Full Text of HB0270 96th General Assembly
HB0270 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB0270 Introduced 1/23/2009, by Rep. Jay C. Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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| Amends the Regional Planning Act. Provides that the Board of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning shall consist of 17 members (now, 15). Provides that the 2 additional members shall be appointed by the Governor. Sets forth the terms and residency requirements for the additional members. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Regional Planning Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Sections 15 and 25 as follows: | 6 | | (70 ILCS 1707/15)
| 7 | | Sec. 15. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning; | 8 | | structure. | 9 | | (a) The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is | 10 | | established as a political subdivision, body politic, and | 11 | | municipal corporation. The Board shall be responsible for | 12 | | developing and adopting a funding and implementation strategy | 13 | | for an integrated land use and transportation planning process | 14 | | for the northeastern Illinois region.
| 15 | | (b) (Blank.) | 16 | | (c) The Board shall consist of 17 15 voting members as | 17 | | follows: | 18 | | (1) One member from DuPage County appointed | 19 | | cooperatively by the mayors of DuPage County and the chief | 20 | | elected county official of DuPage County. | 21 | | (2) One member representing both Kane and Kendall | 22 | | Counties appointed cooperatively by the mayors of Kane | 23 | | County and Kendall County and the chief elected county |
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| 1 | | officials of Kane County and Kendall County. | 2 | | (3) One member from Lake County appointed | 3 | | cooperatively by the mayors of Lake County and the chief | 4 | | elected county official of Lake County. | 5 | | (4) One member from McHenry County appointed | 6 | | cooperatively by the mayors of McHenry County and the chief | 7 | | elected county official of McHenry County. | 8 | | (5) One member from Will County appointed | 9 | | cooperatively by the mayors of Will County and the chief | 10 | | elected county official of Will County. | 11 | | (6) Five members from the City of Chicago appointed by | 12 | | the Mayor of the City of Chicago. | 13 | | (7) One member from that portion of Cook County outside | 14 | | of the City of Chicago appointed by the President of the | 15 | | Cook County Board of Commissioners. | 16 | | (8) Four members from that portion of Cook County | 17 | | outside of the City of Chicago appointed, with the consent | 18 | | of the President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, | 19 | | as follows: | 20 | | (i) One by the mayors representing those | 21 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City | 22 | | of Chicago and north of Devon Avenue. | 23 | | (ii) One by the mayors representing those | 24 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City | 25 | | of Chicago, south of Devon Avenue, and north of | 26 | | Interstate 55, and in addition the Village of Summit. |
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| 1 | | (iii) One by the mayors representing those | 2 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City | 3 | | of Chicago, south of Interstate 55, and west of | 4 | | Interstate 57, excluding the communities of Summit, | 5 | | Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins, Midlothian, Oak Forest, and | 6 | | Tinley Park. | 7 | | (iv) One by the mayors representing those | 8 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City | 9 | | of Chicago and east of Interstate 57, and, in addition, | 10 | | the communities of Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins, | 11 | | Midlothian, Oak Forest, and Tinley Park. | 12 | | (9) Two members appointed by the Governor, each of whom | 13 | | shall be a resident of the CMAP region, and not more than | 14 | | one of whom may be a resident of (i) the City of Chicago, | 15 | | (ii) the part of Cook County that is outside of the City of | 16 | | Chicago, or (iii) collectively the counties of DuPage, | 17 | | Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will. | 18 | | The terms of the members initially appointed to the Board shall | 19 | | begin within 60 days after this Act takes effect , except that | 20 | | the terms of the members appointed by the Governor under item | 21 | | (9) of this subsection shall begin 60 days after the effective | 22 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly . | 23 | | (d) The CMAP Board may appoint non-voting members of the | 24 | | Board. | 25 | | (e) (1) The CMAP Board shall create a Wastewater Committee | 26 | | with the responsibility of recommending directly to the |
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| 1 | | Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) the | 2 | | appropriateness of proposed requests for modifications and | 3 | | amendments to the established boundaries of wastewater | 4 | | facility planning areas, requests for the creation of new | 5 | | wastewater facility planning areas, requests for the | 6 | | elimination of existing wastewater facility planning areas, | 7 | | requests for new or expanded sewage treatment facilities, or | 8 | | any other amendments to the State of Illinois Water Quality | 9 | | Management Plan required under the federal Clean Water Act. The | 10 | | Chairmanship of the Wastewater Committee shall rotate every 24 | 11 | | months between the individuals described in subsections | 12 | | (e)(2)(iv) and (e)(2)(v) with the individual identified in | 13 | | subsection (e)(2)(v) serving as chairman for the initial | 14 | | 24-month period commencing on the effective date of this | 15 | | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.
| 16 | | (2) The Wastewater Committee shall consist of 5 members | 17 | | of the CMAP Board designated as follows:
| 18 | | (i) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall be | 19 | | one of the CMAP Board members designated in subsection | 20 | | (c)(1) through (c)(5).
| 21 | | (ii) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall | 22 | | be one of the CMAP Board members designated in | 23 | | subsection (c)(6). | 24 | | (iii) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall | 25 | | be one of the CMAP Board members designated in | 26 | | subsection (c)(7) or (c)(8). |
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| 1 | | (iv) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall | 2 | | be a person appointed by the President of the | 3 | | Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater | 4 | | Chicago (and who does not need to serve on the CMAP | 5 | | Board). | 6 | | (v) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall be | 7 | | a person appointed by the President of the largest | 8 | | statewide association of wastewater agencies (and who | 9 | | does not need to serve on the CMAP Board). | 10 | | (3) Terms of the members of the Wastewater Committee | 11 | | shall be consistent with those identified in Section 25, | 12 | | except that the term of the member of the Wastewater | 13 | | Committee appointed by the President of the Metropolitan | 14 | | Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago shall expire | 15 | | on July 1, 2009, and the term of the member of the | 16 | | Wastewater Committee appointed by the President of the | 17 | | largest statewide association of wastewater agencies shall | 18 | | expire on July 1, 2009.
| 19 | | (f) With the exception of matters considered and | 20 | | recommended by the Wastewater Committee directly to the IEPA, | 21 | | which shall require only a concurrence of a simple majority of | 22 | | the Wastewater Committee members in office, concurrence of | 23 | | four-fifths of the Board members in office is necessary for the | 24 | | Board to
take any action.
| 25 | | (Source: P.A. 94-510, eff. 8-9-05; 95-677, eff. 10-11-07.) |
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| 1 | | (70 ILCS 1707/25)
| 2 | | Sec. 25. Operations. | 3 | | (a) Each appointing authority shall give notice of its | 4 | | Board appointments to each other appointing authority, to the | 5 | | Board, and to the Secretary of State. Within 30 days after his | 6 | | or her appointment and before entering upon the duties of the | 7 | | office, each Board member shall take and subscribe to the | 8 | | constitutional oath of office and file it with the Secretary of | 9 | | State. Board members shall hold office for a term of 4 years or | 10 | | until successors are appointed and qualified. The terms of the | 11 | | initial Board members shall expire as follows: | 12 | | (1) The terms of the member from DuPage County and the | 13 | | member representing both Kane and Kendall Counties shall | 14 | | expire on July 1, 2007. | 15 | | (2) The terms of those members from Lake, McHenry, and | 16 | | Will Counties shall expire on July 1, 2009. | 17 | | (3) As designated at the time of appointment, the terms | 18 | | of 2 members from the City of Chicago shall expire on July | 19 | | 1, 2007 and the terms of 3 members from the City of Chicago | 20 | | shall expire on July 1, 2009. | 21 | | (4) The term of the member appointed by the President | 22 | | of the Cook County Board of Commissioners shall expire on | 23 | | July 1, 2007. | 24 | | (5) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 25 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 26 | | Commissioners, by the mayors representing those |
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| 1 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City of | 2 | | Chicago and north of Devon Avenue shall expire on July 1, | 3 | | 2007. | 4 | | (6) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 5 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 6 | | Commissioners, by the mayors representing those | 7 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City of | 8 | | Chicago, south of Interstate 55, and west of Interstate 57, | 9 | | excluding the communities of Summit, Dixmoor, Posen, | 10 | | Robbins, Midlothian, Oak Forest, and Tinley Park, shall | 11 | | expire on July 1, 2007. | 12 | | (7) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 13 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 14 | | Commissioners, by the mayor representing those communities | 15 | | in Cook County that are outside of the City of Chicago, | 16 | | south of Devon Avenue, and north of Interstate 55, and, in | 17 | | addition, the Village of Summit, shall expire on July 1, | 18 | | 2009. | 19 | | (8) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 20 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 21 | | Commissioners, by the mayors representing those | 22 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City of | 23 | | Chicago and east of Interstate 57, and, in addition, the | 24 | | communities of Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins, Midlothian, Oak | 25 | | Forest, and Tinley Park, shall expire on July 1, 2009. | 26 | | (9) The terms of the initial members appointed by the |
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| 1 | | Governor shall expire as follows: one shall expire on July | 2 | | 1, 2010 | | | and one shall expire on July 1, 2012. | 3 | | (b) If a vacancy occurs, the appropriate appointing | 4 | | authority shall fill the vacancy by an appointment for the | 5 | | unexpired term. Board members shall receive no compensation, | 6 | | but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the | 7 | | performance of their duties. | 8 | | (c) The Board shall be so appointed as to represent the | 9 | | City of Chicago, that part of Cook County outside the City of | 10 | | Chicago, and that part of the metropolitan region outside of | 11 | | Cook County on a one man one vote basis. Within 6 months after | 12 | | the release of each certified federal decennial census, the | 13 | | Board shall review its composition and, if a change is | 14 | | necessary in order to comply with the representation | 15 | | requirements of this subsection (c), shall recommend the | 16 | | necessary revision for approval by the General Assembly. | 17 | | (d) Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at least | 18 | | once in each calendar quarter. The time and place of Board | 19 | | meetings shall be fixed by resolution of the Board. Special | 20 | | meetings of the Board may be called by the chairman or a | 21 | | majority of the Board members. A written notice of the time and | 22 | | place of any special meeting shall be provided to all Board | 23 | | members at least 3 days prior to the date fixed for the | 24 | | meeting, except that if the time and place of a special meeting | 25 | | is fixed at a regular meeting at which all Board members are | 26 | | present, no such written notice is required.
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| 1 | | Board members in office constitutes a quorum for the purpose of | 2 | | convening a meeting of the Board.
| 3 | | (e) The meetings of the Board shall be held in compliance | 4 | | with the Open Meetings Act. The Board shall maintain records in | 5 | | accordance with the provisions of the State Records Act. | 6 | | (f) At its initial meeting and its first regular meeting | 7 | | after July 1 of each year thereafter, the Board
from its | 8 | | membership shall appoint a chairman and may appoint
vice | 9 | | chairmen and shall provide the term and duties of those | 10 | | officers pursuant to its bylaws.
Before entering upon duties of | 11 | | office, the chairman shall execute a bond with corporate | 12 | | sureties to be approved by the Board and shall file it with the | 13 | | principal office of the Board. The bond shall be payable to the | 14 | | Board in whatever penal sum may be directed and shall be | 15 | | conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of | 16 | | office and the payment of all money received by the chairman | 17 | | according to law and the orders of the Board.
The Board may | 18 | | appoint, from time to time, an executive committee and standing | 19 | | and ad hoc committees to assist in carrying out its | 20 | | responsibilities.
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 94-510, eff. 8-9-05; 95-677, eff. 10-11-07.)
| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 23 | | becoming law.
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