House Bill 9015

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HR 9015

        By Representative Russell






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring Thomas A. Mylander,

  3         Sheriff of Hernando County.

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  5         WHEREAS, born May 12, 1942, in Baltimore, Maryland,

  6  Thomas A. Mylander was educated in the public schools of

  7  Pinellas County before graduating from Embry-Riddle

  8  Aeronautical University, in Daytona Beach, and gained his law

  9  enforcement training from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's

10  Academy, the Pinellas County Police Academy, and the Federal

11  Bureau of Investigation National Academy, and

12         WHEREAS, after proudly serving his nation as a member

13  of the United States Marine Corps, Tom Mylander has devoted

14  his professional life to law enforcement, having been employed

15  in the sheriffs' offices of three Florida counties for a span

16  of 30 years, including his years as Sheriff of Hernando

17  County, a position to which he was first elected in 1984 and

18  in which he has served with distinction for the succeeding

19  four consecutive terms, and

20         WHEREAS, as evidence of the high regard in which he is

21  held in his profession and his community, Tom Mylander has

22  been sought after to serve on and hold offices in a multitude

23  of local, state, and national boards and associations, and has

24  received honors and recognitions too numerous to set forth

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26         WHEREAS, Tom Mylander is an active participant in civic

27  organizations and leagues in his area and lends his support to

28  local law-enforcement-related programs ranging from the

29  Hernando County Sheriff's Office Wee Care Program to the

30  Hernando County Sheriff's Office Citizens' Academy Program,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HR 9015

    709-114B-00






  1         WHEREAS, after diligently serving the citizens of

  2  Hernando County as their sheriff for 16 years, Tom Mylander

  3  has chosen to enter retirement in November 2000, at the

  4  expiration of his fourth term in office, NOW, THEREFORE,

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  6  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  7  Florida:

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  9         That the House of Representatives pauses in its

10  deliberations to extend to Sheriff Thomas A. Mylander its

11  heartfelt gratitude for his faithful service to his community,

12  his state, and his nation, to offer him heartiest

13  congratulations on his forthcoming retirement, and to wish him

14  many years of good health and good fortune.

15         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution

16  be presented to Sheriff Thomas A. Mylander as a tangible token

17  of the sentiments expressed herein.

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