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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Department on Aging is currently |
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| located in two State-owned facilities where it pays no rent; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, The Department is planning to move to a leased |
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| space where it will be paying more than $530,000 per year; and
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| WHEREAS, The State of Illinois is facing a fiscal year 2011 |
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| budget deficit of historic proportions; and
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| WHEREAS, Many of the facts used to justify these leases are |
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| uncertain and have been disputed; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the Departments |
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| on Aging and Central Management Services to work with the |
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| Procurement Policy Board to review current leases as well as |
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| existing space in State facilities to find the solution that |
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| imposes the smallest burden on Illinois taxpayers in this time |
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| of budget challenge; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That the Procurement Policy Board should report |
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| to the General Assembly within six weeks of passage of this |
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| resolution on the status of the leases.
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