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Rauner announced in January that he would replace plumbing on the campus. He has since named task forces to study options and on Friday tabbed an adviser to coordinate the effort. […]
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration now says it plans to rebuild dormitories at the Quincy veterans’ home where Legionnaires’ disease continues to be a problem. […]
[Erica Jeffries, director of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs] told the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees that the plan now is to demolish and replace problematic residence halls on the Quincy campus during the next three to five years. And she said plumbing replacement would not be a good use of money and cause too much disruption in the meantime.
Three to five years? We’ve had four more cases this year alone and it’s not even warm yet.
* And in the meantime?…
Jeffries: Governor has appointed two task forces, we have working groups, short-term and long-term plans. Should have final draft to General Assembly by May 1.
— IL Senate Democrats (@ILSenDems) March 5, 2018
.@senatorcastro how many more people are going to get sick before you get us this plan by May 1? pic.twitter.com/bhAMKcKVZN
— IL Senate Democrats (@ILSenDems) March 5, 2018
* But at least they appear to be learning from one huge 2015 mistake…
Jefferies: we've learned there's no such thing as over-communication with staff, family members. #IVHQ #SenVets
— IL Senate Democrats (@ILSenDems) March 5, 2018
Shah: pledge to you that DPH will do a better job communicating with your communities.
— IL Senate Democrats (@ILSenDems) March 5, 2018
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 11:50 am
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That timeline should only result in about 10 to 15 more deaths. I guess they just consider that collateral damage. Here is an idea. Move those people to another facility until the work is complete. Do none of these talking heads have a brain?
Comment by Retired Educator Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 11:56 am
–Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration now says it plans to rebuild dormitories at the Quincy veterans’ home where Legionnaires’ disease continues to be a problem. […]–
Fine. Let’s get the folks out of there now and find them a safe place to live in the meantime.
This common-sense first step is not, and has not been, a heavy lift.
Gov. Rauner, you’re in charge. Do your job. Just this one time, at the very least.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 11:56 am
You know, if you’d solve the &((&%$& problem, ‘communication’ would be easy, then unnecessary.
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:05 pm
How quickly did Bruce and Lady Di get going on fixing up the mansion? How many task forces and working groups did it take before they came up with that plan?
Comment by Henry Francis Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:07 pm
GovJunk defense team looked especially lame at this hearing. Perhaps someone ought determine if there is criminality here?
BTW never forget GovJunk wanted to fund the mansion himself until he learned he could put the arm on friends and everyone gets tax break
Comment by Annonin' Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:09 pm
This alongside the spectacular mansion renovation is depressing. Mission. Priorities. Values. Revealed
Comment by Sugar Corn Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:20 pm
You know what would be a really good move, politically speaking?
JB stepping up and funding moving all the vets out to a safe location.
Comment by RNUG Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:28 pm
I suspect this issue isn’t going to go away; it will just hang around, people will get ill, the task force of the day/month will get on it, etc.
Last week there was discussion of a nursing home 2 blocks away, for sale at under $800,000 with a 205-bed capacity. Did that idea just evaporate?
My personal belief is that a statewide citizens’ advocacy group for these veterans needs to be created, one that will keep hounding the ILVA and ILDPH and the gov, and just not let up. Perhaps they could work with families and local VA chapters.
Otherwise, there’s going to be another incidence, followed by a public outcry, then another task force convening, etc. etc. ad inf.
Comment by dbk Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:29 pm
Make Rauner move back in until the vets leave. But I like RNUG’s idea even better. And it doesn’t matter who pays. They’ve got to get them out of there…yesterday.
Comment by PublicServant Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:31 pm
May, are you kidding me? Maybe we need 3 billboards.
Comment by Norseman Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 12:40 pm
Time to shut the place down. Move the residents to private facilities and get out of the veterans business. Leave it up to the feds and save millions.
Comment by striketoo Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 1:03 pm
Give the mansion over to the veterans and make Bruce *and* Diane stay in the veterans’ home until it’s fixed.
Comment by Cheryl44 Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 1:11 pm
This issue needed to be front and center in the Ives campaign… she lost a huge opportunity and it would have resonated.
Comment by Lincoln Lad Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 1:25 pm
Hmmm, maybe the commenter last week who joked that Cellini optioned the nursing home 2 blocks away was right and that’s why we’re not hearing about it any more.
Seriously, we clearly don’t have 3 to 5 years, especially when it turns out to be 5 to 7 years like most State construction projects. Hoffman needs a couple weeks to relieve Jeffries and Shah of responsibilities for moving people and come up with some out of the box solutions.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 2:17 pm
A 3 to 5 year time line is a total and utter joke. But had the All Star’s rolled this plan into action in the fall of 2015 they would have a ribbon to cut soon…. If only they had been proactive then.
Comment by Cool Papa Bell Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 2:33 pm
If the state cannot turn this project out in 18 mos, then they truly need to turn this function over to private entities.
Comment by Blue dog dem Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 3:17 pm
The State is just waiting until the (cough … cough) right private sector vendor is available.
Still think JB should get involved as a campaign action. Can just see the text over … “I can already do a better job than Rauner. Imagine what I could do as YOUR Governor.”
Comment by RNUG Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 3:21 pm
I think Bruce wants the body count from this to match the amount of unpaid bills he racked up during the budget crisis.
Comment by Precinct Captain Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 3:38 pm
–If the state cannot turn this project out in 18 mos, then they truly need to turn this function over to private entities.–
Are you under the impression the private sector wouldn’t be building it? Why would you think that?
When does your “18-month” clock start? Rauner hasn’t even requested an appropriation. There haven’t been RFPs for design.
But maybe your experience in designing and building multiple facilities for long-term health care is just all that.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 3:43 pm
Word.
Yes
Yesterday
More than I care to aknowledge
Comment by Blue dog dem Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 4:00 pm
the timeline is a joke.
Comment by Amalia Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 4:01 pm
–Yes
Yesterday–
You did what “yesterday?” Designed and built multiple facilities for long-term health care?
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 4:08 pm
RNUG, I can’t believe they would be that stupid as to put the fix in during an election year for a project of this visibility. I’ve been wrong before, though.
Were I Hoffman, I would look at the design documents for the Chicago Vets’ Home and see what, if anything could be re-used, look at creative financing strategies (like IFA, other non-CDB bonds, lease-purchase, CoP) and write a broad RFP.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 4:13 pm
Yes, I believe that private industry would construct. Yesterday. I believe the state should have been developing bid specs. Been involved in too many assisted and full care facilities.
Comment by blue dog dem Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 4:15 pm
“Maybe we need 3 billboards.”
Norseman, what would your billboards say?
Comment by Mama Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 5:07 pm
If I had a parent or grandparent in the VA home, I would be making a big racket.
Comment by Barrington Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 6:36 pm
-AA-,
I see this administration as the Perfect Storm of inanity, chutzpah, callousness and perfidy.
I wouldn’t rule out any action.
Comment by RNUG Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 6:38 pm
Any major hotel chain could get something built and operating in a fairly short time. Or just bring in a cruise ship (if you can get it under that one bridge in New Orleans) as temporary housing.
But you may be on it, -AA-. Someone should drive by that closed nursing home and see if any remodeling activity is going on there.
Comment by RNUG Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 6:48 pm
Well. QVH needs new buildings. Every buildings the state owns needs roof repair. Mold. Mildew. Maybe some funding for preventative maintenance would have been in order for the past three years?
Comment by Power House Prowler Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 7:52 pm
-Any major hotel chain could get something built and operating in a fairly short time-
True that. The guy that took over the Renaissance here in town and a couple other clinkers around the state just turned farmland in Champaign into an almost-ready Holiday Inn Express in about 14 months. He doesn’t have to use CDB.
Toward the end of my time at CMS, we addressed a critical facility need in Metro-East by using the City of Collinsville to issue bonds to fund the construction of a new regional HQ for IDOT and ISP. IDOT was in a postwar era building with a shot roof and ISP had been displaced by mine subsidence and was in an old bank building; Troopers stacked in the Vault like gold bars. A long-term (20-year) lease-purchase secured the bonds, while the City’s a/e firm oversaw construction. Completed in 24 months, on time and on budget. Think outside the box.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 7:55 pm
Its an absolute disgrace that we are even having this conversation.
Comment by blue dog dem Monday, Mar 5, 18 @ 8:04 pm