256.84 - POWERS -- FACILITIES -- RULES.
256.84 POWERS -- FACILITIES -- RULES.
1. The board may purchase, lease, and improve property,
equipment, and services for educational telecommunications including
the broadcast and narrowcast systems, and may dispose of property and
equipment when not necessary for its purposes.
2. The board shall apply for channels, frequencies, licenses,
permits, and other authorizations as necessary for the performance of
the board's duties.
3. This section does not prohibit institutions under the state
board of regents and community colleges under the department of
education from owning, operating, improving, maintaining, and
restructuring educational radio and television stations and
transmitters now in existence or other educational narrowcast
telecommunications systems and services. The institutions and
schools may enter into agreements with the board for the lease or
purchase of equipment and facilities.
4. The board may locate its administrative offices and production
facilities outside the city of Des Moines.
5. The board shall establish guidelines for and may impose and
collect fees and charges for services. Fees and charges collected by
the board for services shall be deposited to the credit of the
division. Any interest earned on these receipts, and revenues
generated under subsection 7, shall be retained and may be expended
by the division subject to the approval of the board.
6. The board may make and execute agreements, contracts, and
other instruments with any public or private entity and may retain
revenues generated from these contracts. State departments and
agencies, other public agencies, and governmental subdivisions and
private entities including but not limited to institutions of higher
education and nonpublic schools may enter into contracts and
otherwise cooperate with the board.
7. The board may contract with engineers, attorneys, accountants,
financial experts, and other advisors upon the recommendation of the
administrator. The board may enter into contracts or agreements for
such services with local, state, or federal governmental agencies.
8. To preserve the integrity of its editorial processes, the
board may select programming, content partners, and other authorized
contractual services without using a competitive selection process or
performance measures that may otherwise be required by law for such
services. For purposes of this subsection, authorized contractual
services are those services related, directly or indirectly, to the
development of program production and instructional and educational
media. Authorized contractual services include but are not limited
to on-air performers, producers or directors, field producers,
writers, production assistants, manual laborers, mobile unit
services, closed captioning services, duplication of tape services,
and satellite services.
9. The board shall approve for submission the annual budget
request and any supplementary budget request for the public
broadcasting division of the department of education.
10. The board may adopt rules to implement and administer the
programs of the division.
11. The decision of the board is final agency action under
chapter 17A. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 48, §41; 2006 Acts, ch 1185, §26--28