As detailed in the Governor's 2010 budget, the State of Illinois faces significant fiscal challenges in 2010 and beyond. The Governor's proposed budget would meet the immediate challenge of the year ahead, but long-term concerns remain that cannot be fixed without major changes that streamline operations and restructure organizations within state government.
Governor Quinn appointed a Taxpayer Action Board (TAB) in March to help identify the state's major fiscal and structural impediments and most importantly, to identify opportunities to solve these problems. TAB focused on ways to improve state operations that would assure accountability and efficiency in state government, while also ensuring it continues to meet the needs of the citizens of Illinois. TAB members included a diverse group of individuals with expertise and experience in both the private and public sectors.
TAB was charged with evaluating current state programs and identifying new approaches to dealing with difficult fiscal and operational issues. The kinds of changes that are needed to bring Illinois to a responsible fiscal state cannot solely be resolved in the ordinary process of budget review and legislative action. Innovative change requires input from a diverse group that can look at all options for reorganizing state government and propose choices that best serve the people of the state.
Areas of Review
The following are the areas of state government that TAB reviewed:
- Pensions and Healthcare
- Medicaid
- Education
- Human Services
- Government Administration (Government Operations A)
- Public Safety and Regulatory (Government Operations B)
Submit Your Ideas
As valuable as the TAB report is, we also want to hear from you. Please submit your suggestions on how to reduce costs and make state government more efficient. You are welcome to submit multiple suggestions, and your name and email are not required. For each submission, please choose the most relevant subject matter area that describes your suggestion. We will then route your suggestion to the appropriate policy team in the Governor's office, and will make selected submittals public on this site in the future. Thank you for your ideas.
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