Full Text of SB0225 99th General Assembly
SB0225sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Bill Cunningham Filed: 4/15/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 225
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 225 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 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. In this Section, "reasonable emergency" means any | 8 | | imminent need to maintain the operations or facilities of the | 9 | | community college district and that such need is due to | 10 | | circumstances beyond the control of the board. | 11 | | Following each election and canvass, the new board shall
| 12 | | hold its organizational meeting on or before the 28th day after | 13 | | the election. If the election is the initial election ordered | 14 | | by the regional superintendent,
the organizational meeting | 15 | | shall be convened by the regional superintendent,
who shall | 16 | | preside over the meeting until the election for chairman, vice
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| 1 | | chairman and secretary of board is completed. At all other | 2 | | organizational
meetings, the chairman of the board, or, in his | 3 | | or her absence, the president
of the community college or | 4 | | acting chief executive officer of the college shall
convene the | 5 | | new board, and conduct the election for chairman, vice chairman | 6 | | and
secretary. The board shall then proceed with its | 7 | | organization under the newly
elected board officers, and shall | 8 | | fix a time and place for its regular
meetings. It shall then | 9 | | enter upon the discharge of its duties. Public notice of the | 10 | | schedule of regular meetings for the next calendar year, as set | 11 | | at the organizational meeting, must be given at the beginning | 12 | | of that calendar year. The terms of
board office shall be 2 | 13 | | years, except that the board by resolution may
establish a | 14 | | policy for the terms of office to be one year, and provide for | 15 | | the
election of officers for the remaining one year period.
| 16 | | Terms of members are subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election | 17 | | Code.
| 18 | | Beginning 60 days prior to the Tuesday following the first | 19 | | Monday of April in odd-numbered years until the first | 20 | | organizational meeting of the new board, no addendum to modify | 21 | | and amend an employee agreement between a community college | 22 | | district and another party may be agreed to or executed, nor | 23 | | may an employment contract be made and entered into between the | 24 | | board of an established community college district and another | 25 | | party. If the current board must take such action at any time | 26 | | during the 60 days prior to the Tuesday following the first |
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| 1 | | Monday of April in odd-numbered years until the first | 2 | | organizational meeting of the new board due to a reasonable | 3 | | emergency, then that action must be terminated within 30 days | 4 | | after the first organizational meeting, unless the new board, | 5 | | by resolution, reaffirms the agreed-upon addendum or new | 6 | | employment contract. | 7 | | Special meetings of the board may be called by the chairman | 8 | | or by any
3 members of the board by giving notice thereof in | 9 | | writing stating the
time, place and purpose of the meeting. | 10 | | Such notice may be served by
mail 48 hours before the meeting | 11 | | or by personal service 24 hours before
the meeting.
| 12 | | At each regular and special meeting which is open to the | 13 | | public,
members of the public and employees of the community | 14 | | college district shall
be afforded time, subject to reasonable | 15 | | constraints, to comment to or ask
questions of the board.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 95-116, eff. 8-13-07; 95-791, eff. 8-8-08.)".
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