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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1105
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1105 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning urban development."; and
5 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
6 following:
7 "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
8 Katherine Dunham Centers for the Arts and Humanities Academy
9 District Act.
10 Section 5. Creation of district. The Katherine Dunham
11 Centers for the Arts and Humanities Academy District,
12 hereinafter called the District, is hereby created. The
13 territory of the District shall consist of the contiguous
14 territory within the boundaries of St. Clair County. The
15 District is created to operate educational resources
16 facilities to promote research and training in the arts and
17 humanities.
18 Section 10. Katherine Dunham Centers for the Arts and
19 Humanities Academy District Commission. There is hereby
20 created a body politic and corporate under the corporate name
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1 of the Katherine Dunham Centers for the Arts and Humanities
2 Academy District Commission, hereinafter called the
3 Commission, whose general purpose in addition to and not in
4 limitation of those purposes and powers set forth in other
5 Sections of this Act shall be to:
6 (1) maintain the proper surroundings for (i)
7 academic centers of excellence in the arts and
8 humanities, (ii) training and continuing education
9 facilities for teachers, students, administrators, and
10 other educators, (iii) arts based communication
11 techniques for people of diverse cultures, and (iv)
12 research and related educational resource facilities as
13 permitted under this Act; and
14 (2) provide for the orderly creation and expansion
15 of (i) a multi-arts training program, (ii) other
16 ancillary or related facilities which the Commission may
17 from time to time determine are established and operated
18 for any aspect of the carrying out of the Commission's
19 purposes as set forth in this Act, or are established and
20 operated to promote educational research and knowledge as
21 permitted under this Act, and (iii) research and
22 intercultural communication and equipment and personal
23 property therefor.
24 The local board of directors of the Department of
25 Commerce and Community Affairs' Office of Urban Assistance
26 shall assist the District in implementing this project.
27 Section 100. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
28 is amended by changing Section 46.19c and adding Sections
29 46.70, 46.71, and 46.72 as follows:
30 (20 ILCS 605/46.19c) (from Ch. 127, par. 46.19c)
31 Sec. 46.19c. The Department shall provide for, staff and
32 administer an Office of Urban Assistance which shall plan and
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1 coordinate existing State programs designed to aid and
2 stimulate the economic growth of depressed urban areas.
3 Among other duties assigned by the Department, the Office
4 shall have the following duties:
5 (a) To coordinate the activities of the following units
6 and programs of the Department of Commerce and Community
7 Affairs and all other present and future units and programs
8 of the Department which impact depressed urban areas to the
9 extent that they impact upon or concern urban economics:
10 (1) Enterprise Zone Program;
11 (2) Small Business Development Center Program;
12 (3) Program which assist in the development of community
13 infrastructure;
14 (4) Illinois House Energy Assistance Program;
15 (5) Illinois Home Weatherization Assistance Program;
16 (6) Programs financed with Community Services Block
17 Grant funds;
18 (7) Industrial Training Program;
19 (8) Technology Transfer and Innovation Program;
20 (9) Rental Rehabilitation Program;
21 (10) Displaced Homemaker Program; and
22 (11) Programs under the federal Job Training Partnership
23 Act.
24 The office shall convene quarterly meetings of
25 representatives who are designated by the Department to
26 represent the units and programs listed in paragraphs (1)
27 through (11).
28 (b) To gather information concerning any State or
29 federal program which is designed to revitalize or assist
30 depressed urban areas in the State and to provide this
31 information to public and private entities upon request.
32 (c) To promote and assist in developing urban inner city
33 industrial parks.
34 (d) To promote economic parity and the autonomy of
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1 citizens of this State through promoting and assisting the
2 development of urban inner city small business development
3 centers, urban youth unemployment projects, small business
4 incubators, family resource centers, urban developments
5 banks; self managed urban businesses, plans for urban
6 infrastructure projects over the next 25 years.
7 (e) To recommend economic policies for urban areas and
8 planning models that will result in the reconstruction of the
9 economy of urban areas, especially those urban areas where
10 economically and socially disadvantaged people live, to the
11 General Assembly and the Governor.
12 (f) To make recommendations to the General Assembly and
13 the Governor on the establishment of urban economic policy in
14 the areas of (1) housing, (2) scientific research, (3) urban
15 youth unemployment, (4) business incubators and family
16 resource centers in urban inner cities, and (5) alternative
17 energy resource development, and the need thereof, in urban
18 areas as part of the department's five year plan for Economic
19 Development.
20 (g) To make any rules and regulations necessary to carry
21 out its responsibilities under this Act.
22 (h) To encourage new industrial enterprises to locate in
23 urban areas through educational promotions which point out
24 the opportunities of any such area as a commercial and
25 industrial field of opportunity, and by the solicitation of
26 industrial enterprises; and to do such other acts as shall,
27 in the judgment of the Office, be necessary and proper in
28 fostering and promoting the industrial development and
29 economic welfare of any urban area, however the Office shall
30 have no power to require reports from or to regulate any
31 business.
32 (i) To accept grants, loans or appropriations from the
33 Federal government or the State, or any agency or
34 instrumentality thereof, to be used for the operating
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1 expenses of the Office, or for any purposes of the Office,
2 including the making of direct loans or grants of such funds
3 for public, private, experimental or cooperative housing,
4 scientific research, urban inner city industrial parks, urban
5 youth employment projects, business incubators, urban
6 infrastructure development, alternative energy resource
7 development community facilities needed in urban areas and
8 any other purpose related to the revitalization of urban
9 areas.
10 (j) To establish within each local branch of the Office
11 a local board of directors to act as an advisory board to the
12 Department. Each local board of directors shall consist of 9
13 members appointed by the Director of the Department. Five
14 members of the local board of directors shall be from private
15 industry and 4 members shall be from community based
16 organizations and community leadership.
17 (Source: P.A. 84-1090.)
18 (20 ILCS 605/46.70 new)
19 Sec. 46.70. Mary Brown Community Center renovation. The
20 Department shall make grants to the City of East St. Louis
21 to renovate the Mary Brown Community Center in East St.
22 Louis, Illinois. The local board of directors of the Office
23 of Urban Assistance shall assist the Department and the City
24 in implementing this project.
25 (20 ILCS 605/46.71 new)
26 Sec. 46.71. Parks College redevelopment. The Department
27 shall make grants to the Cahokia Development Authority to
28 purchase and redevelop the Parks College site in Cahokia,
29 Illinois. The local board of directors of the Office of
30 Urban Assistance shall assist the Department and the Cahokia
31 Development Authority in implementing this project.
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1 (20 ILCS 605/46.72 new)
2 Sec. 46.72. O'Neill Lumber Company redevelopment. The
3 Department shall make grants to the East St. Louis Small
4 Business Development Center, Inc. to redevelop the O'Neill
5 Lumber Company site in East St. Louis, Illinois. The local
6 board of directors of the Office of Urban Assistance shall
7 assist the Department and the East St. Louis Small Business
8 Development Center, Inc. in implementing this project.
9 Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10 becoming law.".