The continuing state budget impasse is going to hurt some of Illinois' most vulnerable residents. That's according to Comptroller Leslie Munger, who visited several agencies today that serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
At the Arc of the Quad Cities Area in Moline, she assured the staff and residents she's a strong supporter of agencies like this across the state.Can't pass a budget but can help bring attention to the problem.
Munger is a volunteer and former board member for a similar organization in the Chicago area, Riverside Foundation in Lincolnshire. Currently, she can pay state employees and school districts, but not agencies that contract with the state like the Arc.Executive director, Kyle Rick, says 90 per cent of the Arc's funding comes from the state of Illinois.
We need the legislature and governor to get serious about passing a budget.
And she emphasizes this hurts the agency's 325 clients, and its 260 employees.Today Munger also visited similar agencies in Peoria ( EPIC ) and Quincy (Transitions of Western Illinois).
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