[il-talk] Resolution

[Deborah Kent Stein]

At the May meeting of the NFBI Chicago Chapter, we discussed whether we
should support a resolution to re-establish the Task Force on Employment and
Economic Opportunity for People with Disabilities. We determined that we
should review the resolution and learn more about the history of the task
force and its accomplishments before we come to a decision. Below I have
pasted the resolution, which we will discuss at the June chapter meeting.

 

Debbie S.

 

R2015-565.pdf

City of Chicago 

Office of the City Clerk 

Document Tracking Sheet 

R2015-565 

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7/29/2015 

Maldonado (26) 

Resolution 

Call for reestablishment of Task Force on Employment and 

Economic Opportunity for People with Disabilities 

Committee on Workforce Development and Audit 

RESOLUTION 

WHEREAS, historically, the City of Chicago, with the cooperation of other
governmental units, has 

committed to increase the employment of people with disabilities to a rate
that is as close as possible to 

the employment rate of the general adult population; and, 

WHEREAS, it is estimated that twenty percent of Chicago residents have at
least one disability; and 

WHEREAS, the unemployment rate for persons with disabilities far exceeds the
unemployment rate for 

persons without disabilities; and, 

WHEREAS, it is estimated that seventy percent of all people with
disabilities are unemployed; 

WHEREAS, there are many qualified persons with disabilities who are unable
to obtain competitive 

employment; and, 

WHEREAS, millions of federal and City dollars are invested each year in
education, training, supported 

employment, vocational training and other services related to the employment
and training of persons 

with disabilities in Chicago without any significant gains in the rate of
competitive employment for 

persons with disabilities; and, 

WHEREAS, there has been a history of barriers to equal employment
opportunity for persons with 

disabilities in Chicago and those barriers continue to exist in the public
and the private sectors; 

WHEREAS, in 2002, a City-wide Task Force on Employment of People With
Disabilities was 

established by Executive Order 2002-3 to formulate and recommend to the
Mayor, policies and programs 

designed to improve and increase employment opportunities for people with
disabilities in both the public 

and private sectors; and 

WHEREAS, it is in the best social and economic interests of the City of
Chicago to expand competitive 

employment and economic opportunity for persons with disabilities; now,
therefore 

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Chicago City Council shall hereby re-establish the
Task Force on 

Employment and Economic Opportunity for People with Disabilities with the
purpose of: (a) developing 

community and economic development efforts to increase full community
integration and economic 

inclusion of persons with disabilities; (b) promoting partnership between
the public and private sectors to 

increase employment and other economic opportunities for persons with
disabilities; and (c) providing to 

the Mayor and the City Council policy and program recommendations designed
to increase employment 

and economic opportunities for people with disabilities throughout the City,
and within city government. 

Roberto Maldonado 

Alderman, 26"" Ward