Full Text of HR0816 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Patricia A. | 4 | | Murphy, who is retiring from the City of Chicago after | 5 | | providing
over 30 years of dedicated service, exclusively with | 6 | | the Council Division of the Office
of the City Clerk; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, She began her tenure back in 1980, when the late | 8 | | Honorable Lemuel Austin Jr., 34th Ward Alderman, took a
chance | 9 | | and gave her an opportunity in city government; the only | 10 | | in-house staff
person selected to serve in the then new word | 11 | | processing section, she went on to
become the resident | 12 | | problem-solver for both operational and procedural | 13 | | difficulties; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Despite the fact that all staff members were | 15 | | trained in new system
updates, she was consistently the most | 16 | | conversant with and became the resource
person for new | 17 | | associated procedures; as the Index Editor who leads by | 18 | | example, she has made a personal
and substantial contribution | 19 | | to the enhancement of the professionalism of her
colleagues and | 20 | | instilled in them a sense of enthusiasm and teamwork that | 21 | | resulted in
the consistent achievement of publication | 22 | | deadlines for the Guide to Legislation and
the Index to the | 23 | | Journal of Proceedings; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, On her own initiative,
she analyzed the document | 2 | | flow originating with the City Council, funneled through
the | 3 | | Office of the City Clerk, and the various city council | 4 | | committees; as a
consequence of this analysis, she developed | 5 | | procedural changes which
responded to the time sensitive nature | 6 | | of the document flow by ensuring that the city
council | 7 | | committees received their documents significantly sooner than | 8 | | under the
previous process; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Pat Murphy has managed the day-to-day operations | 10 | | of the document reference and review section; she was the
| 11 | | custodian of all legislation passed by the city council as well | 12 | | as being responsible for
all historic documents; her | 13 | | development and implementation of specialized recordkeeping | 14 | | programs significantly enhanced the responsiveness and | 15 | | accuracy of the office vis-a-vis research requests generated by | 16 | | city officials and the public; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Due to her reservoir of historical information, | 18 | | breadth of technical expertise,
and unwavering consistency | 19 | | under deadline pressure, she is the chief resource
person, and | 20 | | as a consequence of her encyclopedic memory and the specialized
| 21 | | document search tools and logs she developed, she is the | 22 | | primary legislative research
specialist of the Office of the | 23 | | City Clerk; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, She was nominated twice for the Kathy Osterman | 2 | | Award for
outstanding City Service and on August 12, 2001, was | 3 | | featured in the Chicago Tribune
"Working on the Job" section | 4 | | and classified as a "Troubleshooter" for her vast amount
of | 5 | | responsibilities; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, As the Assistant Managing Editor of the Council | 7 | | Division, she is
responsible for assisting in the monitoring of | 8 | | staff assignments in the reproduction of
legislative documents | 9 | | for the publication of the Council Journal of Proceedings; she | 10 | | is the primary person responsible for recording all aldermanic | 11 | | votes
and related notes at city council meetings with the City | 12 | | Clerks' new document
management system; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, In retirement, she can now exhale, enjoy her
| 14 | | daughter, Bianca, and little Ms. Azuria, her outspoken and | 15 | | animated 3-year old
granddaughter; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 | | we congratulate Patricia Murphy on her retirement and wish her | 19 | | all the best in her future endeavors; and be it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to Patricia Murphy as a symbol of our respect and |
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