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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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