Full Text of HR0229 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to recognize former Peoria Mayor Richard | 4 | | Carver and the Peoria City Council members who served during | 5 | | his time in office, sometimes referred to as the "Carver | 6 | | Council", for their efforts to transform the City of Peoria; | 7 | | and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, In May 1973, Richard Carver was sworn in as Mayor | 9 | | of the City of Peoria, and he served in that position until | 10 | | 1984; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The Peoria City Council members originally | 12 | | serving with Mayor Carver were Joseph Mudd, R. James Bateman, | 13 | | Thomas Dunne, Bruce Brown, C. Richard Neumiller, Lester | 14 | | Bergsten, Franklin Renner, and Warren Reynolds; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, These Peoria City Council members became the | 16 | | initial members of the Carver Council, and their | 17 | | transformation of the City of Peoria was visionary; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Over the course of Mayor Carver's 11-year tenure, | 19 | | members of the Peoria City Council changed, including Richard | 20 | | Sutton and Dorothy Sinclair replacing Thomas Dunne and Joseph | 21 | | Mudd in 1975, Kenneth Sheppard replacing Richard Sutton in |
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| 1 | | 1977, Daniel Gura and Leonard Unes replacing Warren Reynolds | 2 | | and Franklin Renner in 1979, and Clement Dries replacing Bruce | 3 | | Brown in 1981, with council members remaining the same in | 4 | | 1983; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, From the 1973 swearing-in, Mayor Carver and the | 6 | | Peoria City Council embarked upon a Downtown Redevelopment | 7 | | Plan to revitalize downtown Peoria; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Part of the Downtown Redevelopment Plan was | 9 | | locating the University of Illinois School of Medicine in | 10 | | downtown Peoria to be within close proximity to both | 11 | | hospitals, with the school's groundbreaking taking place in | 12 | | September 1974; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The Peoria City Council additionally voted on | 14 | | building the Peoria Civic Center in August 1976, which was | 15 | | followed by the vote to establish a hotel, motel, and | 16 | | restaurant tax as a matching source of funding in September | 17 | | 1976; the center opened with a theater, sports arena, and an | 18 | | exhibition hall in 1982; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, The University of Illinois School of Medicine in | 20 | | downtown Peoria and the Peoria Civic Center were just two of | 21 | | the projects that Mayor Carver and the Peoria City Council | 22 | | accomplished, and these monumental projects continue to impact |
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| 1 | | the downtown area to this day; therefore, be it
| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 3 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 4 | | we recognize former Mayor Richard Carver and the Peoria City | 5 | | Council who served during his time in office for their | 6 | | extraordinary foresight in planning and accomplishing major | 7 | | downtown redevelopment in Peoria on the 50th anniversary of | 8 | | when this vision began; and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 10 | | presented to the four remaining leaders, Richard Carver, R. | 11 | | James Bateman, Bruce Brown, and Lester Bergsten, as an | 12 | | expression of our esteem and respect.
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