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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2834

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2834  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.   The  School  Code  is  amended by changing
 5    Section 34-2.2 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/34-2.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-2.2)
 7        Sec.  34-2.2.   Local  school  councils   -   Manner   of
 8    operation.
 9        (a)  The  annual  organizational  meeting  of  each local
10    school council shall be held at the  attendance  center.   At
11    the  annual  organization  meeting,  which  shall  be held no
12    sooner than July 1 and no later than July 14, a parent member
13    or a community resident member of the  local  school  council
14    shall  be  selected  by  the  members  of such council as its
15    chairperson, and a secretary shall be selected by the members
16    of such council from among their number, each to serve a term
17    of one year. Whenever a vacancy in the office of  chairperson
18    or  secretary  of  a  local school council shall occur, a new
19    chairperson (who shall be  a  parent  or  community  resident
20    member) or secretary, as the case may be, shall be elected by
21    the  members  of  the  local  school council from among their
22    number to serve as such  chairperson  or  secretary  for  the
 
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 1    unexpired  term  of  office  in which the vacancy occurs.  At
 2    each annual organizational meeting, the time and place of any
 3    regular meetings of the local school council shall be  fixed.
 4    Special meetings of the local school council may be called by
 5    the  chairperson or by any 4 members by giving notice thereof
 6    in writing, specifying the time, place  and  purpose  of  the
 7    meeting.   Public  notice  of meetings shall also be given in
 8    accordance with the Open Meetings Act.
 9        (b)  Members and officers of  the  local  school  council
10    shall serve without compensation and without reimbursement of
11    any  expenses  incurred  in  the performance of their duties,
12    except that the board of education may by  rule  establish  a
13    procedure and thereunder provide for reimbursement of members
14    and  officers  of  local  school  councils  for such of their
15    reasonable and necessary expenses (excluding any  lodging  or
16    meal expenses) incurred in the performance of their duties as
17    the board may deem appropriate.
18        (c)  A  majority  of  the  full  membership  of the local
19    school council shall constitute a quorum, and whenever a vote
20    is taken on any measure before the local  school  council,  a
21    quorum  being  present, the affirmative vote of a majority of
22    the votes of the full membership then serving  of  the  local
23    school  council shall determine the outcome thereof; provided
24    that whenever the measure before the local school council  is
25    (i)  the  evaluation of the principal, or (ii) the renewal of
26    his or her performance  contract  or  the  inclusion  of  any
27    provision  or  modification  of  the  contract,  or (iii) the
28    direct selection  by  the  local  school  council  of  a  new
29    principal  (including  a  new principal to fill a vacancy) to
30    serve under a  4  year  performance  contract,  or  (iv)  the
31    determination  of  the names of candidates to be submitted to
32    the general superintendent for the position of principal, the
33    principal and student member of a high school  council  shall
34    not  be  counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum
 
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 1    is present to act on the  measure  and  shall  have  no  vote
 2    thereon; and provided further that 7 affirmative votes of the
 3    local  school  council  shall  be  required  for  the  direct
 4    selection  by  the local school council of a new principal to
 5    serve under a 4 year performance contract  but  not  for  the
 6    renewal of a principal's performance contract.
 7        (d)  Student members of high school councils shall not be
 8    eligible  to  vote  on  personnel  matters, including but not
 9    limited  to  principal  evaluations  and  contracts  and  the
10    allocation of teaching and staff resources.
11        (e)  The local school council  of  an  attendance  center
12    which  provides  bilingual  education  shall be encouraged to
13    provide translators  at  each  council  meeting  to  maximize
14    participation of parents and the community.
15        (f)  Each  local  school  council of an attendance center
16    which provides bilingual education shall create  a  Bilingual
17    Advisory   Committee   or  recognize  an  existing  Bilingual
18    Advisory Committee as a standing committee. The Chair  and  a
19    majority  of  the  members of the advisory committee shall be
20    parents of students in the bilingual education program.   The
21    parents  on  the  advisory  committee  shall  be  selected by
22    parents of students in the bilingual education  program,  and
23    the  committee  shall select a Chair.  The advisory committee
24    for each secondary attendance center shall include  at  least
25    one  full-time  bilingual  education  student.  The Bilingual
26    Advisory Committee shall serve only in an  advisory  capacity
27    to the local school council.
28        (g)  Local school councils may utilize the services of an
29    arbitration board to resolve intra-council disputes.
30    (Source: P.A. 91-622, eff. 8-19-99.)

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

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