273.27 - HEARING -- VOTE -- STATE BOARD APPROVAL.
273.27 HEARING -- VOTE -- STATE BOARD APPROVAL.
1. Within ten days following the filing of the dissolution
proposal with the affected area education agency board, the affected
board shall fix a date for a hearing on the proposal which shall not
be more than sixty days after the dissolution petition was filed with
the affected board. The affected board shall publish notice of the
date, time, and location of the hearing at least ten days prior to
the date of the hearing by one publication in a newspaper in general
circulation in the area. The notice shall include the contents of
the dissolution proposal. Representatives of school districts in the
area served may present evidence and arguments at the hearing. The
president of the affected board shall preside at the hearing. The
affected board shall review testimony from the hearing and shall
adopt or amend and adopt the dissolution proposal.
The affected board shall notify by certified mail the boards of
directors of all school districts in the affected area education
agency and the contiguous area education agencies to which the
districts of the affected area education agency will be attached and
the director of the department of education of the contents of the
dissolution proposal adopted by the affected board.
2. Within thirty days of the hearing, the affected board shall
call a director district convention in accordance with section 273.8,
subsection 3, which shall include the boards of directors in the area
served by the area education agencies to which an area of the
affected area education agency will be attached under the dissolution
proposal, for the purpose of voting on the dissolution proposal.
3. If the dissolution proposal is approved by a majority of all
directors voting on the proposal, the proposal shall be forwarded to
the state board by November 1. The state board shall review the
dissolution plan proposal and shall, prior to January 1, either grant
approval for the proposal or return the proposal with
recommendations. An unapproved proposal may be resubmitted with
modifications to the state board not later than February 1. A
proposal shall take effect on July 1 of the fiscal year following the
date of approval by the state board. Section History: Recent Form
2001 Acts, ch 114, §9; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §29