AN ACT to change the manner of selection of certain members of the board of trustees of Isothermal community college.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115D‑12(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Each community college established or operated pursuant to this Chapter shall be governed by a board of trustees consisting of 15 members, who shall be selected by the following agencies. No member of the General Assembly may be appointed to a local board of trustees for a community college.

Group Two – 10 trustees, elected as follows:
(1)	Seven members elected by the Rutherford County Commissioners as follows:
a.	The appointment of two trustees for terms commencing July 1, 2016, and quadrennially thereafter.
b.	The appointment of two trustees for terms commencing July 1, 2017, and quadrennially thereafter.
c.	The appointment of one trustee for a term commencing July 1, 2018, and quadrennially thereafter.
d.	The appointment of two trustees for a term commencing July 1, 2019, and quadrennially thereafter.
The Rutherford County Commissioners shall ensure that among the members elected, at least one trustee has experience in a small business, one trustee has private sector experience in accounting or budgeting, and one trustee has private sector experience in building maintenance or equipment.
(2)	Three members elected by the Polk County Commissioners, as follows:
a.	The appointment of one trustee for a term commencing July 1, 2017, and quadrennially thereafter.
b.	The appointment of one trustee for a term commencing July 1, 2018, and quadrennially thereafter.
c.	The appointment of one trustee for a term commencing July 1, 2019, and quadrennially thereafter.
The Polk County Commissioners shall ensure that among the members elected, at least one trustee has experience in a small business.
No more than one trustee from Group Two may be a member of a board of county commissioners. Should the boards of commissioners involved be unable to agree on one or more trustees the senior resident superior court judge in the superior court district or set of districts as defined in G.S. 7A‑41.1 where the institution is located shall fill the position or positions by appointment.
Group Three – four trustees, appointed by the Governor.
Group Four – the president of the student government or the chairman of the executive board of the student body of each community college established pursuant to this Chapter shall be an ex officio nonvoting member of the board of trustees of each said institution."
SECTION 2.  This act applies only to Isothermal Community College.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to appointments to terms beginning on or after July 1, 2016. The Rutherford County Commissioners and Polk County Commissioners shall ensure that members with the required experiential backgrounds, as required by G.S. 115D‑12(a), as enacted in this act, are elected to the board of trustees of Isothermal Community College no later than July 1, 2019.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of September, 2015.

	s/	 Tom Apodaca
	 Presiding Officer of the Senate

	s/	 Paul Stam
	 Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives