WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Technicians provide services based on human need, with respect for human dignity, unrestricted by consideration of nationality, race, creed, color, or status, and

WHEREAS, Each year the State Bureau of Emergency Medical Services recognizes Florida’s top professionals in the EMS field, and

WHEREAS, the EMS Educator of the Year award honors an EMS instructor or course coordinator who has made a positive contribution to EMS education in Florida, and

WHEREAS, Leon County’s own Major Malcolm "Mac" Kemp has been named Florida’s EMS Educator of the Year for 2005.

NOW, THEREFORE, be it RESOLVED by the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA, that Tuesday, September 13, 2005 is hereby designated as

in Leon County, Florida. We express our gratitude to Major Kemp for his ability to save lives vicariously, by sharing the techniques which can preserve human life in the most difficult of circumstances. We therefore commend Major Kemp for his dedication to service and his commitment to excellence as an EMS Educator, and for all his accomplishments in the Emergency Medical Services field.

DATED this 13^th day of September, A.D. 2005