(505 ILCS 45/7) (from Ch. 5, par. 247)
Sec. 7.
County and
multi-county extension boards.
(a) A county extension board shall be established in each county upon
the request of the director of extension of the University of Illinois to
facilitate effective cooperation between the extension councils and the
county governing board. The county extension board shall consist of two men
and two women who are members of the county extension councils appointed by
the director of extension and three members appointed by the presiding
officer of the board, with the advice and consent of the county board, who
may be members of the county governing board.
(b) The county extension board, after reviewing the budgets and requests
for funds of the county extension councils, shall prepare annually a budget
for the total funds needed for the Cooperative Extension Service education
program in the county, taking into consideration the programs in
agriculture and home economics for adults and youth and the coordination of
such programs. The county extension board shall then certify funds needed
from the county and the Agricultural Premium Fund to the county governing
board. The county extension board shall inform the county extension
councils of the final disposition of their budget request and the amount of
the appropriation from the governing board. The director of extension shall
establish such additional policies and procedures as may be needed for the
effective functioning of the county extension board.
(c) Where more than one county forms an extension administrative unit,
or where the director of cooperative extension, the extension councils and
the county extension boards of two or more counties determine that the
needs of each county can best be served by a multi-county organization of
cooperative extension, a multi-county or area extension board shall be
created upon the request of the director of extension. Such multi-county
extension boards shall perform the same duties as are designated for county
extension boards in paragraph (b) of this section. Each multi-county
extension board shall be comprised of two men and two women appointed by
the director of cooperative extension from the constituent county extension
councils, but not less than one person from each county, and three
representatives, but not less than one from each county, appointed by the
presiding officer of the county board of each county, with the advice and
consent of the county board, who may be members of the county board.
(d) The amount certified as needed to each county governing board by a
multi-county extension board shall be in the same proportion to the total
need determined by the multi-county extension board as the equalized
assessed valuation of
that county is to the total equalized assessed valuation of the
counties in the multi-county
unit; except, where the multi-county board determines that a different
allocation among the counties is in the best interests of the extension
program in the multi-county unit, and where the Director of Extension
concurs in this determination,
the amount certified as needed to each county governing board shall be the
amount determined to be in the best interests of the extension program.
(Source: P.A. 86-232.)
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