H.R. No. 37
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Barbara Evans has served the State of Texas as an
employee of the Texas Department of Human Services and the Texas
Department of Health, has served the citizens of Abilene in these
posts, and has volunteered countless hours to benefit the city and
citizens of Abilene; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Evans has served 23 years as an employee of the
Region 02/09 Texas Department of Human Services office in Abilene,
in which she rose from the bottom to the top in her positions as
administrative secretary, management services officer, community
services director, and regional administrator; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Evans has done an exceptional job as regional
administrator in which she has guided Region 02/09 to be amongst the
best in the state in helping persons with disabilities, providing
long-term care services, guiding families' moves from welfare to
self-sufficiency, and working to slash the teen pregnancy rate; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Evans earned a bachelor of business
administration in management degree in 1984 from McMurry
University, which she completed with a 4.0 grade point average
while working full-time and attending to her duties as a wife and
mother; and
WHEREAS, She has volunteered tirelessly in Abilene's
community, participating on the Abilene Mental Health Association
Board, serving as an Abilene-Taylor County Case Management
Coalition member, a participant of Leadership Abilene, a longtime
worker for United Way of Abilene, and a committee member for the
YMCA in Abilene, and guiding the Welfare-to-Work Initiative
Committee; and
WHEREAS, She is married to Steve Evans, and she has one
daughter, M'lissa, and one son, Travis; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas
Legislature hereby honor Barbara Evans on her retirement as
regional administrator of Texas Department of Human Services Region
02/09 after many years of service as a devoted worker to benefit the
region in each of the positions that she has held; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for Mrs. Evans as an expression of high regard by the Texas
House of Representatives.
Hunter
Craddick Geren Mercer
Allen Giddings Merritt
Alonzo Goodman Miller
Bailey Goolsby Moreno of Harris
Baxter Griggs Moreno of El Paso
Berman Grusendorf Morrison
Bohac Guillen Mowery
Bonnen Gutierrez Naishtat
Branch Haggerty Nixon
Brown of Kaufman Hamilton Noriega
Brown of Brazos Hamric Oliveira
Burnam Hardcastle Olivo
Callegari Harper-Brown Paxton
Campbell Hartnett Pena
Canales Heflin Phillips
Capelo Hegar Pickett
Casteel Hilderbran Pitts
Castro Hill Puente
Chavez Hochberg Quintanilla
Chisum Hodge Raymond
Christian Homer Reyna
Coleman Hope Riddle
Cook of Navarro Hopson Ritter
Cook of Colorado Howard Rodriguez
Corte Hughes Rose
Crabb Hunter Seaman
Crownover Hupp Smith of Tarrant
Davis of Harris Isett Smith of Harris
Davis of Dallas Jones of Lubbock Smithee
Dawson Jones of Bexar Solis
Delisi Jones of Dallas Solomons
Denny Keel Stick
Deshotel Keffer of Dallas Swinford
Driver Keffer of Eastland Talton
Dukes King Taylor
Dunnam Kolkhorst Telford
Dutton Krusee Thompson
Edwards Kuempel Truitt
Eiland Laney Turner
Eissler Laubenberg Uresti
Elkins Lewis Van Arsdale
Ellis Luna Villarreal
Escobar Mabry West
Farabee Madden Wilson
Farrar Marchant Wise
Flores Martinez Fischer Wohlgemuth
Flynn McCall Wolens
Gallego McClendon Wong
Garza McReynolds Woolley
Gattis Menendez Zedler
______________________________
Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 37 was adopted by the House on August
5, 2003, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House