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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING AND THANKING THE HONORABLE MARTHA BALL FOR HER 50 YEARS

OF SERVICE TO THE TOWN OF NEW SHOREHAM

     Introduced By: Senators DiMario, Sosnowski, Ciccone, Britto, LaMountain, Thompson,
Lauria, Felag, Appollonio, and Mack

     Date Introduced: January 21, 2025

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, Martha Ball has been involved in the governance of the Town of New

Shoreham for over 50 years, covering a broad range of roles starting in the early 1980s; and

     WHEREAS, Councilwoman Ball served on the Town Council for 21 years in total during

two major periods from 1991 to 2004 and 2016 to 2024, and as First Warden from 2001 to 2004;

and

     WHEREAS, She started her public service career in the Finance Department in 1978 and

served as Town Treasurer from 1981 to 1990; and

     WHEREAS, Martha Ball also served on the Zoning Board from 1980 to 1992 and was

Chair until 1991; and

     WHEREAS, She also was the clerk and deeply engaged in the sewer plant construction

and operations from 1976 to 2000; and

     WHEREAS, Her public service also extends to numerous other positions including her

service on the Historic District Commission; the Conservation Committee; the Hodge Acquisition

Team; Island Light & Power; the Tourism Council; the Washington County Regional Planning

Council; the Water District; the Ball O’Brien Planning & Management Committee; the 250th

Anniversary Committee; the Commission on Motor Vehicles for Hire; the Density Discussion

Panel; the Fire/Police Station Trustees; the Housing Board; the Planning Board as a Town

Council Representative; and as an Assistant Moderator; and

     WHEREAS, Martha’s contribution has not only been her prodigious body of work, but

also her counsel and her knowledge of Island history has been and remains irreplaceable, and she

will surely be called upon by future Town Councils for her extraordinary breadth of experience

and recollection, now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby sincerely thanks

Martha Ball for her long-term participation, perspective and true commitment to the well-being of

Block Island and the Town of New Shoreham; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Martha Ball.

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