Full Text of SR0680 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The General Assembly and the Governor have failed | 3 | | to enact a State budget for the last 23 months; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, The State adds approximately 11 million dollars in | 5 | | debt every day that a budget is not signed into law; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The State has not met its contractual obligations | 7 | | to the numerous vendors that render services; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, It is costing taxpayers approximately 44 thousand | 9 | | dollars every day we convene for special session; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, The State, its local municipalities, and their | 11 | | institutions continue to suffer from continual downgrades from | 12 | | all
of the major credit rating agencies - nearing junk status; | 13 | | and | 14 | | WHEREAS, The lack of a State budget has caused homeless | 15 | | shelters to close on Christmas Eve, youth violence prevention
| 16 | | centers to go out of business, domestic abuse programs to be | 17 | | defunded, and a myriad of other essential human services
needs | 18 | | have gone unfunded; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, The General Assembly and the Governor have not met |
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| 1 | | their duty to fully fund the future of our State - the
| 2 | | education of the children; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Teacher strikes, school closings, instructional | 4 | | time decreases, and faculty layoffs loom over school districts
| 5 | | and institutions of higher learning across the State; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Thousands of students, like generations of | 7 | | Illinois' students before them, continue to count on the | 8 | | funding of
the Monetary Assistance Program to create promising | 9 | | futures for themselves and equal access to education; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Without the guarantee of those funds in-state | 11 | | students are seeking educational advancement outside of | 12 | | Illinois
and over 16,000 thousand students migrated to | 13 | | out-of-state universities; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, As economic development and opportunity in the | 15 | | State have become less available particularly to ethnic and
| 16 | | racial minorities - Illinois has seen a historic spike in the | 17 | | murder rate; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, For the 70th month in a row, Illinois has had the | 19 | | highest unemployment rate among African Americans
in the | 20 | | nation, nearing 15%; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Forty-four percent of African American young men | 2 | | between the ages of 20-24 in Illinois are unemployed and
out of | 3 | | school; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Things are not getting better for middle class and | 5 | | poor citizens of our State during this historic budget
impasse - | 6 | | people are hurting; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 8 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the Governor to | 9 | | wholeheartedly commit to enacting a State budget; and be it | 10 | | further | 11 | | RESOLVED, That the Governor is urged to call a meeting with | 12 | | legislative leaders to negotiate a budget; and be it further | 13 | | RESOLVED, That the Governor is urged to dedicate all of his | 14 | | resources to work toward a solution to the budget impasse; and | 15 | | be it
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| 16 | | RESOLVED, That the Governor and legislative leaders are | 17 | | urged to meet daily until a budget is enacted.
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