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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Jordan Chism [mailto:jchism@eciaaa.org]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:11 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> Association of Area Agencies on Aging Alert for March 15, 2017</span></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Aging Network<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">Alert</span></span></font></b><font color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> seniors and community programs on aging from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> Association of Area Agencies on Aging</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<st1:place w:st="on">Southeastern Illinois</st1:place> Area Agency on Aging<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:bold">Week of March 13, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="#212121" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#212121;background:white;
font-weight:bold">The devastation of budget warfare endures
</span></font></b><font color="#212121" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#212121;
background:white">– “Without an appropriation or a court order, we will be unable to continue payments to nonprofits, social services and small businesses that
are not covered,” then-Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger stated when the Legislature and Governor Rauner failed to agree on a budget in May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white;
font-weight:bold">After waiting</span></font></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white"> </span></font></span><em><b><i><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:
white;font-weight:bold">20
months and 2 weeks</span></font></i></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white"> for a full budget to be enacted and implemented, disaster continues. Agencies continue
to close their doors, and services are being sparsely funded. Older adults and persons with disabilities are still feeling the splinters of this explosion.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="apple-converted-space"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;background:white">Southeastern Illinois</span></font></span></st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white">
is a very impoverished region. Many constituents have to decide between basic necessities such as food and medications in their cupboards, or electricity in their homes. They need and rely on nonprofit/social service agencies to assist them with any state-funded
programs that meet their basic needs so they can live with dignity in their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><font size="2" color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> Reduced hours for remaining SWAN (Domestic Violence) staff<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size="3" color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> Reduced hours for remaining Ombudsman agency staff<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size="3" color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> Reduced or unavailable funding for services by community agencies
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size="3" color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> Inability to donate for services by most of the older persons who are served<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><u><font size="2" color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:bold">Illinois</span></font></u></b></st1:place></st1:State><b><u><font color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
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Needs a Rocket Reboot!<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><font size="2" color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
font-weight:bold">The time is now
</span></font></b><font color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#222222">before any further destructive decreases in services or closures occur. Please act to thrust
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> into prosperity. We owe those who have devoted themselves to
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> all of their lives a state made great again!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please contact Joy Paeth, President (618-222-2561) or Jonathan Lavin, Legislative Chair (708-383-0258) with questions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Distributed for I4A by:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Jonathan Lavin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Chief Executive Officer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;color:#1F497D">1048 Lake Street</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Oak Park</span></font></st1:City><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color:#1F497D">,
<st1:State w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">60301</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">708-383-0258<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">708-524-0870 fax<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1F497D">AgeOptions is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. Learn how you can support our programs by
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