Full Text of SR0507 97th General Assembly
SR0507 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Neighborhood Recovery Initiative is a program | 3 | | under the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In October 2010, the Governor launched the | 5 | | Neighborhood Recovery Initiative; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, The Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, the | 7 | | Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, or both have received | 8 | | at least $94 million in State funding from the General Revenue | 9 | | Fund in FY11 and at least $12.5 million in State funding from | 10 | | the General Revenue Fund so far in FY12; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, In administering that initiative, the Authority | 12 | | is to work closely with its local government officials; | 13 | | therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 15 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Auditor General is | 16 | | directed to conduct a performance audit of the State moneys | 17 | | provided by or through the Illinois Violence Prevention | 18 | | Authority to the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative under | 19 | | contracts or grant agreements in Fiscal Year 2011 and in Fiscal | 20 | | Year 2012; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That this performance audit include, but not be | 2 | | limited to, the following determinations: | 3 | | (1) the purposes for which State moneys were provided | 4 | | to the Authority for the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative; | 5 | | (2) the relationship between the Safety Net Works | 6 | | program and the Initiative; | 7 | | (3) the nature and extent of monitoring by the Illinois | 8 | | Violence Prevention Authority of how the Initiative used | 9 | | the State-provided moneys and whether certain residential | 10 | | communities of similar crime rates were excluded; | 11 | | (4) the actual use of State moneys by the Authority, | 12 | | including the identity of any sub-recipients and the | 13 | | amounts and purposes for employment; | 14 | | (5) the number of positions paid through the Initiative | 15 | | by organizational unit, job title, function, and salary and | 16 | | whether employees completed and filled out appropriate | 17 | | timesheets; | 18 | | (6) the number of positions supervised or managed by | 19 | | each management position and whether any of those employees | 20 | | are supervised or managed by more than one management | 21 | | position; | 22 | | (7) whether, through a review of available | 23 | | documentation, the Initiative has met or is meeting the | 24 | | purposes for which the State moneys were provided, with | 25 | | specific information concerning the Initiative staffing | 26 | | levels, hiring procedures, and its compensation of |
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| 1 | | employees; and | 2 | | (8) whether the Initiative is in compliance with the | 3 | | applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and grant | 4 | | agreements pertaining to the Initiative's receipt of State | 5 | | moneys; and be it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority | 7 | | and any other State agency or other entity or person that may | 8 | | have information relevant to this audit cooperate fully and | 9 | | promptly with the Auditor General's Office in its audit; and be | 10 | | it further | 11 | | RESOLVED, That the Auditor General commence this audit as | 12 | | soon as practical and report his findings and recommendations | 13 | | upon completion in accordance with the provisions of Section | 14 | | 3-14 of the Illinois State Auditing Act; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to the Auditor General.
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