Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) The Cook County
ISCs shall provide intermediate services as set forth in Section
525.10 to that portion of
Cook County located outside of the city of Chicago. For the purposes of this
Part, the term "education service center", as used in Section 2-3.62 of the
School Code, is understood to be "Intermediate Service Center". The ISCs and
the school districts comprising each of them are:
1) Intermediate Service Center 5 (i.e., North
County ISC), including the area within the territorial boundaries of the
following high school districts:
A) Evanston
Township High School District 202
B) New Trier Township High School District
203
C) Maine Township High School
District 207
D) Township High
School District 211
E) Township
High School District 214
F) Niles
Township Community High School District 219
G) Northfield Township High School District
225
2) Intermediate
Service Center 6 (i.e., West Cook County ISC), including the area within the
territorial boundaries of the following high school districts:
A) Oak Park and River Forest High School
District 200
B) J.S. Morton High
School District 201
C) Lyons
Township High School District 204
D) Riverside Brookfield Township High School
District 208
E) Proviso Township
High School District 209
F) Leyden
Community High School District 212
G) Ridgewood Community High School District
234
H) Elmwood Park Community Unit
District 401
3)
Intermediate Service Center 7 (i.e., South Cook County ISC), including the area
within the territorial boundaries of the following high school districts:
A) Thornton Township High School District
205
B) Bloom Township High School
District 206
C) Lemont Township
High School District 210
D)
Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215
E) Argo Community High School District
217
F) Community High School
District 218
G) Reavis Township
High School District 220
H) Rich
Township High School District 227
I) Bremen Community High School District
228
J) Oak Lawn Community High
School District 229
K) Consolidated
High School District 230
L)
Evergreen Park Community High School District 231
M) Homewood Flossmoor Community High School
District 233
b) Each of the ISCs established pursuant to
subsection (a) shall have a Governing Board consisting of 11 members, of whom 3
shall be public school teachers nominated by the local bargaining unit
representatives to the existing Governing Board for appointment or election in
accordance with that Board's bylaws and no more than 3 members from each of the
following categories to include at least superintendents, school board members
and a representative of higher education. A member who changes category status
shall be allowed to remain on the board only if the change does not violate the
membership limits specified in this subsection (b).
1) The members of the Governing Board who
represent public school teachers, superintendents and board members shall be
selected from school districts within the center's service area.
2) The members of the Governing Board who
represent higher education shall be selected from a degree-granting
postsecondary institution whose campus lies within the area to be
served.
3) The members of the
Governing Board who do not represent, are not employed by, or are not the
designee of public school teachers, superintendents, school board members or
higher education must reside within the area to be served by the
center.
c) Terms of
office for Governing Board members shall be four years. The method for filling
vacancies on the Governing Board, including vacancies created by the expiration
of members' terms, shall be determined by each center's Governing Board and
shall be specified in its bylaws.
d) Each Governing Board shall have the
following duties and responsibilities:
1) to
select a chairperson, vice-chairperson and secretary;
2) to review the budget for those services
and programs provided pursuant to Section 525.10; and
3) to employ a chief administrative
officer.
e) The chief
administrative officer of each center shall have the following duties:
1) be the employer of record for personnel
who are necessary to carry out the functions of the center, and whose
employment has been recommended to and approved by the Governing
Board;
2) submit recommendations to
the Governing Board for the employment of personnel;
3) provide direction and assistance to center
staff pursuant to policies adopted by the Governing Board;
4) supervise and evaluate center staff
pursuant to policies adopted by the Governing Board;
5) serve as fiscal agent with authority to
receive and disburse funds within a budget adopted by and pursuant to approval
by the Governing Board;
6) make
recommendations to the Governing Board regarding budget, personnel policies and
decisions, and other matters as the Governing Board may delegate; and
7) submit information and reports requested
by the State Superintendent of Education.
f) All meetings of the Governing Boards shall
comply with the Open Meetings Act [5 ILCS 120 ].
