273.24 - COMMISSION TO DISSOLVE AREA EDUCATION AGENCY.
273.24 COMMISSION TO DISSOLVE AREA EDUCATION
AGENCY.
1. As an alternative to area education agency reorganization
prescribed in this subchapter, the board of directors of an area
education agency may establish an area education agency dissolution
commission to prepare a proposal of dissolution of the area education
agency and attachment of all of the area education agency to one or
more contiguous area education agencies and to include in the
proposal a division of the assets and liabilities of the dissolving
area education agency. If twenty percent or more of the school
districts within an area education agency file a petition by March 1
with the area education agency board to consider dissolving, the area
education agency board shall consider the request and vote on the
petition. If a majority of the board members vote to study
dissolving the area education agency, the agency board shall
immediately begin a study to consider such action effective by July 1
of the next calendar year, or the area education agency board may
establish a dissolution commission.
2. An area education agency dissolution commission established by
the board of directors of an area education agency shall consist of a
minimum of seven members appointed by the board of directors of the
area education agency for a term of office ending either with a
report to the board that no proposal can be approved or on the date
of the vote on the proposal. Members of the dissolution commission
must be board members of school districts within the area served, not
more than three of whom may be members of the board of directors of
the area education agency. Members shall be appointed from
throughout the area served and should represent the various school
districts present in the area served.
3. Members of the dissolution commission shall serve without
compensation and may be appointed to a subsequent commission. A
vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment was made.
4. The board of the area education agency shall certify to the
department of education that a commission has been formed, the names
and addresses of commission members, and that the commission members
represent the various geographic areas and socioeconomic elements
present in the school districts that the area serves. Section History: Recent Form
2001 Acts, ch 114, §6