Senate Bill sb2010

    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SR 2010

    By Senators Sebesta and Crist





    16-944-05

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing April 14, 2005, as

  3         "Hillsborough County Day" in Tallahassee.

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  5         WHEREAS, Hillsborough County was organized as a county

  6  in 1834 and is now comprised of some 1,050 square miles, with

  7  a current population exceeding 1.1 million people, and

  8         WHEREAS, the county is home to three municipalities,

  9  including Plant City, chartered in 1885; Tampa, chartered in

10  1887; and Temple Terrace, chartered in 1925, and

11         WHEREAS, Hillsborough County is a multicultural,

12  diverse community, a microcosm of the State of Florida

13  offering a breadth of available lifestyles, including a strong

14  urban core, a smaller group of Main Street municipalities, a

15  flourishing suburbia, community living for the active elderly,

16  and sufficient rural areas for those who choose more pastoral

17  or agrarian lifestyles, with the average price of housing

18  running at $183,000, and

19         WHEREAS, Hillsborough County is the western anchor of

20  the burgeoning I-4 corridor and is the state's epicenter of

21  business and commerce, creating over 25,000 jobs in 2004,

22  dropping its unemployment rate almost to the prerecession

23  level of 2.9 in early 2001, and projecting an increase in

24  effective buying income of 26 percent by 2009, and

25         WHEREAS, Hillsborough County has a wealth of cultural

26  facilities and programs, including Lowry Park Zoo, the Number

27  One Children's Zoo in America, with an estimated regional

28  economic impact of $72 million, and the Tampa Bay Performing

29  Arts Center, which is one of the top 20 performing arts

30  centers in America on number of tickets sold in 2004 with an

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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SR 2010
    16-944-05




 1  estimated regional economic impact in the region of $93

 2  million, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 4  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 6         That April 14, 2005, is recognized as "Hillsborough

 7  County Day" as the Senate celebrates the "Flavors of

 8  Hillsborough" at the State Capitol.

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