Public Act 095-0116
 		





SB0401 Enrolled
LRB095 05210 NHT 25285 b






    AN ACT concerning 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 Section 3-8 as follows:
 



    (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 
28th 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 then
than enter upon the discharge of its 
duties.  Public notice of the schedule of regular meetings for 
the next calendar year, as set at the organizational meeting, 
must be given at the beginning of that calendar year. 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. 92-1, eff. 3-30-01; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)

 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
2007.