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90_HB2709
105 ILCS 5/3-2.5
Amends the School Code. Changes the salary schedule for
regional superintendents of schools effective the first
Monday of August, 1999. Provides for an adjustment to those
annual salaries on July 1 of each year thereafter. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 3-2.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 3-2.5 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
8 Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
9 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the
10 regional superintendents of schools shall receive for their
11 services an annual salary according to the population, as
12 determined by the last preceding federal census, of the
13 region they serve, as follows set out in the following
14 schedule:
15 SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS
16 UNTIL THE FIRST MONDAY OF AUGUST, 1999
17 POPULATION OF REGION ANNUAL SALARY
18 Less than 48,000 $66,000
19 48,000 to 99,999 $70,500
20 100,000 to 999,999 $74,000
21 1,000,000 and over $76,000
22 Effective on the first Monday of August, 1999 and on July
23 1 of every year thereafter: regional superintendents of
24 schools of an educational service region with a population of
25 500,000 or more inhabitants shall receive for their services
26 an annual salary equal to 105% of the mean salary of all
27 school district superintendents in the State, as determined
28 each year by the State Board of Education under Section
29 2-3.103 of the School Code for the school year that commences
30 in the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year
31 in which the first payment of the annual salary being
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1 determined is to be made; regional superintendents of schools
2 in educational service regions with 100,000 to 499,999
3 inhabitants shall receive for their services an annual salary
4 equal to 97.37% of the annual salary as determined each year
5 for regional superintendents of schools in educational
6 service regions with 500,000 or more inhabitants; and
7 regional superintendents of schools in educational service
8 regions with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants shall receive for
9 their services an annual salary equal to 92.76% of the annual
10 salary as determined each year for regional superintendents
11 of schools in educational service regions with 500,000 or
12 more inhabitants.
13 The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary
14 that the regional superintendents of schools shall receive
15 for their services shall apply to the annual salary received
16 by the regional superintendents of schools during each of
17 their elected terms of office that commence after July 26,
18 1989 and before the first Monday of August, 1995.
19 The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual
20 salary that regional superintendents of schools shall receive
21 for their services shall apply to the annual salary received
22 by the regional superintendents of schools during each of
23 their elected terms of office that commence after August 4,
24 1995.
25 When regional superintendents are authorized by the
26 School Code to appoint assistant regional superintendents,
27 the assistant regional superintendent shall receive an annual
28 salary based on his qualifications and computed as a
29 percentage of the salary of the regional superintendent to
30 whom he is assistant, as set out in the following schedule:
31 SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS
32 QUALIFICATIONS OF PERCENTAGE OF SALARY
33 ASSISTANT REGIONAL OF REGIONAL
34 SUPERINTENDENT SUPERINTENDENT
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1 No Bachelor's degree, but
2 State certificate valid 70%
3 for teaching and
4 supervising.
5 Bachelor's degree plus
6 State certificate valid 75%
7 for supervising.
8 Master's degree plus
9 State certificate valid 90%
10 for supervising.
11 However, in any region in which the appointment of more
12 than one assistant regional superintendent is authorized,
13 whether by Section 3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not
14 more than one assistant may be compensated at the 90% rate
15 and any other assistant shall be paid at not exceeding the
16 75% rate, in each case depending on the qualifications of the
17 assistant.
18 The salaries provided in this Section for regional
19 superintendents and assistant regional superintendents are
20 payable monthly from the Common School Fund. The State
21 Comptroller in making his or her warrant to any county for
22 the amount due it from the Common School Fund shall deduct
23 from it the several amounts for which warrants have been
24 issued to the regional superintendent, and any assistant
25 regional superintendent, of the educational service region
26 encompassing the county since the preceding apportionment of
27 the Common School Fund.
28 County boards may provide for additional compensation for
29 the regional superintendent or the assistant regional
30 superintendents, or for each of them, to be paid quarterly
31 from the county treasury.
32 (b) Upon abolition on July 1, 1994, of the office of
33 regional superintendent of schools in educational service
34 regions containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided
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1 in Section 3-0.01 of this Code, the provisions of subsection
2 (a) of this Section shall no longer apply in any educational
3 service region in which the office of regional superintendent
4 of schools is so abolished, and no salary or other
5 compensation shall be payable under that subsection (a) or
6 under any other provision of this Section with respect to the
7 office so abolished or with respect to any assistant position
8 to the office so abolished.
9 (Source: P.A. 89-233, eff. 1-1-96; incorporates 89-225, eff.
10 8-4-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
11 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.
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