Sen. Dan Cronin
Filed: 3/18/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2089 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2089 by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
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    "Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended  by 
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adding Section 3-7a as follows:
 
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    (110 ILCS 805/3-7a  new)
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    Sec. 3-7a. Trustee districts in community college district 
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primarily in DuPage County.
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    (a)  A board of trustees of a community college district 
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that is located primarily in DuPage County shall have its board 
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members elected from trustee districts as provided in this 
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Section.  In 2011 and in the year following each decennial 
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census thereafter, the board shall reapportion the trustee 
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districts to reflect the results of the decennial census and 
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shall divide the community college district into 6 trustee 
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districts, each of which shall be compact, contiguous, and 
 


 






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substantially equal in population to each other trustee 
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district.  The division of the community college district into 
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trustee districts shall be completed and formally approved by a 
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majority of the members of the board of trustees of the 
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community college district in 2011 and in the year following 
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each decennial census.  At the same meeting of the board of 
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trustees, the board shall, publicly by lot, divide the trustee 
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districts as equally as possible into 2 groups.  Beginning in 
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2013 and every 10 years thereafter, trustees and their 
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successors from one group shall be elected for successive terms 
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of 4 years and 6 years and trustees and their successors from 
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the second group shall be elected for successive terms of 6 
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years and 4 years.  One trustee shall be elected from each 
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trustee district.  The seventh trustee and chairperson of the 
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board of trustees shall be appointed by the county board 
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chairman of the largest county within the community college 
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district to serve 5-year terms.
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    (b)  The term of each trustee elected in 2011 shall end in 
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2013 on the date that the trustees elected in 2013 are 
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officially determined by a canvass conducted pursuant to the 
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Election Code and are sworn into office.
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    (c)  In the 2015 election only, the 4 trustees on the ballot 
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shall be elected to either 2 or 4-year terms in order to have 
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those seats conform with the overall terms of office as 
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provided for new trustees under this Section.
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    (d)  Each member of the board of trustees elected from a 
 


 






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trustee district must be a resident of the trustee district he 
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or she represents for at least one year immediately preceding 
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his or her election, except that in the first election for each 
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trustee district following reapportionment, a candidate for 
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the board may be elected from any trustee district that 
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contains a part of the trustee district in which he or she 
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resided at the time of the reapportionment and may be reelected 
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if a resident of the new trustee district he or she represents 
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for one year prior to reelection.
 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.".