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Public Act 096-0049


 

Public Act 0049 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 096-0049
 
HB2409 Enrolled LRB096 08679 RLJ 18805 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The North Shore Sanitary District Act is amended
by changing Sections 11, 12, and 29 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 2305/11)  (from Ch. 42, par. 287)
    Sec. 11. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, all
contracts for purchases or sales by the municipality, the
expense of which will exceed the mandatory competitive bid
threshold, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder
therefor upon not less than 14 days' public notice of the terms
and conditions upon which the contract is to be let, having
been given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation
published in the district, and the board may reject any and all
bids and readvertise. In determining the lowest responsible
bidder, the board shall take into consideration the qualities
and serviceability of the articles supplied, their conformity
with specifications, their suitability to the requirements of
the district, the availability of support services, the
uniqueness of the service, materials, equipment, or supplies as
it applies to network integrated computer systems, the
compatibility of the service, materials, equipment or supplies
with existing equipment, and the delivery terms. Contracts for
services in excess of the mandatory competitive bid threshold
may, subject to the provisions of this Section, be let by
competitive bidding at the discretion of the district board of
trustees. All contracts for purchases or sales that will not
exceed the mandatory competitive bid threshold may be made in
the open market without publication in a newspaper as above
provided, but whenever practical shall be based on at least 3
competitive bids. For purposes of this Section, the "mandatory
competitive bid threshold" is a dollar amount equal to 0.1% of
the total general fixed assets of the district as reported in
the most recent required audit report. In no event, however,
shall the mandatory competitive bid threshold dollar amount be
less than $10,000, nor more than $40,000.
    Cash, a cashier's check, a certified check, or a bid bond
with adequate surety approved by the board of trustees as a
deposit of good faith, in a reasonable amount, but not in
excess of 10% of the contract amount, may be required of each
bidder by the district on all bids involving amounts in excess
of the mandatory competitive bid threshold and, if so required,
the advertisement for bids shall so specify.
    Contracts which by their nature are not adapted to award by
competitive bidding, including, without limitation, contracts
for the services of individuals, groups or firms possessing a
high degree of professional skill where the ability or fitness
of the individual or organization plays an important part,
contracts for financial management services undertaken
pursuant to "An Act relating to certain investments of public
funds by public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as now or
hereafter amended, contracts for the purchase or sale of
utilities, contracts for commodities including supply
contracts for natural gas and electricity, contracts for
materials economically procurable only from a single source of
supply, contracts for services, supplies, materials, parts, or
equipment which are available only from a single source or
contracts for maintenance, repairs, OEM supplies, or OEM parts
from the manufacturer or from a source authorized by the
manufacturer, contracts for the use, purchase, delivery,
movement, or installation of data processing equipment,
software, or services and telecommunications and interconnect
equipment, software, or services, contracts for duplicating
machines and supplies, contracts for goods or services procured
from another governmental agency, purchases of equipment
previously owned by an entity other than the district itself,
purchases of used equipment, purchases at auction or similar
transactions which by their very nature are not suitable to
competitive bids, and leases of real property where the
sanitary district is the lessee shall not be subject to the
competitive bidding requirements of this Section.
    The District may use a design-build procurement method for
any public project which shall not be subject to the
competitive bidding requirements of this Section provided the
Board of Trustees approves the contract for the public project
by a vote of 4 of the 5 trustees. For the purposes of this
Section, "design-build" means a delivery system that provides
responsibility within a single contract for the furnishing of
architecture, engineering, land surveying and related services
as required, and the labor, materials, equipment, and other
construction services for the project.
    In the case of an emergency affecting the public health or
safety so declared by the Board of Trustees of the municipality
at a meeting thereof duly convened, which declaration shall
require the affirmative vote of four of the five Trustees
elected, and shall set forth the nature of the danger to the
public health or safety, contracts totaling not more than the
emergency contract cap may be let to the extent necessary to
resolve such emergency without public advertisement or
competitive bidding. For purposes of this Section, the
"emergency contract cap" is a dollar amount equal to 0.4% of
the total general fixed assets of the district as reported in
the most recent required audit report. In no event, however,
shall the emergency contract cap dollar amount be less than
$40,000, nor more than $250,000. The Resolution or Ordinance in
which such declaration is embodied shall fix the date upon
which such emergency shall terminate which date may be extended
or abridged by the Board of Trustees as in their judgment the
circumstances require. A full written account of any such
emergency, together with a requisition for the materials,
supplies, labor or equipment required therefor shall be
submitted immediately upon completion and shall be open to
public inspection for a period of at least one year subsequent
to the date of such emergency purchase. Within 30 days after
the passage of the resolution or ordinance declaring an
emergency affecting the public health or safety, the
municipality shall submit to the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency the full written account of any such
emergency along with a copy of the resolution or ordinance
declaring the emergency, in accordance with requirements as may
be provided by rule.
    To address operating emergencies not affecting the public
health or safety, the Board of Trustees shall authorize, in
writing, officials or employees of the sanitary district to
purchase in the open market and without advertisement any
supplies, materials, equipment, or services for immediate
delivery to meet the bona fide operating emergency, without
filing a requisition or estimate therefor, in an amount not in
excess of $100,000; provided that the Board of Trustees must be
notified of the operating emergency. A full, written account of
each operating emergency and a requisition for the materials,
supplies, equipment, and services required to meet the
operating emergency must be immediately submitted by the
officials or employees authorized to make purchases to the
Board of Trustees. The account must be available for public
inspection for a period of at least one year after the date of
the operating emergency purchase. The exercise of authority
with respect to purchases for a bona fide operating emergency
is not dependent on a declaration of an operating emergency by
the Board of Trustees.
    The competitive bidding requirements of this Section do not
apply to contracts, including contracts for both materials and
services incidental thereto, for the repair or replacement of a
sanitary district's treatment plant, sewers, equipment, or
facilities damaged or destroyed as the result of a sudden or
unexpected occurrence, including, but not limited to, a flood,
fire, tornado, earthquake, storm, or other natural or man-made
disaster, if the board of trustees determines in writing that
the awarding of those contracts without competitive bidding is
reasonably necessary for the sanitary district to maintain
compliance with a permit issued under the National Pollution
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) or any successor system or
with any outstanding order relating to that compliance issued
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, or the Illinois
Pollution Control Board. The authority to issue contracts
without competitive bidding pursuant to this paragraph expires
6 months after the date of the writing determining that the
awarding of contracts without competitive bidding is
reasonably necessary.
    No Trustee shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in
any contract, work or business of the municipality, or in the
sale of any article, whenever the expense, price or
consideration of the contract work, business or sale is paid
either from the treasury or by any assessment levied by any
Statute or Ordinance. No Trustee shall be interested, directly
or indirectly, in the purchase of any property which (1)
belongs to the municipality, or (2) is sold for taxes or
assessments of the municipality, or (3) is sold by virtue of
legal process in the suit of the municipality.
    A contract for any work or other public improvement, to be
paid for in whole or in part by special assessment or special
taxation, shall be entered into and the performance thereof
controlled by the provisions of Division 2 of Article 9 of the
"Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as heretofore
or hereafter amended, as near as may be. However, contracts may
be let for making proper and suitable connections between the
mains and outlets of the respective sanitary sewers in the
district with any conduit, conduits, main pipe or pipes that
may be constructed by such sanitary district.
(Source: P.A. 95-607, eff. 9-11-07.)
 
    (70 ILCS 2305/12)  (from Ch. 42, par. 288)
    Sec. 12. The board of trustees may levy and collect other
taxes for corporate purposes upon property within the
territorial limits of the sanitary district, the aggregate
amount of which for each year may not exceed .083% of value, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, except that
if a higher rate has been established by referendum before
August 2, 1965, it shall continue. If the board desires to levy
such taxes at a rate in excess of .083% but not in excess of
.35% of the value of all taxable property within the district
as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, they
shall order the question to be submitted at an election to be
held within the district. The certification and submission of
the question and the election shall be governed by the general
election law. Upon the filing of a petition signed by 10% of
the registered voters of the district, the right to levy an
additional tax, or any portion thereof, authorized by the legal
voters, may at any time after one or more tax levies
thereunder, be terminated by a majority vote of the electors of
the district at a referendum. The trustees of the district
shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials,
who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance
with the general election law.
    In addition to the other taxes authorized by this Section,
the board of trustees may levy and collect, without referendum,
a tax for the purpose of paying the cost of operation of the
chlorination of sewage, or other means of disinfection or
additional treatment as may be required by water quality
standards approved or adopted by the Pollution Control Board or
by the court, which tax is not subject to the rate limitations
imposed by this Section but may be extended at a rate not to
exceed .03% of the value of all taxable property within the
district as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue.
    Such tax may be extended at a rate in excess of .03% but
not to exceed .05%, providing the question of levying such
increase has first been submitted to the voters of such
district at any regular election held in such district in
accordance with the general election law and has been approved
by a majority of such voters voting thereon.
    The board shall cause the amount required to be raised by
taxation in each year to be certified to the county clerk by
the second Tuesday in September, as provided in Section 8-15 of
the Property Tax Code 157 of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois. All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected
and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as
State and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officers
collecting the same to the treasurer of the sanitary district
in the manner and at the time provided by the General Revenue
Law of Illinois.
    The treasurer shall, when the moneys of the district are
deposited with any bank or savings and loan association,
require that bank or savings and loan association to pay the
same rates of interest for the moneys deposited as the bank or
savings and loan association is accustomed to pay to depositors
under like circumstances, in the usual course of its business.
All interest so paid shall be placed in the general funds of
the district, to be used as other moneys belonging to the
district raised by general taxation or sale of water.
    No bank or savings and loan association shall receive
public funds as permitted by this Section, unless it has
complied with the requirements established pursuant to Section
6 of "An Act relating to certain investments of public funds by
public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as now or hereafter
amended.
    In addition to the foregoing, the Board of Trustees shall
have all of the powers set forth in Division 7 of Article 8 of
the Illinois Municipal Code until September 10, 1986.
(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
 
    (70 ILCS 2305/29)  (from Ch. 42, par. 296.9)
    Sec. 29. The board of trustees of any sanitary district may
arrange to provide for the benefit of employees and trustees of
the sanitary district group life, health, accident, hospital
and medical insurance, or any one or any combination of those
types of insurance. The board of trustees may also establish a
self-insurance program to provide such group life, health,
accident, hospital and medical coverage, or any one or any
combination of such coverage. The board of trustees may enact
an ordinance prescribing the method of operation of such an
insurance program. Such insurance may include provision for
employees and trustees who rely on treatment by prayer or
spiritual means alone for healing in accordance with the tenets
and practice of a well recognized religious denomination. The
board of trustees may provide for payment by the sanitary
district of the premium or charge for such insurance or the
cost of a self-insurance program.
    The If the board of trustees does not provide for a plan
pursuant to which the sanitary district pays the premium or
charge for any group insurance plan, the board of trustees may
provide for the withholding and deducting from the compensation
of such of the employees and trustees as consent thereto the
premium or charge for any group life, health, accident,
hospital and medical insurance.
    The board of trustees may only obtain insurance exercise
the powers granted in this Section only if the kinds of group
insurance are obtained from an insurance company or companies
authorized to do business in the State of Illinois or such from
any other organization or service provider authorized to do
business in the State of Illinois offering similar coverage.
The board of trustees may enact an ordinance prescribing the
method of operation of such an insurance program.
(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2010