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By:  Hochberg                                                     H.R. No. 258







R E S O L U T I O N

	WHEREAS, After 16 years of exceptional service with the Texas 

Education Agency, Joe Wisnoski of Austin is retiring on August 31, 

2005, from his position as deputy associate commissioner for school 

finance and fiscal analysis; and

	WHEREAS, During thousands of hours of legislative hearings, 

Mr. Wisnoski has provided clear answers to countless questions 

about the state's funding of public schools with limitless patience 

and a calm demeanor; he has become the legislators' "go to guy" for 

the most complicated of questions on school finance, and school 

board members, superintendents, and school business managers have 

learned to rely on him for timely and accurate information about 

actions of the legislature; and

	WHEREAS, With the responsibility for overseeing such 

lighthearted topics as the calculations of state aid to public 

schools, administering wealth equalization provisions, and 

providing projections of student attendance and costs, he has every 

reason to have assumed the qualities of the "pointy-haired boss" 

found in the Dilbert comic strip, but the widespread esteem in which 

he is held is sure proof that any alleged physical resemblance is 

merely coincidental; and

	WHEREAS, Born in Dallas in 1953, Mr. Wisnoski has a master's 

degree in business administration from The University of Texas at 

Austin; he attended St. Pius X School and Bishop Lynch High School 

and graduated with highest honors from UT with a bachelor's degree 

in philosophy in only three years, demonstrating serious egghead 

tendencies long before ever dipping a toe into the choppy waters of 

school finance; and

	WHEREAS, He had been employed by the Governor's Office of 

Budget and Planning, the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and the 

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board before throwing all 

caution to the wind and making his move to the TEA in 1989; and

	WHEREAS, In his rare bouts of leisure, Mr. Wisnoski enjoys 

spending time with his family, which includes his wife of nearly 30 

years, Ara, and their daughters, Jennifer and Jessica, as well as 

gardening, fishing, cooking, and traveling; he is also active in 

his church, and his faith has no doubt served him well throughout 

his career; and

	WHEREAS, With a well-deserved reputation for integrity and 

commitment to his work, Joe Wisnoski has truly been an asset to his 

agency and to state government, and he is to be highly commended for 

a job well done; now, therefore, be it

	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas 

Legislature, 2nd Called Session, hereby honor Joe Wisnoski for his 

exceptional tenure with the Texas Education Agency and extend to 

him sincere best wishes for success and happiness in all his future 

endeavors; and, be it further

	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be 

prepared for Mr. Wisnoski as an expression of high regard by the 

Texas House of Representatives.