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92_HR1049 LRB9217383RHrh 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION 2 WHEREAS, The Mokena Fire Protection District provides 3 emergency service protection to areas of Mokena, Frankfort, 4 Orland Park, and Homer Glen; and 5 WHEREAS, The Mokena Fire Protection District has received 6 Accredited Agency status with the Commission on Fire 7 Accreditation International (CFAI) for meeting the criteria 8 established through the CFAI's voluntary self-assessment and 9 accreditation program; and 10 WHEREAS, The Mokena Fire Protection District is one of 59 11 agencies that have achieved Accredited Agency status with the 12 CFAI; currently, there are over 27,000 fire departments alone 13 in the United States; this puts Mokena in the top .1% of fire 14 departments in the United States to receive this status; and 15 WHEREAS, The CFAI is dedicated to assisting the fire and 16 emergency service agencies throughout the world in achieving 17 excellence through self-assessment and accreditation in order 18 to provide continuous quality improvement and the enhancement 19 of service delivery to their communities; the CFAI process is 20 voluntary and provides agencies with an improvement model to 21 assess their service delivery and performance internally and 22 then work with a team of peers from other agencies to 23 evaluate their completed self-assessment; therefore, be it 24 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 25 NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that 26 we congratulate the Mokena Fire Protection District on 27 achieving Accredited Agency status with the Commission on 28 Fire Accreditation International; and be it further 29 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 30 presented to the Mokena Fire Protection District as an 31 expression of our esteem.