SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1868
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 service 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 Administration 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 Committee of the National Asso-
ciation of State Budget Officers since 1992, as Chair of its Health, Human Services and
Justice Committee and is the organization's immediate past President; and

    WHEREAS, Gloria Timmer has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hope College in Hol-
land, 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 success. 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 operations. 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 Senate of the State of Kansas: That we congratulate and commend
Gloria Timmer for her several years of outstanding service to the state of Kansas; and

    Be it further resolved: That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to provide an
enrolled copy of this resolution to Gloria Timmer, Director of the Budget, First Floor,
Capitol Building, Topeka, Kansas 66612-2210.

Senate Resolution No. 1868 was sponsored by Senators Bond and Hensley.

I hereby certify that the above Resolution originated in the Senate, and was adopted
by that body

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President of the Senate. 
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Secretary of the Senate.