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MY RESUME Deena Horst 920 South Ninth Salina, KS 67401 785-827-8540 GETTING TO KNOW DEENA Raised on a Kansas Family Farm Married to Gordon Children * Randall * Rebecca Six Grandchildren  [three attend Salina public schools] Resident of Salina for 38 years Community Service Organizations * United States Jaycee Women President of Salina Jaycee Women [aka Jaycee Jaynes] President of Kansas Jaycee Women President of United States Jaycee Women + Recognized as one of Five Outstanding State Presidents Recognized as US Jaycee Women National Officer of the Year Epsilon Sigma Alpha President of local chapter Zone 7 Chairwoman Kansas State Council Committee Chairwoman  +  Recognized as Chapter and Zone Outstanding Sister Member of Sunrise Presbyterian Church Served as Deacon served as a Church School Teacher Member of Mariners Served as Skipper and other offices GETTING TO KNOW DEENA PROFESSIONALLY: Taught Second and Fourth Grades at Peabody Elementary School Teaches Art at South Middle School [also taught Art at Roosevelt-Lincoln; Middle School] Serves as Department Chairman Recognized as Salina Master Teacher and as one of six Kansas Master Teachers Professional Organizations: Salina-National Education Association Served as President and Secretary Served as Chairman of several committees Phi Delta Kappa Served as President of local chapter Kansas National Art Education Association Serve as Legislative Liaison Delta Kappa Gamma Serves as Legislative Liaison Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development GETTING TO KNOW DEENA LEGISLATIVELY: Standing Committee Assignments: Education Governmental Organization and Elections Health and Human Services Higher Education e-Government Joint House and Senate Committee Assignments: Legislative Education Planning Arts and Cultural Resources Served on the following Special and Interim Committees: Education Finance Property Taxation Higher Education Kansas Commemorative Coin Commission  [Chairman] Author of the following bills that have been enacted into law: School Safety and Security Act (1995) Exemption of junior high and senior high boarding schools from adult-to-child ratios intended for care of small children (1998) Supported legislation signed by the Governor that has Reduced taxes [car, property, sales, and income] Worked to provide more equitable funding for middle and larger school districts such as Salina Including numerous other bills.. Constituent work: Works during the session and during the interim to keep Constituents informed during the session by sending regular newsletters sent to someone living in every neighborhood in the 69th District and attempts to make certain that every registered voter received at least one newsletter during each of her two-year terms. Works to place agencies in contact with Constituents in order to provide to them answers and possible solutions to the problems a Constituent has encountered. Selected to represent Kansas: On the Health and Human Services Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council  [1995 – 96] One of three Kansas legislators selected to attend the Bowhay Institute of Legislative Leadership Development in 1996. On the Human Services Committee for the National Council of State Legislators [1997-98] On the Midwest Legislative States' Bowhay Institute of Legislative Leadership Development Selection Committee   [1999-2000] On the Communications Committee for the National Council of State Legislators [2001-2002] On the Suggested State Legislation Committee for Council of State Governments [Current] On the Access To Higher Education Task Force for Women in Government [Current]

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PAID FOR BY DEENA HORST FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE, DOUGLAS MULL, TREASURER.

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