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Budget Solutions 2012 | Illinois Policy Institute 1
2012budget solutionsA sustainable path for Illinois
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The Illinois Policy Institute is a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to supporting free market principles and liberty-based public policy initiatives for a better Illinois. As a leading voice for economic liberty and government accountability, we engage policy makers, opinion leaders and citizens on the state and local level.
The Illinois Policy Institute would like to thank Mr. Joseph Coletti for his assistance in preparing the FY 2012 Alternative Budget.
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................... 6
The Path Towards Ruin ...........................................................................7
The Path Towards Prosperity ................................................................8
Revenue and Spending ............................................................................9
Per Capita Spending.............................................................................. 10
Looking Forward ................................................................................... 10
The Pension Funding and Fairness Act ............................................. 11
Guiding Principles ................................................................................. 11
Agency Budgets .......................................................... 13
State Board of Education ..................................................................... 14
Teachers’ Retirement System ............................................................. 17
Board of Higher Education ................................................................. 18
Chicago State University ..................................................................... 20
Eastern Illinois University .................................................................... 20
Governors State University ................................................................ 21
Illinois State University ........................................................................ 21
Northeastern Illinois University ........................................................ 21
Northern Illinois University ................................................................ 22
Southern Illinois University ................................................................. 22
University of Illinois .............................................................................. 22
Western Illinois University .................................................................. 23
Illinois Community College Board .................................................... 24
Illinois Student Assistance Commission ........................................... 25
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy ...................................... 27
State Universities Retirement System .............................................. 27
State University Civil Service System ............................................... 28
Department Of Agriculture ................................................................ 28
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity ............. 30
East St. Louis Financial Authority ....................................................... 31
Illinois Commerce Commission ........................................................ 32
Illinois Power Agency ........................................................................... 33
Illinois Finance Authority ..................................................................... 33
Illinois Sports Facilities Authority ...................................................... 33
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ................................................. 34
Department of Labor ........................................................................... 34
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority ................................... 35
Southwestern Illinois Development Authority ............................... 35
Department of Transportation ........................................................... 36
Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority ....................... 37
Department of Corrections ............................................................... 38
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency ........................................ 39
Department Of Financial And Professional Regulation ................ 39
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority ............................... 40
Illinois Education Labor Relations Board ......................................... 41
Illinois Emergency Management Agency .......................................... 41
Illinois Labor Relations Board ............................................................ 42
Illinois Violence Prevention Authority .............................................. 43
Workers Compensation Commission ............................................. 44
Department Of Insurance ................................................................... 44
Illinois Law Enforcement Training And Standards Board .............. 44
Prisoner Review Board ........................................................................ 46
Property Tax Appeal Board (Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund) .................................... 46
Office Of The State Fire Marshal ....................................................... 47
Department Of State Police ............................................................... 47
Illinois State Police Merit Board ........................................................ 48
Department on Aging ........................................................................... 48
Department of Children and Family Services................................. 50
Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan ............................................ 52
Department of Employment Security .............................................. 52
Department of Healthcare and Family Services ............................ 53
Department Of Human Rights .......................................................... 55
Human Rights Commission ................................................................ 56
Department Of Human Services ....................................................... 57
Illinois Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Commission ............................ 60
Illinois Council On Developmental Disabilities .............................. 61
Illinois Guardianship And Advocacy Commission .......................... 61
Department of Juvenile Justice ........................................................... 61
Department of Public Health ............................................................. 63
Department of Veterans’ Affairs ......................................................... 65
Illinois Arts Council .............................................................................. 66
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency ................................................ 68
Civil Service Commission ................................................................... 95
State Employees Retirement System ................................................ 95
Competitive Grant Funding ................................................................ 96
Appendix A. State Spending Examples Found via IllinoisOpenGov.org.............................................................................. 97
Appendix B. Transfers from General Revenue Fund to Selected Special State Funds, FY 2009 .............................................................. 98
Appendix C. State Funding to Local Governments ....................... 99
Appendix D. Medicaid Premium Assistance Reform ................... 101
Appendix E. Expenditures for Average Midwest Family, Income $59,908 ................................................................................... 103
Appendix F. Fiscal Year 2011 Operating Appropriations by Major Purpose: ................................................................................................ 104
Endnotes ...................................................................... 105
Department of Natural Resources ................................................... 69
Office Of The Governor ..................................................................... 70
Office Of The Lieutenant Governor ................................................. 71
Office Of The Secretary Of State ...................................................... 72
Executive Ethics Commission ............................................................. 73
Office Of Executive Inspector General ........................................... 73
Office of the Attorney General ......................................................... 74
Judges’ Retirement System .................................................................. 74
Judicial Inquiry Board ........................................................................... 75
Office Of The State Appellate Defender .......................................... 75
Office Of The State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor ................. 76
Supreme Court & Illinois Court System ......................................... 77
Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission .................... 78
Court Of Claims ................................................................................... 78
General Assembly ................................................................................. 79
General Assembly Retirement System ............................................. 81
Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability ... 81
Joint Committee On Administrative Rules ...................................... 82
Legislative Audit Commission............................................................. 83
Legislative Ethics Commission ........................................................... 83
Legislative Information System ........................................................... 83
Legislative Printing Unit ....................................................................... 84
Legislative Reference Bureau .............................................................. 85
Legislative Research Unit..................................................................... 85
Office Of The Architect Of The Capitol .......................................... 86
Office Of The State Comptroller ...................................................... 86
Office Of The State Treasurer ............................................................ 87
Office Of The Auditor General .......................................................... 88
Procurement Policy Board .................................................................. 88
Governor’s Office Of Management And Budget ............................ 88
Capital Development Board ............................................................... 89
Department Of Central Management Services ............................. 89
Department of Revenue ...................................................................... 91
State Board of Elections ...................................................................... 92
Illinois Gaming Board ........................................................................... 94
Illinois Racing Board ............................................................................. 94
Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council ........... 95
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYBudget Solutions 2012: A Sustainable Path for Illinois
Budget Solutions 2012 is a balanced budget proposal that does not require budget gimmicks, tax increases or borrowing. It is an exercise in priority setting. The truth is that tax dollars cannot support state government at its current size. Tough choices must be made.
Illinois is in dire straits. The state has $5.2 billion in unpaid bills as well as ballooning obligations to its pension funds and bondholders.1 Some think that the recently passed tax hike will see Illinois out of this crisis. Not true. Tax rates and state revenues might rise for the next three years, but by 2016 revenues are supposed to decline as the recent tax hikes begin to sunset. If Illinois continues spending as it has and as Gov. Quinn has now proposed, the state could soon see annual deficits that dwarf those of 2010 and 2011.
To put its fiscal house in order, Illinois government must spend less. Yet Gov. Quinn has proposed a $1.7 billion increase in spending from 2011 to 2012. His proposed $36 billion general fund budget will prove ruinous – any budget near that size is simply unsustainable, as the numbers below clearly show.
By 2016, state revenues will flatten out at $33 billion or less. After the government’s scheduled pension payment of almost $6 billion and pension bond payments of nearly $1.5 billion, $25.5 billion will be left over for operational spending and fund transfers. This is a substantial amount of money, but it is far below the level that has been proposed for 2012 by Governor Quinn. This is, sadly, another example of built in structural overspending that is unaffordable.
For the coming 2012 fiscal year, Gov. Quinn has outlined $28.7 billion in operational spending and fund transfers. This spending is not sustainable in the long run, and even in the short term it’s kept afloat by borrowing that would only further steal from future revenues.
Budget Solutions 2012 is an alternative to the failing strategy of overtaxing, overborrowing and overspending. It’s a plan to fund core government services, reduce excess spending, pay down past due debt and even pave the way for tax relief. It’s a budget proposal – the only detailed plan yet published – that would allow state government to live within its means and put Illinois on a path toward prosperity.
In order to distinguish between Budget Solutions 2012 and the path that Illinois is currently on, this alternative budget is presented side-by-side with the budget delivered by Gov. Quinn earlier this year.
Graphic 1. Fiscal Year 2011 Operating Appropriations by Major Purpose: Quinn Budget and Budget Solutions
Education 35.46%
Medicaid 27.59%
Human Services 20.63%
Public Safety 6.03%
Government Services 9.57%
Economic Development
0.42%
Quality of Life 0.28%
Quinn Budget: General Funds Budget Solutions 2012: General Funds
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Operating Appropriations By Major Purpose: Quinn Budget and Budget Solutions 2012
($ millions) 2012 Quinn2012
Alternative2013
Alternative2014
Alternative
Education $9,528 $7,866 $7,998 $8,134
Medicaid $7,414 $6,140 $6,144 $6,146
Human Services $5,544 $4,120 $4,130 $4,129
Public Safety $1,621 $1,322 $1,322 $1,322
Government Services $2,572 $1,469 $1,470 $1,493
Economic Development $112 $36 $26 $27
Quality of Life $76 $36 $36 $36
Competitive Grants $0 $150 $150 $150
Total $26,867 $21,141 $21,277 $21,436
Governor Quinn’s budget and the three-year alternatives represent two very different paths for Illinois. One takes Illinois in the direction we’ve been traveling, marked by unemployment, overspending and deeper deficits. The other sets clear policy priorities and balances the state budget and thus moves us into a better competitive position with our neighboring states and the rest of the country.
The Path Towards Ruin
Gov. Quinn and the General Assembly just passed a $7 billion tax hike on wage earners and employers. This increase comes at a time when families are trying to recover from a devastating recession that has kept wages stagnant and unemployment near 9 percent.
Working people across Illinois are feeling this pain every week as more money in taxes are taken from their paychecks. Over the course of the year the lost wages will equal one or more week’s pay for most people. Lawmakers who voted for the tax hike have asked those families to make cuts from their home budgets, but Springfield has yet to make tough cuts.
Graphic 2. Expenditures for Average Midwest Family, Income $59,908
As Illinoisans make painful choices to accommodate higher taxes, they might take comfort knowing that some of the tax increase is supposed to be temporary. Businesses considering moving elsewhere might try to weather the storm of higher taxes with the trust that rates are supposed to drop halfway through the 2015 fiscal year, creating a significant drop in revenues between 2014 and 2016. Unfortunately, Gov. Quinn’s budget shows a tacit intention of keeping tax rates high. His proposed spending levels are simply unsustainable unless lawmakers approve a permanent extension of the 2011 tax hikes. That would have disastrous results.
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Before the tax hikes of 2011, Illinois was already at a competitive disadvantage with its neighbors and most of the country. State and local taxes were already higher than in bordering states. This has caused a mass exodus out of Illinois. An Illinois Policy Institute analysis of federal data found that, between the years of 1995 and 2007, Illinois has on balance lost 228,000 people and $26.9 billion cumulative gross income to Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky.
Graphic 3. State and Local Tax Burden Per Capita, Fiscal Year 2009
StateTax Burden Per
CapitaRank
Illinois $4,596 9
Wisconsin $4,427 10
Iowa $3,688 26
Missouri $3,425 30
Indiana $3,396 31
Kentucky $3,059 41
Source: Tax Foundation, State and Local Tax Burdens, 2009
In 2009, Illinois’s per capita state and local tax burden ranked 9th-highest in the nation, according to the Tax Foundation. Illinois may soon be one of the five highest-taxed states in the country, since the added per capita burden of the tax hikes is more than $500.
Over the last decade, Illinois ranked 48th in economic performance according to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). That ranking was, in part, due to Illinois’s ranking of:
• 38th in personal income growth• 48th in domestic migration• 48th in (non-farm) employment growth
Illinois’s performance and its unfriendly business policies led ALEC researchers to rank our state 47th in economic outlook in 2010 – before taxes were increased. It is entirely possible that Illinois could fall to the bottom spot once the 2011 tax hikes are take into account.
The Path Towards Prosperity
Creating jobs and bringing people back to Illinois requires lower taxes and a financially stable government. Budget Solutions 2012 would put us on the path to both.
A year ago, the Illinois Policy Institute called for a budget that did not require a tax hike or borrowing. Leaders in Springfield did not follow that recommendation. Instead, operational spending was kept too high, taxes were increased by record levels and 2011 pension fund payments were moved to future years by issuing almost $3.7 billion in bonds.
If our recommendations had been followed, then reforms, restructuring and, yes, difficult cuts would have been made. But the budget would be on pace to finish fiscal 2011 in balance with no borrowing and no tax hike. Instead, we have had the largest tax hike in state history followed by a proposal to borrow another $8.75 billion.
Budget Solutions 2012 offers another path. If the recommendations here are adopted, the obvious question is what to do with the revenues from the recent tax hike? Our recommendation for surplus revenues remains the same—pay down past due debt, establish a real budget stabilization fund and then refund surpluses to taxpayers. These concepts are outlined in the Illinois Policy Institute’s guideline for pension funding and spending reform entitled the Pension Funding and Fairness Act (PFFA). Details of PFFA are provided below.
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Tax relief is vital to Illinois’s future. The recent tax hike calls for tax rates to decline after 2014. Gov. Quinn’s budget proposal, already in deficit for fiscal 2012, does not account for the revenue reductions anticipated by the sunset provision of the new tax increases. Anyone hoping to see taxes decline on schedule must also demand a budget that is affordable after tax hike revenues disappear. Budget Solutions 2012 is a detailed budget plan that would prove affordable if tax rates are permitted to decline on schedule.
Budget Solutions 2012 also opens the door to repeal the recent tax hikes by balancing the budget without the necessity of the new revenues. Multiple pieces of legislation have been filed to repeal the 2011 tax hikes entirely or in part, and more than 7,200 taxpayers have already signed online petitions in support of this effort at the website www.repealthetaxhike.com. A repeal of the 2011 tax hikes would provide instant, needed tax relief. If the 2011 tax hikes were repealed, the state’s general fund budget would remain balanced under Budget Solutions 2012.
Independent of proposals to change overall tax rates, the Pension Funding and Fairness Act has also been introduced in both the House and Senate. If the new tax rates remain in place, it is certain that the impact of tax hikes would be mitigated under the Pension Funding and Fairness Act with tax rebates available by this time next year.
Budget Solutions 2012 challenges lawmakers to send the world a strong signal: Illinois is going to be a place where the cost of government is sustainable and where more of the money taxpayers earn will stay with them to spend and invest as they see fit. Future prosperity is dependent upon people moving to Illinois, hiring in Illinois, buying products in Illinois, starting new businesses in Illinois, and starting new families in Illinois. This requires lawmakers to reform spending and lower taxes.
Revenue and Spending
According to Gov. Quinn, Illinois will see $33.9 billion in general fund revenues in 2012 with the tax hike just passed. An Illinois Policy Institute brief estimated that FY2012 general revenues would have been $27.9 billion had taxes not been increased.
As the chart below shows, the record revenues generated by the recent tax hikes are still not enough to cover the governor’s spending plan. His office has readily admitted that borrowing would be required to keep his proposed budget afloat.
The spending detailed in Budget Solutions 2012 would lead to a considerable surplus even without the tax increase, unsurprising since we have consistently argued that the recent tax hike was unnecessary. Under Budget Solutions 2012, the State of Illinois would have seen a $350 million surplus even if taxes had not been increased. With the new revenues, the surplus grows to $6.362 billion, all of which should be allocated to pay down past due debt without borrowing further.
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Graphic 4. How the 2012 Budget Numbers Stack Up: Quinn 2012 Budget vs. Budget Solutions 2012
($ millions) Quinn Budget Budget Solutions
Operating Revenues Plus Transfers In
State Revenues 27,278 27,278
Federal Revenues 4,844 4,844
Transfers In 1,810 1,810
Total Income 33,932 33,932
Operating Expenditures and Transfers Out
Appropriations -26,733 -21,141
Unspent Appropriations 802 802
Pension Contributions -4,594 -4,594
Pension Obligation Bonds -1,559 -1,559
Transfers Out -2,317 -500
Capital Obligation Bonds -578 -578
Restructuring Bonds -403 0
Total Spending -35,382 -27,570
Deficit/Surplus -1,450 6,362
It’s important to keep in mind the following Illinois Policy Institute recommendations when reading Budget Solutions 2012:
• General Appropriations total $21.14 billion dollars, as outlined in the line-by-line agency budgets on the following pages;
• No further borrowing should be permitted, especially not for “debt restructuring bonds” proposed by the governor that would transfer past debt to future budgets and supply extra cash to further current year spending;
• Additionally, the state should eliminate or reduce most of the “legislatively required transfers” out of the general fund, including the local government distributive fund, public transportation funds and other special funds (see Appendix B for a list of transfers from the General Revenue Fund to selected special state funds in 20092);
• It’s time to make the full annual pension contribution using revenues from the same fiscal year, noting that benefit reforms would provide additional savings.
Per Capita Spending
Opponents of prudent spending will inevitably focus on the absolute spending reductions contained within this budget. This is understandable but fails to put the spending proposed in full context.
In fiscal year 2003, state expenditures totaled $23.9 billion, including transfers out and pension obligation bond debt service.3 Adjusted for inflation, that equals $28.67 billion in today’s dollars.4 The population was 12,588,229.5 On an inflation-adjusted basis, Illinois state government spent $2,277 per person in fiscal year 2003.
This alternative budget proposes $27.570 billion in state general expenditures, including the pension payment and other transfers out. Today’s population is 12,830,632.6 Under the Budget Solutions 2012 proposal, Illinois state government would spend $2,148 per resident in Fiscal Year 2012 – a mere $130 less than Rod Blagojevich’s first budget as governor. This is hardly a “doomsday” scenario.
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Graphic 5. Per Capita Real Spending in 2003 versus Budget Solutions 2012
Spending PopulationSpending Per
Capita
2003 Spending $23,900,000,000 - -
2003 Spending (inflation adjusted)
$28,667,000,000 12,588,229 $2,277.29
2012 Budget Solutions $27,570,000,000 12,830,632 $2,148.76
Looking Forward
The state’s accumulated budget deficit is not the product of one year’s overspending. It is the result of many years of spending beyond our means. The state will likely end 2011 with a deficit of $5.2 billion, mostly past due bills to state vendors and contractors who have to wait 150 days or more for payment. The state needs structural reforms, together with targeted spending reforms, to move out of today’s fiscal morass and pay our service providers on time.
By limiting general funds appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 at $21.141 billion and permitting small increases for the following two years, this budget makes it possible to pay down the state’s past due obligations over time without the new revenues from the recent tax hike. As noted earlier, if one includes the new tax revenues then the entire past due debt can be paid down in FY2012 without any further borrowing. Once that is done, that makes repealing the tax hike even more compelling.
Graphic 6. Budget Solutions Proposed Operation Spending for Fiscal Years 2012-2014
Fiscal Year 2012 Fiscal Year 2013 Fiscal Year 2014
$21,140,951,900 $21,276,812,700 $21,435,682,200
The Pension Funding and Fairness Act
The Pension Funding and Fairness Act, as currently outlined in Senate Bill 3633 and House Bill 36, focuses on developing a funding mechanism for today’s pension system as well as a cap to restrain the out-of-control growth in spending plaguing the state. The proposed law would require the first payment of every budget cycle be used to make the statutorily required pension payment. Lawmakers would then budget from remaining state revenues.
The Pension Funding and Fairness Act places reasonable limits on the growth of state government spending based on the increase in inflation plus the increase in population. This is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 2.3 percent, based on data from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Budget Office. Revenues that come in over the projected spending growth limit of 2.3 percent would be directed to a Debt Repayment Fund, until such time as Illinois could pay its bills on a 60 day payment cycle.
Once sufficient revenue is allocated to the debt repayment fund, surplus revenues would then be allocated to a Budget Stabilization Fund. It’s designed to provide emergency cash flow in the event that the increase in state tax revenue is not enough to cover the increase in state spending under the limits – which would most likely be due to an economic recession.
After the Budget Stabilization Fund is filled, further surplus revenue would be returned to Illinoisans via tax refund checks. Based on our projections, available at www.IllinoisPolicy.org, the cumulative value of the tax refunds would total hundreds of billions of dollars by 2045.
What’s transformative about this plan is that it realigns priorities. Instead of fighting over a shrinking budget pie, both state employees and taxpayers will have every incentive to pursue policy solutions that grow our state’s economy.
The Pension Funding and Fairness Act will help the government honor its commitments to public employee pensioners while
also protecting taxpayers – all while launching a new period of growth and government accountability in Illinois. Additionally, it will help Illinois make significant progress in paying down past debt and putting the state back in the black.
For more information on the Pension Funding and Fairness Act, the Institute’s “Mission Possible: Fully Funding Illinois’s State Pensions While Respecting Hardworking Taxpayers” is available online at www.IllinoisPolicy.org.
Guiding Principles
This budget is based on the allocation plan offered by Gov. Quinn for fiscal year 2012. We adjusted his spending requests to find the additional savings that will allow the state to balance its budget without a tax increase.
Our changes are based on the following five principles:
1. Setting Priorities: Every budget is an exercise in setting priorities because there is never enough money to pay for every program desired. When revenues fall, as they inevitably do every business cycle, the need to prioritize spending is even more acute. This includes paying for teachers before administrators, roads before expansive new rail proposals and public safety before public art.
2. Competitive Grant Funding: Every year the Illinois state budget is riddled with hundreds of grants and line items. Most of those are relatively small initiatives that receive relatively little attention – and even less scrutiny. Added together, the 328 items totaling $5 million or less equal almost $350 million per year, a sum larger than the total operating budget of several state agencies. Illinois taxpayers cannot continue to fund every single one of these programs. But that doesn’t mean they all must go. In Budget Solutions 2012 every item whose final 2011 funding was $5 million or below will not receive any automatic funding, but is qualified to potentially have its funding restored through a proposed program called “Competitive Grant Funding.” In short, if a small program is vital to an agency’s mission, then that agency can submit a detailed proposal to an independent review panel that will publish clear assessment guidelines. This can be modeled after the federal Government Accountability Office’s Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) and the federal Department of Education Invest in Innovation Grant awards. This will increase transparency and produce standardized information unlike anything the state has ever seen, and based on that publicly available information with each proposal, policymakers will have to prioritize who is eligible for funding—and who is not. If successful, this program could serve as an accountable funding model for larger programs in future years. A detailed explanation of Competitive Grant Funding can be found in an accompanying Illinois Policy Institute brief. Budget Solutions 2012 makes $150 million available to be awarded through the program, saving taxpayers at least $200 million.
3. Transparency and Accountability: State government must accept its responsibilities, use taxpayers’ money in full sunlight and hold programs accountable for results. This budget proposal directs funds to make the workings of government transparent to the public, legislators and managers in executive agencies. Based on independent research relevant to government programs in Illinois, this budget recommends scaling back programs such as early childhood education where results have not met expectations, changing programs such as Medicaid to better align the incentives of recipients and taxpayers, and eliminating programs that lack evaluations or standards of success. We recommend that every state agency and local unit of government completely open their books. When spending reforms are attempted, many agencies will say that the changes are not possible. These agencies have an obligation to be fully transparent regarding every dollar spent and for what purpose so that the public can make its own judgment. The level of generality in the budget presentation makes it difficult to hold spending accountable in every instance. For example, it is clear that spending in the classroom produces better results than spending on administrators, but the state budget provides no way to determine how personnel expenses are currently distributed between functions. As a result, this alternative budget cannot show reallocations within line items – a more detailed budget proposal from the
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governor would allow for a more detailed critique.
4. Spending Fairness: Government expenditures are to improve the public welfare, not the welfare of specific groups. When community colleges offer subsidized training to selected companies, when select groups get scholarships to universities, when hand-picked businesses get marketing help, when some companies receive special tax breaks and grants or when the state tries to pick economic winners and losers, every other taxpayer bears the burden, and in the meantime, valuable state core services are crowded out.
5. Last In, First Out: Over the last decade, the state has created and/or expanded a variety of programs. The state needs to focus on core services and prioritize our budget accordingly. Where the merits of a program warrant more funding, this alternative budget increases spending.
Taking a “business as usual” approach to the state budget won’t work anymore. In presenting this alternative budget, readers are asked to avoid the trap of reverting back to a “we’ve never done it this way before; it can’t be done” attitude. Rather, Illinois’s leaders need to seek out innovative changes – both in the spending allocations and the approach to how government operates.
Budget Solutions 2012 is about the hardworking taxpayers of Illinois wondering how they’ll make ends meet; it is about public employees wondering if their retirements will be there; it is about families across Illinois wondering why the state can’t seem to make do with a consistently increasing budget; and ultimately, it is about putting the state back on the path to fiscal sustainability and lasting prosperity.
Agency Budgets
The following pages contain a line-by-line review of Gov. Quinn’s proposed 2012 budget. The order and organization of agency budgets echoes what was put forward by Gov. Quinn in his Budget Blue Book. Brief descriptions of core missions are provided for most agencies. When appropriate, a longer explanation is given to distinguish between Gov. Quinn’s budget decisions and those of Budget Solutions 2012. Department budgets are provided in the thousands of dollars.
The following is a glossary of terms.
General Funds: Refers to the following group of funds, inclusively: the General Revenue Fund, the Education Assistance Fund, the Common School Fund, and the General Revenue-Common School Special Account Fund.
Personal Services: Line item for salary payments to employees.
Contractual Services: Line item for services provided by a non-state employee or vendor including utilities; medical services for those in institutions; professional, technical or artistic consulting; and property and equipment rental.
Other Operations: Administrative non-grant expenses of state agencies except salaries and payments for fringe benefits. For example: contractual services, travel, printing and telecommunications.
Designated Purposes: Indicates funds allocated for a specific activity.
Grant: An award or contribution to be used either for a specific or a general purpose, typically with no repayment provision.
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State Board of Education
The Illinois State Board of Education provides funding to 868 school districts in the state. General State Aid provides funding to school districts. Categorical grants provide the majority of funding for services mandated by state and federal programs, such as special education. Targeted grants provide funding for specific populations and purposes to school districts throughout the state.
Overall, education spending accounts for nearly one third of general revenue spending in the state’s annual budget. As such, it is impossible to address Illinois’s fiscal crisis without a drawdown in annual education spending. Whereas this process may prove uncomfortable for some, it also provides the General Assembly, the State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Board of Higher Education with the opportunity to readjust their priorities.
Education is a prime example in government where good policy – and not higher spending – drives better outcomes. The Illinois Policy Institute has documented the successes of schools in Florida, a state with significantly higher student poverty levels than Illinois that also spends $1,000 less per pupil. Florida’s policies – including school choice, “A through F” school ratings, charter schools and online learning – have led to superior results, especially for poor and minority students. Illinois should adopt those policies.
The budget below mirrors Gov. Quinn’s in that it draws down subsidies for bus transportation. Local districts can offset that lost income by contracting out busing services to private service providers. This approach was growing in popularity in Illinois until the General Assembly introduced onerous regulations three years ago. Legislation developed by Rep. Roger Eddy would roll back that red tape, allowing districts to regain the ability to take advantage of the scale and efficiencies of the private sector.
The proposed budget below also contains significant reductions to the Preschool For All program trumpeted by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. This is done to steer as many available funds as possible towards K through 12 schooling. While preschool provides the benefit of daycare to some parents, its value as a universal educational tool is far less certain. This often seems counterintuitive, but after decades and billions of dollars spent on publicly funded preschool programs – most notably Head Start – considerable evidence has mounted that these programs create few if any lasting benefits.7
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
17,100.5 16,745.7 17,248.1 16,745.7 16,745.7 16,745.7 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
5,061.6 6,554.5 6,554.5 5,830.7 5,830.7 5,830.7 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
853.0 1,124.1 1,124.1 983.9 983.9 983.9 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Standards, Materials, & Training for Teachers
0.0 0.0 2,900.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
American Diploma Project
133.7 400.0 400.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Community Residential Service Authority
543.9 575.0 592.3 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Educator Misconduct Investigations
183.7 375.0 375.0 375.0 375.0 375.0 Priorities
Implementation of State Board Strategic Plan
144.3 237.5 237.5 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Response to Intervention Initiative
1,340.0 1,072.0 1,072.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Student Assessments 28,081.9 26,334.7 26,334.7 26,000.0 26,000.0 26,000.0 Accountability
Regional Offices of Education Bus Driver Training
70.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Longitudinal Data System
243.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Temporary Relocation Expenses
100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
30,840.7 29,064.2 31,911.5 26,375.0 26,375.0 26,375.0
Grants
General State Aid 4,600,305.1 4,600,305.1 4,862,301.1 4,250,000.0 4,377,500.0 4,508,825.0 Priorities
Disabled Student Services/Materials, 14-13.01
453,530.2 459,600.0 465,700.0 367,134.8 367,134.8 367,134.8 Priorities
Disabled Student Transportation Reimbursement
417,362.7 429,700.0 436,800.0 326,021.6 326,021.6 326,021.6 Priorities
Disabled Student Tuition/Private Tuition, 14-7.02
181,100.0 181,100.0 186,700.0 156,146.4 156,146.4 156,146.4 Priorities
Extraordinary Special Education, 14-7.02
334,236.8 334,236.8 343,375.7 334,236.8 334,236.8 334,236.8 Priorities
Regular Education Orphanage Tuition Reimbursement, 18-3
13,000.0 13,000.0 13,000.0 9,693.3 9,693.3 9,693.3 Priorities
Reimbursement for Free Breakfast/Lunch
26,287.3 26,300.0 32,875.0 26,300.0 26,300.0 26,300.0 Priorities
Special Education Reimbursement, Orphanage Tuition14-7.03
119,175.1 120,200.0 101,700.0 81,584.9 81,584.9 81,584.9 Priorities
Transportation-Regular / Vocational Reimbursement, 29-5
335,492.4 205,009.7 175,009.7 175,009.7 175,009.7 175,009.7 Priorities
Advanced Placement 808.6 527.0 527.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
After School Matters 4,500.0 4,000.0 2,500.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Agricultural Education 3,043.1 1,947.6 1,947.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Arts and Foreign Language Education
1,594.7 1,280.0 1,280.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Autism Training and Technical Assistance
100.0 100.0 100.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Bilingual Education 68,086.8 63,381.2 66,881.2 47,736.0 47,736.0 47,736.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Blind/Dyslexic Persons Reading Program
816.6 816.6 816.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Career and Technical Education Programs
38,562.1 38,562.1 38,562.1 38,562.1 38,562.1 38,562.1 Priorities
Children’s Mental Health Partnership
2,660.2 1,620.0 1,620.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
District Consolidation Costs/Supplemental Payments to School Districts
3,073.2 3,700.0 4,600.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Early Childhood Education
340,884.7 342,235.3 380,261.4 85,558.8 85,558.8 85,558.8 Accountability
Growth Model 2,441.1 2,400.0 2,400.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
National Board Certified Teachers
5,742.5 2,756.4 2,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Philip J. Rock Center and School
3,577.8 3,577.8 3,577.8 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Principal Mentoring Program
1,772.4 830.8 2,200.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Re-Enrolling Students-Alternative Schools Network
3,600.0 3,600.0 3,200.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Regional Safe Schools 16,681.5 9,341.9 9,341.9 9,341.9 9,341.9 9,341.9 Priorities
Standards, Assessment, Accountability
990.0 1,002.8 6,002.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Summer School Payments, 18-4.3
11,602.5 11,700.0 11,200.0 9,168.7 9,168.7 9,168.7 Priorities
Tax-Equivalent Grants 222.6 222.6 222.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Teach for America 225.0 225.0 1,225.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Teacher and Administrator Mentoring Program
7,131.2 5,628.0 6,815.2 2,814.0 2,814.0 2,814.0 Priorities
Technology for Success
4,169.3 3,335.8 7,700.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Truant Alternative and Optional Education Program
17,841.8 14,059.0 14,059.0 8,446.0 8,446.0 8,446.0 Priorities
Visually Impaired/Educational Materials Coordinating Unit
1,421.1 1,421.1 1,421.1 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Regional Superintendent’s Services
4,807.5 4,450.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Regional Superintendents’ and Assistants’ Compensation
9,054.4 8,262.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Classroom Cubed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
General State Aid - Hold Harmless
15,670.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Grow Your Own Teachers
3,137.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Reading Improvement Block Grant
67,723.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Regional Offices of Education - Supervisory Expenses
102.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
School Breakfast Incentive Program
360.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant
18,710.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Special Education - Hold Harmless
17,141.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Summer Bridges Program
20,121.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0Last In First
Out
Textbook Loans - Reappropriation, 18-17
39,665.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 7,218,533.8 6,900,435.5 7,187,922.8 5,927,755.0 6,055,255.0 6,186,580.0
Total General Funds
7,272,389.5 6,953,924.0 7,244,761.0 5,977,690.3 6,105,190.3 6,236,515.3
Teachers’ Retirement System
The Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) is a public pension plan for Illinois public school teachers and administrators.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois - Health Insurance
79,007.0 85,953.0 87,622.0 85,953.0 90,250.7 94,763.2 Accountability
Total Designated Purposes
79,007.0 85,953.0 87,622.0 85,953.0 90,250.7 94,763.2
Grants
Retirement 120.0 120.0 120.0 120.0 120.0 120.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
State’s Additional Contribution to the Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago, per Section 17-127 of the Pension Code.
5,029.0 10,449.0 10,449.0 10,449.0 10,449.0 10,449.0 Priorities
Teachers’ Retirement - Chicago Public Schools
32,522.4 32,522.4 33,498.1 33,498.1 33,498.1 33,498.1 Priorities
Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois
834,861.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois - Guarantee Minimum Supplement
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 872,533.1 43,091.4 44,067.1 43,947.1 43,947.1 43,947.1
Total General Funds 951,540.1 129,044.4 131,689.1 129,900.1 134,197.8 138,710.3
Board of Higher Education
Illinois’s higher education system is supported by a number of related agencies, including the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), the statewide coordinating board for higher education in Illinois.
Students are in the best position to make prudent decisions over their financial and academic futures. As such it was a priority to maintain funding for the Monetary Award Program (MAP), which is a tuition assistance program that enables students of limited means to better afford college. The MAP program is administered by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Insofar as reductions were made to direct institutional funding for the state’s four-year universities, community colleges, and support agencies, it was done so in order to maintain current levels of support for the MAP grant program, which assists students attending all institutions of higher learning in Illinois.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,975.4 2,270.8 2,270.8 1,816.6 1,816.6 1,816.6 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
480.1 568.5 568.5 454.8 454.8 454.8 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
96.4 136.7 136.7 109.4 109.4 109.4 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Illinois P-20 Council/Transition of ISBE Program(s) to IBHE
69.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
69.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Competitive Grant for Nursing Schools to Increase the Number of Graduating Nurses
844.0 880.0 880.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Costs Associated With the u.Select System
230.0 230.0 230.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Costs Associated With a P-20 Student Information System
255.1 205.0 205.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Grants
1,612.5 1,640.0 1,640.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Grants for Cooperative Work Study Programs
1,230.0 1,230.0 1,230.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Grow Your Own Teachers Program
0.0 0.0 2,500.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Nurse Educator Fellowships to Supplement Nurse Faculty Salaries
180.0 180.0 180.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Quad Cities Graduate Study Center
130.0 130.0 130.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Diversity Initiatives - Chicago Area Health and Medical Careers Program (CAHMCP)
531.0 531.0 531.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
STEM Diversity Initiatives - Illinois Math and Science Academy Excellence FUSION (2000 Program)
59.0 59.0 59.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
University Center of Lake County
1,716.0 1,716.0 1,716.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Grants 6,787.6 6,801.0 9,301.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
9,409.0 9,777.0 12,277.0 2,380.8 2,380.8 2,380.8
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Chicago State University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
38,876.7 36,231.1 36,231.1 28,984.9 28,984.9 28,984.9 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
2,756.0 2,526.7 2,526.7 2,021.4 2,021.4 2,021.4 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
379.6 623.4 623.4 498.7 498.7 498.7 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Financial Assistance Outreach Center
0.0 225.0 225.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 225.0 225.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Awards and Grants 5.0 104.4 104.4 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Grants 5.0 104.4 104.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Capital Improvements
Permanent Improvements
94.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Capital Improvements
94.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
42,112.0 39,710.6 39,710.6 31,505.0 31,505.0 31,505.0
Eastern Illinois University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
48,466.5 45,313.0 45,313.0 33,984.8 33,984.8 33,984.8 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
1,023.7 1,000.0 1,000.0 800.0 800.0 800.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
1,076.3 1,100.0 1,100.0 880.0 880.0 880.0 Fairness
Total General Funds
50,566.5 47,413.0 47,413.0 35,664.8 35,664.8 35,664.8
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Governors State University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
23,686.0 22,663.6 22,663.6 18,130.9 18,130.9 18,130.9 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
3,203.4 3,003.6 3,003.6 2,402.9 2,402.9 2,402.9 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
800.0 797.0 797.0 637.6 637.6 637.6 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Center for Excellence in Health Professions Education
135.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Global Trade Center 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education
300.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Designated Purposes
535.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Awards and Grants 100.0 93.8 93.8 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Grants 100.0 93.8 93.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
28,324.4 26,558.0 26,558.0 21,171.4 21,171.4 21,171.4
Illinois State University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
85,096.4 79,789.5 79,789.5 63,831.6 63,831.6 63,831.6 Fairness
Total General Funds
85,096.4 79,789.5 79,789.5 63,831.6 63,831.6 63,831.6
Northeastern Illinois University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
43,401.9 40,695.2 40,695.2 32,556.2 32,556.2 32,556.2 Fairness
Total General Funds
43,401.9 40,695.2 40,695.2 32,556.2 32,556.2 32,556.2
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Northern Illinois University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
96,696.5 90,341.9 90,341.9 72,273.5 72,273.5 72,273.5 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
6,823.0 6,823.0 6,823.0 5,458.4 5,458.4 5,458.4 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
3,725.9 3,566.4 3,566.4 2,853.1 2,853.1 2,853.1 Fairness
Grants
Awards and Grants 185.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Grants 185.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
107,431.1 100,731.3 100,731.3 80,585.0 80,585.0 80,585.0
Southern Illinois University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
214,619.6 203,924.0 205,572.2 163,139.2 163,139.2 163,139.2 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
13,722.6 11,081.7 10,848.0 8,865.4 8,865.4 8,865.4 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
5,824.8 4,557.8 4,343.3 3,646.2 3,646.2 3,646.2 Fairness
Designated Purposes
SimmonsCooper Cancer Center
0.0 1,200.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 1,200.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
234,167.0 220,763.5 220,763.5 175,650.8 175,650.8 175,650.8
University of Illinois
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
673,286.4 651,265.7 641,881.6 488,449.3 488,449.3 488,449.3 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
44,073.1 40,046.4 40,046.4 30,034.8 30,034.8 30,034.8 Fairness
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Other Operations and Refunds
9,263.1 3,016.8 3,016.8 3,016.8 3,016.8 3,016.8 Fairness
Designated Purposes
College of Medicine Hispanic Center of Excellence
800.0 800.0 800.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Dixon Springs Agriculture Center
350.0 328.3 328.3 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Public Policy Institute - UIC
1,250.0 1,250.0 1,250.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
CHANCE Program 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
2,400.0 2,378.3 2,378.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Awards and Grants 6,057.5 0.0 6,057.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Claims Under Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Diseases Acts and Other Statutes and Tort Claims
3,299.9 0.0 3,326.6 3,326.6 3,326.6 3,326.6 Priorities
College of Dentistry 350.0 350.0 350.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Hospital and Medical 4,689.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 14,397.1 350.0 9,734.1 3,326.6 3,326.6 3,326.6
Total General Funds
743,419.7 697,057.2 697,057.2 524,827.5 524,827.5 524,827.5
Western Illinois University
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
56,212.3 52,544.8 52,544.8 42,035.8 42,035.8 42,035.8 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
3,068.4 2,500.0 2,500.0 2,000.0 2,000.0 2,000.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
597.7 1,137.9 1,137.9 910.3 910.3 910.3 Fairness
Capital Improvements
Permanent Improvements
41.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Capital Improvements
41.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
59,919.6 56,182.7 56,182.7 44,946.2 44,946.2 44,946.2
Illinois Community College Board
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,237.6 1,237.3 1,237.3 1,051.7 1,051.7 1,051.7 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
311.3 348.3 348.3 296.1 296.1 296.1 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
557.4 558.8 558.8 475.0 475.0 475.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
College and Career Readiness Program
747.3 750.0 1,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Costs Associated with GED Testing
768.1 1,000.0 1,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Fund 339 Refund 0.0 250.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Operating Lump Sum 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Student Success Grants
13,009.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
14,524.5 2,000.0 2,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Adult Education - Grants to Eligible Providers
16,018.5 16,026.2 16,026.2 12,821.0 12,821.0 12,821.0 Fairness
Adult Education - Performance Based Grants
10,701.6 10,701.6 10,701.6 8,561.3 8,561.3 8,561.3 Fairness
Adult Education - Public Assistance
5,545.2 5,546.2 5,546.2 4,437.0 4,437.0 4,437.0 Fairness
Career and Technical Education Grants to Colleges (State Match)
17,187.2 17,569.4 17,569.4 17,569.4 17,569.4 17,569.4Last In First
Out
City Colleges of Chicago - Educational-Related Expenses
15,000.0 15,000.0 15,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0 Priorities
City Colleges of Chicago - Retirees Health Insurance Grant
626.6 626.6 626.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Community Colleges - Base Operating Grants
191,837.1 198,811.0 198,811.0 159,048.8 159,048.8 159,048.8 Fairness
Community Colleges - Equalization Grants
76,933.0 76,933.0 77,113.0 61,690.4 61,690.4 61,690.4 Fairness
Community Colleges - Small College Grants
780.0 780.0 660.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Community Colleges - Workforce Development Grants
3,311.3 3,311.3 3,311.3 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Operate Educational Facility in East St. Louis
1,589.1 1,589.1 1,589.1 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Scholarships to Qualifying Graduates of the Lincoln’s ChalleNGe Program
43.9 61.6 61.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Veterans’ Grants Reimbursements
7,259.5 7,261.5 7,261.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Federal Recovery - Education Stabilization - Community Colleges - Base Operating Grants
5,463.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Federal Recovery - General Stabilization - Community Colleges - Base Operating Grants
1,510.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Grants 353,806.9 354,217.5 354,277.5 276,127.8 276,127.8 276,127.8
Total General Funds
370,437.8 358,361.9 358,421.9 277,950.5 277,950.5 277,950.5
Illinois Student Assistance Commission
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Veterans’ Home Nurses’ Loan Repayment Program
20.1 0.0 50.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
20.1 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
College Savings Bond Grants
206.4 0.0 325.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Dependents Grants to Children of Policemen, Firemen or Correctional Officers Killed or Disabled in the Line of Duty
710.1 950.0 950.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For the Loan Repayment for Teachers Program
494.7 250.0 500.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Illinois Future Teacher Corps Scholarships
1,917.6 1,000.0 2,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Illinois Scholars Program
3,160.0 2,528.0 3,160.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Illinois Veterans Grants
16,761.4 3,000.0 6,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Monetary Award Program (MAP) Grants
386,661.9 403,896.1 428,896.1 450,000.0 450,000.0 450,000.0 Fairness
Nurse Educator Loan Repayment Program
300.0 0.0 300.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Illinois National Guard and Naval Militia Scholarships
4,710.3 2,200.0 4,400.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Payment of Minority Teacher Scholarships (MTI)
2,133.8 2,000.0 2,500.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Student-to-Student Grant Program
948.3 0.0 950.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Illinois Incentive for Access Grant Program
4,716.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Scholarships to Eligible Nursing Education Students
528.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Grants 423,249.6 415,824.1 449,981.1 450,000.0 450,000.0 450,000.0
Total General Funds
423,269.8 415,824.1 450,031.1 450,000.0 450,000.0 450,000.0
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Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Located in Aurora, the Illinois Math and Science Academy is a residential state-funded high school that enrolls students from throughout the state who demonstrate advanced academic abilities. It is more closely aligned with the state’s institutions of higher education than the K through 12 educational bureaucracy.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
11,742.5 12,507.3 12,507.4 11,977.4 11,977.4 11,977.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
4,462.7 4,297.2 4,297.0 4,225.0 4,225.0 4,225.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
1,673.5 1,411.9 1,412.0 1,467.4 1,467.4 1,467.4 Priorities
Grants
Excellence 2000 Program
325.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Two Field Officers 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Grants 325.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
18,203.7 18,216.4 18,216.4 17,669.8 17,669.8 17,669.8
State Universities Retirement System
The State Universities Retirement System (SURS) administers a program of retirement annuities and other benefits, including death, disability and survivor benefits for employees of the state universities, community colleges and higher education agencies.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
8,542.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
College Insurance Program
4,059.4 4,237.3 4,396.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
4,059.4 4,237.3 4,396.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Retirement 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
12,602.3 4,237.3 4,396.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
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State University Civil Service System
The State Universities Civil Service System maintains and administers a program of personnel administration for the state universities system and related entities in higher education.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
899.1 945.9 971.5 851.3 851.3 851.3 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
162.7 247.1 233.3 222.4 222.4 222.4 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
79.0 80.2 71.4 72.2 72.2 72.2 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Costs Associated With The Relocation of Offices
3.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
3.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
1,143.9 1,276.2 1,276.2 1,145.9 1,145.9 1,145.9
Department Of Agriculture
The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) regulates Illinois agribusiness to protect both producers and consumers of raw and processed agricultural products from mislabeled, contaminated or diseased commodities. Agency programs help to protect our state’s natural resources through regulatory oversight and financial incentives. Department staff also promotes Illinois agriculture by conducting state fairs, providing grant assistance to 4-H clubs, funding county fairs, marketing Illinois agricultural products and providing assistance to develop new, value-added agricultural ventures.
Agriculture is one of many important sectors that make up Illinois’s economy. Those who stand to benefit financially from agricultural research and promotion should fund related programs. A reinvigorated private sector can manage many aspects of the Department of Agriculture’s portfolio, ranging from exotic pest eradication to weights and measures certifications.
State subsidies to fairs and prize money awards should no longer be automatic. The budget below requires that any renewed funding to state fairs be awarded through our proposed Competitive Grant Funding initiative. A sensible solution for state fairs in Springfield and DuQuoin would be to charge admission rates, booth and display fees and concessions in line with the cost of these events, so that they may be self-funded in the future. Several state fairs in other states turn a profit and, as such, are self-funding.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
14,442.9 14,219.7 16,464.7 12,797.7 12,797.7 12,797.7 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
4,814.3 4,831.4 3,512.0 3,512.0 3,512.0 3,512.0 Priorities
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Total Other Operations and Refunds
1,142.7 1,412.1 1,291.5 1,270.9 1,270.9 1,270.9 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Cook County Extension 4,499.6 2,749.2 2,893.9 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Exotic Pest Eradication 455.9 456.0 480.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Fire Protection - Springfield
105.9 114.4 120.4 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Administration of the Livestock Management Facilities Act
275.5 275.5 290.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Costs of Administrative Operations
459.9 697.0 750.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
State Cooperative Extension Service Trust Fund
1,628.2 994.7 1,047.1 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
DuQuoin State Fair Entertainment
0.0 200.0 200.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
DuQuoin State Fair Entertainment, Including the Percentage Portion of Entertainment Contracts
335.6 320.7 337.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Inspections of Amusement Attractions
526.7 503.3 501.9 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Motor Fuel and Petroleum Standards Program
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Implementation of an Agriculture Assembly
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Shared Service 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
8,287.3 6,310.8 6,620.9 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Awards and Premiums at DuQuoin State Fair
117.3 108.8 114.5 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Awards and Premiums at the Illinois State Fair
6.7 202.1 212.7 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Awards and Premiums for Grand Circuit Horse Racing at the Illinois State Fairgrounds
0.0 94.0 98.9 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Awards to Livestock Breeders
426.6 109.3 115.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts
5,827.0 3,355.0 2,931.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Other Grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
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Total Grants 6,377.6 3,869.2 3,472.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
35,064.7 30,643.2 31,361.8 17,580.6 17,580.6 17,580.6
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) provides technical and financial assistance to businesses, local governments, workers and families. As the state’s lead economic development agency, DCEO works to capitalize on Illinois’s strengths as a center of transportation, manufacturing and technology development. DCEO administers a wide range of programs and services in the areas of business, workforce and community development, small business, technology, international trade, tourism, energy, recycling, coal development, homeland security and film production.
Businesses succeed because they offer a good or service that consumers want, at a price that they will pay while still creating a profit. In Illinois, some businesses have extra help because the government gives them subsidies, tax breaks and favorable treatment. At the end of the day, the big losers are the taxpayers, who pay for legislators’ selective handouts through higher taxes.
Bureaucratic operatives should not determine which businesses and workers receive special perks from the state and which do not. If an employer wants to offer its employees additional skills training, the company should pick up the cost. After all, the business will be the direct and immediate beneficiary if having higher-skilled workers leads to increased profits.
Many of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s business development services are already available in the private sector. If private businesses are truly interested in services like global marketing and technology support, plenty of private-sector outfits are ready and willing to provide these services.
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity should be closed, its general funding ended. Any necessary oversight programs funded through other state sources should be administered by other agencies such as the Illinois Commerce Commission. A number of DCEO programs below are eligible for renewal under our proposed Competitive Grant Funding initiative – other agencies and not DCEO can submit proposals through the initiative to administer those programs, should they be awarded funding.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
8,488.20 10,634.10 10,634.90 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
3,010.0 1,743.5 2,888.50 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
1,248.7 1,261.50 1,261.50 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Community Programs 13,127.7 3,000.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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Illinois Capital Revolving Loan Fund Transfer
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
For costs associated with new and expanding international markets for Illinois Business and Industries
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Illinois Global Partnership
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Designated Purposes
13,127.7 3,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
DCEO Community Programs
960.0 750.0 2,495.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
DCEO Job Training Programs
11,810.6 12,313.5 31,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
DCEO Technology-Based Programs
867.5 1,000.0 1,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
IL Office of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
3,960.6 4,440.0 4,900.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Operational Expenses for the Office of Trade and Investment
3,078.0 2,095.8 4,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Central IL Economic Development Authority
0.0 500.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Unallocated Grant Lump Sum Allocation
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Nonrecurring Projects
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Grants 20,676.7 21,099.3 43,395.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
46,551.4 37,738.4 58,179.9 0.0 0.0 0.0
East St. Louis Financial Authority
East St. Louis Financial Advisory Authority was established in 1990 to assist the City of East St. Louis with financial management and long-term financial sustainability.
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Designated Purposes
Operating expenses 120.0 116.4 116.4 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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Total Designated Purposes
120.0 116.4 116.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
120.0 116.4 116.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Commerce Commission
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) is responsible under various Illinois laws for ensuring safe, efficient, reliable and uninterrupted utility services to citizens of Illinois. It also regulates the financial organization of utility companies while allowing them the opportunity to earn a reasonable profit. The ICC regulates commercial motor carriers of property operating within Illinois, ensures public safety through the inspection of railroads and natural gas pipelines operating within Illinois, and assists in the development and implementation of local 9-1-1 emergency telephone systems throughout Illinois. Finally, the ICC protects consumers from unethical and unlawful business practices by regulating household goods carriers, relocation towing companies and safety towing companies.
The ICC is charged with pursuing “an appropriate balance between the interest of consumers and existing and emerging service providers.” Rather than letting the market determine the appropriate “balance” between buyers and sellers, the ICC often serves as a barrier to business. The state should interfere as little as possible in commercial affairs, yet organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce consider Illinois’s regulatory climate to be one of the most stifling in the country.
For example, household goods movers must prove to the ICC that “a public need for the service exists” prior to receiving permission to operate. To determine whether a need exists, “the Commission shall consider demographic statistics, supporting shipper testimony, or any other evidence presented which is material and relevant.” All the paperwork and demonstrations cost an aspiring mover $1,350.8
The Illinois Commerce Commission does not rely on general funds.
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Designated Purposes
Public Utilities Program Administration
0.0 0.0 1,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 0.0 1,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 1,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Illinois Power Agency
The Illinois Power Agency (IPA) is an independent state agency dedicated to developing electricity procurement plans. The IPA is also authorized to develop electricity generation facilities that utilize coal or renewable sources of energy, and to supply power from its facilities, at cost, to municipal electric systems, rural electric cooperatives and governmental aggregators.
The Illinois Power Agency does not rely on general funds.
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Designated Purposes
For Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of the Illinois Power Agency.
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Finance Authority
The Illinois Finance Authority (IFA) is a self-financed statewide issuer of municipal bonds for capital projects that support non-profit 501(c)(3) corporations, including healthcare, education, cultural and social service entities.
The Illinois Finance Authority does not rely on general funds.
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Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Sports Facilities Authority
The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority does not rely on general funds.
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Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
The Illinois Tollway maintains and operates 286 miles of interstate tollways in 12 counties in Northern Illinois.
The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority does not rely on general funds.
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Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Department of Labor
The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of 25 labor and safety laws. The department is organized into the following major areas: Fair Labor Standards/Prevailing Wage, Public Safety, Equal Opportunity Workforce and General Office.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
4,151.6 4,071.4 4,884.7 3,664.3 3,774.2 3,887.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
470.9 470.9 369.8 327.5 337.3 347.5 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
291.2 272.8 205.4 205.4 205.4 205.4 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Equal Pay Act and Victim’s Economic Security Act ( Known as “VESSA”)
129.8 209.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Displaced Homemaker Grants Program
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
129.8 209.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
5,043.5 5,024.5 5,459.9 4,197.2 4,316.9 4,440.3
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Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) is a municipal corporation that owns and manages the McCormick Place complex and seeks to promote and operate conventions, fairs and expositions in the Chicago area.
The Metropolitan Pier And Exposition Authority does not rely on general funds.
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Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Southwestern Illinois Development Authority
The Southwestern Illinois Development Authority is a special-purpose, municipal corporation and local governmental unit created by the Illinois state legislature to promote, encourage and facilitate economic development in four southwestern Illinois counties.
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Grants
For Replenishment of a Draw on the Debt Service Reserve Fund Backing Bonds Issued on Behalf of Alton Center Business Park
782.1 681.9 700.0 700.0 700.0 700.0 Priorities
For Replenishment of a Draw on the Debt Service Reserve Fund Backing Bonds Issued on Behalf of Laclede Steel-Illinois
1,420.0 1,460.4 1,115.0 1,115.0 1,115.0 1,115.0 Priorities
For Replenishment of a Draw on the Debt Service Reserve Fund Backing Bonds Issued on Behalf of Waste Recovery-Illinois and Related Trustee and Legal Expenses
366.2 369.7 291.9 291.9 291.9 291.9 Priorities
For Replenishment of a Draw on the Debt Service Reserve Fund Backing Bonds Issued on Behalf of Spectrulite Consortium Inc.
0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 2,568.7 2,512.0 2,107.0 2,106.9 2,106.9 2,106.9
Total General Funds
2,568.7 2,512.0 2,107.0 2,106.9 2,106.9 2,106.9
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Department of Transportation
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is responsible for the planning, coordination and maintenance of highways, aviation, public transit, inner-city passenger rail and freight rail systems. IDOT also administers traffic safety programs.
Much of the state’s transportation spending occurs from accounts other than the general revenue fund. However, general revenue funds are transferred into special transportation funds, as shown in Appendix B.
Public transit and Amtrak should bear the full cost of operating their portions of the transportation system, including the cost of conducting technical studies.
Transit authorities should pursue budget reforms, including operating savings and revenue generators, which would preclude the need for yet another taxpayer bailout. Cost-saving measures are clear. For example, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus drivers have the 3rd-highest top wage rate in the nation, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis, and the highest-paid rate in the nation when cost of living for the Chicago area is taken in account.9 Above-market wages and benefits are inappropriate when the state is broke. Furthermore, transit needs to align costs with revenues. A 2007 analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute found that the CTA failed to maintain pricing even to inflation. A CTA customer in 1969/1970 paid 36 percent more in real purchasing power for his or her ride than did a 2007 rider.10
Amtrak received $26 million in Fiscal Year 2011 in a state subsidy for an operating deficit for intercity rail services, in addition to large federal subsidies. Even with generous public subsidies, Amtrak continues to lose money. A Pew analysis found that Amtrak lost $32 per passenger in 2008.11 So-called high-speed rail plans won’t turn the money-losing venture around. Generous projections average the ridership from the Federal Railroad Administration’s high-speed rail plan at 58 miles per person in 2025. Compare that to the 15,000 passenger miles ridden in a car each year. The average Illinoisan will take a round trip on high-speed rail once every 8.7 years. For every Illinoisan who rides high-speed rail once a month, more than 100 residents will never ride it.12
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Total Other Operations and Refunds
209.0 150.0 265.0 135.0 135.0 135.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Administrative Expenses in Connection with Section 18 of the Federal Urban Mass Transportation Act
12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Emissions Testing/Inspection Program for Diesel Powered Vehicles in Selected Areas
10.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Public Transportation Technical Studies- State share
218.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Intertownship Program for Northwest Suburban Cook County
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
241.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Grants
RTA Debt Service Payments
5,098.6 10,199.6 11,206.6 10,199.6 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Reimbursement for Reduced Fares - RTA Service Boards
33,570.0 33,570.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
PACE Paratransit 8,500.0 8,500.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
State Share of Operating Deficit for Intercity Rail Services - AMTRAK
26,202.9 26,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
For Purposes Described in Sections 31 and 34 of the Illinois Aeronautics Act
297.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Grants 73,668.6 78,269.6 11,206.6 10,199.6 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
74,119.1 78,419.6 11,471.6 10,334.6 135.0 135.0
Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority
The Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority is a general development agency serving the Counties of Bureau, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Marshall, McHenry and Putnam. UIRVDA can issue bonds that can finance capital improvements and can reduce the rate of interest.
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Grants
For Replenishment of a Draw on the Debt Service Reserve Fund Backing Bonds Issued on Behalf of Waste Recovery-Illinois and Related Trustee and Legal Expenses
289.0 292.9 2,253.8 2,253.8 2,253.8 2,253.8Fairness and
accountability
Total Grants 289.0 292.9 2,253.8 2,253.8 2,253.8 2,253.8
Total General Funds
289.0 292.9 2,253.8 2,253.8 2,253.8 2,253.8
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Department of Corrections
The Department of Corrections (DOC) is responsible for providing care, custody, treatment and rehabilitation for adult offenders committed by the courts. DOC maintains and administers 28 correctional centers and manages a parole system for formerly incarcerated persons in the community.
Overcrowded prisons and overburdened probation and parole officers do nothing for public safety. Rewarding wardens for low recidivism, focusing on community corrections and increasing local police presence can all contribute to lower recidivism as well as reducing crime in the first place. Alternative sentencing programs like those tried in Texas and Kansas can slow or reverse the upward trend in prison populations and expenses.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
806,081.9 762,355.4 882,619.1 762,355.4 762,355.4 762,355.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
245,378.2 238,932.2 269,033.9 215,039.0 215,039.0 215,039.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
92,008.7 96,526.9 110,064.6 86,874.2 86,874.2 86,874.2 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Shared Services Initiative, Other Operational Expenses
7,512.9 8,854.0 6,682.4 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Statewide Hospitalization
2,045.6 4,861.6 4,861.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Methamphetamine Pilot Program
1,500.0 1,500.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Redeploy IL 262.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Additional Frontline Staff
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
11,320.9 15,215.6 11,544.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Sheriffs’ Fees for Conveying Prisoners
337.4 337.4 337.4 303.7 303.7 303.7 Priorities
State’s Share of Assistant State’s Attorneys’ Salaries
270.6 376.4 376.4 338.8 338.8 338.8 Priorities
Tort Claims 57.3 760.7 816.2 816.2 816.2 816.2 Priorities
Anti-Violence Prevention
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Cook County Boot Camp
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Grant to Operation Ceasefire
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 665.3 1,474.5 1,530.0 1,458.7 1,458.7 1,458.7
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Capital Improvements
Repair, Maintenance and Other Capital Improvements
885.7 375.0 3,250.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Capital Improvements
885.7 375.0 3,250.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
1,156,340.7 1,114,879.6 1,278,041.6 1,095,312.4 1,095,312.4 1,095,312.4
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) safeguards environmental quality to protect health, welfare, property and quality of life. The agency administers a regulatory system based on environmental monitoring, permits and performance standards, compliance inspections and enforcement.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency does not rely on general funds.
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Hopkins Park 146.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Grants 146.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
146.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Department Of Financial And Professional Regulation
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) is comprised of three divisions: the Division of Banks (DOB), Division of Financial Institutions (DFI), and the Division of Professional Regulation (DPR). The IDFPR oversees the regulation and licensure of banks and financial institutions, real estate businesses and professionals, and scores of diverse licensed professions.
The Department Of Financial And Professional Regulation does not rely on general funds.
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Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) is overseen by a 21-member board comprised of state and local criminal justice officials as well as members of the general public. ICJIA accomplishes its goals through efforts in three major areas: research, planning and coordination; administration of grants for crime control, crime prevention and victim assistance; and information systems, technology and support.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,237.2 1,306.6 1,390.6 1,175.9 1,175.9 1,175.9 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
309.9 405.0 328.6 364.5 364.5 364.5 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
133.0 163.0 155.5 146.7 146.7 146.7 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Costs and Expenses Related to a Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee
36.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Activities in Support of Federal Assistance Programs Administered by State and Local Governments and Nonprofit Organizations
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
For Costs Associated with the Shared Services Initiative and Other Operational Expenses
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
36.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
1,716.2 1,874.6 1,874.7 1,687.1 1,687.1 1,687.1
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Illinois Education Labor Relations Board
The Illinois Education Labor Relations Board (IELRB) exists to mitigate disputes between school management and employees. For example, district teachers seeking to unionize or, conversely, de-certify from a union seek recognition and recourse from the IELRB.
The IELRB should be funded by the groups who use its services, namely unions and school district management.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
808.4 847.2 880.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
122.7 145.5 130.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
53.8 42.8 40.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total General Funds
984.9 1,035.5 1,051.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Emergency Management Agency
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) is responsible for the coordination, management and administration of the state’s emergency management, nuclear safety and homeland security resources.
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2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
2,089.8 1,758.2 1,708.8 1,641.8 1,641.8 1,641.8 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
976.3 898.1 898.1 808.3 808.3 808.3 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
190.4 242.7 309.4 242.7 242.7 242.7 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For the State Share of Public Disaster Relief for Costs in Current and Prior Years
158.2 150.0 150.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Training and Education
54.0 106.2 106.2 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Northern Illinois Flooding
0.0 14,500.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Costs Associated with the Shared Services Initiative and Other Operational Expenses
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
ILEAS/MABAS Administration Costs
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Designated Purposes
212.1 14,756.2 256.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
For Federal Disaster Assistance State Match-Current and Prior Years’ Costs
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
3,468.6 17,655.2 3,172.5 2,692.8 2,692.8 2,692.8
Illinois Labor Relations Board
The Illinois Labor Relations Board (ILRB) acts to certify, modify and clarify bargaining units, and to investigate and remedy unfair labor practices.
The Illinois Labor Relations Board should be funded by those who utilize its services (unions, and to some degree, employers).
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,160.8 1,369.7 1,467.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
89.7 143.4 108.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
99.4 78.3 68.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Costs Associated with Implementation of Public Act 96-0042
94.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
94.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
1,444.3 1,591.4 1,644.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Illinois Violence Prevention Authority
The Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA) provides funding through grants to support community and statewide violence prevention programs and initiatives.
A collaborative public health and public safety approach to violence prevention can be organized within other departments and in the broader civic community.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Contractual Services
20.3 22.1 30.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Designated Purposes
Bullying Prevention 415.0 300.0 300.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Councils Program
676.8 598.3 600.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Neighborhood Recovery Initiative
0.0 33,500.0 33,500.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Safety Net Works 0.0 3,900.0 4,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Grants for Violence Prevention programs
0.0 700.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
1,091.8 38,998.3 38,400.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Grants for Violence Prevention Programs
2,330.9 1,438.1 1,583.9 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Rape Victims/Prevention Act
4,706.8 2,635.9 2,118.1 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Youth Programs 14,977.6 6,722.9 2,000.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Grants 22,015.3 10,796.9 5,702.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
23,127.5 49,817.3 44,132.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Workers Compensation Commission
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) is dedicated to resolving workers’ compensation disputes. It protects the rights of employees and employers under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Diseases Acts, and monitors employers covered by the acts to confirm that they are adequately insuring their liabilities. The IWCC evaluates and approves eligible employers that seek to insure themselves for their workers’ compensation liabilities. Finally, the IWCC compiles information on work-related injuries and diseases.
The Workers’ Compensation Commission does not rely on general funds.
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2011 Estimated
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2013 Alternative
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Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Department Of Insurance
The Department of Insurance (DOI) oversees the regulation and licensure of insurance companies and producers. DOI protects the rights of Illinois residents in their transactions with the insurance industry, applies regulatory standards and procedures, and enforces standards of professional practice and conduct.
The Department of Insurance does not rely on general funds.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Law Enforcement Training And Standards Board
The Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board promulgates standards for the selection and training of employees of law enforcement agencies both at the entry and advanced level. The board improves the quality of employee training and performance, provides financial aid, and through stakeholder assessment surveys, provides funding and support to address emerging needs.
The Illinois Law Enforcement Training And Standards Board does not rely on general funds.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Department Of Military Affairs
The Department of Military Affairs’ mission is to oversee and manage the daily operations of the Illinois National Guard (ILNG) and its related activities, and to function as the liaison between the federal and state government on all military affairs.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
6,534.5 7,133.3 8,080.8 6,420.0 6,420.0 6,420.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
3,042.2 4,209.7 4,209.7 3,788.7 3,788.7 3,788.7 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
462.5 228.8 228.8 205.9 205.9 205.9 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Expenses Related to the Care and Preservation of Historic Artifacts
7.4 7.4 7.4 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For Lincoln’s ChalleNGe
3,116.7 2,200.0 2,200.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For the State Officers’ Candidate School
0.0 0.7 0.7 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Transfer to the IL Military Family Relief Fund for Grants to Persons or Families of Persons who are Members of the IL National Guard or IL Residents who are Members of the Armed Forces
3,121.3 0.0 434.2 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
6,245.4 2,208.1 2,642.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
For Lincoln’s ChalleNGe Allowances
44.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 44.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
16,328.8 13,779.9 15,161.6 10,414.6 10,414.6 10,414.6
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Prisoner Review Board
The 15-member bipartisan board, supported by a staff of 22, is the final arbiter of decisions affecting the restoration or revocation of good conduct credit for inmates.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
947.1 1,003.8 1,148.5 903.4 903.4 903.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
197.9 103.6 209.5 93.2 93.2 93.2 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
135.6 124.3 160.2 111.9 111.9 111.9 Priorities
Total General Funds
1,280.6 1,231.7 1,518.2 1,108.5 1,108.5 1,108.5
Property Tax Appeal Board (Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund)
The Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) hears and adjudicates property tax assessment disputes statewide.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Costs Associated with the Appeal Process and the Reestablishment of a Cook County Office
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Office Of The State Fire Marshal
The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) regulates and promotes public safety and security through investigation, inspection, licensing, certification, plan review, public education, curriculum standard-setting, incident response, and both technical and financial assistance.
The Office of the State Fire Marshal does not rely on general funds.
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2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Department Of State Police
The Illinois State Police (ISP) promotes public safety to improve the quality of life in Illinois. ISP functions include protecting life and property, enforcing both criminal laws and motor vehicle safety laws, responding to emergencies and disasters, providing forensic services to local law enforcement statewide and providing a range of diverse specialized services to both the public and the criminal justice communities.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
229,898.3 234,046.7 236,685.3 210,642.0 210,642.0 210,642.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
9,036.7 9,576.9 9,908.0 8,619.2 8,619.2 8,619.2 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
21,998.8 23,000.0 23,429.6 20,700.0 20,700.0 20,700.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Statewide Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Program
62.5 60.0 60.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Shared Services and Other Operational Expenses
1,430.4 1,567.0 1,703.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and Related Casework
2,369.2 2,324.1 2,324.1 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Nursing Home Identified Offender Program
0.0 350.0 840.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Law Enforcement Purposes-Governor’s Lump Sum
0.0 4,510.2 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
State Law Enforcement Expenses
0.0 340.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Cadet Class Expenses 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Designated Purposes
3,862.0 9,151.3 4,927.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
For Tort Claims 315.4 335.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 Priorities
Total Grants 315.4 335.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0
Total General Funds
265,111.2 276,109.9 275,000.0 240,011.2 240,011.2 240,011.2
Illinois State Police Merit Board
The Illinois State Police Merit Board (ISPMB) is committed to recruit Illinois State Police (ISP) candidates, administer promotional processes for ISP officers and to oversee ISP officers’ disciplinary hearings.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
397.0 382.0 417.6 343.8 343.8 343.8 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
87.1 452.7 413.7 407.4 407.4 407.4 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
45.2 48.5 49.0 43.7 43.7 43.7 Priorities
Total General Funds
529.2 883.2 880.3 794.9 794.9 794.9
Department on Aging
The Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA) administers a service delivery system for the state’s seniors in coordination with 13 Area Agencies on Aging (AAA). The department’s major programs include the Community Care Program (CCP), which provides in-home care; adult day services; case management and other services to eligible seniors age 60 and older; and the Circuit Breaker/Illinois Cares Rx Program. The department also administers other supportive services that are funded through the federal Older Americans Act including home delivered meals, transportation, information and assistance, Elder Rights and the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program. Services are provided locally through the 13 AAAs and contracted service providers.
The largest savings in this area is from following Gov. Quinn’s proposal to eliminate funding for the property tax breaks and pharmaceutical subsidies for seniors. In addition to the questionable underpinnings of these set-asides, lower property values and higher federal subsidies make these programs redundant. Personal services and fringe benefits are reduced to FY 2009 levels.
Many of the Department of Aging’s programs can be – and already are, in many areas – organized via civil society. Volunteer-based activities, like the Intergenerational Programs, shouldn’t require state funding. Support groups, like those for grandparents raising grandchildren, can be organized outside of government should a demand for such services exist. Further, some programs offer duplicative employment services to those offered by other government agencies and private organizations.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
4,790.1 5,404.7 6,848.6 3,822.5 3,822.5 3,822.5 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
1,536.4 1,536.4 2,880.0 312.6 312.6 312.6 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
564.1 564.1 665.0 326.6 326.6 326.6 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Administrative Expenses of Senior Meal Program
31.1 31.1 31.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Elder Abuse and Neglect 9,937.8 9,937.8 9,937.8 9,937.8 9,937.8 9,937.8 Priorities
Illinois Council on Aging 18.0 18.0 18.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Program
302.9 302.9 242.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Monitoring and support services
267.2 267.2 267.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Intergenerational Programs 54.8 54.8 43.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Senior Employment Specialist Program
237.9 237.9 190.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Senior Helpline 1,577.7 2,155.3 2,155.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Home Delivered Meals (non-formula)
2,000.0 2,000.0 1,600.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Older Adult Services Initiatives
9.0 9.0 9.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Alzheimer’s related Activities and Programming, purchase services
94.2 94.2 94.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Circuit Breaker/Pharmaceutical Assistance
24,196.0 24,196.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Alzheimer’s Disease Task Force and Conference
11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
38,737.8 39,286.5 14,589.0 9,937.8 9,937.8 9,937.8
Grants
Case Management 40,885.7 48,431.1 58,856.8 48,431.1 48,431.1 48,431.1 Priorities
Home Delivered Meals and Mobile Food Equipment, Area Agencies
7,969.6 7,969.6 7,183.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Long-Term Care Systems Development, Area Agencies
248.8 248.8 248.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Community Care Program 549,672.0 516,894.1 701,440.9 314,285.4 314,285.4 314,285.4 Priorities
Ombudsman Program 351.9 351.9 351.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Community Based Services, Area Agencies
958.0 958.0 766.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Community Based Services 3,062.3 3,062.3 2,449.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Foster Grandparents Program
307.9 307.9 246.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Retired Senior Volunteer Program
703.8 703.8 563.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Planning and service grants to Area Agencies on Aging
2,241.7 2,241.7 1,793.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 606,401.7 581,169.2 773,900.8 362,716.5 362,716.5 362,716.5
Total General Funds 652,030.1 627,960.9 798,883.4 377,116.0 377,116.0 377,116.0
Department of Children and Family Services
The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) provides child welfare services in Illinois. The department conducts investigations of suspected child abuse and neglect, provides substitute care services for children who have been abused or neglected, finds permanent placements through adoption or guardianship arrangements for children who cannot return home, provides family preservation and reunification services, prepares youth for independence, and licenses day care facilities.
Illinois offers “human services” programs through a number of departments, including the Department on Aging, Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, and the Department of Human Services. Consolidation would offer cost savings in the areas of administrative and management costs, facilities management, and technology. The Taxpayer Action Board estimated that consolidation of human services delivery could result in savings of $155 million to $400 million annually.13
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
214,800.7 223,433.1 245,240.4 245,240.4 245,240.4 245,240.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
29,897.7 30,942.2 30,942.2 30,942.2 30,942.2 30,942.2 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
17,662.5 17,336.7 17,336.7 17,336.7 17,336.7 17,336.7 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Child Death Review Teams 114.5 120.0 120.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Cook County Referral Support System
186.8 247.2 247.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For Attorney General Representation on Child Welfare Litigation Issues
419.8 744.1 744.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Targeted Case Management 9,139.1 9,907.7 9,907.7 9,188.2 9,188.2 9,188.2 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
9,860.1 11,019.0 11,019.0 9,188.2 9,188.2 9,188.2
Grants
Adoption and Guardianship Services
165,481.4 153,338.0 137,867.6 137,867.6 137,867.6 137,867.6 Priorities
Cash Assistance and Housing Locator Services to families in Class Defined in Norman Consent Order
1,285.3 1,432.0 1,432.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Children’s Advocacy Centers
2,069.1 2,069.5 2,069.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Counseling and Auxiliary Services
11,879.7 12,128.5 12,128.5 12,128.5 12,128.5 12,128.5 Priorities
Department Scholarship Program
693.4 817.7 817.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Family Preservation 0.0 1,709.5 1,709.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Foster Homes and Specialized Foster Care
187,376.3 176,125.2 184,504.4 176,125.2 176,125.2 176,125.2 Priorities
Health Care Network 3,948.2 1,788.7 1,788.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Homeless Youth Services 3,612.7 3,259.8 3,259.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Institution and Group Home Care and Prevention
160,694.9 153,868.0 151,206.6 151,206.6 151,206.6 151,206.6 Priorities
MCO Technical Assistance and Program Development
1,350.0 1,600.5 1,600.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Pre-Admission/Post Discharge Psychiatric Screening
3,200.2 3,200.2 3,200.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Protective/Family Maintenance Day Care
25,896.3 25,928.5 25,928.5 24,632.1 24,632.1 24,632.1 Priorities
Psychological Assessments, Including Operations and Administrative Expenses
3,160.3 3,273.6 3,273.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Reimbursing Counties 338.5 338.5 338.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Services Associated with the Foster Care Initiative
6,692.4 6,812.2 6,812.2 5,449.8 5,449.8 5,449.8 Priorities
Tort Claims 44.6 164.9 164.9 164.9 164.9 164.9 Priorities
Youth in Transition Program 904.8 966.4 966.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 578,628.2 548,821.7 539,069.1 507,574.6 507,574.6 507,574.6
Total General Funds 850,849.2 831,552.7 843,607.4 810,282.1 810,282.1 810,282.1
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Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan
The Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) operates two state health benefits risk pools pursuant to the provisions of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. The plan is comprised of the Traditional CHIP pool and the HIPAA-CHIP pool. The HIPAA pool is funded by participant premiums and an assessment on the insurance industry; while traditional pool program costs are funded by participant premiums and state general funds. The plan is designed to provide access to health insurance coverage for eligible Illinois residents with pre-existing medical conditions who can afford, but are unable to find, adequate health insurance coverage in the private market.
The Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan’s budget mirrors Gov. Quinn’s proposed budget.
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Grants
Recoupment of Incurred Deficits Pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act
29,261.0 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 Priorities
Total Grants 29,261.0 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5
Total General Funds 29,261.0 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5 24,630.5
Department of Employment Security
The Department of Employment Security (DES) administers three major programs: Unemployment Insurance (UI), Employment Service (ES) and Labor Market Information (LMI). The UI program pays temporary benefits to unemployed workers and collects UI taxes from employers. The Employment Service is the federally funded labor exchange system that connects employers with qualified job seekers through the Internet-based Illinois Skills Match system and a number of specialized services. The Labor Market Information program collects, analyzes and disseminates economic and workforce development data in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Appropriations for unemployment compensation benefits to former state employees is recommended at half the level of Gov. Quinn’s proposal and $5.1 million more than historical levels due to staffing reductions. Budget Solutions 2012 expects to rely more on attrition and reassignment than does Gov. Quinn’s proposal.
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2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Unemployment Compensation Benefits to Former State Employees
6,907.7 6,907.7 24,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
6,907.7 6,907.7 24,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0
Total General Funds 6,907.7 6,907.7 24,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0 12,000.0
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Department of Healthcare and Family Services
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is responsible for providing healthcare coverage for children, adults, seniors and persons with disabilities who qualify for medical assistance programs, helping to ensure that Illinois children receive financial support from both parents, and administering the state’s healthcare services and employee health insurance purchasing. The department is organized into three major program areas: Medical Programs, Child Support Enforcement and the Office of Healthcare Purchasing. The agency also maintains an Office of the Inspector General that functions as an independent entity reporting directly to the Governor’s Office.
Medicaid should be a serious target for spending reform. However, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) prohibits states from changing eligibility rules in any way that would have the effect of reducing eligibility for Medicaid. The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has also indicated a lack of willingness to accept reimbursement rate changes that could affect providers’ willingness to accept Medicaid patients.
Alternatively, Illinois can modify or eliminate services (as opposed to changing eligibility criteria) and still qualify for the increased match as long as “change in the service has no potential impact on an individual’s ability to maintain Medicaid eligibility.” Additional savings can be achieved by implementing a mandatory managed care system and rebalancing long-term care away from institutions and toward lower-cost community care. The key takeaway is that the maintenance of effort stipulations do not prevent state government from taking real steps to better contain its ballooning Medicaid costs.
Another avenue for reform is transforming Medicaid from a fee-for-service program to a premium assistance program. State leaders should seek a waiver to transform Medicaid into a premium assistance program funded through a federal block grant. This will increase the size of the risk pool for individually purchased insurance products, reducing premiums for everyone. Spending changes are reflected as “Premium Assistance Reform” in this budget. See Appendix D for details.
At a time when soaring costs for pensions and Medicaid are crowding out the state’s core services, it is a moral obligation to make sure that funds are distributed in a fair and equitable manner.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
67,453.4 70,081.4 71,002.7 71,002.7 71,002.7 71,002.7 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
22,739.8 25,615.9 24,565.9 23,780.4 23,780.4 23,780.4 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
4,440.3 5,067.6 4,997.6 4,821.8 4,821.8 4,821.8 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Deposit into Child Support Administrative Fund
46,303.8 29,938.8 29,938.8 29,938.8 29,938.8 29,938.8 Accountability
Deposit into Independent Academic Medical Center Fund **
0.0 0.0 1,000.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Deposit into Medical Research and Development Fund **
0.0 0.0 6,400.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Last In First Out
Deposit into Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund **
0.0 0.0 6,400.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Last In First Out
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Reason
Electronic Medical Eligibility Verification System
693.2 1,296.3 1,296.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Medical Data Warehouse
3,834.8 3,700.1 3,700.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Medical Management Services
2,096.2 5,000.0 5,000.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Caro v. Blagojevich Legal Fees
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
52,928.0 39,935.2 53,735.2 29,938.8 29,938.8 29,938.8
Grants
AllKids Insurance Premium Rebate
7,328.2 8,231.7 7,141.3 4,391.9 1,464.0 0.0 Priorities
Altgeld Clinic 400.0 400.0 400.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Medical Assistance: Premium Assistance Reform
N/A N/A N/A 1,335,999.8 4,007,999.5 5,343,999.3 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Appliances
59,421.1 52,314.3 83,256.6 51,202.8 17,067.6 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Chiropractors
1,224.4 1,295.0 1,500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Medical Assistance: Community Health Centers
242,211.1 216,892.2 322,878.4 198,570.2 66,190.1 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Dentists
233,206.2 262,143.0 316,626.5 194,725.3 64,908.4 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Division of Specialized Care for Children
69,811.8 65,235.6 72,419.2 44,537.8 14,845.9 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Federal Medicare Expansion Part B Premiums
6,002.6 19,626.0 26,732.0 16,440.2 5,480.1 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Health Maintenance Organizations/Managed Care Entities
230,046.1 259,235.6 257,957.6 158,643.9 52,881.3 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Home Health Care
64,756.8 57,460.9 87,907.6 48,841.8 48,841.8 48,841.8 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Hospice Care
49,464.4 65,054.2 84,696.3 52,088.2 17,362.7 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Hospital In-Patient, Disproportionate Share and Ambulatory Care
2,408,817.3 2,822,474.6 2,411,451.0 1,483,042.4 494,347.5 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Independent Laboratories
36,134.9 34,508.8 53,936.5 33,170.9 11,057.0 0.0 Accountability
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Medical Assistance: Institutions for Mental Diseases
120,246.3 132,930.7 122,275.2 75,199.2 25,066.4 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Medicare Part A Premiums
1,656.3 19,558.5 17,521.1 10,775.5 3,591.8 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Medicare Part B Premiums
22,627.0 293,195.7 372,474.5 229,071.8 76,357.3 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Optometrists
34,331.6 49,019.2 61,752.3 37,977.7 12,659.2 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Other Related Medical Services
167,561.1 165,356.1 207,923.7 127,873.1 42,624.4 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Physicians
746,568.6 943,397.2 852,116.5 524,051.6 174,683.9 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Podiatrists
5,780.1 7,395.5 9,535.3 5,864.2 1,954.7 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Prescribed Drugs
749,964.7 604,432.3 1,165,617.0 716,854.5 238,951.5 0.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Skilled and Intermediate Long Term Care
533,321.1 552,327.2 700,366.4 651,340.8 651,340.8 651,340.8 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Supportive Living Facilities
91,594.7 119,464.7 115,829.0 101,545.0 101,545.0 101,545.0 Accountability
Medical Assistance: Transportation
71,740.7 58,350.2 69,261.3 42,595.7 14,198.6 0.0 Accountability
Medical Care: Chronic Renal Disease
571.8 990.6 644.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Medical Care: Hemophilia
14,862.1 11,597.1 14,307.2 11,597.1 11,597.1 11,597.1 Priorities
Medical Care: Sexual Assault Victims
1,929.9 1,783.2 2,006.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 5,971,580.9 6,824,670.1 7,438,533.2 6,156,401.4 6,157,016.4 6,157,323.9
Total General Funds
6,119,142.4 6,965,370.2 7,592,834.6 6,285,945.2 6,286,560.2 6,286,867.7
NOTE: Medicaid 5,946,488.9 6,801,667.5 7,414,034.0 6,140,412.4 6,143,955.3 6,145,726.8
Department Of Human Rights
The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) is an investigative and regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the Illinois Human Rights Act. The department promotes civil rights and attempts to reduce discrimination in Illinois through policies and programs that encourage voluntary compliance with human rights laws.
Budget Solutions 2012 maintains funding for personnel, contractual services, and other operations at fiscal year 2011 levels.
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
6,621.7 6,140.3 7,210.9 6,140.3 6,140.3 6,140.3 Priorities
Total Contractual Services 0.0 186.8 186.8 186.8 186.8 186.8 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 221.4 221.4 221.4 221.4 221.4 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Equal Employment Opportunity Cases/Elementary and Higher Ed Processing
0.0 1,005.4 1,255.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes
0.0 155.0 155.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Operational Expenses 2,782.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
2,782.7 1,160.4 1,410.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 9,404.4 7,708.9 9,029.5 6,548.5 6,548.5 6,548.5
Human Rights Commission
The primary responsibility of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) is to adjudicate complaints of unlawful discrimination filed under the Illinois Human Rights Act. HRC also rules on Requests for Review filed after dismissal or default orders are entered by the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
Recommended changes fall under “spending fairness,” where government expenditures to improve the public welfare are prioritized over spending to improve the welfare of specific groups. There is significant overlap between other branches of state government that protect the rights of Illinoisans; in order to better serve citizens, these departments should be streamlined. Additionally, the Department of Human Rights administers the Illinois Human Rights Act, and responsibility for review should be returned to the Department, rather than having a separate commission for review.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,506.8 1,645.0 1,981.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
160.0 120.0 135.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
88.2 62.3 62.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Governor’s Discretionary Appropriation
0.0 375.0 600.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 375.0 600.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 1,755.0 2,202.3 2,778.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Department Of Human Services
The Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) provides residents with access to integrated services.
Much of the Department of Human Services’ spending is pass-through contributions to private non-profit organizations. If Illinois residents feel inclined to make charitable contributions to particular cause, like food banks, they should be free to give to those that are of personal interest and concern. Yet Illinois state government picked winners and losers over a spectrum of causes – many of which are already generously funded by private associations. For example, in Fiscal Year 2011 the Department of Human Services gave:
• $59,210 to CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation,14 which had a fund balance of $2,905,477 at the end of 2008.15 • $387,194 to City Year,16 which had a fund balance of $33,643,624 at the end of 2008.17
• $86,095 to the Erikson Institute,18 which had a fund balance of $43,142,146 at the end of 2008.19
The alternative budget spending allocations mirror Governor Quinn’s spending recommendations in most areas. One area of significant difference is Addiction Treatment Services. To the extent these programs work, they can ease the burden on Medicaid services. Budget Solutions 2012 reduces spending from estimated FY2011 levels by half instead of eliminating funds.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
700,104.7 729,781.9 814,924.3 651,939.4 651,939.4 651,939.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
152,826.6 159,687.4 171,261.4 137,009.1 137,009.1 137,009.1 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
41,183.7 46,371.8 48,695.5 38,956.4 38,956.4 38,956.4 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Indirect Cost Principles 3,226.8 2,820.2 2,820.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Project Cornerstone 719.0 645.9 668.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Sexually Violent Persons Program
1,681.1 1,756.1 1,756.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Support Services In-service Training
13.5 16.1 16.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Health and Safety Improvements
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Health Insurance Portability
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Howe Developmental Center and Transitional Services
31,868.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Lincoln Developmental Center Operational Expenses
503.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
TANF Reauthorization Infrastructure
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
38,012.8 5,238.3 5,261.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Grants
Addiction Treatment/Medicaid Eligible
55,971.5 43,034.9 41,432.8 52,234.9 52,234.9 52,234.9 Priorities
Aid to Aged, Blind or Disabled
30,039.3 30,514.7 15,607.3 24,411.8 24,411.8 24,411.8 Priorities
ARC of IL Life Span Project
531.0 477.9 477.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Best Buddies 450.0 500.0 500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Case Services Migrant Workers
20.0 20.0 20.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Case Services to Individuals
9,450.7 9,513.3 9,513.3 9,513.3 9,513.3 9,513.3 Priorities
Child Care Services 609,559.8 618,042.3 284,697.8 227,758.2 227,758.2 227,758.2 Accountability
DCFS Clients 10,293.3 7,720.0 9,793.3 9,793.3 9,793.3 9,793.3 Priorities
DCFS Community Integrated Living Arrangements
2,288.1 2,371.5 2,371.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Developmental Disability Services
994,179.6 755,278.0 781,188.4 624,950.7 624,950.7 624,950.7 Priorities
Developmental Disabilities Transitions
16,467.6 6,448.1 6,448.1 6,448.1 6,448.1 6,448.1 Priorities
Domestic Violence Shelters
18,964.6 10,882.0 8,796.8 9,793.8 9,793.8 9,793.8 Priorities
Early Intervention Program
76,709.0 69,038.1 82,518.1 62,134.3 62,134.3 62,134.3 Priorities
Emergency Food Program 212.0 245.8 233.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Employability Development Services
14,184.2 17,372.7 8,077.7 5,385.1 5,385.1 5,385.1 Accountability
Food Stamp Employment and Training
7,289.0 8,707.2 3,880.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Home and Community Based Waiver
302.5 468.8 505.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Home Services Program 552,295.8 532,464.8 579,281.3 289,640.7 289,640.7 289,640.7 Accountability
Immigrant Integration Services
8,542.9 4,829.7 2,244.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Independent Living Centers
4,515.8 4,520.8 2,893.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Independent Living Older Blind
142.7 142.6 142.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Infant Mortality 43,178.0 41,423.9 38,938.5 33,876.5 42,471.8 42,471.8 Priorities
Living Skills 160.5 189.2 189.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Mental Health Children and Adolescent Grants
32,574.6 33,435.9 32,235.9 28,045.2 28,045.2 28,045.2 Priorities
Mental Health Community Transitions
19,370.2 23,806.9 22,908.3 21,426.2 21,426.2 21,426.2 Priorities
Mental Health Grants 195,074.7 145,687.9 112,215.3 112,215.3 112,215.3 112,215.3 Priorities
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Mental Health Individual Care Grants
23,585.1 27,550.5 26,050.5 22,663.9 26,988.2 26,988.2 Priorities
Mental Health Supportive Housing
0.0 7.4 18,588.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Parents Too Soon 6,915.1 6,939.7 6,939.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Project for Autism 4,893.8 4,410.0 4,410.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Refugee Social Services 471.9 471.9 221.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Refugees 2,837.5 3,855.3 1,185.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Special Services 8,139.4 8,120.7 8,143.9 7,308.6 7,308.6 7,308.6 Priorities
SSI Advocacy Services 1,364.3 1,588.4 1,738.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Teen Parents Services 5,620.3 2,923.6 1,432.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
96,464.7 85,941.3 94,642.2 77,347.2 77,347.2 77,347.2 Priorities
Tinley Park Mental Health Center and Transitional Services
17,880.7 20,525.7 21,364.6 18,473.1 18,473.1 18,473.1 Priorities
Tort Claims 5,579.6 2,914.2 500.0 500.0 500.0 500.0 Priorities
Tort Claims Employees 2.3 11.5 11.5 11.5 11.5 11.5 Priorities
Welfare Reform Pilot (Addict Treat)
2,381.4 1,323.8 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
State Family and Child Assistance Program
1,674.8 1,263.6 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
State Transitional Assistance
12,117.9 9,636.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Put Illinois to Work 0.0 107,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Mental Health Transportation
929.2 1,176.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Methamphetamine Awareness
1,198.1 671.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Mental Health Psychotropic Medications
2,646.0 2,646.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Implement Title VI Part C-Vocational Rehabilitation
981.4 1,054.6 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Funeral and Burial Expense
10,766.8 3,435.9 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse Demo Project
548.7 411.5 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Assets for Independence 218.1 218.1 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Children’s Place 656.6 492.4 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Community Mental Health Partnership
2,332.2 1,871.4 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Community Reintegration Program
1,342.1 1,710.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Crisis Nurseries 424.9 318.7 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Addiction Prevention Related Services
4,754.5 2,662.6 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Addiction Treatment Services
69,014.7 47,050.2 0.0 23,525.1 23,525.1 23,525.1 Accountability
Addiction Treatment-Special Population
7,741.7 4,552.3 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 2,996,251.0 2,719,891.9 2,232,340.5 1,667,456.9 1,680,376.5 1,680,376.5
Capital Improvements
Permanent Improvements 1,850.4 1,569.6 1,569.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Capital Improvements
1,850.4 1,569.6 1,569.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 3,930,229.1 3,662,540.9 3,274,052.3 2,495,361.9 2,508,281.4 2,508,281.4
Illinois Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Commission
The Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission (IDHHC) represents the interests of the deaf and hard of hearing population by advocating for the improvement and coordination of services to ensure full communication access.
Those who advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing certainly have a worthy cause, and their voices should be heard. However, in a time of budget crisis – and when the needs of the hearing impaired are addressed through other government agencies – this commission need not be taxpayer-funded. Recommended changes fall under “spending fairness,” where government expenditures to improve the public welfare are prioritized over spending to improve the welfare of specific groups.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
482.8 493.8 528.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
101.9 91.6 89.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
57.0 37.2 47.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Expenses Related to the Operation of the Commission
5.9 18.4 18.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
5.9 18.4 18.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 647.6 641.0 684.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Illinois Council On Developmental Disabilities
The Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities (ICDD) promotes initiatives to coordinate services that support and assist people with developmental disabilities and their families.
The Illinois Council On Developmental Disabilities does not rely on general funds.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Guardianship And Advocacy Commission
The Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission (GAC) was established to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities.
Those who advocate for people with disabilities have an important cause, and their voices should be heard. However, in a time of budget crisis – and when the needs of the disabled are also addressed through other government agencies – this commission need not be taxpayer-funded. Recommended changes fall under “spending fairness,” where government expenditures to improve the public welfare are prioritized over spending to improve the welfare of specific groups.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
7,826.9 8,711.6 9,861.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Contractual Services
354.2 354.2 354.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
563.8 563.8 563.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total General Funds
8,744.9 9,629.6 10,779.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Department of Juvenile Justice
The Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) rehabilitates youth with educational programming, vocational training, and other services to help them successfully transition back into the community.
Budget Solutions 2012 maintains personnel, contracted services and community based youth services at fiscal year 2011 levels.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
89,825.5 93,542.6 106,790.4 93,542.6 93,542.6 93,542.6 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
21,260.6 20,714.5 21,643.2 20,714.5 20,714.5 20,714.5 Priorities
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Other Operations and Refunds
4,375.4 5,130.1 6,059.5 5,130.1 5,130.1 5,130.1 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Statewide Hospitalization
18.2 40.1 40.1 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Designated Purposes
18.2 40.1 40.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services
9,529.8 12,684.6 12,684.6 12,684.6 12,684.6 12,684.6 Priorities
Redeploy Illinois 2,355.0 2,534.9 2,534.9 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Tort Claims 0.0 200.0 200.0 200.0 200.0 200.0 Priorities
Unified Delinquency Intervention Services
2,173.3 2,122.9 2,122.9 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Reimbursement to Counties for State’s Share of Assistant State’s Attorneys’ Salaries
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Sheriffs’ Fees for Conveying Youth
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 14,058.1 17,542.4 17,542.4 12,884.6 12,884.6 12,884.6
Capital Improvements
Repair and Maintenance
237.0 200.0 600.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Total Capital Improvements
237.0 200.0 600.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
129,774.8 137,169.7 152,675.6 132,271.8 132,271.8 132,271.8
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Department of Public Health
The Illinois Department of Public Health (DPH) is dedicated to the prevention and control of disease and injury. With more than 200 programs organized in nine offices, the department provides and supports a broad range of services.
If Illinois residents feel inclined to make charitable contributions to particular medical causes, they should be free to give to those that are of personal interest and concern. Further, few medical conditions are actually public health concerns: cancer and ALS are tragedies for affected families, but are not communicable. Budget Solutions 2012 takes the same sum approach to HIV / AIDS funding that Gov. Quinn took in his proposal.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
40,060.2 40,808.8 45,273.7 30,606.6 30,606.6 30,606.6 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
9,080.9 8,135.7 8,135.7 6,101.8 6,101.8 6,101.8 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
2,762.8 3,150.6 3,150.6 2,363.0 2,363.0 2,363.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Breast and Cervical Sum 0.0 0.0 17,050.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Assisted Living and Shared Housing Program
377.6 217.6 217.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Childhood Immunization Program
94.6 204.3 204.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Prostate Cancer Awareness and Screening Program
267.2 300.0 195.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Homeland Security lab capacity and statewide communication
595.0 430.0 430.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Women’s Health promotion 1,519.9 997.0 997.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Public Health Prevention Systems
421.2 721.6 721.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Rapid Response Team 823.8 486.7 486.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Adverse Health Care Events Reporting and Patient Safety Initiative
851.8 848.9 848.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Reporting System Program in support of infant mortality reduction
340.7 340.7 340.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Environmental Health Surveillance and Prevention Activities
324.6 408.3 408.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
State Cancer Registry, including Matching Funds for National Cancer Institute Grants
159.9 159.9 159.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Adoption Registry 65.7 140.6 140.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Public Health Information Network
0.0 59.2 59.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Lead Poisoning Screening, Prevention and Abatement Fund
1,200.0 1,100.0 1,100.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
HIV/AIDS Lump Sum 0.0 0.0 27,399.5 20,726.2 20,726.2 20,726.2 Accountability
Center for Rural Health 294.7 403.1 403.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Clinical and Environmental Public Health Laboratory Services
3,213.4 3,442.0 3,442.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Health Information Systems - Health Screening Programs
147.7 113.6 113.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Vital Records System 185.7 191.6 191.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Regional Data Base System 14.1 25.5 25.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
AIDS/HIV Prevention and Outreach for Minorities
2,783.4 3,150.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
AIDS/HIV Education, Services, Prescription Drugs, CTRPN and Patient and Worker Notification
31,362.9 25,431.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
AIDS Hotline 326.7 355.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Breast and Cervical Cancer Screenings
12,491.9 14,450.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
HIV in correctional facilities 1,899.3 1,940.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Center for Minority Health 3,892.8 4,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
250.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Prostate Cancer Public Awareness Initiatives
1,094.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Designated Purposes
64,998.9 59,917.1 54,935.1 20,726.2 20,726.2 20,726.2
Grants
Emergency and Transitional Housing
8,833.0 9,104.9 4,428.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
IL Violent Death Reporting System-Children’s Memorial Hospital
174.0 174.0 87.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
IL Poison Control Center 1,344.5 1,344.5 1,344.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Immunizations and Outreach Activities
4,202.6 4,261.1 4,261.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Vision and Hearing Screening Programs
532.8 596.0 387.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Healthy Families Grants 9,644.9 10,123.0 10,123.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Homelessness Prevention 2,400.0 2,400.0 1,000.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Intensive Prenatal Performance Program
4,075.7 3,857.0 3,857.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Local Health Protection grants
17,098.5 17,098.5 17,098.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Perinatal Services 1,104.6 1,136.9 1,136.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
U of I Chicago Sickle Cell Clinic
0.0 1,200.0 780.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Family Planning Contraceptive
734.6 309.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
ALS 1,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Community Health Center Expansion (FQHC)
3,287.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Community and Migrant Health Centers
150.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Family Practice Residency Act
343.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Hospital grants to diversify services and convert to facilities that are less dependent on Acute Care Bed capacity
134.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Matching grants to community based organizations for Comprehensive Primary Care
75.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Medical Scholarships 1,346.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Supportive Housing Services 3,300.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Grants 59,783.0 51,605.8 44,503.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 176,685.8 163,618.0 155,998.5 59,797.5 59,797.5 59,797.5
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) is organized into four major programs: Veterans’ Homes, State Grants and Services, State Approving Agency and Veterans’ Field Services. IDVA’s mission is to assist veterans, their dependents and survivors in obtaining benefits.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
50,143.7 60,275.5 63,396.7 54,248.0 54,248.0 54,248.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
831.2 892.4 914.2 803.2 803.2 803.2 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
1,234.9 1,570.0 1,501.3 1,413.0 1,413.0 1,413.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Homeless Veterans’ Program 514.2 776.9 753.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Illinois Warrior Assistance Program
311.9 300.0 300.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Outpatient Counseling
50.0 200.0 200.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Veterans’ Conservation Corps
0.0 10.0 10.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
876.1 1,286.9 1,263.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Bonus Payments to War Veterans and Peacetime Crisis Survivors
424.3 550.0 347.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Cartage and Erection of Veterans’ Headstones
401.1 413.6 550.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Educational Opportunities for Children of Certain Veterans
99.8 140.0 163.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 925.2 1,103.6 1,061.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 54,011.1 65,128.4 68,137.5 56,464.1 56,464.1 56,464.1
Illinois Arts Council
The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) promotes the arts by offering both financial and professional assistance to individual artists and arts organizations.
When the state is strapped for cash – and when both taxpayers and core services are suffering – certain items do not make the state’s top-priority list.
Funding for the arts and related programs belong in the private sector, which has demonstrated its ability and inclination to support cultural endeavors. Chicago in particular is known for its world-class entertainment, which draws talent from around the globe. Strangely, the state is still providing money to many of the city’s most prestigious organizations, despite their star power and expansive donor base. For example, in 2009 the Illinois Arts Council gave $60,000 in grants to the Art Institute of Chicago,20 which had a fund balance of $1 billion on June 30, 2008.21
Last year, Budget Solutions 2011 recommended that the state completely de-fund the Illinois Arts Council. We would recommend the same this year. That said, a number of the Arts Council’s programs would be eligible for review and, possibly, renewal under our proposed Competitive Grant Funding initiative. The CGF review process, with its priorities on improving the core functions of government, would not favor the programs below. But in the event that any or all of the programs below were restored, the Arts Council would need to privately raise cash to cover personnel expenses. Budget Solutions 2012 would eliminate general fund support for salaries at benefits at the Arts Council.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,315.1 1,274.2 1,420.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
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Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Contractual Services
121.8 125.0 275.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Other Operations and Refunds
48.8 116.5 244.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Designated Purposes
Travel and meeting expenses of Arts Council and Panel members
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Grants
Grants and financial assistance for arts education
300.3 160.0 500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Grants and financial assistance for arts organizations
3,053.0 3,969.3 4,352.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Grants and financial assistance for targeted constituencies
463.2 300.0 500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Grants to public radio and television stations and related administrative expenses
1,815.3 1,850.0 1,850.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Grants to the Illinois Humanities Council for administrative and grant expenses
322.8 330.0 330.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
International Grant Awards
65.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Grants to public radio and television stations for operating costs
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Grants 6,019.6 6,609.3 7,532.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 7,505.4 8,125.0 9,471.9 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
If Illinois truly requires a central agency for historic preservation, voluntary donations can support it. There is sufficient private philanthropic interest to support such an agency. Most of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s funding is eliminated below. In the event that any of its grant programs were restored through the Competitive Grant Funding initiative, the agency would need to privately fundraise to cover salary and benefit costs.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
10,047.9 8,022.2 8,716.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
1,431.7 1,466.2 1,466.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
439.3 528.3 528.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
On-Line Computer Library Center
50.4 94.9 94.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Operational expenses of the Lewis and Clark Historic Site in Madison County
106.2 279.1 279.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Costs associated with the Main Street Program
89.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Historic Site Operations
64.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Presidential Museum Operations
100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Expenses related to or in support of the Amistad Commission
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Lincoln Bicentennial 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Shared Service 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
410.4 374.0 374.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Lincoln Bicentennial 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
12,329.3 10,390.7 11,084.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Department of Natural Resources The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages the natural and cultural resources of the state and provides outdoor recreational opportunities.
The Department must focus on fundamentals and terminate programs that are not core governmental services. For example, the Environment and Nature Training Institute for Conservation Education sponsors educator workshops, including topics such as “Online Illinois Frogs and Toads” (registration fee: $25) and “The Effects of Climate Change on Illinois Plants” (registration fee: $10).22 These should be fully funded through user fees.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
37,863.6 33,872.0 41,580.9 27,097.6 27,097.6 27,097.6 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
5,011.7 6,542.4 6,519.0 5,233.9 5,233.9 5,233.9 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
3,852.9 4,738.9 5,458.9 3,791.1 3,791.1 3,791.1 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Dam Safety Program 0.0 60.4 60.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
DUI/OUI Equipment 0.0 0.0 25.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Interest Penalty Escrow
0.0 0.0 0.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Water Development Program
517.4 567.0 1,450.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Operational Expenses of the Department
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Coordinating training and education programs for miners
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Environment and Nature Training Institute for Conservation Education (E.N.T.I.C.E.)
199.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Operational Expenses 1,173.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Wildlife Prairie Park operations and improvements
670.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
2,560.0 627.4 1,536.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
49,288.2 45,780.7 55,095.0 36,122.6 36,122.6 36,122.6
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Office Of The Governor
The governor and his or her staff are responsible for managing the executive branch and overseeing state agencies as they implement programs and services for the State of Illinois. The Office of the Governor also coordinates with the legislative branch in preparing and passing an annual state budget, and promoting and enacting new laws.
The Office of the Governor should not be immune from budget reductions, and reductions from the governor’s budget come as an example of fiscal prudence.
Cutting back on subscriptions and association dues is one area for efficiencies. In 2008, the Governor’s Office spent $5,450.00 on a subscription to the Federal Funds Information for States. The FFIS “helps states to manage their federal funds by providing timely analysis of the impact of federal actions on states.” The subscription service is a joint service provided by the National Conference of State Legislators and the National Governors Association, an association the state already pays $176,200 in association dues.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
4,526.2 4,940.5 4,940.5 3,159.8 3,159.8 3,159.8 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
641.3 680.0 680.0 612.0 612.0 612.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
655.7 695.3 695.3 625.8 625.8 625.8 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Expenses Related to Ethnic Celebrations, Special Receptions and Other Events
47.2 50.0 50.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Repairs and Maintenance
18.9 20.0 20.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
66.0 70.0 70.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Discretionary Lump Sum
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Human Service Programs Lump Sums
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Total Grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
5,889.1 6,385.8 6,385.8 4,397.6 4,397.6 4,397.6
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Office Of The Lieutenant Governor
The Lieutenant Governor is first in line of succession should the Office of the Governor become vacant, and she or he serves as chairperson for a variety of councils.
Proposals are now being aired to abolish of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. Illinois was unharmed by the fact that the office was unfilled for almost two years. As such, the lieutenant governor should be required to justify any administrative expense through our proposed Competitive Grant Funding initiative.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor
112.7 112.9 2,001.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Governor’s Allocation for Lt. Gov’s Operating Expenses
0.0 1,250.0 0.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Expenses of the Illinois River Coordinating Council
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Operational and Grant Expenses of the Rural Affairs Council
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Designated Purposes
112.7 1,362.9 2,001.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
112.7 1,362.9 2,001.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Office Of The Secretary Of State
The Office Of The Secretary of State in involved with issuing driver licenses and registering vehicles, promoting organ donation awareness, overseeing the Illinois State Library and administering the state’s literacy efforts.
Practically all of the Secretary of State’s funding comes from outside the general funds. Budget Solutions 2012 recommends that much of the Secretary of State’s general funding be contingent on the Competitive Grant Program.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
79,620.8 244,608.8 202,045.7 195,687.0 195,687.0 195,687.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
32,488.0 0.0 31,337.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 7,300.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Costs Previously Payable from the Road Fund
129,512.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
For Costs Associated with the Constitutional Convention
0.0 0.0 0.0 Last In First Out
Total Designated Purposes
129,512.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Grants to Public Libraries
15,050.5 15,667.8 8,782.4 7,833.9 7,833.9 7,833.9 Fairness
Annual Library Technology Grants and Purchase of Equipment and Services
0.0 0.0 35.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Grants for School Libraries
0.0 0.0 214.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For the Penny Severns Summer Family Literacy
0.0 0.0 250.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Illinois Libraries for Project Next Generation
0.0 0.0 325.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
0.0 0.0 865.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Literacy Programs 0.0 0.0 3,718.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
The Chicago Public Library
0.0 0.0 1,432.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Tuition and Fees for Illinois Archival Depository Systems Interns
0.0 0.0 45.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 15,050.5 15,667.8 15,667.8 7,833.9 7,833.9 7,833.9
Capital Improvements
Capitol Complex Security
0.0 0.0 3,500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Repairs, Maintenance and Permanent Improvements to Various Buildings Under Jurisdiction of the Secretary of State
0.0 0.0 425.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Capital Improvements
0.0 0.0 3,925.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
256,671.4 260,276.6 260,276.6 203,520.9 203,520.9 203,520.9
Executive Ethics Commission
The Executive Ethics Commission meets at least once a month to fulfill its duties with respect to oversight of executive branch employees’ ethics training.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses
440.7 5,000.0 7,000.0 7,000.0 7,210.0 7,426.3 Accountability
Total Designated Purposes
440.7 5,000.0 7,000.0 7,000.0 7,210.0 7,426.3
Total General Funds 440.7 5,000.0 7,000.0 7,000.0 7,210.0 7,426.3
Office Of Executive Inspector General
The Office of Executive Inspector General (OEIG) is an independent state agency established under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act to investigate reports of alleged violations of laws, rules, regulations and policies on the part of state employees, appointees and officials, and those, such as contractors, who conduct business with the State of Illinois.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
For Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of the Office of Executive Inspector General
5,787.7 6,114.3 8,531.3 8,531.3 8,787.2 9,050.9 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Designated Purposes
5,787.7 6,114.3 8,531.3 8,531.3 8,787.2 9,050.9
Total General Funds 5,787.7 6,114.3 8,531.3 8,531.3 8,787.2 9,050.9
Office of the Attorney General
The primary mission of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is to protect the public interest and act on behalf of the state and the people of Illinois. To fulfill this mission, the OAG works to protect consumers, safeguard our communities, assist crime victims, advocate for older citizens, preserve the environment, ensure open and honest government and defend the civil rights of the people of Illinois.
The Office Of The Attorney General’s budget savings comes primarily from labor and benefit costs.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
26,097.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Lump Sum, Inspector General and Equal Justice Foundation
1,887.4 1,887.5 1,887.5 1,887.5 1,887.5 1,887.5 Priorities
Lump Sum, Operations
4,577.5 30,705.7 30,705.7 24,564.6 24,564.6 24,564.6
Total Designated Purposes
6,464.9 32,593.2 32,593.2 26,452.1 26,452.1 26,452.1
Grants
IL Equal Justice Grant 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Fairness
Total Grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
32,562.6 32,593.2 32,593.2 26,452.1 26,452.1 26,452.1
Judges’ Retirement System
The Judges’ Retirement System administers a program of retirement annuities and other benefits for judges and associate judges of any court and the director of the Office of the Illinois Courts.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Judicial Inquiry Board
The Judicial Inquiry Board has the responsibility to receive and initiate complaints concerning a judge of the State of Illinois. The board conducts investigations, and files and prosecutes complaints against judges before the Illinois Courts Commission.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
340.6 353.2 356.3 317.9 317.9 317.9 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
252.4 315.0 315.0 283.5 283.5 283.5 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
19.0 42.2 38.0 38.0 38.0 38.0 Priorities
Total General Funds 612.0 710.4 709.3 639.4 639.4 639.4
Office Of The State Appellate Defender
When appointed by an Illinois Appellate Court, the Office of the State Appellate Defender attorneys represent indigent defendants on direct appeal statewide.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
16,635.2 16,563.8 17,588.2 12,422.9 12,422.9 12,422.9 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
2,424.2 2,237.2 2,378.7 1,677.9 1,677.9 1,677.9 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
1,101.3 1,186.7 1,233.9 890.0 890.0 890.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Expungement Information Program
273.5 275.2 242.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Federally Assisted Programs
63.2 65.0 65.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Juvenile Defender Resource Center
0.0 0.0 297.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Public Defender Training
61.0 67.0 67.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Student Intern Program
0.0 0.0 69.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Deposit to Federal Trust Fund
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Designated Purposes
397.7 407.2 741.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
20,558.4 20,394.8 21,942.2 14,990.8 14,990.8 14,990.8
Office Of The State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor
The Office of the State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor represents the state on appeal in all cases originating in Appellate Districts of fewer than 3 million inhabitants upon the request and at the direction of state’s attorneys otherwise responsible for prosecuting the appeals.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
4,974.3 4,973.3 5,148.6 3,978.6 4,098.0 4,220.9 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
805.9 815.4 840.2 652.3 671.9 692.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
163.4 165.4 199.5 132.3 136.3 140.4 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Continuing Legal Education
125.0 125.0 125.1 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Criminal Justice General Revenue Match Fund
65.8 65.8 85.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Criminal Proceedings Techniques and Methods of Trauma Elimination or Reduction for Children as Witnesses
60.0 60.0 60.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Law Intern Program 40.0 40.0 40.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Legal Publications 2.5 2.5 2.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
293.3 293.3 313.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
To the State Treasurer for Expenses Incurred by State’s Attorneys for Filing Appeals in Cook County
2,038.7 1,700.0 1,700.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Training Program for Continuing Legal Education through the Department of Justice on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
252.3 250.0 100.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 2,291.0 1,950.0 1,800.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 8,527.9 8,197.4 8,301.7 4,763.3 4,906.2 5,053.4
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Supreme Court & Illinois Court System
The state’s judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court, an Appellate Court and Circuit Courts.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
211,084.9 212,978.3 223,057.4 168,404.6 168,404.6 189,702.5 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
6,794.1 6,991.5 7,201.3 5,593.2 5,593.2 6,292.4 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
9,497.3 13,384.5 13,786.0 10,707.6 10,707.6 12,046.1 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Circuit Clerks Additional Duties
0.0 663.0 663.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Counsel and Expert Witnesses Pursuant to the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act
0.0 379.6 379.6 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Probation Reimbursements
36,485.5 35,442.9 81,395.7 56,977.0 56,977.0 56,977.0 Priorities
Mandatory Arbitration
16,000.0 20,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
52,485.5 56,485.5 82,438.3 56,977.0 56,977.0 56,977.0
Grants
Grants for Public Defenders’ Salaries
5,700.0 6,500.0 6,800.0 6,800.0 6,800.0 6,800.0 Priorities
State’s Share of State Attorneys’ and Assistant State’s Attorneys’ Salaries, Including Prior Year Costs
14,067.0 13,300.0 14,248.0 14,248.0 14,248.0 14,248.0 Priorities
Total Grants 19,767.0 19,800.0 21,048.0 21,048.0 21,048.0 21,048.0
Capital Improvements
Permanent Improvements
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Capital Improvements
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
299,628.8 309,639.8 347,531.0 241,682.4 241,682.4 265,017.9
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Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission
The Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission assists and advises the Court in regard to the acquisition, collection, documentation, preservation, cataloging, and related matters with respect to historic aspects of buildings, objects, artifacts, documents, and information, regardless of form, relating to the Illinois judiciary.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Court Of Claims
The Court of Claims adjudicates claims made against the State of Illinois.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,016.9 1,315.8 1,315.8 1,184.2 1,184.2 1,184.2 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
173.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 46.2 46.2 41.6 41.6 41.6 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Reimbursement for Incidental Expenses Incurred by Judges
0.0 35.3 35.3 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Reimburse GRF 0.0 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
0.0 41.6 35.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Claims other than Crime Victims
0.0 10,000.0 10,000.0 9,000.0 9,000.0 9,000.0 Priorities
Claims under the Line of Duty Act
8,504.4 14,000.0 14,000.0 12,600.0 12,600.0 12,600.0 Priorities
Funds held by the State Treasurer
0.0 500.0 500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Payment of Awards 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Payment of Claim 0.0 581.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Payment of Claims 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Claims 199.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Line of Duty Awards -- Supplemental
1,993.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Operational Expenses, Awards, Grants and Permanent Improvements
21,114.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Supplemental Claim for Nathson Fields, Tort, Against DOC
199.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Supplemental for Claims Under the Crime Victims Compensation Act
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Supplemental for Lapsed Wexford Claims
10,807.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Supplemental for Torts Against DOC
398.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Claims under the Crime Victims Compensation Act
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 48,212.7 25,081.4 24,500.0 21,600.0 21,600.0 21,600.0
Total General Funds
49,403.0 26,485.0 25,897.3 22,825.8 22,825.8 22,825.8
General Assembly
The General Assembly enacts, amends, and/or repeals laws, passes resolutions, adopts appropriation bills, and conducts inquiries on proposed legislation. It also acts on amendments to the United States Constitution and proposes and submits amendments to the Illinois Constitution for consideration by voters. In addition to legislative responsibilities, the Senate is constitutionally delegated the responsibility of advising and consenting to most gubernatorial appointments to state offices, boards, and commissions.
The General Assembly should not be immune from budget reductions, and this alternative budget makes reductions from the legislature’s budget as an example of fiscal prudence.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
All Costs Associated with the National Conference of State Legislatures
335.4 341.6 341.6 290.4 290.4 290.4 Fairness
Allowances for Services of Officers of Senate: Minority Leader
0.0 83.5 83.5 71.0 71.0 71.0 Fairness
Allowances for Services of Officers of Senate: President
0.0 83.5 83.5 71.0 71.0 71.0 Fairness
Construct/Reconstruct Senate Offices (to Senate Operations Commission)
75.0 113.7 113.7 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Expenses in Connection with Redistricting as Required by the Illinois Constitution for the Speaker -- Reappropriation
19.0 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 Fairness
For House Standing Committees
2,151.0 2,382.2 2,382.2 2,024.9 2,024.9 2,024.9 Fairness
For Standing Committees for Expert Witnesses, Technical Service and Other Research Assistance
1,514.9 2,100.8 2,100.8 1,785.7 1,785.7 1,785.7 Fairness
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of Legislative Leadership and Legislative Staff Assistants: Minority Leader
4,444.7 5,295.1 5,295.1 4,500.8 4,500.8 4,500.8 Fairness
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of Legislative Leadership and Legislative Staff Assistants: President
4,102.6 5,295.1 5,295.1 4,500.8 4,500.8 4,500.8 Fairness
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of Legislative Leadership and Staff Assistants: Minority Leader
4,751.1 4,903.6 4,903.6 4,168.1 4,168.1 4,168.1 Fairness
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of Legislative Leadership and Staff Assistants: Speaker
4,902.6 5,109.6 5,109.6 4,343.2 4,343.2 4,343.2 Fairness
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses, Including Purchase on Contract Printing, Binding, Paper, and Office Supplies
61.4 95.0 95.0 80.8 80.8 80.8 Fairness
Ordinary and Incidental Expenses of Committees, General Staff and Operations, Transcribing and Printing of Senate Debates
2,941.0 4,036.0 4,036.0 3,430.6 3,430.6 3,430.6 Fairness
Ordinary and Incidental Expenses of General Staff, Operations and Standing Committees
4,771.3 5,346.1 5,346.1 4,544.2 4,544.2 4,544.2 Fairness
Ordinary and Incidental Expenses of Senate, Including Purchase on Contract Printing, Binding, and Office Supplies
145.5 214.2 214.2 182.1 182.1 182.1 Fairness
President of the Senate 4,633.0 4,900.8 4,900.8 4,165.7 4,165.7 4,165.7 Fairness
Redistricting for Senate Minority Leader
250.0 750.0 750.0 637.5 637.5 637.5 Fairness
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Redistricting for Senate President
0.0 750.0 750.0 637.5 637.5 637.5 Fairness
Redistricting for House Minority Leader
250.0 750.0 750.0 637.5 637.5 637.5 Fairness
Redistricting for House Speaker
246.2 750.0 750.0 637.5 637.5 637.5 Fairness
Speaker of the House of Representatives
7,690.8 8,190.3 8,190.3 6,961.8 6,961.8 6,961.8 Fairness
Travel, Including Expenses to Springfield For Official Business When General Assembly is Not in Session
4.9 57.7 57.7 49.0 49.0 49.0 Fairness
Travel, Including Expenses to Springfield For Official Business When General Assembly is Not in Session
4.1 30.4 30.4 25.8 25.8 25.8 Fairness
Total Designated Purposes
43,294.4 51,579.6 51,579.6 43,746.1 43,745.7 43,745.7
Total General Funds 43,294.4 51,579.6 51,579.6 43,746.1 43,745.7 43,745.7
General Assembly Retirement System
The General Assembly Retirement System provides retirement annuities, survivors’ annuities, and other benefits for members of the General Assembly, certain elected state officials and their beneficiaries.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability
The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, a bipartisan, joint legislative commission, provides the Illinois General Assembly with information relevant to the Illinois economy, taxes, and other sources of revenue and debt obligations of the state.
Our funding recommendations for CoGFA largely mirror those of Gov. Quinn
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
833.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
COGFA Operational Lump Sums
1,084.2 1,643.4 6,932.9 6,932.9 6,932.9 6,932.9 Priorities
Assumption of Duties from the Pension Law Commission
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Compensation Review Board Expenses
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
1,084.2 1,643.4 6,932.9 6,932.9 6,932.9 6,932.9
Total General Funds 1,084.2 1,643.4 6,932.9 6,932.9 6,932.9 6,932.9
Joint Committee On Administrative Rules
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, a bipartisan legislative oversight committee, is authorized to conduct systematic reviews of administrative rules promulgated by state agencies. The committee conducts several integrated review programs, including a review program for proposed emergency and peremptory rulemaking, a review of new public acts and a complaint review program.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
871.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Operational Lump Sum 139.1 1,040.7 1,040.7 868.9 868.9 868.9 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
139.1 1,040.7 1,040.7 868.9 868.9 868.9
Total General Funds 139.1 1,040.7 1,040.7 868.9 868.9 868.9
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Legislative Audit Commission
The Legislative Audit Commission is responsible for the oversight of the State Audit Program, review of the stewardship of public funds, and the monitoring action to correct weaknesses disclosed by the audits of state agencies.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
192.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Designated Purposes
Operational Lump Sum 33.7 233.5 233.5 233.5 233.5 233.5 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
33.7 233.5 233.5 233.5 233.5 233.5
Total General Funds 225.9 233.5 233.5 233.5 233.5 233.5
Legislative Ethics Commission
The Legislative Ethics Commission promulgates rules governing the performance of its duties and the exercise of its powers and governing the investigations of the Legislative Inspector General.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses of the General Assembly’s Office of the Inspector General
91.0 312.5 312.5 312.5 312.5 312.5 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
91.0 312.5 312.5 312.5 312.5 312.5
Total General Funds 91.0 312.5 312.5 312.5 312.5 312.5
Legislative Information System
The Legislative Information System is the legislative support service agency responsible for providing the computer services and technical guidance required by the General Assembly and its committees, commissions and agencies.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
2,561.1 0.0 2,656.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 456.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 1,312.0 1,236.0 1,236.0 1,236.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
General Assembly Electronic Data Processing Equipment, and Any Other Operational Purposes of the General Assembly
649.0 0.0 742.0 742.0 742.0 742.0 Priorities
Operational Lump Sum 1,820.2 4,832.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
2,469.2 4,832.2 742.0 742.0 742.0 742.0
Total General Funds 5,030.3 4,832.2 5,166.7 1,978.0 1,978.0 1,978.0
Legislative Printing Unit
The Legislative Printing Unit provides printing services to members of the General Assembly, legislative committees and commissions, and other legislative agencies in accordance with the policies established by the Joint Committee on Legislative Support Services, and with reasonable rules promulgated by the Legislative Printing Unit.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,325.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Operational Lump Sum 738.6 2,160.0 2,160.0 1,872.0 1,872.0 1,872.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
738.6 2,160.0 2,160.0 1,872.0 1,872.0 1,872.0
Total General Funds 2,063.8 2,160.0 2,160.0 1,872.0 1,872.0 1,872.0
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Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislative Reference Bureau carries out a wide range of functions relating to the legal and technical operation of the General Assembly. The bureau drafts and prepares legislation, which includes bills, amendments, resolutions and conference committee reports.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,296.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Operational Lump Sum
1,380.8 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
1,380.8 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0
Total General Funds
2,677.7 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0
Legislative Research Unit
The Legislative Research Unit is the chief general research agency for the Illinois General Assembly. The unit’s statutory duty is to collect information concerning the government and general welfare of the state, examine the effects of constitutional provisions and previously enacted statutes, consider important issues of public policy and questions of state wide interest, and perform research and provide information as may be requested by members of the General Assembly.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,296.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Operational Lump Sum 1,380.8 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 Priorities
Expenses of the Legislative Staff Intern Program, Including Stipends, Tuition and Administration for 20 Persons
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
For Model Illinois Government Activities
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
New Members Conference 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Zeke Giorgi Memorial Intern Program
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Designated Purposes
1,380.8 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0
Total General Funds 2,677.7 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0 2,931.0
Office Of The Architect Of The Capitol
The Office of the Architect of the Capitol provides facilities and meeting space needs for the Illinois General Assembly and its supporting commissions and bureaus. The office’s goal is to provide a more functional facility, with flexible and efficient space utilization, resulting in effective processes and procedures.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
323.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Additional Operational Lump Sum
0.0 180.0 180.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Operational Lump Sum 926.0 1,489.5 1,489.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
926.0 1,669.5 1,669.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 1,249.8 1,669.5 1,669.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Office Of The State Comptroller
The comptroller acts as the chief fiscal officer for the State of Illinois. The Illinois Office of the Comptroller (IOC) manages the state’s central financial accounts by recording and processing fund and accounting transactions, and pre-auditing grants, contracts and requests for payment. IOC orders payments from state treasury-held funds through the issuance of warrants and electronic fund transfers, and provides leadership on fiscal issues affecting the State of Illinois and its citizens.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
84,784.0 93,298.1 93,532.5 74,638.5 74,638.5 74,638.5 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 8,300.2 8,538.2 6,640.2 6,640.2 6,640.2 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
396.0 3,215.5 5,793.5 2,572.4 2,572.4 2,572.4 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Contingencies in Event Amounts Appropriated for State Officer or General Assembly Expenses are Insufficient
0.0 1,598.1 1,620.7 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Court Reporters - IOC admin 0.0 750.0 750.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Expenses of Local Government Officials Training
0.0 12.5 12.5 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Merit Commission Expenses 0.0 93.0 93.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses for the Office of Inspector General
0.0 0.0 70.0 70.0 70.0 70.0 Priorities
Pension Bill 0.0 103.0 103.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
IOC Operations Lump Sum 12,486.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Designated Purposes
12,486.7 2,556.6 2,649.2 70.0 70.0 70.0
Total General Funds 97,666.7 107,370.4 110,513.4 83,921.0 83,921.0 83,921.0
Office Of The State Treasurer
The treasurer is the state’s chief investment officer, acting as both custodian and investor of state funds. The treasurer receives all taxes and fees collected by state government, and deposits them with financial institutions across the state. The treasurer also serves as part of the state’s financial management team, verifying the sufficiency of funds prior to countersigning all state warrants.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
5,143.1 5,639.4 5,639.4 4,511.5 4,511.5 4,511.5 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
651.2 903.4 903.4 722.7 722.7 722.7 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
9,783.4 10,114.9 10,114.9 8,091.9 8,091.9 8,091.9 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Operational expenses for the Office of the Inspector General
188.9 260.0 260.0 260.0 260.0 260.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
188.9 260.0 260.0 260.0 260.0 260.0
Total General Funds 15,766.6 16,917.7 16,917.7 13,586.2 13,586.2 13,586.2
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Office Of The Auditor General
The Illinois Constitution and State Auditing Act charge the auditor general with the responsibility of auditing and reviewing the receipt, obligation and use of public funds.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
5,372.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Operations 963.8 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0
Total Designated Purposes
963.8 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0
Total General Funds 6,336.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0 6,807.0
Procurement Policy Board
The PPB’s mandate is the facilitation of procurement policy for the State of Illinois.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Designated Purposes
Ordinary and Contingent Expenses
271.7 586.0 597.8 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
271.7 586.0 597.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Total General Funds
271.7 586.0 597.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accountability
Governor’s Office Of Management And Budget
The Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) prepares the governor’s annual state budget and advises the governor on the availability of revenues and the allocation of resources to agency programs.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,822.4 1,817.1 2,026.7 1,635.4 1,635.4 1,635.4 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
145.2 165.0 765.0 148.5 148.5 148.5 Priorities
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Other Operations and Refunds
154.0 233.1 245.4 209.8 209.8 209.8 Priorities
Total General Funds 2,121.6 2,215.2 3,037.1 1,993.7 1,993.7 1,993.7
Capital Development Board
As the construction management agency for state government, the Capital Development Board (CDB) oversees the construction of state facilities, such as prisons, universities, mental health hospitals and state parks.
The Capital Development Board does not rely on general funds.
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total General Funds
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Department Of Central Management Services
The Department of Central Management Services (CMS) functions include purchasing, real estate, information technology, telecommunications, internal audit and legal services for the state’s executive agencies, personnel and benefits for employees and retirees, and the employee and vendor diversity programs.
Budget savings comes primarily from labor and benefit costs.
Continuing tuition programs, like the Upward Mobility Program, asks taxpayers to pay tuition for public employees to earn degrees that will help them “to advance to more challenging, higher paying positions.” Public employees should pay for their continuing education, especially if it leads to pay increases.
Governor Quinn Budget Solutions
2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
1,155,163.8 703,028.0 1,447,496.8 632,725.2 632,725.2 632,725.2 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
30,880.6 21,393.0 20,001.1 20,001.1 20,001.1 20,001.1 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
2,205.1 1,042.0 1,134.7 937.8 937.8 937.8 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Awards to Employees and Expenses of the State Government Suggestion Award Board
0.0 8.2 8.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
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2010 Actual
2011 Estimated
2012 Proposed
2012 Alternative
2013 Alternative
2014 Alternative
Reason
For Broadband Network
8,317.2 8,269.8 8,900.0 2,055.2 2,055.2 2,055.2 Accountability
For Expenses of the Upward Mobility Program
4,330.1 4,721.6 5,000.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For Nurses’ Tuition 48.4 80.0 85.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For the Governor’s/Vito Marzullo’s Internship Program
384.7 545.6 547.9 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For Veterans’ Job Assistance Program
198.5 228.5 282.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For Wage Claims 1,310.6 1,309.5 1,309.5 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
GRF State Surplus 1,388.3 175.2 500.0 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Lump Sum GSA Cars 0.0 3,609.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
For Costs Associated With the Shared Services Initiative and Other Operational Expenses
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Designated Purposes
15,977.7 18,948.3 16,632.8 2,055.2 2,055.2 2,055.2
Grants
For Auto Liability, Adjusting and Administration of Claims, Loss Control and Prevention Services and Auto Liability Claims
1,598.4 1,600.2 1,600.2 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
For Payment of Claims Under the Representation and Indemnification in the Civil Lawsuits Act
2,414.5 1,347.4 1,347.4 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Grants 4,012.9 2,947.6 2,947.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
1,208,240.1 747,358.9 1,488,213.0 655,719.3 655,719.3 655,719.3
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Department of Revenue
The Department of Revenue (DOR) serves as the tax collection agency for state and local governments. The department regulates riverboat gaming and the state’s horse racing industry, administers the state’s lottery, and regulates the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages. The department oversees local property tax assessments, administers grant program payments for local officials, and functions as the fiscal agent for the Illinois Housing Development Authority.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
71,717.9 79,226.4 87,505.0 71,303.8 71,303.8 71,303.8 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
6,702.0 7,135.6 7,784.4 6,422.0 6,422.0 6,422.0 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
23,773.9 28,208.1 34,354.5 25,387.3 25,387.3 25,387.3 Priorities
Designated Purposes
For Costs Associated with the Shared Services Initiative and Other Operational Expenses
2,258.1 1,973.2 2,654.6 CGF CGF CGF Competitive Grant
Total Designated Purposes
2,258.1 1,973.2 2,654.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Additional Compensation for County Treasurers per Public Act 84-1432
428.0 265.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Additional Compensation for Local Assessors per Sections 2.3 and 2.6 of the Revenue Act of 1939 as Amended
189.9 140.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Additional Compensation for Local Assessors, per Section 2.7 of the Revenue Act
382.9 264.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Annual Stipend for Sheriffs as Provided in Subsection (d) of Section 4-6003 and Section 4-8002 of the Counties Code
428.0 265.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Annual Stipend to County Auditors
71.3 44.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
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Annual Stipend to County Coroners Pursuant to 55 ILCS 5/4-6002, Including Prior Year Costs
423.8 265.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
State’s Share of County Supervisors of Assessments’ Salaries
1,906.6 1,190.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Grants for Public Defenders’ Salaries
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
State’s Share of State Attorneys’ and Assistant State’s Attorneys’ Salaries, Including Prior Year Costs
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Total Grants 3,830.5 2,433.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds
108,282.4 118,977.1 132,298.5 103,113.1 103,113.1 103,113.1
State Board of Elections
The State Board of Elections (the Board) administers elections and election laws in Illinois. The Board disseminates information to and consults with election authorities concerning the conduct of elections and voter registration in accordance with the laws of Illinois and the United States.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
3,925.5 4,817.1 4,818.6 3,853.7 3,853.7 3,853.7 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
1,001.4 1,088.5 1,089.0 870.8 870.8 870.8 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
484.2 516.5 515.0 413.2 413.2 413.2 Priorities
Designated Purposes
Census 2010 Rediscricting Program - For Completion of Phase II of the Census 2010 Redistricting Program Pursuant to Public Act 94-141
85.1 90.0 90.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For FY2009 Costs Related to Development and Implementation of Statewide Electronic Voter Canvassing Operations & Reporting System Project
0.0 125.0 192.4 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
For HAVA Maintenance of Effort Contribution - State
550.0 550.0 550.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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Implementation and Operations of Voting System Testing and Integrity Center
0.0 250.8 694.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Replacement of IDIS Campaign Disclosure Reporting Application
59.3 100.0 100.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Gov’s Lump Sum Allocation for Statewide Election
0.0 2,000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Addititional Maintanence of Effort for One-Time Federal Funding Made Available in Fiscal Year 2010.
299.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Interest Payment-General Counsel
0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Interest Payment-Administration
3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Interest Payment-Campaign Disclosure
0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Interest Payment-Elections Division
10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
Interest Payment-Information Technology
6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Priorities
For Additional State Match Requirement and Interest on Previously Received Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Funding (per EAC special audit report E-HP-IL-07-06), and Fund Estimated State Match on Additional Federal HAVA funds to be Received During FY2009
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Last In First Out
Reimburse Federal Government for Disallowed HAVA Program Expenditure per Federal Election Assistance Commission Special Audit (report E-HP-IL-07-06)
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Last In First Out
Total Designated Purposes
1,014.5 3,115.8 1,626.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
Grants
Awards to County Clerks, Recorders and Chief Election Clerks as Compensation for Additional Duties per Public Act 90-713
804.9 403.0 806.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
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For FY2009 Reimbursement and Assistance to Local Election Jurisdictions for Ongoing Support Costs, and SBE Maintenance of Local Election Jurisdiction Interfaces for the Illinois Voter Registration System Database
1,642.9 1,580.4 2,666.3 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Reimburse Counties for Election Judges and Other Officials - Early Voting Assistance
520.6 1,300.0 1,300.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Reimburse Counties for Increased Compensation to Judges and Other Officials
2,152.3 2,700.0 2,700.0 CGF CGF CGFCompetitive
Grant
Expense of Election Authority for Voter Registration Tapes
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Last In First Out
Total Grants 5,120.6 5,983.4 7,472.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total General Funds 11,546.1 15,521.3 15,521.3 5,137.7 5,137.7 5,137.7
Illinois Gaming Board
The Gaming Board consists of five members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. The Gaming Board administers a regulatory and tax collection system for casino gambling in Illinois. The Gaming Board also has comprehensive law enforcement responsibilities associated with casino gambling in Illinois.
The Illinois Gaming Board does not rely on general funds.
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0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Illinois Racing Board
The Illinois Racing Board was created in 1933 and its legal mandate is defined in the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. The mission of the Illinois Racing Board is to regulate horse racing through the enforcement of the Act and its rules and regulations and to ensure the honesty and integrity of Illinois racing and wagering.
The Illinois Racing Board does not rely on general funds.
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0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council
The Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council manages the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund. Primary council responsibilities include: licensing retail drycleaners, providing environmental remediation liability insurance coverage, and assisting in the cleanup of soil and groundwater contaminated by dry cleaning solvents.
The Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council does not rely on general funds.
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0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) hears and determines employee appeals of discharges, suspensions, transfers, allocations, layoffs and demotions under the Personnel Code and Rules.
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Total Personal Services and Fringe Benefits
267.4 239.1 267.8 215.2 215.2 215.2 Accountability
Total Contractual Services
66.6 65.1 70.2 58.6 58.6 58.6 Accountability
Total Other Operations and Refunds
22.3 25.6 31.1 23.0 23.0 23.0 Accountability
Total General Funds 356.4 329.8 369.0 296.8 296.8 296.8
State Employees Retirement System
The State Employees Retirement System (SERS) provides retirement annuities, survivors’ annuities, and other benefits for state employees.
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47.9 2,449.6 60.9 2,082.2 2,082.2 2,082.2 Priorities
Total Contractual Services
25.0 25.7 29.4 23.1 23.1 23.1 Priorities
Total Other Operations and Refunds
1.8 2.2 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 Priorities
Total General Funds 74.7 2,477.5 92.5 2,107.3 2,107.3 2,107.3
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Competitive Grant Funding
Budget Solutions 2012 proposes a new approach to state spending called Competitive Grant Funding. Inspired by competitive programs at the federal level, the program seeks to pilot a process that sets a new, high standard for programs hoping to receive taxpayer dollars.
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Grant Funding 0.0 0.0 0.0 150,000.0 150,000.0 150,000.0
Total General Funds 0.0 0.0 0.0 150,000.0 150,000.0 150,000.0
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Appendix A. State Spending Examples Found via IllinoisOpenGov.org
In 2009, the Illinois Policy Institute launched IllinoisOpenGov.org, which gives Illinois taxpayers a clear look into how state government spends their hard-earned tax dollars, down to the agency, person and penny. The site contains information on state employee payroll, checks to businesses and people and state retiree pensions. The following spending examples come directly from IllinoisOpenGov.org and highlight spending choices that should receive extra scrutiny before being repeated in the future.
The expenses below were incurred between July 1, 2009 and April 16, 2010.
Statewide: $3,782,545 for Association DuesSeventy-three state agencies paid almost $3.8 million for association dues. Twelve agencies spent more than $100,000 on association dues, the State Board of Education ($455,901), the Department of Transportation ($373,647), and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity ($298,217) spent the most. Statewide: $1,283,798 on Registration Fees and Conference ExpensesSixty-eight agencies spent nearly $1.3 million on registration fees and conference expenses. The Department of Transportation, the Department of Human Services, and the University of Illinois incurred the largest expenses, each spending more than $100,000. Statewide: $1,406,623 on SubscriptionsVarious state agencies spent $1.4 million on subscriptions to vendors such as Gatehouse Media IL Holdings II ($11,090), Ahead of Our Time Publishing ($9,450) and XM Satellite Radio Inc. ($6,958).
Statewide: $2,885,766 on Prizes, Premiums and AwardsSeven state agencies spent a combined total of $2,885,766 on prizes, premiums and awards. The Department of Agriculture was responsible for over 98 percent of the expenditures, spending $2,837,019 on this category of spending. The Department of Natural Resources spent the second highest amount at $30,994.
Statewide: $86,631 for Employee Moving ExpensesFive state agencies incurred a total of $86,631 in employee moving expenses. Southern Illinois University had the largest expenses at $46,077, followed by the Department of Transportation with $35,220.
Statewide: $31,275 for Interviewee ExpensesVarious state agencies had $31,275 in interviewee expenses. The University of Illinois had the largest expenditure with $17,046, followed by the Department of Transportation ($7,721) and the Mathematics and Science Academy ($2,342).
Statewide: $19,803,867 for In-State Travel ExpensesEighty-eight state agencies had in-state travel expenses, with the expenses for twenty-six agencies exceeding $100,000.
Statewide: $7,073,923 for Passenger Automobiles Twelve state agencies had passenger automobile expenditures, including the General Assembly ($48,390), the Supreme Court ($39,052) and Governors State University ($17,799).
Statewide: $664,093 on Video Conferencing Various state agencies spent $664,093 on video conferencing, with the State Policy and the Department of Human Services each spending more than $150,000. The next largest expenditure came from the Department of Corrections with $74,155.
Statewide: $6,927,825 on AdvertisingFifty state agencies incurred nearly $7 million in advertising expenditures. Almost three-quarters of the expenditures came from the Department of Transportation ($5,082,930), and six agencies spent more than $150,000 on advertising.
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Appendix B. Transfers from General Revenue Fund to Selected Special State Funds, FY 2009
Illinois has over 300 special state funds that are separate from the General Revenue Fund, yet many receive “transfers in” from the General Revenue Fund. Greater transparency on the revenue sources and spending allocations of these funds will help taxpayers better determine their continuing value. During tight budgetary times, closing these funds or at least reducing the “transfers in” from general funds offers significant savings.
Transfers from General Revenue Fund to Selected Special State Funds, FY 2009
Special State Fund TransferLocal Government Distributive Fund $1,118,193,676Public Transportation Fund $309,087,820Downstate Public Transportation Fund $100,150,517School Infrastructure Fund $63,318,678Metropolitan Exposition Auditorium and Office Building Fund $37,922,811Workers’ Compensation Revolving Fund $34,411,237Tourism Promotion Fund $30,634,255Agricultural Premium Fund $23,765,389Audit Expense Fund $16,716,175Estate Tax Collection Distributive Fund $16,495,182Live and Learn Fund $15,678,000Capital Litigation Fund $12,032,352Partners for Conservation Fund $8,166,667Presidential Library and Museum Operating Fund $7,450,000Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund $6,712,519Professional Services Fund $6,696,600Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund $5,000,000Digital Divide Elimination Fund $5,000,000Illinois Veterans’ Rehabilitation Fund $4,681,700State Treasurer’s Bank Services Trust Fund $4,185,000Build Illinois Fund $1,665,662Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders Fund $1,601,429Violence Prevention Fund $1,400,000Corporate Headquarters Relocation Assistance Fund $1,168,427Illinois Standardbred Breeders Fund $1,119,987Fair and Exposition Fund $1,107,662Youth Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Prevention Fund $1,068,900Intercity Passenger Rail Fund $715,750Federal Financing Cost Reimbursement Fund $384,881Municipal Economic Development Fund $138,704Assistance to the Homeless Fund $30,993Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund $25,892Illinois Military Family Relief Fund $21,090Penny Severns Breast Cervical and Ovarian Cancer Research Fund $20,244Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund $18,699Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fund $16,971Child Abuse Prevention Fund $14,962Illinois Veterans’ Homes Fund $14,783Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund $10,314Lung Cancer Research Fund $3,901Autoimmune Disease Research Fund $3,318Domestic Violence Shelter and Service Fund $245Total $1,836,851,394
Source: Illinois Comptroller, Detailed Annual Expenditures Report, 200923
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Appendix C. State Funding to Local Governments
Illinois state government redistributes billions in tax revenues to local governments—including money from the state income tax, corporate personal property replacement tax, motor fuel tax, gaming tax, state sales tax and use tax. This accounts for a significant portion of the state’s total expenditures. In addition to education funding, the state sent $5.1 billion of revenue to counties, municipalities, townships, public library districts, park districts, fire protection districts and special purpose districts across the state in fiscal year 2009. 24
Since 1995, local governments have received 10 percent of the state personal and corporate income tax receipts, with revenues allocated to county and municipal governments on a per-capita basis through the Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF). The Taxpayer Accountability and Budget Stabilization Act, signed into law on January 13, 2011, increased the state personal income tax and corporate income tax rates, but called for income revenue above 2010 personal and corporate income tax levels to be withheld from the LGDF. To keep the LGDF revenue share equal to 2010 income tax levels, the overall percent of shared income tax revenue decreased (see graphic 1).
Graphic 1. State Income Tax Revenue Sharing with Local Governments
Income Tax Revenue Shared
Personal Tax Corporate Tax
August 1, 1969 - June 30, 1994 8.3% 8.3%
July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1995 9.1% 9.1%
July 1, 1995 - December 31, 2010 10% 10%
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2014 6.0% 6.9%
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2024 8.0% 9.1%
January 1, 2024 - 9.2% 10%
Source: Illinois Department of Revenue, Taxpayer Accountability and Budget Stabilization Act (SB2505)
According to the Illinois Department of Revenue, in fiscal year 2009, $1.26 billion of state income tax went to local governments through the LGDF.25 A survey by the Illinois Comptroller of 95% of local governments found that the state income tax accounted for approximately 4.7 percent of local government revenues in fiscal year 200926. If the state returned to the 2004 state income tax distribution total of $843 million (in 2009 inflation-adjusted dollars)27 in 2009, the state could have saved over $400 million to use on core state services.
Graphic 2. Income Tax Disbursements to Local Governments, Actual and Inflation-Adjusted
Source: Illinois Department of Revenue, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Illinois Policy Institute calculations
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Budget Solutions 2012 recommends that most transfers of general revenues be stopped. This would result in a significant reduction to funds transferred into the Local Government Distributive Fund. On balance, most local governments can afford to budget without LGDF assistance. If, however, lawmakers felt that the LGDF should maintain a fund balance above what Budget Solutions 2012 would allow, they could examine replenishing funds from other non-general-revenue sources that are passed on to local governments through antiquated formulas.
The state should revisit the Taxpayer Action Board recommendations from June 2009 to review the various local government funding sources to maximize government efficiencies and “encourage regional, unified and inter-jurisdictional cooperation (versus competition) among local governments.”28 Some state pass-through funds account for a small portion of local government revenues. But this revenue, along with significant spending reform at the state level, could help put the state balance its budget.
Graphic 3. Local Government Distributive Fund Share of Local Revenue, Fiscal Year 2008
Local Government Total Revenue LGDF Receipts*LGDF % of Total
Revenue
Cook County $2,813,000,000 $9,696,698 0.3%
DuPage County $384,633,854 $9,515,544 2.5%
Will County $312,788,666 $8,358,901 2.7%
Champaign County $73,139,613 $3,117,934 4.3%
Madison County $123,373,096 $5,078,185 4.1%
Hoffman Estates $96,225,652 $4,786,874 5.0%
Jo Daviess County $16,064,411 $1,026,095 6.4%
Rock Island $60,258,520 $3,649,674 6.1%
Town of Normal $65,339,428 $4,646,151 7.1%
City of Carbondale $34,300,000 $2,356,801 6.9%
City of Decatur $85,300,000 $7,537,123 8.8%
Source: County and Municipal Budgets,29 Illinois Department of Revenue, Illinois Policy Institute calculations*Receipt data calculated to match local government 2008 fiscal year calendar.
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Appendix D. Medicaid Premium Assistance ReformMedicaid costs continue to grow year after year and crowd out core government services (see Graphic 1). Even with the increased spending, access to care continues to be an issue. To address these problems, the state could transform Medicaid into a premium assistance program. Budget Solutions 2012 requires the state reform its Medicaid system as follows.
To achieve this, the state could implement the “Patients First Medicaid Reform Act,” developed by the American Legislative Exchange Council. This legislation would create and fund Medical Savings Accounts (MSA) for Medicaid enrollees, which can be used to pay for a high-deductible health policy and Health Savings Account (HSA) funds.
The MSA subsidies are means tested. As a Medicaid MSA patient earns more in income, his premium assistance would fall since his ability to pay would be greater. However, if the patient earned enough to no longer qualify for Medicaid, he could still keep his MSA plan but would simply no longer receive subsidies for premiums, which he would have to pay himself. .
Graphic 1. Total Illinois General Funds Medicaid Spending (adjusted for inflation)
Source: National Association of State Budget Officers, State Expenditure Reports Inflation calculated using the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis CPI Calculator
Graphic 2. Medicaid Spending as a Percentage of Total State Expenditures
Source: National Association of State Budget Officers
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With an HSA and high deductible health insurance plan, the interest-bearing, tax-free HSA handles routine health care expenditures through withdrawals. Once the insurance deductible is reached, private insurance pays for 100 percent of health care. HSA-compatible health plans are significantly less expensive than traditional PPOs or HMOs, 30 and the consumer-directed nature of HSAs empowers individuals to monitor their health care costs and create incentives for individuals to use only those services that are necessary.
In order to pursue premium assistance reform, the state would need to seek a Medicaid waiver from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to receive federal funding as a five-year block grant. Rhode Island’s recent experience with a federal block grant for Medicaid (Global Consumer Choice Compact Medicaid Waiver) produced promising results, including $150 million of savings in the first 18 months. Gary Alexander, the Rhode Island Health Secretary, cites the Medicaid savings as “the sole reason why Rhode Island possessed a state budget surplus in 2010.”31 Reforming Medicaid into a premium assistance program will limit the state’s Medicaid liability to a certain amount per enrollee, making budgeting more predictable.
Such a reform would also benefit Medicaid enrollees. With an HSA-compatible health plan, beneficiaries would have greater access to care as providers are more willing to accept patients on private insurance. 32 Also, the beneficiary could keep the plan without the state subsidies once they are no longer eligible for Medicaid, alleviating disruptions to health insurance coverage. 33 This added population to the private insurance pool could also lower the rates for everyone in the private market, which would help make private insurance more affordable. 34
Reforming Medicaid is a difficult and complex task, but it is vital to ensuring the sustainability of this program for our most vulnerable populations. Innovative solutions like the “Patients First Medicaid Reform Act” create a win-win solution for states to provide better healthcare access to those who need it most while maintain fiscal responsibility.
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Appendix E. Expenditures for Average Midwest Family, Income $59,908
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Appendix F. Fiscal Year 2011 Operating Appropriations by Major Purpose: Quinn Budget and Budget Solutions
Education 35.46%
Medicaid 27.59%
Human Services 20.63%
Public Safety 6.03%
Government Services 9.57%
Economic Development
0.42%
Quality of Life 0.28%
Quinn Budget: General Funds
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Endnotes
1 Illinois Office of the Comptroller, Comptroller’s Quarterly 2011: http://www.ioc.state.il.us/common/getLocalFile.cfm?fileName=CQJan2011.pdf
2 Illinois Policy Institute, “Budget Solutions 2010: No Superpowers Required,” May 26, 2009, “http://www.illinoispolicy.org/uploads/files/superpowersnotrequired_brief.pdf.
3 The Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability at the Civic Federation, “A Fiscal Rehabilitation Plan for the State of Illinois,” February 22, 2010, http://civicfed.org/sites/default/files/IllinoisFiscalRehabilitationPlan.pdf.
4 Inflation calculated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis’s Consumer Price Index calculator, http://www.minneapolisfed.org/?year=2000&dollarAmount=22.4&yearto=2010&result=.
5 U.S. Census Bureau, “National and State Population Estimates: Annual Population Estimates 2000 to 2009,” http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html.
6 U.S. Census Bureau, “National and State Population Estimates: Annual Population Estimates 2000 to 2009,” http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html.
7 For two of the most recent assessments of preschool benefits in general, see: Todd E. Elder and Darren H. Lubotsky, 2009, “Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children’s Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers,” Journal of Human Resources 44(3):641-683. For a recent assessment of Head Start – the well-funded longstanding preschool program of the federal government – see an official U.S. Department of Health and Human Services evaluation of the program, released in January 2010, which found practically no lasting benefits for participating students: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/impact_study/reports/impact_study/executive_summary_final.pdf.
8 Elizabeth Milnikel & Emily Satterthwaite, “Regulatory Field, Home of Chicago Laws: Burdensome Laws Strike Out Chicago Entrepreneurs,” Institute for Justice, May 2009. http://tinyurl.com/yd5s5pn.
9 Jon Hilkevitch, “Rate rises to No. 1 when cost of living considered,” Chicago Tribune, March 8, 2010, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-getting-around-0308-20100307,0,5220916.column?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chicagotribune%2Fnews%2Flocal+%28Chicago+Tribune+news+-+Local+news%29.
10 Illinois Policy Institute, “CTA Looking In All Of The Wrong Places,” November 26, 2007, http://www.illinoispolicy.org/uploads/files/CTA_Policy_Brief.pdf.
11 Pew Charitable Trusts, “Pew Analysis Shows Amtrak Lost $32 Per Passenger in 2008,” October 27, 2009, http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=55638.
12 Randal O’Toole, “Taking Illinoisans for a Ride: The False Promises of High-Speed Rail,” Illinois Policy Institute, July 9, 2009, http://tinyurl.com/highspeedrailil.
13 Illinois Taxpayer Action Board, “Report of the Taxpayer Action Board,” June 2009, http://tinyurl.com/Illinoistab.
14 Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal, Human Services, “Awards & Grants – Lump Sum, Grants to Non-Profit Orgs,” http://accountability.illinois.gov/Expenditures/Agency/Contracts.aspx?Year=2011&Agency=444&Category=4900&Detail=4480&Contract=*&Vendor=38da2468-0196-4d91-8191-35756810134e
15 Guidestar.com, “C.E.F.S. Economic Opportunity Corporation,” http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2009/376/053/2009-376053117-05b1b619-9.pdf
16 Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal, Human Services, “Awards & Grants – Lump Sum – Grants to Non-Profit Orgs,” http://accountability.illinois.gov/Expenditures/Agency/Contracts.aspx?Year=2011&Agency=444&Category=4900&Detail=4480&Contract=*&Vendor=fbadc31d-4119-47fa-aee4-23df50ce5e8f
17 Guidestar.com, “City Year,” http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2009/222/882/2009-222882549-05fe31c5-9.pdf
18 Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal, Human Services, “Awards & Grants – Lump Sum, Grants to Non-Profit Orgs,” http://accountability.illinois.gov/Expenditures/Agency/Contracts.aspx?Year=2011&Agency=444&Category=4900&Detail=4480&Contract=*&Vendor=254eaed0-167b-4ffb-b3f5-7793145f7079
19 Guidestar.com, “Erikson Institute,” http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2009/362/593/2009-362593545-05b9ca7d-9.pdf
20 Accountability.illinois.gov. “Payments to a Vendor for a Category: Payments to Art Institute of Chicago for Lump Sums and Other
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33 Beverly Gossage, “Using Vouchers for Medicaid Would Lower Health Insurance Rates in Missouri,” HSA Benefits Consulting, February 27, 2008, http://www.hsabenefitsconsulting.com/articles/using-vouchers-for-medicaid-would-lower-health-insurance-rates-in-missouri/.
34 Beverly Gossage, “Using Vouchers for Medicaid Would Lower Health Insurance Rates in Missouri,” HSA Benefits Consulting, February 27, 2008, http://www.hsabenefitsconsulting.com/articles/using-vouchers-for-medicaid-would-lower-health-insurance-rates-in-missouri/.
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