[SeniorTaskForce-News] Senior Task Force members: - Support Senate Bill 3!

[Rosanna McLain]

For your consideration.

 

Rosanna 

________________________________

From: Sheryl Bautch 
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:50 AM
To: Abbie Broga (abroga at illinois.edu); Alicia Lowery; Amie Smith
(smith at bankchampaign.com); Becky Hicks; Chris Randles
(crandles at parkland.edu); Gretchen.Robbins (E-mail); Lisa Gumbel;
Patrick.Harness; Randall Green; Robert Holbrook; Scot Wachter
(swachter at igwarchitecture.com); Sharla Sola (ssola at illinois.edu); Todd
Jacob; Amy Huang; Andrea Butler; Annie Clay; Carol Davis-Hargest; Cindy
Fraser; Crystal Peacock; Dawn MC KINLEY; Deb Brooks; Debra Tullis;
Elizabeth Holman; Elizabeth Ruby; Jacqueline Waldman; John Willis;
Juanita Loschen; Karen Bodnar (rsvpchampaign at gmail.com); Marilyn Decker;
Marsha Reardon (site.rsvp at gmail.com); Mary Jo Dean; Megan Potts; Pam J
Hurt; Pat Babich Smith; Patti Aguirre; Randy Laugges; Rebecca Spake;
Richard Nohmer (food.seniors.stevick at gmail.com); Robbie Edwards
(rsvpcomp at gmail.com); Rosanna McLain; Roxanna Webb; Ryan Beavers; Sharon
Monday Dorsey; Sheryl Bautch; Shirley Brownlee; Stephanie Manint; Terry
Goode; Vicki ANDERSON; Yvonne Fulton
Subject: FW: Take Action Now - Support Senate Bill 3!

 

To Family Service Board and Staff Members:

 

Please see the request below from the Governor's office to advocate for
the passage of Senate Bill 3, which would allow the state to borrow
funds to pay amounts currently owed to vendors and service providers.
As you are aware, the state is 6-7 months behind in payments owed to
Family Service for services we have been providing to our clients since
July 1, 2010.  Currently the state owes us approx. $250,000.  It is
essential to our ability to pay our staff and keep providing services to
our clients that the state pay us soon.  I urge you to contact our
legislators to ask for their support of Senate Bill 3.  A template is
included in the e-mail below, if you find that helpful.  I am attaching
a current list of state senators and representatives whose districts
include some portion of Champaign County.  This list includes e-mail
addresses that are links, which should make it easy to contact them via
e-mail if that is your preferred method of communication.

 

Thank you for your advocacy on behalf of Family Service and the many
other providers of essential human services in our community!!

 

 

Sheryl

 

Sheryl Bautch

Executive Director

Family Service of Champaign County

405 South State Street

Champaign,  IL   61820

217-352-0099

sbautch at familyservicecc.org

www.famservcc.org <http://www.famservcc.org/> 

 

 

 

 

________________________________

From: Governor Pat Quinn [mailto:governor at illinois.gov] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 3:38 PM
To: Sheryl Bautch
Subject: Take Action Now - Support Senate Bill 3!

Dear Friends,

This is a call to action. I am writing to ask you to support Senate Bill
3, a debt restructuring plan to pay Illinois' bills.

As you know, for too long, the State of Illinois has failed to pay its
bills - 'balancing' its books on the backs of its vendors, health care
organizations, and social service agencies.

As a result of our state's failure to pay its bills, organizations
around the state are unable to make their payroll, have been forced to
layoff employees, and some have even had close their doors entirely.

But there is hope - and we need your help.

Senate Bill 3 is a plan to immediately pay down all the bills that
Illinois already owes, and is paid for by revenues from the recent tax
increase.

Debt restructuring - similar to consolidating credit cards - is the only
way for Illinois to pay its bills and save money today, rather than six
months or a year later.

Legislators need to hear from you.

Please call, email or write your State Representative and State Senator
today and tell them that Illinois must pay what it owes, and it must pay
it now. Ask them to vote 'yes' on Senate Bill 3, so vendors, health care
organizations and social service agencies can continue providing
essential services.

This plan means the difference between our state's essential services
functioning - or not.

Please see this fact sheet
<https://www2.illinois.gov/gov/payourbills/Documents/Fact%20Sheet.pdf>
and visit payourbills.illinois.gov <http://payourbills.illinois.gov/>
for more information on the restructuring plan and on contacting your
legislator. You can use this template
<https://www2.illinois.gov/gov/payourbills/Documents/Letter%20from%20Con
stituent%20TEMPLATE.pdf>  to encourage your State Representative and
State Senator to support Senate Bill 3 today.

Sincerely,

 Pat
Quinn<http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/PublishingImages/gov_signature.gif> 

Pat Quinn, Governor

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