Illinois: taxpayers approve disability recreation levy.In December taxpayers approved a state-wide levy of about 25 cents a month per $100,000 of home value to fund the cost of recreation for adults and children with disabilities. The bill was original introduced last Spring, when it was approved by both houses, but vetoed by Illinois' governor, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. John McGovern, executive director of Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association, "we chose to seek a veto override in the November veto session. We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, getting the supermajority Supermajority A corporate amendment in a company's charter requiring a large majority (anywhere from 67%-90%) of shareholders to approve important changes, such as a merger. necessary and also getting more votes the second time around then we did last spring. This is very exciting. In Illinois, the cooperative model of service for people with disabilities, called special recreation associations, serves 90,000 registrants annually at 25 agencies including 164 communities. The SRAs hire more Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists than most states have employed, and the quality of SRA SrA abbr. senior airman programs is very high, as evidenced by the number of Gold medal winners." This new legislation frees park districts in the suburbs and downstate down·state n. The southerly section of a state in the United States. adv. & adj. To, from, or in the southerly section of a state. down from The property tax cap, and makes about $16 million more available to local agencies to meet the needs of people with disabilities. For more information about the bill, contact McGovern by e-mail at jmcgovern@nssra.org. NRPA NRPA National Recreation and Park Association NRPA Natural Resources Protective Association (Staten Island, NY) NRPA Niagara Regional Police Association (Canada) NRPA National Rifle and Pistol Association EDITORIAL ADVISORS American Park and Recreation Society Miekey Gomez, CPRP CPRP cardiopulmonary cerebroresuscitation. Boca Raton, Fla. mgomez@ci.boca-raton.flus Armed Forces Recreation Society Kim Combs Alexandria, Va. combsk@fmmc.army.mil Citizen-Board Member Branch Jerry Gee German, Tenn. tigergee@aol.com Commercial Recreation and Tourism Section Andrew Holdnak Macomb, Ill. a-holdnak@wiu.edu Leisure and Aging Section Susan PoTts, MS, CTRS CTRS Centers (street suffix) CTRS Containers CTRS Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist CTRS Conventional Terrestrial Reference System CTRS Center for Technology Risk Studies (University of Maryland) Ashburn, Va. spotts@nrpa.org National Aquatic Branch Grog Gordon Glenarden, Md. greg.gordon@pgparks.com National Playground Safety Institute Fran Wallach, Ph.D, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y. trms395@aol.com National Programs Kathy Spongier Ashburn, Va, prgrams@nrpa.org National Society for Park Resources Dr. Lee Niblock Marion County, Fla. lee;niblock@marioncoutyfl.org National StUdent Branch Lori Klinadinst Ashburn, Va. Iklinedinst@npa.org Recreation Society Van AndersOn Ashburn, Va. vanderson@nrpa.org Society of Park and Recreation Educators Lori Klinedinst Ashburn, Va. lklinedinst@nrpa.org Youth Services SonIa Bowie Ashburn, Va. showie@nrpa.org |
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