§ 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.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 89-281, eff. 8-10-95.)