Bill Text: PA HR419 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Honoring PRWT Services, Inc., on its selection as Black Entertainment's 2009 Industrial/Service Company of the Year for its continued growth and success.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-07-20 - INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35 [HR419 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR419-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2476
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 419 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BROWN, BEYER, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, DALEY, DiGIROLAMO, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HENNESSEY, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, MURT, MYERS, D. O'BRIEN, PAYTON, ROEBUCK, SCAVELLO, SHAPIRO, SIPTROTH AND YOUNGBLOOD, JULY 20, 2009
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, JULY 20, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Honoring PRWT Services, Inc., on its selection as Black
Entertainment's 2009 Industrial/Service Company of the Year
for its continued growth and success.
WHEREAS, PRWT Services, Inc., is one of the nation's fastest
growing minority enterprises; and
WHEREAS, For eight consecutive years, PRWT Services, Inc.,
has been named one of Black Entertainment's Top 100
Industrial/Service Companies in America; and
WHEREAS, While growing in a manner that encompasses
entrepreneurial diversity, socially responsible growth and
superior quality products and service, PRWT Services, Inc., has
remained true to its core values; and
WHEREAS, PRWT Services, Inc., has managed to develop from a
single account to one of the largest minority firms in this
nation; and
WHEREAS, With 2008 sales totaling $165 million, PRWT
Services, Inc., employs 1,300 in ten states and Washington,
D.C., and provides services in operations support, technical
services, software products and partnership management; and
WHEREAS, In 2008, PRWT Services, Inc., transformed adversity
into opportunity and forged an agreement with Merck to take over
the drug company's Riverside plant and created a major new
subsidiary, Cherokee Pharmaceuticals LLC, becoming the first
minority-owned manufacturer of pharmaceutical products in the
United States and preserving nearly 400 jobs in the process; and
WHEREAS, With the recent unification with KBL Healthcare
Acquisition Corp. III, PRWT Services, Inc., is poised to make
the transition to one of the major stock exchanges as a publicly
traded company; and
WHEREAS, Willie F. Johnson founded PRWT Services, Inc., in
1988 and has been its chairman since its inception; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Johnson was honored by Ernst & Young in June
2009, when it announced that he was the recipient of the
Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Business Services in the
Greater Philadelphia Region; and
WHEREAS, Prior to founding PRWT Services, Inc., Mr. Johnson
was the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Systems,
Inc., a cable/line construction company; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Johnson is a board member of the Cheyney
University Foundation, Girard College, the African-American
Chamber of Commerce and his alma mater, Allen University; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Johnson previously served as the commissioner of
the Office of Social Services for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, as well as the executive director of the Office of
Employment and Training under the Office of the Mayor for the
City of Philadelphia; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize Willie
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F. Johnson for his extensive community involvement, his
extraordinary business acumen and his commitment to academia, as
well as the creation of numerous economic opportunities for his
fellow citizens; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives pay homage to
PRWT Services, Inc., on its remarkable 20-year evolution from a
single account holder in 1988 to being cited as Black
Entertainment's 2009 Industrial/Service Company of the Year.
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