Sec. 130.0827. ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES FOR BLINN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in addition to the members of the board of trustees of the Blinn Junior College District elected or appointed under other provisions of this subchapter, the commissioners court of each county in which a branch campus of the district with a student enrollment greater than 10,000 is located shall appoint two members to serve on the district's board of trustees. If an advisory committee for a branch campus has been previously established, the members must be selected from the membership of the advisory committee.
(b) Members of the board of trustees appointed under this section serve two-year terms and may be appointed to serve successive terms. The commissioners court shall appoint initial members to serve a term beginning December 1, 2015.
(c) Members of the board of trustees appointed under this section may participate in the decision-making of the board to the same extent as any other member of the board except that members of the board appointed under this section by the commissioners court of a county that is not located in the Blinn Junior College District:
(1) may participate in the decision-making of the board only in matters not related to the imposition of a tax or the distribution of revenue raised from a tax;
(2) are counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum of the board is present only for the purpose of Subdivision (1); and
(3) may not serve as an officer of the board of trustees.
(d) Unless this section is continued in effect by the legislature, this section expires on December 1, 2019.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 869 (H.B. 2621), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
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