The construction, acquisition or enlargement
of public improvements, buildings and facilities as may be found to
be necessary, and to be made available for use by governmental agencies
in the furnishing of essential governmental, health, safety and welfare
services to its citizens, is hereby declared to be a public need essential
to the public interest.
There is a need and it is in the best interest
of the public that a Public Building Commission be organized in and
for McLean County, Illinois, to exercise the powers and the authority
prescribed by the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize
the creation of Public Building Commissions, and to define their rights,
powers and duties," approved July 5, 1955, and all acts amendatory
thereof and supplementary thereto (50 ILCS 20/1 et seq.) and that
such Public Building Commission shall be hereafter known as the "Public
Building Commission of McLean County, Illinois."
The presiding officer of the County Board of
Supervisors of McLean County, Illinois, shall, within 10 days after
the adoption of this article by the County Board of Supervisors, cause
a copy hereof to be published once in The Daily Pantagraph, a daily
newspaper published in and of general circulation in the County seat
of McLean County, Illinois, and said presiding officer is further
empowered and authorized to take such other and further action necessary
to implement this article in order that said Public Building Commission
be created in and for McLean County, Illinois, as herein provided
for and as provided by said Act above referred to.
Any municipal corporation which has the power
of taxation under the laws of the State of Illinois and any part of
whose area of jurisdiction lies within the territorial limits of the
County seat of McLean County, Illinois, may join the organization
of said Public Building Commission in the manner and as provided by
"An Act to authorize the creation of Public Building Commissions and
to define their rights, powers, and duties," approved July 5, 1955,
as amended.