From the Township Officials of Illinois:
LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT!!
SB1430
TO: ALL TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS
FROM: TOI LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Jerry B. Crabtree, Executive Director
Senate Bill 1430 improving the availability of General Assistance programs in township government is scheduled to be heard in the Local Government Committee on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM.
This bill is an initiative of the Township Officials of Illinois and is being sponsored by Senator Ram Villivalam.
TOI is asking you to contact your legislators and the committee members below and ask them to vote YES on SB1430 . Additionally, please fill out a witness slip at the link below to support this initiative of the Township Officials of Illinois.
Complete a Witness Slip in Support of SB1430
General Assistance Modernization
Illinois Townships are required by law to provide three mandated services.
General Assistance is one of the key services townships provide.
Delivering safety net assistance to the most vulnerable, similar to services offered by the Illinois Department of Human Services.
General Assistance provides financial assistance for individuals and families in need, but the language has not kept up with the times. The challenges people face today have evolved and the ways townships meet those needs need to evolve as well.
It is time to update General Assistance so Townships can best help Illinois communities.
SB 1430 achieves the following.
· Removes ineligibility for General Assistance applications because of a felony drug conviction. Just like SNAP and TANF.
- Allows for assistance to households (in the jurisdiction) following a disaster proclamation issued by the Governor.
- Allows that a township may fund with general assistance, financial resources such as health services for mental and behavioral issues, environmental protections, and public transportation.
- Allows that a Township may use publicly available, professional or academically recognized standards of need in determining subsidized day care.
Yikes!
These townships have become so woke.
How the hell does Iowa exist without townships and these giveaways for illegal aliens?
Finally they are admitting that townships have only three mandated functions.
(1) Interim public assistance (shouldn’t consume more than a couple of hours a week of Supervisor time);
(2) Care of township cemeteries (mostly unused postage stamp sized plots that people stopped using over 100 years ago and for which landscape companies are hired today);
(3) Acting as “treasurer” for the Road District (today only involves signing payroll checks twice a month which are generated by payroll service companies).
What else is there?
Tell us “nob”.
Where is the bill to eliminate General Assistance as a Township mandate, an initiative of the Bob Anderson and Cal Skinner, and is being sponsored by Senator Craig Wilcox?
What is nob squawking about?
Townships are useless. Have been since 1855.
More wealth transfers to parasites and illegals.
Sweet.