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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE HONORABLE MAUREEN COTTER FOR RECEIVING THE

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS

ASSOCIATION

     

     Introduced By: Senators Sosnowski, Algiere, and Hodgson

     Date Introduced: June 05, 2014

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

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     WHEREAS, The Honorable Maureen Cotter, Chairwoman of the South Kingstown

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School Committee, recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the National School

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Boards Association (NSBA), for her "extraordinary commitment to public education"; and

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     WHEREAS, The Honorable Maureen Cotter has been serving the citizens of South

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Kingstown with integrity, sincerity, and tireless devotion for the past sixteen years as a member

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of the South Kingstown School Committee, and for four years as its Chairwoman. Her steadfast

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passion for ensuring that all children in South Kingstown receive an exemplary education, and

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her vigorous advocacy on their behalf, is second to none. She has made contributions to public

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education locally in South Kingstown and statewide in Rhode Island; and

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     WHEREAS, Chairwoman Cotter has been a National School Boards Association board

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member since 2007. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island Association of School Committees

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(RIASC) Leadership Academy and has amassed more than one hundred hours of professional

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development through RIASC's Master Academy. She has earned an Ed.D in Education

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Leadership and also serves as a professional governance consultant; now, therefore be it

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     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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hereby congratulates the Honorable Maureen Cotter for receiving the Distinguished Service

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Award from the National School Boards Association. We further thank her for all she has done to

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ensure that the school children of South Kingstown receive the very best public education

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possible; and be it further

 

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     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

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transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Maureen Cotter, Chairwoman,

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South Kingstown School Committee.

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