Written by Sullivan Staff Wednesday, 15 July 2009 11:42
SPRINGFIELD, IL –State Sen. John Sullivan (D-Rushville) announced this week that the state’s first comprehensive capital construction plan in a decade has been signed into law. The roughly $30 billion spending plan will put thousands of people back to work and pour billions of dollars into repairing Illinois’ aging schools, roads, bridges, water and sewer systems and more.
“A statewide capital construction plan has been a long time coming in Illinois,” Sullivan said. “And given our state’s current economic condition, and the thousands who are out of work, it couldn’t have come soon enough. I’m pleased we were able to reach a bipartisan consensus, and I am especially pleased that Representative Jil Tracy and Representative Rich Myers and myself worked together to identify the most critical infrastructure needs in our area.”
The plan includes hundreds of millions of dollars for improvements in western Illinois, including:
• $67.8 million to build a new performing arts center at Western Illinois University in Macomb; and
• $500 million in additional funding for local road improvements, including more than $16 million for counties, townships and municipalities in western Illinois.
Additional projects are listed in this pdf:
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47th District
Assistant Majority Leader
Committee assignments: Committee of the Whole; Financial Institutions; Higher Education; Appropriations II (Chairperson); Pensions and Investments; Transportation; Deficit Reduction; Trans. Subcommittee on Amendments; Subcomm.on Pension Enhancements.
Biography: Graduate of Quincy College; partner in family auction and real estate business; lives north of Rushville on the family farm with wife, Joan, and their four children: Matthew, Emily, Luke and Mark.