COMMENDATION: EAGLE SCOUT HILLARY E. WILLIAMS

DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE Commendation: Eagle Scout Hillary E. Williams Resolution No. 2025093 The Dutchess County Legislature offers the following and moves its adoption: WHEREAS, Hillary E. Williams is a member of Scout Troop 25, Red Oaks Mill, New York, and her Court of Honor was Sunday, May 25, 2025. She successfully passed her Eagle Board of Review on September 9, 2024, and WHEREAS, Hillary E. Williams has demonstrated a commitment to the highest ideals of Scouting and to her community, earing Merit Badges in Swimming, Citizenship in Society, Citizenship in the World, Environmental Science, Personal Management, First Aid, Emergency Preparedness, Cooking, Family Life, Personal Fitness, Citizenship in the Nation, Communication, Camping, and Citizenship in the Community to obtain the rank of Eagle Scout. Her elective merit badges completed are Mammal Study, Photography, Rifle Shooting, Archery, Sculpture, Shotgun Shooting, Fingerprinting, and Textile, and WHEREAS, Hillary E. Williams has held the leadership positions of Patrol Leader, Senior Patrol Leader, and Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. While attending the National Jamboree in 2023, Hillary served as the Patrol Leader for all the girls who attended from the Greater Hudson Valley Council, and WHEREAS, for Hillary E. Williams' Eagle Scout project, she replaced a foot bridge on the hiking trails between the Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site and the Valkill Historic site. She did this with the help of her friends and family over two weekends in April and May of 2024. The old bridge was 16 feet by 3 feet, and she replaced it with a bridge that is now 24 feet long by 4 feet wide and has side bumpers to help aid mountain bikes, and WHEREAS, Hillary E. Williams is a member of the National Honor Society, Tri-M Music Honor Society, and the Pep Band, and WHEREAS, Hillary E. Williams has been a member of her high school track team for two years. She is a member of the Fishkill United Methodist Church and is part of the youth group there. Hillary has just passed the NYS EMT practical after completing Dutchess Community College's Emergency Medical Technician course and has been accepted as a volunteer member of Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corporation. Hillary signed on with the New York Army National Guard in December of 2023 and attended Army Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri in the summer of 2024 before her senior year of high school, and WHEREAS, Hillary E. Williams currently attends John Jay Senior High School and will be graduating on June 26, 2025. After graduation she will be attending Advanced Individualized Training for the Army at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, where she will become an Army Combat Medic Specialist during an 18-week course. She will be applying to colleges in the fall of 2026 hoping to study medicine or biology, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, that Dutchess County Legislature, on behalf of all the people of Dutchess County, does hereby commend and congratulate Eagle Scout Hillary E. Williams, and, be it further RESOLVED, that the Dutchess County Legislature does hereby extend to Eagle Scout Hillary E. Williams its best wishes in all her future endeavors. STATE OFNEW YORK SS: COUNTY OF DUTCHESS This is to certify that I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Dutchess, have compared the forgoing resolution with the original resolution now on file in the office of said clerk, and which was adopted by said Legislature on the O% day of June 2025, and that the same is a true and correct transcript of said onginal resolution and of the whole thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hercunto set my hand and seal of said Legislature chis Oth day of June 2025 Sigh longer