards for evaluating the professional qualifications of nurses and the services they provide to patients, and
Whereas, this evaluation process encompasses the qualifications of nurses as individuals and as teams working in an institutional setting, and
Whereas, in an institutional context, the ANCC’s Magnet® hospital designation program recognizes a hospital or medical unit’s nursing staffs that have satisfied a set of criteria whose attainment means the hospital or medical unit delivers coordinated nursing care that is of the highest possible caliber, and
Whereas, these criteria or forces of magnetism used in awarding a hospital Magnet® designation include the quality and vision of the nursing leadership, the dynamism and responsiveness of the organizational structure, the support that the management style gives to the nurses, the creativity and flexibility of the personnel policies, the professional authority allotted to nurses in the model of care, the quality of care offered, the opportunity to improve the quality of care, the opportunities afforded for consultation with medical experts when required along with the adequacy of the resources provided to the nurses, the autonomy given to nurses in providing care to patients, the quality of the nursing staff’s relationships with other health care and community organizations, the teaching role of nurses and the image of nursing in the health care community, interdisciplinary relations among heath care specialists within a medical center, and professional development opportunities that are offered to the nursing staff, and
Whereas, the ANCC assessed the nursing staff at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center on each of these Magnet® forces and gave the center high grades in every instance, and
Whereas, the stellar report that ANCC compiled on Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s nursing activities resulted in the hospital’s redesignation as a Magnet® hospital, and
Whereas, this honor reflects on the outstanding nursing staff and services that serve as the institutional foundation of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, now therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
That the General Assembly congratulates Southwestern Vermont Medical Center on the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s designating the center as a Magnet® hospital, and be it further
Resolved: That the secretary of state be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Katherine Riley, MSN, RN, the assistant vice president of operations at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington.
H.C.R. 128
House concurrent resolution commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Green Mountain National Forest
Offered by: Representatives Morrissey of Bennington, Andrews of Rutland City, Acinapura of Brandon, Adams of Hartland, Ainsworth of Royalton, Allard of St. Albans Town, Ancel of Calais, Anderson of Montpelier, Aswad of Burlington, Atkins of Winooski, Audette of S. Burlington, Baker of West Rutland, Barnard of Richmond, Bissonnette of Winooski, Bostic of St. Johnsbury, Botzow of Pownal, Branagan of Georgia, Bray of New Haven, Brennan of Colchester, Browning of Arlington, Canfield of Fair Haven, Chen of Mendon, Cheney of Norwich, Clark of St. Johnsbury, Clark of Vergennes, Clarkson of Woodstock, Clerkin of Hartford, Condon of Colchester, Consejo of Sheldon, Copeland-Hanzas of Bradford, Corcoran of Bennington, Courcelle of Rutland City, Davis of Washington, Deen of Westminster, Devereux of Mount Holly, Donaghy of Poultney, Donahue of Northfield, Donovan of Burlington, Dostis of Waterbury, Edwards of Brattleboro, Emmons of Springfield, Errecart of Shelburne, Evans of Essex, Fallar of Tinmouth, Fisher of Lincoln, Fitzgerald of St. Albans City, Flory of Pittsford, Frank of Underhill, French of Randolph, Gervais of Enosburg, Gilbert of Fairfax, Godin of Milton, Grad of Moretown, Haas of Rochester, Head of S. Burlington, Heath of Westford, Helm of Castleton, Hosford of Waitsfield, Howard of Rutland City, Howrigan of Fairfield, Hube of Londonderry, Hudson of Lyndon, Hunt of Essex, Hutchinson of Randolph, Jerman of Essex, Jewett of Ripton, Johnson of South Hero, Johnson of Canaan, Keenan of St. Albans City, Keogh of Burlington, Kilmartin of Newport City, Kitzmiller of Montpelier, Klein of East Montpelier, Koch of Barre Town, Komline of Dorset, Krawczyk of Bennington, Kupersmith of S. Burlington, Larocque of Barnet, Larrabee of Danville, Larson of Burlington, Lawrence of Lyndon, Lenes of Shelburne, Livingston of Manchester, Malcolm of Pawlet, Manwaring of Wilmington, Marcotte of Coventry, Martin of Springfield, Martin of Wolcott, Masland of Thetford, McAllister of Highgate, McCormack of Rutland City, McDonald of Berlin, McFaun of Barre Town, Milkey of Brattleboro, Miller of Shaftsbury, Minter of Waterbury, Mook of Bennington, Moran of Wardsboro, Morley of Barton, Mrowicki of Putney, Myers of Essex, Nease of Johnson, Nuovo of Middlebury, Obuchowski of Rockingham, O'Donnell of Vernon, Ojibway of Hartford, Orr of Charlotte, Otterman of Topsham, Oxholm of Vergennes, Pearson of Burlington, Peaslee of Guildhall, Peltz of Woodbury, Perry of Richford, Peterson of Williston, Pillsbury of Brattleboro, Potter of Clarendon, Pugh of S. Burlington, Randall of Troy, Rodgers of Glover, Scheuermann of Stowe, Shand of Weathersfield, Sharpe of Bristol, Shaw of Derby, Smith of Morristown, Stevens of Shoreham, Sunderland of Rutland Town, Sweaney of Windsor, Trombley of Grand Isle, Turner of Milton, Valliere of Barre City, Winters of Williamstown, Wright of Burlington, Zenie of Colchester and Zuckerman of Burlington
Whereas, during the 19th century, Vermont’s haphazard logging practices transformed the state’s timber stock from softwoods to hardwoods, resulted in extensive deforestation, and prompted Governor Urban Woodbury, in an 1894 address to the General Assembly, to express concern over the security of the state’s wood industry, and
Whereas, early in the 20th century, the accumulated ecological damages from the lack of sound forestry management resulted in serious forest fires in the state, and
Whereas, the state of Vermont had only limited resources to address the long-term need to manage properly the state’s timber resources, and
Whereas, conservationists Marshel Hapgood and Joseph Battell were among the first Vermonters to suggest federal acquisition of mountainous forest land to assure its proper management, and
Whereas, proposals were presented to the National Forest Reservation Committee (NFRC) to establish a national forest in Vermont which unlike western national forests, would be comprised of land that the federal government had not owned previously, and