JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAINE'S BANKING INDUSTRY AND THE MAINE BANKERS ASSOCIATION

WHEREAS,  the membership of the Maine Bankers Association has been serving the banking and financial services needs of Maine’s communities and citizens for over 150 years; and

WHEREAS,  the banking industry’s commitment to its communities has been recognized by consistently high evaluations under the federal Community Reinvestment Act; and

WHEREAS,  the members of the Maine Bankers Association are giving back to their communities through a commitment to providing financial literacy programs to Maine’s youth and young adults, including the joint American Bankers Association’s and Maine Bankers Association’s annual Teach Children to Save Day program, which will teach students in elementary schools throughout the State on April 24, 2007 about the importance of saving and how to save; and

WHEREAS,  the banking industry’s members and their employees annually demonstrate their commitment to children and the communities that they serve by donating thousands of volunteer hours and millions of dollars in community contributions; and

WHEREAS,  the commitment to volunteerism and assisting in particular Maine’s youth is represented here today by the 2007 Maine Bankers Association America’s Promise Volunteers:

	Lynne Spooner	Merrill Bank
	Leanna Targett	Camden National Bank
	Melissa Babineau	Maine Bank & Trust
	Steven Flynn	Maine Bank & Trust
	Sarah Martin	Bank of America
	Molly Foley	Acadia Trust, N.A.
	David Doolittle	Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
	Alina Burke	Northeast Bank
	Joline Daigle	Northeast Bank
	Lynn Hamper	Northeast Bank
	Leslie Couper, CFP	Northeast Bank
	Debora Hillier, CIC	Northeast Bank
	Jill Roy	Northeast Bank
	Pender Lazenby	Northeast Bank
	Trish Merrill	Northeast Bank
	Kris Powell	Northeast Bank
	Jim Delamater	Northeast Bank
	Cathy McKelway	Northeast Bank
	Shelley Smith	Northeast Bank
	Christian Bishop, CFP	Northeast Bank
	Kevin Carbin, CFP	Northeast Bank
	Sean Doucette	Northeast Bank
	Liza Crenshaw	Northeast Bank
	Sandy Harmon	Northeast Bank
	Craig Staples	Katahdin Trust

WHEREAS,  the members of the Maine Bankers Association continue to demonstrate their financial support for Maine's high school graduates attending universities and community colleges in Maine individually through their own institutional scholarship programs and together through the Maine Higher Education Assistance Foundation’s scholarship program; and

WHEREAS,  the State’s banking industry is an important supporter of the Maine Bar Association’s IOLTA program, which provides legal services for Maine’s disadvantaged citizens; now, therefore, be it

That We, the Members of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Legislature now assembled in the First Regular Session, on behalf of the people we represent take this occasion to recognize Maine’s banking industry and the Maine Bankers Association for their continued commitment and contributions to their communities and for supporting Maine’s long tradition of service to others and to recognize the industry’s commitment to providing needed financial literacy programs, educational scholarships for Maine’s high school graduates and support for the IOLTA legal services program; and be it further

That suitable copies of this resolution, duly authenticated by the Secretary of State, be transmitted to the Maine Bankers Association and the 2007 America’s Promise Volunteers.