Full Text of HR0279 96th General Assembly
HR0279 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate John Perry, | 4 |
| Village Administrator for the Village of Woodridge, on his | 5 |
| retirement; and
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| WHEREAS, John Perry graduated from the University of | 7 |
| Chicago in 1970 with a B.A.; he received his M.P.A. from | 8 |
| Syracuse University in 1972; when he began his professional | 9 |
| management career in 1972, John Perry saw his role as one of a | 10 |
| "community builder" willingly contributing as a member of the | 11 |
| management team to the progress of his first employer, Park | 12 |
| Forest; he was promoted four times during his seventeen years | 13 |
| in Park Forest, advancing from Assistant to the Village Manager | 14 |
| to Village Manager; and
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| WHEREAS, He helped form, and served as a Charter Member of, | 16 |
| the Illinois Public Employer Labor Relations Association for | 17 |
| six years; he also served as chairman of the Intergovernmental | 18 |
| Risk management Agency; during that time Park Forest was named | 19 |
| an All-American City; John Perry pioneered municipal | 20 |
| involvement in supporting diverse communities long before it | 21 |
| became fashionable; he served as the first Chair of the Housing | 22 |
| Coalition of the South Suburbs; and in 1983, his efforts to | 23 |
| defend the municipal right to achieve a diverse community led |
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| to a landmark Supreme Court case that established support for | 2 |
| these community initiatives, especially marketing, to achieve | 3 |
| successful community diversity; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1989, John moved on to become Village | 5 |
| Administrator of Woodridge; one of Mr. Perry's main goals with | 6 |
| the Village of Woodridge was to reduce the tax burden on | 7 |
| Village taxpayers; he implemented a strategy of prioritizing | 8 |
| expenses and expanding the tax base, resulting in twenty-three | 9 |
| years of declining municipal property tax rates; Mr. Perry also | 10 |
| focused on promoting high quality balanced development; and
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| WHEREAS, John Perry has guided three significant retail | 12 |
| developments and seven new business parks which together | 13 |
| account for more than twenty-five percent of municipal property | 14 |
| and sales tax revenues; he used his knowledge and experience in | 15 |
| diversity to work with the intergovernmental and citizen | 16 |
| Quality Community Task Force appointed by Woodridge's Mayor in | 17 |
| the early 1990s; this community improvement process led to a | 18 |
| broad-based action plan, the most noteworthy aspect of which is | 19 |
| the multi-family licensing ordinance; in the mid-1990s he | 20 |
| received the intergovernmental cooperation award from the | 21 |
| Dupage Mayors and Managers Conference for his work on this | 22 |
| initiative; and
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| WHEREAS, John Perry once again won the intergovernmental |
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| award in 2007 following work that he did to support communities | 2 |
| working on issues related to interoperable radios and regional | 3 |
| water supply; in 1997 Mr. Perry received the Special Service | 4 |
| Award from the Illinois City/County Management Association for | 5 |
| his efforts to involve managers throughout the State in the | 6 |
| Annual Illinois Municipal League Conference; encouraging | 7 |
| participation of managers helped cement relationships between | 8 |
| the elected and appointed officials; and
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| WHEREAS, The DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference | 10 |
| annually recognizes the innovations of its member communities | 11 |
| and Woodridge gained the initial award for its multi-family | 12 |
| license program; it has since repeated the annual award for | 13 |
| programs as diverse as cultural enrichment for at-risk | 14 |
| neighborhood youth, sponsored by the Police Department, and a | 15 |
| Public Works hydro excavator; Woodridge is the only three-time | 16 |
| winner of this Municipal Innovation Award; and
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| WHEREAS, The Village of Woodridge has excelled under John | 18 |
| Perry's stewardship, and in 2007 it was designated one of the | 19 |
| 100 Best Communities by Money Magazine; Woodridge has also been | 20 |
| named one of the World's Greatest Communities by the producers | 21 |
| of the "World's Greatest" TV Show; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 23 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate John Perry on his retirement and wish him the best | 2 |
| in his future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 |
| presented to John Perry as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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