(105 ILCS 5/9-22) (from Ch. 122, par. 9-22)
Sec. 9-22.
School board districts; changing manner of election.
A
school board may by resolution or shall, upon the petition of the lesser of
2,500 or 5% of the district's registered voters, order submitted to the
district's voters at a regular school election or at the general election, the
proposition for the election of board members by school board district, and the
proposition shall thereupon be certified by the board's secretary for
submission. If the proposition is approved by a majority of those voting on
the proposition, the board shall divide the school district into 7 school board
districts, each of which must be compact and contiguous and substantially equal
in population to each other district. The terms of office of the board members
incumbent at the time the proposition is adopted expire on the day of the next
regular school election, at which time one member shall be elected from each
school board district. In districts which have 4 year terms, those members
first elected after adoption of such a proposition shall, by lot, determine
3 to serve for 2 years and 4 for 4 years; their successors shall serve for
a 4 year term. In districts which have 6 year terms, those members first
elected after adoption of such a proposition shall, by lot, determine 3 to
serve for 2 years, 2 for 4 years and 2 for 6 years; their successors shall
serve for a 6 year term. Vacancies shall be filled as provided in Section
10-10.
In the year following each decennial census, the school board shall
reapportion the board districts to reflect the results of such census;
provided, that no decennial reapportionment shall be required in any school
district which elects its board members by school board district rather than at
large if: (i) on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, such school
district last elected its board members by school board district at the
nonpartisan election in 1989; (ii) the terms of the board members so elected
were determined by lot after that election and prior to January 1, 1990; and
(iii) the population of each existing school board district in that school
district at the time of the decennial census is within 5% of
what would be the population in the corresponding school board district
that would result were the school board districts in that school district to
be reapportioned following that decennial census as otherwise required
by this paragraph. If reapportionment is required by this paragraph, the
school board districts shall be compact, contiguous and substantially equal in
population, and such reapportionment plan shall be completed and formally
approved by a majority of the members of the board not less than 90 days
before the last date established by law for the submission of nominating
petitions for the next school board election. At the same board meeting,
the board shall, publicly by lot, divide the board districts as equally as
possible into 2 groups. In school districts which have 4 year terms, board
members or their successors from one group shall be elected for successive
terms of 2 years, 4 years and 4 years; and members or their successors from
the second group shall be elected for successive terms of 4 years, 4 years
and 2 years. In school districts which have 6 year terms, board members 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.
In any school district in which the members of the school board are
elected by school board district rather than at large, the school board may
by resolution or shall, upon the petition of the lesser of 2,500 or 5% of
the school district's registered voters, order submitted to the school
district's voters at a regular school election or at the general election,
the proposition for the election of board members at large rather than by
school board district; and the proposition shall thereupon be certified by
the board's secretary for submission. If a majority of those voting at the
election in each school board district vote in favor of the proposition:
(i) the proposition to elect board members at large shall be deemed to have
passed, (ii) new members of the board shall be elected at large at the next
regular school election, and (iii) the terms of office of the board members
incumbent at the time the proposition is adopted shall expire when the new
board members that are elected at large have organized in accordance with
Section 10-16. In school districts that formerly elected their members by
school board district to successive terms not exceeding 4 years, the
members elected at large shall be elected for a term of 4 years, and in
school districts that formerly elected their members by school board
district to successive terms not exceeding 6 years, the members elected at
large shall be elected for a term of 6 years; provided, that in each case
the terms of the board members initially elected at large as provided in
this paragraph shall be staggered and determined in accordance with the
provisions of Sections 10-10 and 10-16.
(Source: P.A. 87-1139; 87-1210; 88-45.)
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