Senate Resolution No. 1212

BY: Senator MONTGOMERY

COMMENDING Lamb Insurance Services upon the
occasion of its designation for special recognition
by Brooklyn Community Housing and Services on May
15, 2019

WHEREAS, It is the custom of this Legislative Body to recognize that
the quality and character of life in the communities across New York
State are reflective of the concerned and dedicated efforts of those
businesses which would devote themselves to the welfare of the community
and its citizenry; and

WHEREAS, This Legislative Body is justly proud to commend Lamb
Insurance Services upon the occasion of its designation for special
recognition by Brooklyn Community Housing and Services to be celebrated
at its 40th Anniversary "Feels Like Home" Gala on Wednesday, May 15,
2019, at BKLYN Studios in Brooklyn, New York; and

WHEREAS, Founded in 1978, Brooklyn Community Housing and Services
(BCHS) is committed to ending homelessness in Brooklyn and empowering
all the residents of its home community of Fort Greene and the
surrounding neighborhoods through innovative and comprehensive social,
educational and job-training programs that enable residents to achieve
maximum independence; and

WHEREAS, Every year, BCHS provides clean and safe supportive housing
and services to more than 1,000 formerly homeless families and single
adults and helps them to learn how to live independently; and

WHEREAS, BCHS' programs provide short-term, transitional and
permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case
management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training,
substance abuse counselling, recreational activities and other vital
services; and

WHEREAS, Founded in 2008, Lamb Insurance Services is an insurance
broker dedicated exclusively to Human Service organizations; through its
core values: Work Ethic/Caring/Passion/Professional Expertise/Dynamic,
the firm strives to be experts in the field "an inch wide and a mile
deep"; and

WHEREAS, Lamb Insurance Services grows organically by designing an
insurance and loss control program that is designed for each client;
since its inception, the firm has boasted a client retention rate of
92%; and

WHEREAS, Lamb Insurance Services is a Top 125 Insurance Broker in
the United States, and the largest in the country dedicated exclusively
to non-profit organizations; it was named one of Inc. magazine's 5000
Fastest Growing Companies, and for the last two years, was listed as one
of Crain's 100 Best Places to Work in New York City; and

WHEREAS, Since 2014, Lamb Insurance Services has been a proud
partner of BCHS helping it navigate a complicated insurance environment

for non-profit organizations, significantly improve its coverage and
expand benefits for its employees, while helping the agency achieve
significant savings; and

WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body that those
businesses which enhance the well-being and vitality of their community
and have shown a long and sustained commitment to excellence certainly
have earned the recognition and applause of all the citizens of this
great Empire State; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
commend Lamb Insurance Services upon the occasion of its designation for
special recognition by Brooklyn Community Housing and Services on May
15, 2019; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to Lamb Insurance Services.