HR 9051

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution recognizing April 10, 2008, as "Hillsborough
3	County Day."
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5	WHEREAS, Hillsborough County was organized as a county in
6	1834 and is now comprised of some 1,050 square miles with a
7	population exceeding 1 million people, and
8	WHEREAS, Hillsborough County is home to three
9	municipalities: Plant City, chartered in 1885; Tampa, chartered
10	in 1887; and Temple Terrace, chartered in 1925, and
11	WHEREAS, Hillsborough County is a multicultural, diverse
12	community, a microcosm of the state of Florida, with a breadth
13	of lifestyles, including a strong urban core, two smaller
14	municipalities with Main Street ambience, a flourishing
15	suburbia, community living for the active elderly, and rural
16	areas for those who choose pastoral or agrarian lifestyles, and
17	WHEREAS, Hillsborough County is the western anchor of the
18	23-county Florida High Tech Corridor and is the largest of the 8
19	member counties that comprise the Bay Area Legislative
20	Delegation, and
21	WHEERAS, Hillsborough County is at the epicenter of
22	business and commerce of a region with excellent, ever-improving
23	and expanding transportation systems to move people and goods
24	via Tampa International Airport, the Port of Tampa, and the
25	interconnecting interstate systems, and
26	WHEREAS, Hillsborough County offers an almost unlimited
27	menu of opportunities ranging from state of the art health care
28	and seamless K-12 through state university education to cultural
29	events, historic districts, beaches, parks, and prestigious
30	sporting events, NOW, THEREFORE,
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32	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
33	Florida:
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35	That April 10, 2008, is recognized as "Hillsborough County
36	Day" as the House of Representatives celebrates the 5th
37	Anniversary of "Flavors of Hillsborough" at the State Capitol.

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