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1     AN ACT concerning 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 by
5 changing Section 3-8 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 805/3-8)  (from Ch. 122, par. 103-8)
7     Sec. 3-8. Following each election and canvass, the new
8 board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before the
9 28th day after the election, except that in 1999, 2001, and
10 2003 (except District #522) the board shall organize within 14
11 days after the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November
12 in each of those 3 years. In 2003 in District #522, the new
13 board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before the
14 14th day after the consolidated election. If the election is
15 the initial election ordered by the regional superintendent,
16 the organizational meeting shall be convened by the regional
17 superintendent, who shall preside over the meeting until the
18 election for chairman, vice chairman and secretary of board is
19 completed. At all other organizational meetings, the chairman
20 of the board, or, in his or her absence, the president of the
21 community college or acting chief executive officer of the
22 college shall convene the new board, and conduct the election
23 for chairman, vice chairman and secretary. The board shall then

 

 

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1 proceed with its organization under the newly elected board
2 officers, and shall fix a time and place for its regular
3 meetings. It shall then than enter upon the discharge of its
4 duties. Public notice of the schedule of regular meetings for
5 the next calendar year, as set at the organizational meeting,
6 must be given at the beginning of that calendar year. The terms
7 of board office shall be 2 years, except that the board by
8 resolution may establish a policy for the terms of office to be
9 one year, and provide for the election of officers for the
10 remaining one year period. Terms of members are subject to
11 Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
12     Special meetings of the board may be called by the chairman
13 or by any 3 members of the board by giving notice thereof in
14 writing stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting.
15 Such notice may be served by mail 48 hours before the meeting
16 or by personal service 24 hours before the meeting.
17     At each regular and special meeting which is open to the
18 public, members of the public and employees of the community
19 college district shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable
20 constraints, to comment to or ask questions of the board.
21 (Source: P.A. 92-1, eff. 3-30-01; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
23 2007.