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Aging lease resolution stalled in House

House Republicans were rebuffed Friday in their efforts to have a formal review of a new office lease for the cash-strapped Department on Aging.

Republicans and a handful of Democrats wanted the chamber to consider a resolution that required Aging to work with the state’s Procurement Policy Board to see if less costly office space is available for the agency. Aging plans to move from state-owned buildings into a private office that will cost the state more than $530,000 a year.

“Senior programs are being cut in all of our districts,” said Rep. Bill Black, R-Danville. “This is wrong.”

“Yesterday we heard bills that would reduce services for our senior citizens because the Department on Aging doesn’t have funding,” said Rep. Sandra Pihos, R-Glen Ellyn. “The move being proposed by the Department of Aging is irresponsible. It is irrational.”

Democrats, though, mustered enough votes to keep the resolution bottled up in the Democrat-controlled Rules Committee.

Read the original article from the Galesburg Register-Mail.

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