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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Dale Sands on the occasion | ||||||
| 4 | of his retirement as village president of Deer Park; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Dale Sands earned his Bachelor of Science in | ||||||
| 6 | Chemistry from Central Michigan University, his Master of | ||||||
| 7 | Science in Environmental Science from the University of | ||||||
| 8 | Michigan, and his Master of Business Administration from | ||||||
| 9 | California State University East Bay; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Dale Sands moved to Deer Park in 1993; he was | ||||||
| 11 | first elected to the Deer Park Village Board as a trustee in | ||||||
| 12 | 2009; he ran unopposed for village president in 2017 and served | ||||||
| 13 | until his retirement; during his tenure, his achievements | ||||||
| 14 | included the construction of Deer Park's first village hall, | ||||||
| 15 | renovations to the historic Vehe Barn, and Deer Park becoming a | ||||||
| 16 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Power partner | ||||||
| 17 | community for committing to use 100% renewable energy for an | ||||||
| 18 | electric aggregation program; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Dale Sands worked for over 40 years in a wide | ||||||
| 20 | range of executive leadership roles with leading engineering | ||||||
| 21 | firms, including CH2M, AECOM, and ABB; he retired from a | ||||||
| 22 | full-time career at a design engineering company in 2017; he is | ||||||
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| 1 | frequently invited to speak at international climate and | ||||||
| 2 | environmental conferences; he has over 40 years of | ||||||
| 3 | environmental experience, including authoring 50 technical | ||||||
| 4 | publications and presentations; he has lived and traveled | ||||||
| 5 | internationally and has experience in 65 countries; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Dale Sands devoted time to ARISE, a private sector | ||||||
| 7 | organization focused on the Sendai Framework disaster risk | ||||||
| 8 | reduction goals, and served as the chair of the United Nations | ||||||
| 9 | ARISE Network of the United States and the co-chair of the | ||||||
| 10 | United Nations ARISE Global Board; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Dale Sands and his wife will divide their time on | ||||||
| 12 | a property with a renovated 1850s farmhouse in southeastern | ||||||
| 13 | Michigan and a house in Hawaii; therefore, be it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 15 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 16 | we congratulate Dale Sands on the occasion of his retirement as | ||||||
| 17 | village president of Deer Park, and we commend his commitment | ||||||
| 18 | to the community of Deer Park; and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to Dale Sands as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
| 21 | respect.
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