South Carolina S 296: A SENATE RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS PROFOUND SORROW UPON THE DEATH OF TONY STEPHENS AND TO EXTEND THE DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO HIS FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS.

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2025-2026 Bill 296 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 30, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 296

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A senate RESOLUTION

to recognize and honor Yvonda Bean, 
Chief executive officer of COlumbia Housing, and to wish her continued success 
and happiness as she leaves to become the chief executive Officer of the Indianapolis 
Housing Authority.

Whereas, the South Carolina Senate has learned that Yvonda Bean will 
depart from her role as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Columbia Housing 
in order to take up the mantle as the chief executive officer of the 
Indianapolis Housing Agency in Indianapolis, Indiana, on February 17, 2025; and

Whereas, Ms. Bean came to Columbia Housing in August 2019 as the 
chief operating officer and ascended to the CEO position in June 2022; and

Whereas, under her leadership at Columbia Housing, Oak Terrace and 
Oak Park were constructed on the site of the former Gonzales Gardens community, 
and Haven at Palmer Point was constructed at Two Notch and Carter streets in 
Columbia, adding four hundred thirty-five new housing units to the City of 
Columbia and Richland County; and

Whereas, through a unique partnership with Midlands Technical 
College, Columbia Housing now enrolls and graduates residents in degree 
programs and certificate programs at no cost to most of them and at low cost to 
others; and

Whereas, during Ms. Bean's tenure, Columbia Housing helped forty 
citizens to buy homes and become homeowners for the first time; and

Whereas, the South Carolina Senate values the contributions that Yvonda 
Bean has made to Columbia Housing, to the City of Columbia, and to Richland 
County and the impact that her work has had on the lives of so many, and the 
members wish her much success in all her future endeavors. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South 
Carolina Senate, by this resolution, recognize 
and honor Yvonda Bean, chief executive officer of Columbia Housing, and wish 
her continued success and happiness as she leaves to become the chief executive 
officer of the Indianapolis Housing Authority.

Be it further resolved that a copy 
of this resolution be presented to Yvonda Bean.

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