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SUMMARY:Dan on Downsizing in DuPage: A BGA Candid Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Dan Cronin\, DuPage County Board Chairman\, and Andy Shaw\, BGA President and CEO\, discussed the future of government streamlining and consolidation during a BGA “Candid Conversation” event held April 20 at Oak Brook-based Inland Real Estate Group. \nThe conversation\, which was streamed online\, centered on Cronin’s three-year-plus effort to streamline government operations throughout DuPage County and how that effort fits with the BGA’s statewide government consolidation effort\, entitled “Smart Streamlining.” \nCronin reflected on the complicated nature of consolidating units of government. \n\n\n\nResistance from local government leaders and employees remains a major hurdle\, he said. But support is growing among government reform groups\, local leaders and members of the Illinois General Assembly\, as evidenced by the nearly two dozen bills addressing streamlining in some fashion that have been considered by the legislature this session. \n\n\n\nCronin and Shaw also touched on the increasingly partisan tension between Republicans and Democrats in state government and the debate over school funding. \nShaw also asked what’s next politically for Cronin: Right now\, he’s focused on his job\, but Cronin added\, “never say never.” \n\n\n\n\nSee the full conversation\n\n\n\n\nBGA Candid Conversations bring together prominent public figures and BGA’s President & CEO Andy Shaw for conversations about good government issues. It’s one of the ways the BGA holds public officials accountable for their promises and actions. \nPrevious Candid Conversations\n\n\n\n    \nA BGA Candid Conversation With Toni Preckwinkle | November 12\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n			A BGA Candid Conversation: Chuy’s Challenge | March 20\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n			Rahm Talks Reform With BGA’s Shaw | December 18\, 2014\n\n\n\nBruce\, Budget Blues & BGA | December 16\, 2014\n\n\n\n\nFor more information contact Policy Associate Danish Murtaza at dmurtaza@bettergov.org or 312-386-9202.
URL:https://illinoisanswers.org/event/dan-on-downsizing-in-dupage-a-bga-candid-conversation/
LOCATION:Oak Brook\, 60523
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations
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SUMMARY:A BGA Candid Conversation: Chuy's Challenge
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URL:https://illinoisanswers.org/event/a-bga-candid-conversation-chuys-challenge/
LOCATION:This event is online only.\, bettergov.org\, Chicago\, 60606
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations
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SUMMARY:Rahm Talks Reform With BGA's Shaw
DESCRIPTION:In an exclusive interview with Andy Shaw\, president and CEO of the Better Government Association\, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel touted his administration’s track record on ethics while acknowledging there’s more to accomplish on the reform front. \nThe one-on-one interview Dec. 18\, 2014 at the downtown-based Union League Club\, which lasted for nearly an hour\, explored various good government issues\, including: need for a privatization ordinance\, increased government transparency\, police accountability\, tax-increment financing\, campaign finance as well as Emanuel’s leadership style. \n\n\nThe mayor led off the event with an announcement that the Chicago Park District is now in compliance with the federal Shakman Decree\, completing the work to free all branches of city government from federal oversight of hiring due to decades of rampant patronage. \n“Now\, what you know is more important than who you know\,” Emanuel said. “In the last three-and-a-half years\, we’ve gotten something done that no one thought was possible in the city.” \nThe mayor also strongly defended his use of tax increment financing\, or TIF\, proceeds as a redevelopment tool and his way of eliciting public feedback on major policy initiatives or projects. \nRahm\, Reform & BGA \n\nEmanuel estimated that 80 percent of TIF dollars are used for the public’s benefit in the form of schools\, parks\, libraries and public transit. The mayor also said that he favors establishing task forces to engage in public dialogue about major issues and then provide recommendations based on what they’ve heard. Emanuel said he’s used that feedback for his decisions to pursue a minimum wage increase and to nix plans to privatize Chicago Midway International Airport. \nThe process to study the proposed Midway deal and seek public input is one Emanuel said that he’d like to formalize in consideration of other major privatization deals down the road. The mayor said he wants to draft an ordinance that will avoid a return to privatization deals\, such as the widely disparaged Chicago parking meter deal that occurred during the regime of his predecessor Richard M. Daley. \nThe key to preventing future parking meter deals\, Emanuel told Shaw\, is to provide thorough examination of the proposal and then allow ample time for the city council and the public to vet the pros and cons. \nOn budget reform\, the mayor acknowledged that the city continues to struggle with debt\, but he said the administration has made tough choices and structural reforms that have the city headed in the right direction. “I did not say that in three-and-half years I was going to change all the paths\, but we have changed directionally where we’re going and we’re making fundamental different choices that get us to the place where we need to be\,” Emanuel said. \nThe event\, dubbed “Rahm\, Reform & BGA” was held in a fifth-floor ballroom at the Union League Club of Chicago before a crowd of nearly 50 BGA supporters\, board members\, staff\, media and invited guests. Several news outlets covered the interview and produced news stories on the mayor’s responses. \nMore than three years ago\, Emanuel sat down with Shaw for a similar interview on his first 100 days in office and his goals moving forward. \n\n\n 
URL:https://illinoisanswers.org/event/rahm-talks-reform-with-bgas-shaw/
LOCATION:Union League Club\, 65 W Jackson Blvd\, Chicago\, 60604
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations
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SUMMARY:Bruce\, Budget Blues & BGA
DESCRIPTION:Rauner Talks Budget Reform At BGA’s Springfield Event\nGovernor-elect discusses State’s Fiscal Crisis During Sangamo Club luncheon. \nBy the BGA \n“The more we peel back the onion\, the uglier it is.” \nThat’s the metaphor Illinois Governor-elect Bruce Rauner used to describe the state budget crisis during a luncheon event this week that was hosted Dec. 16\, 2014 by the Better Government Association and its recently created Springfield Advisory Board. \nDuring the event\, which was held at the Sangamo Club in Springfield and entitled “Bruce\, Budget Blues & BGA”\, Rauner stated that years of mounting unpaid bills\, “accounting shenanigans” and irresponsible borrowing have contributed to a messy budget process and Illinois’ ongoing fiscal woes. \nHis new administration will seek to correct these problems by focusing on structural reforms\, such as comprehensive overhaul of the tax code\, Rauner told an audience of nearly 150 people. \nMarilyn Kushak\, chair of the BGA Springfield Advisory Board\, opened the event by introducing Andy Shaw\, CEO and president of the BGA\, who moderated a brief question and answer session with the governor-elect. \nFollowing Rauner’s speech\, Shaw and Mike Lawrence\, former journalist\, president of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute\, and press secretary for ex-Governor Jim Edgar’s administration as well as a BGA Advisory Board member\, analyzed the Governor-elect’s statements and discussed his administration’s objectives. \nThe event was also carried live on radio station WMAY-AM. \n“Bruce\, Budget Blues & BGA” is part of the BGA’s initiative to expand its advocacy and civic engagement efforts to the state’s capital. \nKey to that effort is the formation of the advisory board that includes leading Springfield-based civic\, business and non-profit leaders. \n 
URL:https://illinoisanswers.org/event/bruce-budget-blues-bga/
LOCATION:Sangamo Club\, 227 East Adams Street\, Springfield\, 62701
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations
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SUMMARY:A BGA Candid Conversation With Toni Preckwinkle
DESCRIPTION:In an exclusive interview with Better Government Association President & CEO Andy Shaw\, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle defended her move to increase the county’s sales tax and her proposed increases in taxes on hotel and motel stays and the purchases of firearms and ammunition. \nDuring the interview held at the downtown Union League Club of Chicago on Nov. 12\, the latest installment of the BGA’s Candid Conversations series\,  Preckwinkle attributed the county’s financial troubles to the “inattention and irresponsibility” of her predecessors and highlighted moves she’s made to close budget deficits\, reduce spending and trim the county’s workforce. \nPreckwinkle gave candid responses to Shaw’s questions on a wide range of topics\, including her efforts to reform the criminal justice and health systems\, reduce the county’s jail population\, fix the underfunded public pension systems\, spark economic development\, and work with other powerful elected officials including Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios\, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. 
URL:https://illinoisanswers.org/event/a-bga-candid-conversation-with-toni-preckwinkle/
CATEGORIES:Candid Conversations
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