Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SR 2844
       
       
       
       By Senator Dockery
       
       
       
       
       15-04421-10                                           20102844__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing the outstanding leadership of
    3         Mike Bullock, director of the Florida Park Service,
    4         and wishing him all the best on the occasion of his
    5         retirement.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock will retire in 2010 as a 38-year
    8  veteran of Florida’s award-winning state park system, and
    9         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock has served as director of the
   10  Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Recreation
   11  and Parks, also known as the Florida Park Service, since July
   12  2003, and previously served as the assistant director from 1996
   13  to 2003, and
   14         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock has diligently supported the mission
   15  of the Florida Park Service to provide resource-based recreation
   16  while preserving, interpreting, and restoring natural and
   17  cultural resources, and
   18         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock has helped the Florida Park Service
   19  achieve great recognition during his tenure, including the
   20  distinction of being the first and only two-time national Gold
   21  Medal winner for having the nation’s best park system, an honor
   22  awarded by the National Recreation and Park Association, and
   23         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock has demonstrated outstanding
   24  dedication to the residents of and visitors to Florida by
   25  maintaining Florida’s 160 state parks, as well as exhibiting a
   26  consistent commitment to provide a secure and positive working
   27  environment for the more than 1,000 Florida Park Service staff
   28  members and more than 6,000 volunteers, and
   29         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock serves as an advocate for nature
   30  based recreation in Florida State Parks by participating in the
   31  National Recreation and Park Association, the Florida Recreation
   32  and Park Association, the National Association of State Park
   33  Directors, the National Association of State Outdoor Recreation
   34  Liaison Officers, and VISIT FLORIDA, as well as the Friends of
   35  Florida State Parks, Inc., and the Florida Park Service Alumni
   36  Association, and
   37         WHEREAS, Mike Bullock was honored in 2008 by his alma
   38  mater, the University of Florida, as a “Distinguished Alumnus”
   39  of the university’s Department of Landscape Architecture, and
   40         WHEREAS, under Mike Bullock’s leadership, Florida’s state
   41  parks contributed nearly $5 billion to local economies
   42  throughout the state, served nearly 128 million visitors, and
   43  earned more than $273 million in revenue, NOW, THEREFORE,
   44  
   45  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   46  
   47         That the members of the Senate recognize the outstanding
   48  achievements of Mike Bullock during his tenure as director of
   49  the Florida Park Service and express appreciation on the part of
   50  all Floridians for his leadership and vision.
   51         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   52  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Mike Bullock as
   53  a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida Senate.