A Resolution congratulating and commending Gloria Timmer.
WHEREAS, After years of devoted service to the state of Kansas, Gloria Timmer
is leaving her position as Director of the Budget to become Executive Director of
the National Association of State Budget Officers, effective June 1, 1998; and
WHEREAS, Gloria Timmer has earned our respect and appreciation in her serv-
ice as Director of the Budget since July 1991, and demonstrated clearly her broad
range of abilities when she also assumed the responsibilities for Secretary of Admin-
istration from May 1994 to January 1995. She also offered distinguished service as a
Principal Analyst for the Division of the Budget and as a Legislative Fiscal Analyst
for the Legislative Research Department; and
WHEREAS, Gloria Timmer has provided leadership in areas outside the budget
office by her service to the Kansas Information Resource Council and the University
of Kansas School of Social Welfare Policy Advisory Board. She also served on the
Kansas Health Care Commission. She has been a member of the Executive Com-
mittee of the National Association of State Budget Officers since 1992, as Chair of
its Health, Human Services and Justice Committee and is the organization's imme-
diate past President; and
WHEREAS, Gloria Timmer has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hope College in
Holland, Michigan, and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Phillips
University. She has two daughters, Tracy and Jennifer; and
WHEREAS, Gloria Timmer has provided outstanding guidance and leadership as
the state's budget director with unquestioned integrity and unfailing professionalism.
Her early employment experience with the state of Kansas provided the knowledge
and expertise to contribute toward the state's recent years of tremendous fiscal suc-
cess. She leaves the state during a year in which the legislature is able to pass record
setting reductions in taxes while continuing to provide the full support of state op-
erations. Her involvement in activities outside the domain of her office have been of
benefit to the state, and in her new position will benefit the entire nation: Now,
therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas: That we
congratulate and commend Gloria Timmer for her several years of outstanding serv-
ice to the state of Kansas.
I hereby certify that the above Resolution originated in the House, and was
adopted by that body