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92_HB0258

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning 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 Sections 3-7 and 3-8 as follows:

 6        (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
 7        Sec. 3-7.  The election of the members of  the  board  of
 8    trustees  shall  be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time
 9    and in the manner provided in the general election law.
10        Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members  shall  be
11    elected  to  serve 6 year terms.  The term of members elected
12    in 1985 and thereafter shall be from the date the  member  is
13    officially determined to be elected to the board by a canvass
14    conducted pursuant to the Election Code, to the date that the
15    winner  of  the  seat is officially determined by the canvass
16    conducted pursuant to the Election Code  the  next  time  the
17    seat on the board is to be filled by election.
18        A board of trustees of a community college district which
19    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
 
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 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  appointed  to
15    the  State  Board  of  Elections  with respect to the initial
16    division of the community college  district  into  7  trustee
17    districts  in  1991,  and by a majority of the members of the
18    board of trustees of community college District #522 in  2001
19    and  in  with  respect  to  the year following each decennial
20    census thereafter, not less than 60 days before the last date
21    established by the general election law for the submission of
22    nominating  petitions  for  the  next   regularly   scheduled
23    election for community college trustees.  At the same meeting
24    of  the  board of trustees, the board shall, publicly by lot,
25    divide the trustee districts as equally as  possible  into  2
26    groups.  Beginning  in  2003  and  every 10 years thereafter,
27    trustees or their successors from one group shall be  elected
28    for  successive  terms of 4 years and 6 years; and members or
29    their successors from the second group shall be  elected  for
30    successive terms of 6 years and 4 years.  One member shall be
31    elected from each such trustee district.  Each member elected
32    in  2001  shall  be elected at the 2001 consolidated election
33    from the trustee districts established in 1991.  The term  of
34    each  member  elected  in 2001 shall end on the date that the
 
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 1    trustees elected in  2003  are  officially  determined  by  a
 2    canvass conducted pursuant to the Election Code.
 3        Each member must on the date of his election be a citizen
 4    of  the  United States, of the age of 18 years or over, and a
 5    resident of the State and the territory which on the date  of
 6    the  election  is  included in the community college district
 7    for at least one year immediately preceding his election.  In
 8    the  event  a person who is a member of a common school board
 9    is elected or appointed to a board of trustees of a community
10    college district, that person shall be permitted to serve the
11    remainder of his or her term of office as  a  member  of  the
12    common school board. Upon the expiration of the common school
13    board term, that person shall not be eligible for election or
14    appointment  to  a  common  school  board  during the term of
15    office with the community college district board of trustees.
16        Whenever a vacancy occurs, the  remaining  members  shall
17    fill  the  vacancy,  and  the person so appointed shall serve
18    until a successor is elected at the next regular election for
19    board members and is certified in  accordance  with  Sections
20    22-17  and  22-18  of  the  Election  Code.  If the remaining
21    members fail so to act  within  60  days  after  the  vacancy
22    occurs,  the  chairman  of  the  State  Board shall fill that
23    vacancy, and the person so  appointed  shall  serve  until  a
24    successor  is  elected at the next regular election for board
25    members and is certified in accordance  with  Sections  22-17
26    and 22-18 of the Election Code.  The person appointed to fill
27    the vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as
28    his  predecessor  in  office  was required to have. In either
29    instance, if the vacancy  occurs  with  less  than  4  months
30    remaining  before  the  next scheduled consolidated election,
31    and the term of office  of  the  board  member  vacating  the
32    position  is  not  scheduled to expire at that election, then
33    the term of the person so appointed shall extend through that
34    election and until the succeeding consolidated election.   If
 
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 1    the  term of office of the board member vacating the position
 2    is scheduled to expire at the upcoming consolidated election,
 3    the appointed member shall serve only until  a  successor  is
 4    elected and qualified at that election.
 5        Members of the board shall serve without compensation but
 6    shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred in
 7    connection  with  their service as members. Compensation, for
 8    purposes of this Section, means any salary or other  benefits
 9    not  expressly  authorized by this Act to be provided or paid
10    to, for or on behalf of members of the board.  The  board  of
11    each  community college district may adopt a policy providing
12    for the issuance of bank credit cards, for use by  any  board
13    member who requests the same in writing and agrees to use the
14    card  only for the reasonable expenses which he or she incurs
15    in connection with his or her  service  as  a  board  member.
16    Expenses  charged to such credit cards shall be accounted for
17    separately and shall be  submitted  to  the  chief  financial
18    officer of the district for review prior to being reported to
19    the board at its next regular meeting.
20        Except  in  an  election  of  the initial board for a new
21    community college district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1,
22    the ballot for the election of members of  the  board  for  a
23    community  college district shall indicate the length of term
24    for each office to be filled.  In the election of a board for
25    any community college district, the ballot shall not  contain
26    any political party designation.
27    (Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)

28        (110 ILCS 805/3-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-8)
29        Sec.  3-8.  Following  each election and canvass, the new
30    board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before  the
31    14th  day  after the election, except that in 1999, 2001, and
32    2003 (except District #522) the board shall  organize  within
33    14  days  after  the  first Tuesday after the first Monday of
 
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 1    November in each of those 3 years.  In 2003 in District #522,
 2    the new board shall hold its  organizational  meeting  on  or
 3    before  the  14th day after the consolidated election. If the
 4    election is the initial  election  ordered  by  the  regional
 5    superintendent,  the organizational meeting shall be convened
 6    by the regional superintendent, who shall  preside  over  the
 7    meeting  until  the  election for chairman, vice chairman and
 8    secretary of board is completed. At all other  organizational
 9    meetings,  the  chairman  of  the  board,  or,  in his or her
10    absence, the president of the  community  college  or  acting
11    chief  executive officer of the college shall convene the new
12    board, and conduct the election for chairman,  vice  chairman
13    and  secretary.   The  board  shall  then  proceed  with  its
14    organization  under  the  newly  elected  board officers, and
15    shall fix a time and place  for  its  regular  meetings.   It
16    shall than enter upon the discharge of its duties.  The terms
17    of  board  office  shall be 2 years, except that the board by
18    resolution may establish a policy for the terms of office  to
19    be one year, and provide for the election of officers for the
20    remaining  one  year  period. Terms of members are subject to
21    Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
22        Special meetings of  the  board  may  be  called  by  the
23    chairman  or  by  any 3 members of the board by giving notice
24    thereof in writing stating the time, place and purpose of the
25    meeting. Such notice may be served by mail  48  hours  before
26    the  meeting  or  by  personal  service  24  hours before the
27    meeting.
28        At each regular and special meeting which is open to  the
29    public,  members of the public and employees of the community
30    college  district  shall  be  afforded   time,   subject   to
31    reasonable constraints, to comment to or ask questions of the
32    board.
33    (Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98; 90-814, eff. 2-4-99.)
 
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 1        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 2    becoming law.

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