SB 3657

Abstract

Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1917. Provides that the board of trustees of the Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District shall, on or before December 31, 2024, assign 2 trustee seats to each municipality that has 4,000 or more population equivalent serviced by the District and assign one trustee seat for each municipality that has 1,000 up to 3,999 population equivalent, and, thereafter, trustees shall be added or removed as municipal territory is added, modified, or removed from the District and a trustee or trustees shall be appointed for added municipal territory based upon the territory's population equivalent. Provides that, after assigning trustee seats, each board of trustees of a municipality with territory within the District that meets the population equivalent requirement shall appoint the trustee or trustees representing the municipality to the board of the District. Prohibits an employee of the District or a contractor working for the District from being appointed to the board. Provides that the terms of trustees serving on the effective date of the amendatory Act are terminated on May 5, 2025 and the initial trustees appointed under the provisions shall take office on May 5, 2025. Thereafter, provides that a trustee shall hold the trustee's office until the trustee resigns or is removed by the board of trustees of the appointing municipality. Allows for the appointment of a maximum of one at-large trustee by the board chairs of Lake County and McHenry County if territory is added resulting in an even number of total trustees, including vacant trustee offices, appointed by the municipalities to the board. Defines "population equivalent". Effective immediately.