LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION honoring the Indochina Sino-American Community
Center upon the occasion of its 18th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet on
January 31, 2009

WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Assembled Body to commend organizations
which faithfully devote their resources and purposeful energies to
improving the quality and dignity of life in the communities they serve
and to preserving their cultural heritage; and
WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern and fully in accord with its long-
standing traditions, it is the intent of this Assembled Body to honor
the Indochina Sino-American Community Center upon the occasion of its
18th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet on Saturday, January 31, 2009,
joyfully welcoming the year 4707, the Year of the Ox; and
WHEREAS, Founded in 1990, the Indochina Sino-American Community Center
has been providing a wide range of programs and social services for
adult, senior citizen and teenage immigrants and refugees from Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China and other parts of
Southeast Asia residing in the New York metropolitan area, always with a
welcoming spirit; and
WHEREAS, Numerous referral, translation, employment, immigration,
counseling and healthcare services are available as are senior services
and ESOL, citizenship preparation, and many other classes; the Indochina
Sino-American Community Center also works with Pace University to
provide computer classes to the community and with St. Joseph's College
to offer accounting classes, all in keeping with its commitment to
expanding and improving the services it offers; and
WHEREAS, In addition, the Indochina Sino-American Community Center
frequently organizes field trips, healthcare seminars, informational and
educational workshops for the community, and many cultural, recreation-
al, and inter-generational activities and programs; and
WHEREAS, In so effectively serving the community, the Indochina Sino-
American Community Center has established itself as a preeminent organ-
ization dedicated to meeting the needs of those it serves and justly
merits the recognition and appreciation of the people of the City and
State of New York; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
honor the Indochina Sino-American Community Center upon the occasion of
its 18th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet on January 31, 2009, commending
the center for its purposeful endeavors and noting the tradition of
caring service it has established; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to the Indochina Sino-American Community Center, 170 Forsyth
Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10002.