Bill Text: TX HR2238 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating John Goff on his receipt of the 2023 Golden Deeds Award from the Exchange Club of Fort Worth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-30 - Reported enrolled [HR2238 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2238-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 2238 | ||
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| WHEREAS, John Goff has been awarded the 2023 Golden Deeds | ||
| Award by the Exchange Club of Fort Worth; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The top honor conferred by the organization, this | ||
| accolade recognizes the individual deemed the most outstanding | ||
| citizen of the year; and | ||
| WHEREAS, John Goff is the chair and a cofounder of Crescent | ||
| Real Estate Equities of Fort Worth, one of the premier real estate | ||
| companies in North Texas; a visionary developer and bold investor, | ||
| he has been involved in numerous major commercial projects, | ||
| including the Crescent Fort Worth Hotel and Crescent Offices, set | ||
| to open later in 2023 in the Cultural District; he also spearheaded | ||
| the creation of the Klyde Warren Park, an acclaimed urban | ||
| greenspace built over a depressed freeway in downtown Dallas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Crescent Real Estate has sought to make a positive | ||
| difference in the communities where it operates; it launched a | ||
| program to adopt schools serving at-risk students, and it created a | ||
| scholarship program for non-officer members of the company; in | ||
| 2010, the Goff Family Foundation established the B Sharp Youth | ||
| Music Program, which offers elementary students in the Fort Worth | ||
| Independent School District intensive after-school music | ||
| instruction, academic tutoring, and life skills training; and | ||
| WHEREAS, During the pandemic, then-mayor Betsy Price asked | ||
| Mr. Goff to assist local businesses as co-chair of the committee | ||
| that became Fort Worth Now; he made a personal, $100,000 donation to | ||
| the organization, which facilitated mask distribution, vaccine | ||
| delivery, and financial assistance, and his example drew other | ||
| benefactors; the group was also charged with making the city more | ||
| resilient, which led him to conclude that it needed a Tier 1 | ||
| research university; working with city and business officials, as | ||
| well as Texas A&M University Law School dean Bobby Ahdieh and | ||
| A&M System chancellor John Sharp, Mr. Goff was instrumental in the | ||
| university's commitment to build the $350 million Texas A&M-Fort | ||
| Worth campus; appointed chair of the successor to Fort Worth Now, | ||
| the Fort Worth-Tarrant County Innovation Partnership, he continues | ||
| to share his time and expertise to promote the city's vibrancy and | ||
| prosperity; and | ||
| WHEREAS, John Goff has made contributions of lasting value to | ||
| Fort Worth through his dedicated civic leadership, and he is indeed | ||
| deserving of this prestigious accolade; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby congratulate John Goff on his receipt of the | ||
| 2023 Golden Deeds Award from the Exchange Club of Fort Worth and | ||
| extend to him sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Mr. Goff as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
| House of Representatives. | ||
| Geren | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 2238 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 29, 2023, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
