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House Study Bill 525

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 275.23A, subsection 2, Code 2001, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  Following each federal decennial census the school
  1  4 board shall determine whether the existing director district
  1  5 boundaries meet the standards in subsection 1 according to the
  1  6 most recent federal decennial census.  In addition to the
  1  7 authority granted to voters to change the number of directors
  1  8 or method of election as provided in sections 275.35, 275.36,
  1  9 and 278.1, the board of directors of a school district may,
  1 10 following a federal decennial census, by resolution and in
  1 11 accordance with this section, authorize a change in the method
  1 12 of election as set forth in section 275.12, subsection 2, or a
  1 13 change to either five or seven directors after the board
  1 14 conducts a hearing on the resolution.  If the board proposes
  1 15 to change the number of directors from seven to five
  1 16 directors, the resolution shall include a plan for reducing
  1 17 the number of directors.  If the board proposes to increase
  1 18 the number of directors to seven directors, two directors
  1 19 shall be added according to the procedure described in section
  1 20 277.23, subsection 2.  If necessary, the board of directors
  1 21 shall redraw the director district boundaries.  The director
  1 22 district boundaries shall be described in a the resolution
  1 23 adopted by the school board.  The resolution shall be adopted
  1 24 no earlier than November 15 of the year immediately following
  1 25 the year in which the federal decennial census is taken nor
  1 26 later than April 30 of the second year immediately following
  1 27 the year in which the federal decennial census is taken.  A
  1 28 copy of the plan shall be filed with the area education agency
  1 29 administrator of the area education agency in which the
  1 30 school's electors reside.
  1 31    Sec. 2.  Section 277.23, Code 2001, is amended to read as
  1 32 follows:
  1 33    277.23  DIRECTORS – NUMBER – CHANGE.
  1 34    1.  In any district including all or part of a city of
  1 35 fifteen thousand or more population and in any district in
  2  1 which the voters, or the board as provided in section 275.23A,
  2  2 subsection 2, have authorized seven directors, the board shall
  2  3 consist of seven members; in all other districts the board
  2  4 shall consist of five members.
  2  5    2.  A change from five to seven directors shall be effected
  2  6 in a district at the first regular election after
  2  7 authorization by the voters or the board, or when a district
  2  8 becomes wholly or in part within a city of fifteen thousand
  2  9 population or more in the following manner:  If the term of
  2 10 one director of the five-member board expires at the time of
  2 11 said regular election, three directors shall be elected to
  2 12 serve until the third regular election thereafter; if the
  2 13 terms of two directors expire at the time of said the regular
  2 14 election, three directors shall be elected to serve until the
  2 15 third regular election thereafter and one director shall be
  2 16 elected to serve a term the expiration of which coincides with
  2 17 the expiration of the term of the director heretofore singly
  2 18 elected.  
  2 19                           EXPLANATION
  2 20    This bill authorizes the board of directors of a school
  2 21 district, following a federal decennial census, to change the
  2 22 number of directors to either five or seven directors or to
  2 23 change the method of election both by resolution after the
  2 24 board conducts a public hearing on the resolution.  If the
  2 25 board proposes to change the number of directors from seven to
  2 26 five, the resolution must include a plan for reducing the
  2 27 number of directors.  If the board proposes to change the
  2 28 number of directors from five to seven, two directors shall be
  2 29 added at the first regular election following adoption of the
  2 30 resolution.  
  2 31 LSB 5706HC 79
  2 32 kh/pj/5
     

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