[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 22]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 30980-30981]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     TRIBUTE TO HANK STOVALL, BROOMFIELD COUNTY AND CITY COUNCILMAN

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                            HON. MARK UDALL

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 21, 2003

  Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the 
outstanding work of Hank Stovall. Hank served for 24 years on the 
Council for the City and County of Broomfield as a member for Ward 4 
and as Mayor Pro Tempore for a number of years.
  Along with his colleagues on the city council, Hank helped make 
Broomfield the diverse and vibrant community that it has become today. 
He has also helped preserve the high quality of life that citizen in 
this community at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains have come to 
expect and appreciate.
  The citizens of Broomfield have benefited greatly from Hank's 
dedicated leadership. He helped secure a quality transportation system 
in the Broomfield region, including support for the Northwest Parkway, 
an important highway that will connect this community with the Denver 
International Airport and other important access roads in the region. 
This Parkway will also include an open space buffer that will add to 
the quality of the Broomfield neighborhoods as well as increase 
transportation efficiency and access. He also worked with coalition to 
improve the US 36 highway corridor and the Broomfield intersections to 
this important highway corridor.
  He also has helped ensure that Broomfield's transition from a city to 
a county was smooth, effective and successful. He and his colleagues 
recognized the importance of establishing Broomfield as a city and 
county so as to better serve its citizens. Before the conversion to a 
county, residents were required to travel to four distant county 
offices as the city was spread across four separate counties. By making 
Broomfield a county, the citizens of this community can now enjoy the 
efficiencies that come with that designation as well as further develop 
the sense of community that he and others have sought to accomplish.
  Hank has been involved in many regional and State governmental 
committees, authorities, task forces and coalitions. All of this work 
was designed to promote effective governmental function and quality 
services to citizens and communities in the Broomfield region.
  But perhaps his most lasting legacy will be his leadership on issues 
related to Rocky Flats, the former U.S. Department of Energy nuclear 
weapons production facility just south of the city and county. He 
brought his knowledge of nuclear issues to the table as strategies and 
approaches for cleaning up this facility were being discussed and 
developed. He insisted that the cleanup be thorough, cost effective and 
protective of the health, safety and environment of the surrounding 
communities. He was also a strong proponent of preserving the open 
space resources at this site and was an early advocate of designating 
the site as a national wildlife refuge. His support, as well as the 
support of other leaders surrounding the site, helped make this a 
reality.
  He remained very concerned with public health and safety issues 
related to this site

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and its cleanup, closure and conversion to a national wildlife refuge. 
He was especially concerned about the health and safety of the workers 
at the site and pushed for instituting a high level of safety in all 
facets of the work done there.
  Hank leaves the Broomfield County and City Council with a long and 
distinguished record of accomplishment and service. The citizens of 
Broomfield enjoy a quality of life, a strong sense of community and a 
solid reputation for service and leadership on regional issues because 
of Hank's involvement and public service work. I ask my colleagues to 
join me in wishing Hank every success in his future endeavors and hope 
that he remains active in community and regional issues for years to 
come.

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