Illinois Code § 7

§ 7.

County and multi-county extension boards. (a) A county extension board shall be established in each county upon the request of the director of extension of the University of Illinois to facilitate effective cooperation between the extension councils and the county governing board. The county extension board shall consist of two men and two women who are members of the county extension councils appointed by the director of extension and three members appointed by the presiding officer of the board, with the advice and consent of the county board, who may be members of the county governing board. (b) The county extension board, after reviewing the budgets and requests for funds of the county extension councils, shall prepare annually a budget for the total funds needed for the Cooperative Extension Service education program in the county, taking into consideration the programs in agriculture and home economics for adults and youth and the coordination of such programs. The county extension board shall then certify funds needed from the county and the Agricultural Premium Fund to the county governing board. The county extension board shall inform the county extension councils of the final disposition of their budget request and the amount of the appropriation from the governing board. The director of extension shall establish such additional policies and procedures as may be needed for the effective functioning of the county extension board. (c) Where more than one county forms an extension administrative unit, or where the director of cooperative extension, the extension councils and the county extension boards of two or more counties determine that the needs of each county can best be served by a multi-county organization of cooperative extension, a multi-county or area extension board shall be created upon the request of the director of extension. Such multi-county extension boards shall perform the same duties as are designated for county extension boards in paragraph (b) of this section. Each multi-county extension board shall be comprised of two men and two women appointed by the director of cooperative extension from the constituent county extension councils, but not less than one person from each county, and three representatives, but not less than one from each county, appointed by the presiding officer of the county board of each county, with the advice and consent of the county board, who may be members of the county board. (d) The amount certified as needed to each county governing board by a multi-county extension board shall be in the same proportion to the total need determined by the multi-county extension board as the equalized assessed valuation of that county is to the total equalized assessed valuation of the counties in the multi-county unit; except, where the multi-county board determines that a different allocation among the counties is in the best interests of the extension program in the multi-county unit, and where the Director of Extension concurs in this determination, the amount certified as needed to each county governing board shall be the amount determined to be in the best interests of the extension program. (Source: P.A. 86-232.)