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| Moffitt: There's Still Hope For Historic Sites |
A local lawmaker says he is not sure he can get funding for the state's historic sites restored, including several in his district, that the Governor has vetoed yet again, but says he is glad there's at least another idea on the table.
74th District State Representative Don Moffitt says he was somewhat surprised to hear that Governor Rod Blagojevich Thursday line-item vetoed funding for historic sites like the Bishop Hill state historic site and the Carl Sandburg Birthplace in Galesburg, and isn't necessarily sure he believes some of Blagojevich's reasoning for doing so.
Moffitt tells WGIL that makes an idea a bi-partisan group of lawmakers introduced not long before the veto took place all the more important. "We're going to introduce legislation to allow the state agencies to offer state historic sites, and offer state parks, to be run and operated by local organization," Moffitt said. "It might be a unit of local government, it might be a school district, a college, a not-for-profit," Moffitt said.
The Gilson Republican says the thinking is that tourism dollars can continue to be generated, properties won't deteriorate, and there will be less of a possibility of things like vandalism.
That legislation will be introduced in January. As for the line-item veto, Moffitt says he's not sure if the Governor's move was politically-motivated, and says there's even a chance that a special session could be called to take up a possible override before lawmakers meet again in January. |
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