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Hello, Illinois.

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And welcome to the Illinois Department
of Central Management Services.

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End of year recap.

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I'm CMS director Raven DeVaughn
and your host for today's

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2025 CMS Bureau's versus
unproductivity game.

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Spoiler alert it's not even a close
one folks.

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Let's get ready to rumble in 2025.

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CMS turned inclusion into a verb
by proudly supporting the Illinois

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African Decent Citizens

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Reparations Commission and hosting
three public hearings across the state.

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Administrative hearings
put the Wizard of Oz to shame

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by creating the Motion Wizard
for Self Represented Litigation,

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a user friendly tool to simplify motion
filing and improve access

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for individuals
without legal representation.

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In a crushing blow to injustice.

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The Administrative Hearings Bureau also
launched access to the Justice Internship

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Program by partnering with the University
of Illinois at Springfield's

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GPSI program to host a year long internship

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focused on policy research, data analysis,

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and user centered process improvements.

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Benefits definitely put in that work
with 21 in-person member open

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enrollment fairs throughout Illinois,
benefits landed quite the field goal

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when they implemented
three new voluntary benefits programs

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Unproductivity tried to bring the blockades
when a major insurance agency

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left the market, impacting
approximately 60,000 individuals,

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but benefits powered through

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to educate impacted
employees, retirees and dependants to ensure

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they can make their best plan choice
during the regular open enrollment period.

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The hard work of the Bureau of Benefits
was recognized with Be Well Illinois

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receiving the 2025 Platinum Level

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Workplace Wellness Award from Aetna.

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Here comes diversity and inclusion
growing the largest and most diverse

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cohort with 25 students in their DNI

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community partner internship program.

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Our Fleet Management Bureau
also had an outstanding year in 2025.

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Fleet received, inspected
and incorporated over 1000 new vehicles,

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improving the overall health
of the state's fleet,

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Internal audits delivered
ten state wide training

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webinars in 2025,
and these sessions reached over 900 total.

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Attendees generated an estimated cost
savings of nearly $100,000 to the state

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by providing free
CPE through these sessions,

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the Illinois Office of Communication
and Information brought the heat on

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and off the screen, replacing a 30 year
old studio and green screen set

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with a fully modernized version online.

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We became verified on blue Sky,
Instagram, Facebook

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and earned over 41 million impressions
across all platforms.

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In conjunction with colleagues from DHS,
the CMS powerhouse labor relations team,

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manage
the labor aspects of the newly created

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Department of Early Childhood
Labor Relations.

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Even flip the score by transforming
745 Idot non personnel code positions

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to personnel code positions
to satisfy the court's Jackman decree

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00E was 00C

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this year, with groundbreaking
achievements in rapid results

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and the Governor's Office,
Academy of Leadership, also known as Goal,

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the CMS Office of Operational Excellence
held nine

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rapid results
sessions with 364 total participants.

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The 2025 gold graduating class
consisted of 32

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graduates across
21 different state agencies.

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As our assistant director
coach Andre Williams would

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say, the best offense is a great defense.

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And we have a pretty great one
with the CMS personnel team.

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This year, the Bureau of Personnel
implemented a statewide intern

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to hire program and reduced the time to
fill a vacancy by over 42 days on average.

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The state of Illinois
now has its highest workforce since 2007.

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Every day is game day
with property management on our team.

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The property management bureau
dedicated 115 cellphones out in Chicago.

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As the Jesse White State of Illinois
building,

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and moved in more than 2000 colleagues
from around the state into the facility.

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What's this touchdown.

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Strategic sourcing.

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The Bureau of Strategic Sourcing
led high impact vendor relations

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by successfully hosting not one,
but two vendor summits in Marion

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and in Chicago
with over 300 attendees in Chicago.

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But they didn't stop there.

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They went all the way and launched

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a one on one vendor support program.

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CMS would not get anywhere
without strategic plays

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from bureaus
like strategic Transformation.

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This year, Strategic Transformation
completed the CMS agency level

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strategic plan and bureau level
strategic plans,

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all while leading approximately
30 active I.T and transformation projects,

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Making sure
CMS has all the equipment we need

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is surplus equipment control
they changed their name to

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They also sold state surplus equipment
to the public totaling over $2 million.

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This team also facilitated
the transfer of federal equipment

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through the GSA program,
totaling over $14 million

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in original acquisition cost
and rounding it out.

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This team facilitated the transition of $1
million worth of equipment

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to the Lesso program,
And with a whopping score of 15 zero,

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one point per spotlight at Bureau CMS

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has been, productivity yet again.

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Thank you all for your hard
work, dedication, and support in 2025.

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Here's to making 2026 even better.

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See you next year.