The board may at any regular meeting on or after July 1 in any year, by a vote of 2/3 of all its members, authorize the making of transfers within any fund under its jurisdiction of sums of money appropriated for one object or purpose to another object or purpose, which action shall be entered in its proceedings; but no appropriation for any purpose may be reduced below an amount sufficient to cover all obligations incurred or to be incurred against the appropriation for that purpose.
     If, at the termination of any fiscal year or the time when the budget for the ensuing fiscal year should have been passed as provided in this Article, the appropriations necessary for the expenditures of the board for that ensuing fiscal year has not been made, the several amounts appropriated in the last budget for operation and maintenance expenses shall be considered to be appropriated for the current fiscal year for those purposes. Until the board passes an appropriation for the current fiscal year, the treasurer shall make the payments necessary for the support of the public community college on the basis of the appropriations of the preceding fiscal year.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 110 ILCS 805/7-15

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.