Illinois has more individual units of government than any other state. A task force report approved yesterday says that ought to change. IPR's Amanda Vinicky has more.
VINICKY: Eliminating the requirement that governments print public notices in newspapers. Allowing citizens to use referendum to dissolve units of local government. And repealing the prevailing wage, which stipulates what construction workers get paid for government projects. These are the recommendations that'll be included in the report. Senator Linda Holmes, a Democrat from Aurora, says she doesn't agree with all of them -- that prevailing wage one, for instance. But she's totally behind a suggestion that Illinois get a grip on rules the state imposes on towns and schools.
HOLMES: All of the municipalities are confronted with haven't been reviewed in like 28 years. Seriously, there are some things on there that aren't even relevant anymore to the way we do business.
VINICKY: One requirement says ink used for printing has to contain soybeans. The report itself isn't public yet, but it will be by the year's end.
