{"id":16216,"date":"2017-07-26T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=16216"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:20:25","slug":"governor-hogan-honors-department-of-natural-resources-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/07\/26\/governor-hogan-honors-department-of-natural-resources-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hogan Honors Department of Natural Resources Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland Forester Brian Stupak Cited for Commitment to Citizens and Customer Service<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Maryland<\/a>Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0employee Brian Stupak was honored by the Hogan Administration today with the Customer Service Heroes Award for July. Stupak, a project manager with the\u00a0Maryland Forest Service<\/a>, was presented a citation by Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford before the July 26 Board of Public Works meeting.<\/p>\n

Stupak was nominated by the Department of Natural Resources and selected by Governor Larry Hogan.<\/p>\n

“I am pleased to present Brian Stupak with the Customer Service Heroes Award and congratulate him on this well-deserved recognition,” Governor Hogan said. “Our administration, along with the natural resources community, is grateful for his commitment to customer service in helping to manage Maryland’s forest programs.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>Stupak supervises a three county project area\u00a0and is the primary forester for Calvert and Prince George\u2019s counties. He provides and implements forest programs in these counties, including assisting landowners with forest management, coordinating tree planting activities, managing state forest lands and other duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a 19-year career with the department Brian has gone above and beyond to solve problems for our customers in a friendly, timely, and truthful manner,\u201d Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton said. \u201cI congratulate him and thank him for his commitment to the residents of Maryland. He is a great example of a dedicated and professional state employee and testament to the great work of the Maryland Forest Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One example of Stupak\u2019s commitment to customer service was his work with the Town of University Park in 2016 and 2017. After a timber harvest was completed in a neighboring area, University Park officials complained about damage to a nearby stream, which feeds into the Anacostia River. Although his part of the work was technically finished, Stupak committed himself to investigating the cause of the issue and worked closely with Mayor Len Carey and Prince George’s County to determine that the damage was most likely caused by runoff from a nearby school, not the harvest. Through Stupak’s persistence and tireless commitment to customer service and willingness to collaborate\u00a0with inter-agency partners, the issue was dealt with in an accurate and timely manner.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to have been selected for this statewide recognition,\u201d Stupak said. \u201cCustomer service is a vital part of my job, and I strive to provide the best service to the citizens of Maryland each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Customer Service Heroes Award was created by Governor Larry Hogan in 2016 to recognize individuals who have demonstrated and exceeded the expectations set within the Customer Service Promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maryland Forester Brian Stupak Cited for Commitment to Citizens and Customer Service Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0employee Brian Stupak was honored by the Hogan Administration today with the Customer Service Heroes Award for July. Stupak, a project manager with the\u00a0Maryland Forest Service, was presented a citation by Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford before the July 26  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965,23],"tags":[3545,2971,2955,3016,3544,3186,3543,2952,3110,3546],"class_list":["post-16216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","category-land","tag-anacostia-river","tag-anne-arundel-county","tag-board-of-public-works","tag-boyd-rutherford","tag-brian-stupak","tag-calvert-county","tag-customer-service-heroes-award","tag-larry-hogan","tag-prince-georges-county","tag-town-of-university-park"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16216"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16279,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions\/16279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}