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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Chicago Chapter of the United States Green | ||||||
| 3 | Building Council (USGBC), in cooperation with civic and | ||||||
| 4 | corporate partners, has announced a project to help 3 Illinois | ||||||
| 5 | public schools (one in Chicago, one in the suburbs, and one | ||||||
| 6 | downstate) achieve certification under the USGBC's Leadership | ||||||
| 7 | in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard for existing | ||||||
| 8 | buildings; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, The LEED building rating system provides | ||||||
| 10 | standards for environmentally sustainable construction; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Thousands of buildings throughout the United | ||||||
| 12 | States and other countries have become LEED certified; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, This project will cover all of the additional | ||||||
| 14 | costs of achieving LEED certification and will provide | ||||||
| 15 | resources to project schools to allow them to determine how to | ||||||
| 16 | shift costs from materials and services that negatively impact | ||||||
| 17 | the environment toward those that improve the environment; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, This project provides a model for a statewide | ||||||
| 19 | campaign to transform every existing Illinois public school | ||||||
| 20 | into a green school so that within a generation every child in | ||||||
| 21 | Illinois can attend a green school; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 2 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 3 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that a Task Force shall be created to | ||||||
| 4 | investigate how to retrofit 3 public schools in the State of | ||||||
| 5 | Illinois to achieve LEED certification; and be it further
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| 6 | RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall develop the | ||||||
| 7 | infrastructure for a statewide program coincident to the | ||||||
| 8 | USGBC's project; and be it further | ||||||
| 9 | RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall be composed of one | ||||||
| 10 | individual appointed by the Chair of the Chicago Chapter of the | ||||||
| 11 | USGBC, who shall serve as the Chair of the Task Force; one | ||||||
| 12 | individual appointed by the Director of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
| 13 | Opportunity; one individual appointed by the State | ||||||
| 14 | Superintendent of Education; one individual appointed by the | ||||||
| 15 | Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives; one | ||||||
| 16 | individual appointed by the Minority Leader of the Illinois | ||||||
| 17 | House of Representatives; one individual appointed by the | ||||||
| 18 | President of the Illinois Senate; and one individual appointed | ||||||
| 19 | by the Minority Leader of the Illinois Senate; and be it | ||||||
| 20 | further | ||||||
| 21 | RESOLVED, That the Capital Development Board shall provide | ||||||
| 22 | administrative and other support to the Task Force; and be it | ||||||
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| 1 | further | ||||||
| 2 | RESOLVED, That the members of the Task Force shall be | ||||||
| 3 | reimbursed for their travel expenses from appropriations to the | ||||||
| 4 | Capital Development Board available for that purpose and | ||||||
| 5 | subject to the rules of the appropriate travel control board; | ||||||
| 6 | and be it further | ||||||
| 7 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution shall be | ||||||
| 8 | delivered to the Chairperson of the Chicago Chapter of the | ||||||
| 9 | USGBC, the Executive Director of the Capital Development Board, | ||||||
| 10 | the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and the | ||||||
| 11 | State Superintendent of Education.
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