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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Menzel resigned from his position as City |
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| Treasurer of Rolling Meadows on February 26, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr.
Menzel came to the Chicago area in 1968
to |
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| teach at Prospect High School, after
completing his college |
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| degree at Western
Michigan University; he moved to Rolling
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| Meadows in 1972; in 1974, he started his political
career as a |
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| commissioner on the Salt Creek Rural Park District Board; Mr. |
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| Menzel
went on to
serve 19 years as alderman before winning
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| election as Mayor by nearly a 2-1 margin in
1995; he was easily |
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| re-elected to a second
4-year term in 1999 and then appointed
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| City Treasurer after leaving the Mayor's
office in 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Menzel started his business career in
the |
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| public affairs department of Allstate
Insurance Company in |
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| 1970; he held
management positions with Xerox Learning
Systems |
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| and McGraw Hill Training Systems and
consulted with many other |
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| business
organizations; he earned an MBA with
honors from Lake |
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| Forest Graduate School
of Management in 1991; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Menzel helped set the course for Rolling |
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| Meadows, from reshaping the economic development committee to |
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| making the city more business-friendly; and
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| WHEREAS, After serving Rolling Meadows for 30 years, Mr. |
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| Menzel is moving back to his hometown of Traverse City, |
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| Michigan, where he will assume the position of Executive |
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| Director of the National Cherry Festival; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we congratulate Thomas Menzel on the occasion of his |
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| resignation as City Treasurer of Rolling Meadows for his many |
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| years of service to the citizens of Rolling Meadows, and we |
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