093_HB2277eng HB2277 Engrossed LRB093 06613 NHT 06744 b 1 AN ACT regarding higher education. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended 5 by changing Section 3-7 as follows: 6 (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7) 7 Sec. 3-7. (a) The election of the members of the board 8 of trustees shall be nonpartisan and shall be held at the 9 time and in the manner provided in the general election law. 10 (b) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members shall 11 be elected to serve 6 year terms. The term of members 12 elected in 1985 and thereafter shall be from the date the 13 member is officially determined to be elected to the board by 14 a canvass conducted pursuant to the Election Code, to the 15 date that the winner of the seat is officially determined by 16 the canvass conducted pursuant to the Election Code the next 17 time the seat on the board is to be filled by election. 18 (c) A board of trustees of a community college district 19 which is contiguous or has been contiguous to an experimental 20 community college district as authorized and defined by 21 Article IV of this Act may, on its own motion, or shall, upon 22 the petition of the lesser of 1/10 or 2,000 of the voters 23 registered in the district, order submitted to the voters of 24 the district at the next general election the proposition for 25 the election of board members by trustee district rather than 26 at large, and such proposition shall thereupon be certified 27 by the secretary of the board to the proper election 28 authority in accordance with the general election law for 29 submission. 30 If the proposition is approved by a majority of those 31 voting on the proposition, the State Board of Elections, in HB2277 Engrossed -2- LRB093 06613 NHT 06744 b 1 1991, shall reapportion the trustee districts to reflect the 2 results of the last decennial census, and shall divide the 3 community college district into 7 trustee districts, each of 4 which shall be compact, contiguous and substantially equal in 5 population to each other district. In 2001, and in the year 6 following each decennial census thereafter, the board of 7 trustees of community college District #522 shall reapportion 8 the trustee districts to reflect the results of the census, 9 and shall divide the community college district into 7 10 trustee districts, each of which shall be compact, 11 contiguous, and substantially equal in population to each 12 other district. The division of the community college 13 district into trustee districts shall be completed and 14 formally approved by a majority of the members of the board 15 of trustees of community college District #522 in 2001 and in 16 the year following each decennial census. At the same 17 meeting of the board of trustees, the board shall, publicly 18 by lot, divide the trustee districts as equally as possible 19 into 2 groups. Beginning in 2003 and every 10 years 20 thereafter, trustees or their successors from one group shall 21 be elected for successive terms of 4 years and 6 years; and 22 members or their successors from the second group shall be 23 elected for successive terms of 6 years and 4 years. One 24 member shall be elected from each such trustee district. 25 Each member elected in 2001 shall be elected at the 2001 26 consolidated election from the trustee districts established 27 in 1991. The term of each member elected in 2001 shall end 28 on the date that the trustees elected in 2003 are officially 29 determined by a canvass conducted pursuant to the Election 30 Code. 31 (d) In Community College District No. 526, the election 32 of board members shall be by trustee district rather than at 33 large beginning with the consolidated election in 2005. The 34 term of each trustee elected before the effective date of HB2277 Engrossed -3- LRB093 06613 NHT 06744 b 1 this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall end on 2 the date that the trustees elected in 2005 are officially 3 determined by a canvass conducted pursuant to the Election 4 Code. 5 For the 2005 consolidated election, the board shall 6 divide the community college district into 7 trustee 7 districts, each of which shall be compact, contiguous, and 8 substantially equal in population to each other trustee 9 district based on the results of the 2000 decennial census. 10 One trustee shall then be elected from each trustee district 11 to serve a 2-year term. The division of the community college 12 district into trustee districts shall be completed and 13 formally approved by a majority of the members of the board 14 in 2004. 15 For the 2007 and 2011 consolidated elections, the board 16 shall, publicly by lot, divide the trustee districts as 17 equally as possible into 2 groups. Trustees or their 18 successors from the first group shall be elected for 19 successive terms of 2 years and 4 years, and trustees or 20 their successors from the second group shall be elected for 21 successive terms of 4 years and 2 years. 22 In 2011, and in the year following each decennial census 23 thereafter, the board shall reapportion the trustee districts 24 to reflect the results of the census and shall divide the 25 community college district into 7 trustee districts, each of 26 which shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal 27 in population to each other trustee district. One trustee 28 shall then be elected from each trustee district. The 29 division of the community college district into trustee 30 districts shall be completed and formally approved by a 31 majority of the members of the board in 2011 and in the year 32 following each decennial census. At the same meeting of the 33 board, the board shall, publicly by lot, divide the trustee 34 districts as equally as possible into 3 groups. Beginning HB2277 Engrossed -4- LRB093 06613 NHT 06744 b 1 with the 2013 consolidated election and the consolidated 2 election every 10 years thereafter, trustees or their 3 successors from the first group shall be elected for 4 successive terms of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years; trustees 5 or their successors from the second group shall be elected 6 for successive terms of 4 years, 2 years, and 4 years; and 7 trustees or their successors from the third group shall be 8 elected for successive terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 9 years. 10 (e) Each member must on the date of his election be a 11 citizen of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over, 12 and a resident of the State and the territory which on the 13 date of the election is included in the community college 14 district for at least one year immediately preceding his 15 election. In Community College District No. 526, beginning 16 with the consolidated election in 2005, each member must also 17 be a resident of the trustee district he or she represents 18 for at least one year immediately preceding his or her 19 election. In the event a person who is a member of a common 20 school board is elected or appointed to a board of trustees 21 of a community college district, that person shall be 22 permitted to serve the remainder of his or her term of office 23 as a member of the common school board. Upon the expiration 24 of the common school board term, that person shall not be 25 eligible for election or appointment to a common school board 26 during the term of office with the community college district 27 board of trustees. 28 (f) Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members 29 shall fill the vacancy, and the person so appointed shall 30 serve until a successor is elected at the next regular 31 election for board members and is certified in accordance 32 with Sections 22-17 and 22-18 of the Election Code. If the 33 remaining members fail so to act within 60 days after the 34 vacancy occurs, the chairman of the State Board shall fill HB2277 Engrossed -5- LRB093 06613 NHT 06744 b 1 that vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve until a 2 successor is elected at the next regular election for board 3 members and is certified in accordance with Sections 22-17 4 and 22-18 of the Election Code. The person appointed to fill 5 the vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as 6 his predecessor in office was required to have. In either 7 instance, if the vacancy occurs with less than 4 months 8 remaining before the next scheduled consolidated election, 9 and the term of office of the board member vacating the 10 position is not scheduled to expire at that election, then 11 the term of the person so appointed shall extend through that 12 election and until the succeeding consolidated election. If 13 the term of office of the board member vacating the position 14 is scheduled to expire at the upcoming consolidated election, 15 the appointed member shall serve only until a successor is 16 elected and qualified at that election. 17 (g) Members of the board shall serve without 18 compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable 19 expenses incurred in connection with their service as 20 members. Compensation, for purposes of this Section, means 21 any salary or other benefits not expressly authorized by this 22 Act to be provided or paid to, for or on behalf of members of 23 the board. The board of each community college district may 24 adopt a policy providing for the issuance of bank credit 25 cards, for use by any board member who requests the same in 26 writing and agrees to use the card only for the reasonable 27 expenses which he or she incurs in connection with his or her 28 service as a board member. Expenses charged to such credit 29 cards shall be accounted for separately and shall be 30 submitted to the chief financial officer of the district for 31 review prior to being reported to the board at its next 32 regular meeting. 33 (h) Except in an election of the initial board for a new 34 community college district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1, HB2277 Engrossed -6- LRB093 06613 NHT 06744 b 1 the ballot for the election of members of the board for a 2 community college district shall indicate the length of term 3 for each office to be filled. In the election of a board for 4 any community college district, the ballot shall not contain 5 any political party designation. 6 (Source: P.A. 92-1, eff. 3-30-01.)