City Council December 12, 2012
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The pejorative term "bureaucracy" is often applied to large organizational entities in general and to state government in particular; and
WHEREAS, Too seldom do we appreciate that the operational paralysis seemingly threatened by these ponderous structures is avoided only through the ingenuity and diligence of the men and women who comprise these structures; and
WHEREAS, As an organization pledged to service rather than profit, to providing for the commonweal, state government is particularly dependent upon the commitment and dedication of those who execute its functions; and
WHEREAS, The very viability of the City of Chicago, the State of Illinois, the United States of America, indeed, of each and every governmental and social entity throughout the world is predicated upon the application of such elemental values as commitment, loyalty and service by its members; and
WHEREAS, From pundit to peon, many are those who lament the increasingly ephemeral nature of those much discussed, often abused and too seldom realized values; and
WHEREAS, Those who epitomize such values have been relatively few in number though great in their impact upon society; and
WHEREAS, We in the State of Illinois have for twenty years reaped the benefits sowed by Hollis C. Polacek, an individual who embodies commitment, loyalty and service; and
WHEREAS, Through her unstinting devotion to and unerringly successful disposition of her duties, Mrs. Polacek personifies the term "public servant"; and
WHEREAS, After committing the earlier years of her career to the clothier Hartmarx, former "big-eight" accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand, law firms Vedder Price as well as Skadden Arps, and Chicago's convention industry, Mrs. Polacek shifted her focus to the public sector, devoting two decades of service to the Illinois Department of Revenue and the Illinois Department of Employment Security; and
WHEREAS, Throughout her career, Hollis C....
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