F. The Commissioner of Labor, or the commissioner's successor, who serves as an ex officio nonvoting member; and

G. One member who is from the student body of one of the community college campuses at the time of appointment and who is a permanent resident of the State. To be eligible for appointment as a student member, a student must be enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester.

The student member is a full voting member of the board of trustees and serves for a 2-year term and until a successor is qualified. By January 1st of every 2nd year, the president of the system shall solicit a list of 6 eligible students from the student governments from 6 of the campuses within the Maine Community College System, the 7th campus being excluded in accordance with this subsection. The Governor shall then nominate a student trustee chosen from the list within 30 days of receiving the list of names. The nomination is subject to review by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters and to confirmation by the Legislature. The student trustee may not come from the same campus in any 2 consecutive terms. In the event that the student trustee transfers from one campus to another during the student's term of appointment, the student's original campus of enrollment is the campus excluded when the next student trustee is appointed.

SUMMARY

This bill makes changes to the Maine Rural Development law, including changing the name of the community industrial building program to the speculative industrial building program, clarifying conflicts of interest for the board of directors and clarifying the required municipal participation in a project. The bill also removes the sunset from the Maine Technology Institute law, makes changes to the board members as a result of the dissolution of the Maine Science and Technology Foundation and clarifies the board liability insurance coverage. The bill also creates designee authority for the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development on the Maine Rural Development Authority, Finance Authority of Maine, Energy Resources Council and Maine Small Business and Entrepreneurship Commission and removes the commissioner as a nonvoting trustee from the Maine Community College System board.