1. An instructional support program that provides additional funding for school districts is established. A board of directors that wishes to consider participating in the instructional support program shall hold a public hearing on the question of participation. The board shall set forth its proposal, including the method that will be used to fund the program, in a resolution and shall publish the notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the resolution. Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall be published in one or more newspapers not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the public hearing. For the purpose of establishing and giving assured circulation to the proceedings, only a newspaper which is a newspaper of general circulation issued at a regular frequency, distributed in the school district's area, and regularly delivered or mailed through the post office during the preceding two years may be used for the publication. In addition, the newspaper must have a list of subscribers who have paid, or promised to pay, at more than a nominal rate, for copies to be received during a stated period. At the hearing, the board shall announce a date certain, no later than thirty days after the date of the hearing, that it will take action to adopt a resolution to participate in the instructional support program for a period not exceeding five years or to direct the county commissioner of elections to call an election to submit the question of participation in the program for a period not exceeding ten years to the registered voters of the school district at the next following regular school election in the base year or a special election held not later than December 1 of the base year. If the board calls an election on the question of participation, if a majority of those voting on the question favors participation in the program, the board shall adopt a resolution to participate and certify the results of the election to the department of management.
2. If the board does not provide for an election and adopts a resolution to participate in the instructional support program, the district shall participate in the instructional support program unless within twenty-eight days following the action of the board, the secretary of the board receives a petition containing the required number of signatures, asking that an election be called to approve or disapprove the action of the board in adopting the instructional support program. The petition must be signed by eligible electors equal in number to not less than one hundred or thirty percent of the number of voters at the last preceding regular school election, whichever is greater. The board shall either rescind its action or direct the county commissioner of elections to submit the question to the registered voters of the school district at the next following regular school election or a special election held not later than December 1 of the base year. If a majority of those voting on the question at the election favors disapproval of the action of the board, the district shall not participate in the instructional support program. If a majority of those voting on the question favors approval of the action, the board shall certify the results of the election to the department of management and the district shall participate in the program.
At the expiration of the twenty-eight day period, if no petition is filed, the board shall certify its action to the department of management and the district shall participate in the program.
3. Participation in an instructional support program is not affected by a change in the boundaries of the school district, except as otherwise provided in this section. If each school district involved in a school reorganization under chapter 275 has approved an instructional support program, and if the voters have not voted upon the question of participation in the program in the reorganized district, the instructional support program shall be in effect for the reorganized district that has been approved for the least amount and the shortest time in any of the districts.
89 Acts, ch 135, § 18; 92 Acts, ch 1171, §1; 95 Acts, ch 67, §53
Referred to in § 257.27, 257.29
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