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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Leland Lewis, Executive Director of the DuPage
3 County Health Department, is retiring June 2, 2006; and
 
4     WHEREAS, Mr. Lewis was selected to serve as Executive
5 Director on November 15, 1999; during his tenure, some of his
6 major accomplishments have been to serve as Incident Commander,
7 TOPOFF II and International bioterrorism exercise, to serve as
8 a founding member of the Northern Illinois Public Health
9 Consortium, to oversee the Monkey Pox outbreak in DuPage
10 County, and to develop the first plan for distribution of the
11 Strategic Stockpile in DuPage County; and
 
12     WHEREAS, He received his Bachelor of Science degree in
13 Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla and
14 his Master of Business Administration degree from Northern
15 Illinois University; he is a registered professional engineer;
16 and
 
17     WHEREAS, He served in the U.S. Army, Republic of Korea and
18 Georgia, as a first lieutenant; in the 1980s, he was an officer
19 in the Oak Brook Association of Commerce & Industry; in the
20 1990s, he served on the Glen Ellyn Zoning Board of Appeals and
21 the Glenbard District 87 High School Enrollment Advisory
22 Committee; and
 
23     WHEREAS, From 1970 to 1993, his work in the private sector
24 involved engineering and managing business operations; in May
25 of 1994, he joined the DuPage County Health Department as the
26 Director of Business Operations; therefore, be it
 
27     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
28 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
29 we congratulate Leland Lewis on his retirement, we thank him
30 for his dedicated service with the DuPage County Health

 

 

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1 Department, and we wish him the best in his future endeavors;
2 and be it further
 
3     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
4 presented to Leland Lewis as an expression of our respect and
5 esteem.