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 1        AN ACT regarding 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 Section 3-7 as follows:

 6        (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
 7        Sec. 3-7.  (a) The election of the members of  the  board
 8    of  trustees  shall  be  nonpartisan and shall be held at the
 9    time and in the manner provided in the general election law.
10        (b)  Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members shall
11    be elected to serve  6  year  terms.   The  term  of  members
12    elected  in  1985  and  thereafter shall be from the date the
13    member is officially determined to be elected to the board by
14    a canvass conducted pursuant to the  Election  Code,  to  the
15    date  that the winner of the seat is officially determined by
16    the canvass conducted pursuant to the Election Code the  next
17    time the seat on the board is to be filled by election.
18        (c)  A  board of trustees of a community college district
19    which 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 of  the  board
15    of trustees of community college District #522 in 2001 and in
16    the  year  following  each  decennial  census.   At  the same
17    meeting of the board of trustees, the board  shall,  publicly
18    by  lot,  divide the trustee districts as equally as possible
19    into  2  groups.  Beginning  in  2003  and  every  10   years
20    thereafter, trustees or their successors from one group shall
21    be  elected  for successive terms of 4 years and 6 years; and
22    members or their successors from the second  group  shall  be
23    elected  for  successive  terms  of 6 years and 4 years.  One
24    member shall be elected  from  each  such  trustee  district.
25    Each  member  elected  in  2001  shall be elected at the 2001
26    consolidated election from the trustee districts  established
27    in  1991.   The term of each member elected in 2001 shall end
28    on the date that the trustees elected in 2003 are  officially
29    determined  by  a  canvass conducted pursuant to the Election
30    Code.
31        (d)  In Community College District No. 526, the  election
32    of  board members shall be by trustee district rather than at
33    large beginning with the consolidated election in  2005.  The
34    term  of  each  trustee  elected before the effective date of
 
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 1    this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall end on
 2    the date that the trustees elected  in  2005  are  officially
 3    determined  by  a  canvass conducted pursuant to the Election
 4    Code.
 5        For the  2005  consolidated  election,  the  board  shall
 6    divide   the   community  college  district  into  7  trustee
 7    districts, each of which shall be  compact,  contiguous,  and
 8    substantially  equal  in  population  to  each  other trustee
 9    district based on the results of the 2000  decennial  census.
10    One  trustee shall then be elected from each trustee district
11    to serve a 2-year term. The division of the community college
12    district  into  trustee  districts  shall  be  completed  and
13    formally approved by a majority of the members of  the  board
14    in 2004.
15        For  the  2007 and 2011 consolidated elections, the board
16    shall, publicly by  lot,  divide  the  trustee  districts  as
17    equally   as  possible  into  2  groups.  Trustees  or  their
18    successors  from  the  first  group  shall  be  elected   for
19    successive  terms  of  2  years  and 4 years, and trustees or
20    their successors from the second group shall be  elected  for
21    successive terms of 4 years and 2 years.
22        In  2011, and in the year following each decennial census
23    thereafter, the board shall reapportion the trustee districts
24    to reflect the results of the census  and  shall  divide  the
25    community  college district into 7 trustee districts, each of
26    which shall be compact, contiguous, and  substantially  equal
27    in  population  to  each  other trustee district. One trustee
28    shall  then  be  elected  from  each  trustee  district.  The
29    division of  the  community  college  district  into  trustee
30    districts  shall  be  completed  and  formally  approved by a
31    majority of the members of the board in 2011 and in the  year
32    following  each  decennial census. At the same meeting of the
33    board, the board shall, publicly by lot, divide  the  trustee
34    districts  as  equally  as  possible into 3 groups. Beginning
 
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 1    with the 2013  consolidated  election  and  the  consolidated
 2    election   every  10  years  thereafter,  trustees  or  their
 3    successors  from  the  first  group  shall  be  elected   for
 4    successive  terms  of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years; trustees
 5    or their successors from the second group  shall  be  elected
 6    for  successive  terms  of 4 years, 2 years, and 4 years; and
 7    trustees or their successors from the third  group  shall  be
 8    elected  for  successive  terms  of  4  years, 4 years, and 2
 9    years.
10        (e)  Each member must on the date of his  election  be  a
11    citizen of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over,
12    and  a  resident  of the State and the territory which on the
13    date of the election is included  in  the  community  college
14    district  for  at  least  one  year immediately preceding his
15    election. In Community College District  No.  526,  beginning
16    with the consolidated election in 2005, each member must also
17    be  a  resident  of the trustee district he or she represents
18    for at least  one  year  immediately  preceding  his  or  her
19    election.   In the event a person who is a member of a common
20    school board is elected or appointed to a board  of  trustees
21    of  a  community  college  district,  that  person  shall  be
22    permitted to serve the remainder of his or her term of office
23    as  a  member of the common school board. Upon the expiration
24    of the common school board term, that  person  shall  not  be
25    eligible for election or appointment to a common school board
26    during the term of office with the community college district
27    board of trustees.
28        (f)  Whenever  a  vacancy  occurs,  the remaining members
29    shall fill the vacancy, and the  person  so  appointed  shall
30    serve  until  a  successor  is  elected  at  the next regular
31    election for board members and  is  certified  in  accordance
32    with  Sections  22-17 and 22-18 of the Election Code.  If the
33    remaining members fail so to act within  60  days  after  the
34    vacancy  occurs,  the  chairman of the State Board shall fill
 
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 1    that vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve until a
 2    successor is elected at the next regular election  for  board
 3    members  and  is  certified in accordance with Sections 22-17
 4    and 22-18 of the Election Code.  The person appointed to fill
 5    the vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as
 6    his predecessor in office was required  to  have.  In  either
 7    instance,  if  the  vacancy  occurs  with  less than 4 months
 8    remaining before the next  scheduled  consolidated  election,
 9    and  the  term  of  office  of  the board member vacating the
10    position is not scheduled to expire at  that  election,  then
11    the term of the person so appointed shall extend through that
12    election  and until the succeeding consolidated election.  If
13    the term of office of the board member vacating the  position
14    is scheduled to expire at the upcoming consolidated election,
15    the  appointed  member  shall serve only until a successor is
16    elected and qualified at that election.
17        (g)  Members   of   the   board   shall   serve   without
18    compensation but shall be  reimbursed  for  their  reasonable
19    expenses   incurred  in  connection  with  their  service  as
20    members. Compensation, for purposes of  this  Section,  means
21    any salary or other benefits not expressly authorized by this
22    Act to be provided or paid to, for or on behalf of members of
23    the  board.  The board of each community college district may
24    adopt a policy providing for  the  issuance  of  bank  credit
25    cards,  for  use by any board member who requests the same in
26    writing and agrees to use the card only  for  the  reasonable
27    expenses which he or she incurs in connection with his or her
28    service  as  a board member.  Expenses charged to such credit
29    cards  shall  be  accounted  for  separately  and  shall   be
30    submitted  to the chief financial officer of the district for
31    review prior to being reported  to  the  board  at  its  next
32    regular meeting.
33        (h)  Except in an election of the initial board for a new
34    community college district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1,
 
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 1    the  ballot  for  the  election of members of the board for a
 2    community college district shall indicate the length of  term
 3    for each office to be filled.  In the election of a board for
 4    any  community college district, the ballot shall not contain
 5    any political party designation.
 6    (Source: P.A. 92-1, eff. 3-30-01.)