Thursday, September 08, 2011
 
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Brady responds to proposed closures

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[September 08, 2011]  SPRINGFIELD -- Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, issued the following statement Thursday regarding Gov. Quinn's plan to close seven state facilities and lay off more than 1,900 state employees:

"We should share the burden of balancing the budget and reducing spending throughout state government, rather than targeting some of our state's most vulnerable citizens.

"We need a systematic, well-reasoned approach to reducing the state's budget, which we must do, but the governor has chosen a quick fix that will disrupt the care that patients and their families receive in our mental health and developmental disability facilities and further strain an already overcrowded prison system.

"The savings from the Quinn-proposed layoffs and facility closings today would amount to less than a quarter of 1 percent of the state's operations budget. He could undoubtedly find the same $55 million in savings by looking for waste and inefficiencies in his administration or by eliminating nonessential programs."

[Text from Sen. Bill Brady]

 

  

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