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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2277
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2277 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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
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1 registered in the district, order submitted to the voters of
2 the district at the next general election the proposition for
3 the election of board members by trustee district rather than
4 at large, and such proposition shall thereupon be certified
5 by the secretary of the board to the proper election
6 authority in accordance with the general election law for
7 submission.
8 If the proposition is approved by a majority of those
9 voting on the proposition, the State Board of Elections, in
10 1991, shall reapportion the trustee districts to reflect the
11 results of the last decennial census, and shall divide the
12 community college district into 7 trustee districts, each of
13 which shall be compact, contiguous and substantially equal in
14 population to each other district. In 2001, and in the year
15 following each decennial census thereafter, the board of
16 trustees of community college District #522 shall reapportion
17 the trustee districts to reflect the results of the census,
18 and shall divide the community college district into 7
19 trustee districts, each of which shall be compact,
20 contiguous, and substantially equal in population to each
21 other district. The division of the community college
22 district into trustee districts shall be completed and
23 formally approved by a majority of the members of the board
24 of trustees of community college District #522 in 2001 and in
25 the year following each decennial census. At the same
26 meeting of the board of trustees, the board shall, publicly
27 by lot, divide the trustee districts as equally as possible
28 into 2 groups. Beginning in 2003 and every 10 years
29 thereafter, trustees or their successors from one group shall
30 be elected for successive terms of 4 years and 6 years; and
31 members or their successors from the second group shall be
32 elected for successive terms of 6 years and 4 years. One
33 member shall be elected from each such trustee district.
34 Each member elected in 2001 shall be elected at the 2001
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1 consolidated election from the trustee districts established
2 in 1991. The term of each member elected in 2001 shall end
3 on the date that the trustees elected in 2003 are officially
4 determined by a canvass conducted pursuant to the Election
5 Code.
6 (d) In Community College District No. 526, the election
7 of board members shall be by trustee district rather than at
8 large beginning with the consolidated election in 2005.
9 For the 2005, 2007, and 2009 consolidated elections, the
10 board shall divide the community college district into 7
11 trustee districts, each of which shall be compact,
12 contiguous, and substantially equal in population to each
13 other trustee district based on the results of the 2000
14 decennial census, with consideration being given to keeping
15 existing school district boundaries intact. The division of
16 the community college district into trustee districts shall
17 be completed and formally approved by a majority of the
18 members of the board in 2003. If the division of the
19 community college district into trustee districts is not
20 completed and formally approved on or before December 31,
21 2003, then the Supreme Court shall divide the community
22 college district into trustee districts. For each at-large
23 seat on the board that is to be filled by election in 2005 or
24 2007, the seat shall be filled by a trustee elected from a
25 trustee district. The board shall determine which trustee
26 district seat is to replace which at-large seat by lot. The
27 term of each trustee elected at the 2005 or 2007 consolidated
28 election shall end on the date that the trustees elected in
29 2009 are officially determined by a canvass conducted
30 pursuant to the Election Code. For the 2009 consolidated
31 election, one trustee shall be elected from each trustee
32 district to serve a 4-year term.
33 In 2011, and in the year following each decennial census
34 thereafter, the board shall reapportion the trustee districts
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1 to reflect the results of the census and shall divide the
2 community college district into 7 trustee districts, each of
3 which shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal
4 in population to each other trustee district, with
5 consideration being given to keeping existing school district
6 boundaries intact. One trustee shall then be elected from
7 each trustee district. The division of the community college
8 district into trustee districts shall be completed and
9 formally approved by a majority of the members of the board
10 in 2011 and in the year following each decennial census. At
11 the same meeting of the board, the board shall, publicly by
12 lot, divide the trustee districts as equally as possible into
13 3 groups. Beginning with the 2013 consolidated election and
14 the consolidated election every 10 years thereafter, trustees
15 or their successors from the first group shall be elected for
16 successive terms of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years; trustees
17 or their successors from the second group shall be elected
18 for successive terms of 4 years, 2 years, and 4 years; and
19 trustees or their successors from the third group shall be
20 elected for successive terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2
21 years. If the division of the community college district into
22 trustee districts is not completed and formally approved on
23 or before December 31 of the year following the decennial
24 census, then the Supreme Court shall divide the community
25 college district into trustee districts.
26 (e) Each member must on the date of his election be a
27 citizen of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over,
28 and a resident of the State and the territory which on the
29 date of the election is included in the community college
30 district for at least one year immediately preceding his
31 election. In Community College District No. 526, each member
32 elected at the consolidated election in 2005 or thereafter
33 must also be a resident of the trustee district he or she
34 represents for at least one year immediately preceding his or
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1 her election. In the event a person who is a member of a
2 common school board is elected or appointed to a board of
3 trustees of a community college district, that person shall
4 be permitted to serve the remainder of his or her term of
5 office as a member of the common school board. Upon the
6 expiration of the common school board term, that person shall
7 not be eligible for election or appointment to a common
8 school board during the term of office with the community
9 college district board of trustees.
10 (f) Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members
11 shall fill the vacancy, and the person so appointed shall
12 serve until a successor is elected at the next regular
13 election for board members and is certified in accordance
14 with Sections 22-17 and 22-18 of the Election Code. If the
15 remaining members fail so to act within 60 days after the
16 vacancy occurs, the chairman of the State Board shall fill
17 that vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve until a
18 successor is elected at the next regular election for board
19 members and is certified in accordance with Sections 22-17
20 and 22-18 of the Election Code. The person appointed to fill
21 the vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as
22 his predecessor in office was required to have. In either
23 instance, if the vacancy occurs with less than 4 months
24 remaining before the next scheduled consolidated election,
25 and the term of office of the board member vacating the
26 position is not scheduled to expire at that election, then
27 the term of the person so appointed shall extend through that
28 election and until the succeeding consolidated election. If
29 the term of office of the board member vacating the position
30 is scheduled to expire at the upcoming consolidated election,
31 the appointed member shall serve only until a successor is
32 elected and qualified at that election.
33 (g) Members of the board shall serve without
34 compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable
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1 expenses incurred in connection with their service as
2 members. Compensation, for purposes of this Section, means
3 any salary or other benefits not expressly authorized by this
4 Act to be provided or paid to, for or on behalf of members of
5 the board. The board of each community college district may
6 adopt a policy providing for the issuance of bank credit
7 cards, for use by any board member who requests the same in
8 writing and agrees to use the card only for the reasonable
9 expenses which he or she incurs in connection with his or her
10 service as a board member. Expenses charged to such credit
11 cards shall be accounted for separately and shall be
12 submitted to the chief financial officer of the district for
13 review prior to being reported to the board at its next
14 regular meeting.
15 (h) Except in an election of the initial board for a new
16 community college district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1,
17 the ballot for the election of members of the board for a
18 community college district shall indicate the length of term
19 for each office to be filled. In the election of a board for
20 any community college district, the ballot shall not contain
21 any political party designation.
22 (Source: P.A. 92-1, eff. 3-30-01.)".