(110 ILCS 805/7-18) (from Ch. 122, par. 107-18)
Sec. 7-18.
Tax for operation and maintenance of facilities and purchase of
grounds. For the purpose of establishing and supporting community
colleges in each year and defraying the expenses incident to this purpose;
for the purpose of building, acquiring, repairing and improving community
college buildings, or procuring community college lands, furniture,
fuel, libraries and apparatus, for building and architectural supplies,
for the purchase, maintenance, repair and replacement of fixtures
generally used in community college buildings, including but not limited
to heating and ventilating systems, mechanical equipment, seats and
desks, blackboards, window shades and curtains, gymnasium and recreation
apparatus and equipment, auditorium and lunchroom equipment,
and, if provided by resolution of the board, for the rental of buildings
and property for community college purposes, for the payment of premiums
for insurance upon buildings and building fixtures, for the payment of
salaries of janitors, engineers, other custodial and security employees,
for the costs of lights, gas, water, telephone service, custodial supplies
and equipment and the cost of a professional survey of the conditions of
school buildings, and all expenses incident to each of these purposes, the
board may
levy annually, upon all taxable property of the district, a tax for
operation and maintenance of facilities purposes
and the purchase of grounds at a rate for each year not to exceed .05%
of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue
for the year in which the levy is made; and may levy
annually, upon all taxable property of the district, for educational
purposes a tax for each year at a rate not to exceed .175% of the value,
as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue
for the year in which the levy is made. The taxes levied for
operations and maintenance
purposes and for educational purposes, respectively, may not exceed the
estimated amounts of taxes to be levied for that year for those purposes
as determined under Sections 7-8 through 7-17 and set forth in the
annual budget of the board: But when bonds are issued by the board as
authorized by Section 7-26 or Section 7-27, the rate of tax authorized
in this Section to be levied for operations and
maintenance of facilities purposes and the purchase of
grounds shall be reduced each year by the rate of tax necessary to be
levied for that year to pay the principal of and interest on all such
bonds when issued. Except sums expended or obligations incurred for
purposes described in any resolution and ordinance authorizing bonds
issued under Sections 7-25, 7-26 and 7-27, any sum expended or
obligations incurred for the purpose of building or acquiring community
colleges, for procuring land, furniture, fuel, libraries and apparatus,
for the improvement, repair or benefit of community college buildings
and property, for building and architectural supplies, for the purchase,
maintenance, repair and replacement of fixtures generally used in
community college buildings, including but not limited to heating and
ventilating systems, mechanical equipment, seats and desks, blackboards,
window shades and curtains, gymnasium and recreational apparatus and
equipment, auditorium and lunchroom equipment, and all expenses incident
to each of these purposes shall be paid from that portion of the tax
levied for operations and maintenance of facilities purposes.
Educational purposes and operations and maintenance of facilities purposes,
respectively, include expenses of administration incidental to each of
those purposes.
(Source: P.A. 89-281, eff. 8-10-95.)
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