To enter into joint agreements with school boards to acquire and improve sites, construct and equip facilities thereon and lease and equip facilities deemed necessary by the parties to the joint agreement, and to maintain programs and to provide for financing of the foregoing for advanced vocational training and career education and to bill each participating student’s school district for an amount equal to the per capita cost of operating the community college or to charge for participation in accordance with the joint agreement between the community college district and the student’s school district under Section 10-22.20a of “The School Code”, as now or hereafter amended.
     Nothing herein contained shall be construed to restrict or prohibit the rights of community college districts or school districts to enter into joint agreements under the provisions of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, as now or hereinafter amended.