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Public Act 92-0001
HB0258 Enrolled LRB9202746NTsb
AN ACT concerning higher education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended
by changing Sections 3-7 and 3-8 as follows:
(110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
Sec. 3-7. The election of the members of the board of
trustees shall be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time
and in the manner provided in the general election law.
Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members shall be
elected to serve 6 year terms. The term of members elected
in 1985 and thereafter shall be from the date the member is
officially determined to be elected to the board by a canvass
conducted pursuant to the Election Code, to the date that the
winner of the seat is officially determined by the canvass
conducted pursuant to the Election Code the next time the
seat on the board is to be filled by election.
A board of trustees of a community college district which
is contiguous or has been contiguous to an experimental
community college district as authorized and defined by
Article IV of this Act may, on its own motion, or shall, upon
the petition of the lesser of 1/10 or 2,000 of the voters
registered in the district, order submitted to the voters of
the district at the next general election the proposition for
the election of board members by trustee district rather than
at large, and such proposition shall thereupon be certified
by the secretary of the board to the proper election
authority in accordance with the general election law for
submission.
If the proposition is approved by a majority of those
voting on the proposition, the State Board of Elections, in
1991, shall reapportion the trustee districts to reflect the
results of the last decennial census, and shall divide the
community college district into 7 trustee districts, each of
which shall be compact, contiguous and substantially equal in
population to each other district. In 2001, and in the year
following each decennial census thereafter, the board of
trustees of community college District #522 shall reapportion
the trustee districts to reflect the results of the census,
and shall divide the community college district into 7
trustee districts, each of which shall be compact,
contiguous, and substantially equal in population to each
other district. The division of the community college
district into trustee districts shall be completed and
formally approved by a majority of the members appointed to
the State Board of Elections with respect to the initial
division of the community college district into 7 trustee
districts in 1991, and by a majority of the members of the
board of trustees of community college District #522 in 2001
and in with respect to the year following each decennial
census thereafter, not less than 60 days before the last date
established by the general election law for the submission of
nominating petitions for the next regularly scheduled
election for community college trustees. At the same meeting
of the board of trustees, the board shall, publicly by lot,
divide the trustee districts as equally as possible into 2
groups. Beginning in 2003 and every 10 years thereafter,
trustees or their successors from one group shall be elected
for successive terms of 4 years and 6 years; and members or
their successors from the second group shall be elected for
successive terms of 6 years and 4 years. One member shall be
elected from each such trustee district. Each member elected
in 2001 shall be elected at the 2001 consolidated election
from the trustee districts established in 1991. The term of
each member elected in 2001 shall end on the date that the
trustees elected in 2003 are officially determined by a
canvass conducted pursuant to the Election Code.
Each member must on the date of his election be a citizen
of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over, and a
resident of the State and the territory which on the date of
the election is included in the community college district
for at least one year immediately preceding his election. In
the event a person who is a member of a common school board
is elected or appointed to a board of trustees of a community
college district, that person shall be permitted to serve the
remainder of his or her term of office as a member of the
common school board. Upon the expiration of the common school
board term, that person shall not be eligible for election or
appointment to a common school board during the term of
office with the community college district board of trustees.
Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members shall
fill the vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve
until a successor is elected at the next regular election for
board members and is certified in accordance with Sections
22-17 and 22-18 of the Election Code. If the remaining
members fail so to act within 60 days after the vacancy
occurs, the chairman of the State Board shall fill that
vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve until a
successor is elected at the next regular election for board
members and is certified in accordance with Sections 22-17
and 22-18 of the Election Code. The person appointed to fill
the vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as
his predecessor in office was required to have. In either
instance, if the vacancy occurs with less than 4 months
remaining before the next scheduled consolidated election,
and the term of office of the board member vacating the
position is not scheduled to expire at that election, then
the term of the person so appointed shall extend through that
election and until the succeeding consolidated election. If
the term of office of the board member vacating the position
is scheduled to expire at the upcoming consolidated election,
the appointed member shall serve only until a successor is
elected and qualified at that election.
Members of the board shall serve without compensation but
shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred in
connection with their service as members. Compensation, for
purposes of this Section, means any salary or other benefits
not expressly authorized by this Act to be provided or paid
to, for or on behalf of members of the board. The board of
each community college district may adopt a policy providing
for the issuance of bank credit cards, for use by any board
member who requests the same in writing and agrees to use the
card only for the reasonable expenses which he or she incurs
in connection with his or her service as a board member.
Expenses charged to such credit cards shall be accounted for
separately and shall be submitted to the chief financial
officer of the district for review prior to being reported to
the board at its next regular meeting.
Except in an election of the initial board for a new
community college district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1,
the ballot for the election of members of the board for a
community college district shall indicate the length of term
for each office to be filled. In the election of a board for
any community college district, the ballot shall not contain
any political party designation.
(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
(110 ILCS 805/3-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-8)
Sec. 3-8. Following each election and canvass, the new
board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before the
14th day after the election, except that in 1999, 2001, and
2003 (except District #522) the board shall organize within
14 days after the first Tuesday after the first Monday of
November in each of those 3 years. In 2003 in District #522,
the new board shall hold its organizational meeting on or
before the 14th day after the consolidated election. If the
election is the initial election ordered by the regional
superintendent, the organizational meeting shall be convened
by the regional superintendent, who shall preside over the
meeting until the election for chairman, vice chairman and
secretary of board is completed. At all other organizational
meetings, the chairman of the board, or, in his or her
absence, the president of the community college or acting
chief executive officer of the college shall convene the new
board, and conduct the election for chairman, vice chairman
and secretary. The board shall then proceed with its
organization under the newly elected board officers, and
shall fix a time and place for its regular meetings. It
shall than enter upon the discharge of its duties. The terms
of board office shall be 2 years, except that the board by
resolution may establish a policy for the terms of office to
be one year, and provide for the election of officers for the
remaining one year period. Terms of members are subject to
Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
Special meetings of the board may be called by the
chairman or by any 3 members of the board by giving notice
thereof in writing stating the time, place and purpose of the
meeting. Such notice may be served by mail 48 hours before
the meeting or by personal service 24 hours before the
meeting.
At each regular and special meeting which is open to the
public, members of the public and employees of the community
college district shall be afforded time, subject to
reasonable constraints, to comment to or ask questions of the
board.
(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98; 90-814, eff. 2-4-99.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
Passed in the General Assembly March 27, 2001.
Approved March 30, 2001.
Effective March 30, 2001.
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