Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required.
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Commending, honoring and expressing appreciation to Mark Habich for his 36 years of service to the City of Madison in the Planning, Building Inspection, and Information Technology Departments.
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WHEREAS, Mark Habich is retiring on January 7, 2011 after 36 years of dedicated service to the City of Madison; and
WHEREAS, Mark began work in October, 1974 as a Planning Tech in the Planning Department, and progressed to Systems Improvement Analyst in the Building Inspection Unit, and now retiring as an MIS 3 in the Information Technology department; and
WHEREAS, during his career, Mark was a key player in many foundational improvements to City operations over the years, beginning with being a key member of the "Shared Data" committee that met in the mid 1970's to institute processes and standards for sharing of data across departmental lines, leading to a single mainframe-based database that was utilized by nearly a dozen city agencies; and
WHEREAS, in the mid-1990's Mark was a key person for Building Inspection's move from a dumb terminal, batch input, mainframe-based system to a PC client-server online input based system known as ACES; and
WHEREAS, in his final years with the City Mark was again a key individual into the development of the ELAM project giving us the Accela software (ACES to Accela); and
WHEREAS, along the way Mark's good natured, easy going manner served him and his customers well during those transitions, allowing Mark to hit a lot of strikes during his career with very few gutter balls, which outside of work landed him in the Madison Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 2003;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and Common Council express their appreciation for the dedication and service of Mark Habich for 36 plus years; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor and Common Council wish him a strikingly productive and well deserved retirement.