Full Text of SR1761 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 1761 | 2 | | (As Amended by Senate Amendment No. 2)
| 3 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has had a long-standing | 4 | | statutory goal of spending 20% of all procurement dollars on | 5 | | minority and women-owned businesses; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Investing in minority and women-owned businesses | 7 | | is a central economic development strategy for the State to | 8 | | ensure the businesses that prosper from the State's need for | 9 | | goods and services reflects the diversity of the entire State; | 10 | | and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Legal services is one of the components that the | 12 | | State's statutory goal for spending 20% for minority and | 13 | | women-owned businesses apply towards; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, The last year where full data is available on | 15 | | actual spending with minority and women-owned businesses is | 16 | | FY2015; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, In FY2015, the State spent more than $35,000,000 | 18 | | on outside law firms in legal services; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Only 4% of the State's legal services in FY15 were | 20 | | with minority and women-owned firms; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The total spent on African-American owned law | 2 | | firms in FY15 was under $200,000, which is significantly less | 3 | | than 1% of the total spent on legal services the entire fiscal | 4 | | year; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Governor Rauner's administration was only | 6 | | responsible for half of the legal services spent in FY15 as the | 7 | | Governor was not inaugurated until the middle of that fiscal | 8 | | year; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, While complete data for FY16 is not yet available, | 10 | | there have been a series of procurements for legal services | 11 | | that did not include any goal for minority or women-owned | 12 | | firms, including one posted April 8th for a Swaps Bond Counsel | 13 | | for the Governor's Office of Management and Budget; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Unless the Rauner administration makes a | 15 | | significant effort to increase the participation of minority | 16 | | and women-owned firms in legal spending, the administration is | 17 | | likely on track to dramatically fall short of the statutory | 18 | | goal of 20% participation; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 20 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Rauner | 21 | | administration is urged to comply with the statutory goal of |
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| 1 | | 20% participation with minority and women-owned firms, as well | 2 | | as the statutory goal for veteran-owned firms, particularly as | 3 | | it relates to professional services and legal services; and be | 4 | | it further | 5 | | RESOLVED, That the Rauner administration is urged to make | 6 | | every effort for FY16 to satisfy the 20% goal for participation | 7 | | with minority and women-owned firms in professional services as | 8 | | well as the statutory goal for veteran-owned firms, as that is | 9 | | the first full fiscal year completely administered by the | 10 | | Rauner administration; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | delivered to Governor Rauner.
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