275.51 - DISSOLUTION COMMISSION.
275.51 DISSOLUTION COMMISSION.
As an alternative to school district reorganization prescribed in
this chapter, the board of directors of a school district may
establish a school district dissolution commission to prepare a
proposal of dissolution of the school district and attachment of all
of the school district to one or more contiguous school districts and
to include in the proposal a division of the assets and liabilities
of the dissolving school district. A school district dissolution
commission shall be established by the board of directors of a school
district if a dissolution proposal has been prepared by eligible
electors who reside within the district. The proposal must contain
the names of the proposed members of the commission and be
accompanied by a petition which has been signed by eligible electors
residing in the school district equal in number to at least twenty
percent of the registered voters in the school district.
The dissolution commission shall consist of seven members
appointed by the board 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 election on the proposal. Members of the dissolution
commission must be eligible electors who reside in the school
district, not more than three of whom may be members of the board of
directors of the school district. Members shall be appointed from
throughout the school district and should represent the various
socioeconomic factors present in the school district.
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.
The board of the school district shall certify to the area
education agency board 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 factors
present in the district. Section History: Early Form
[C81, § 275.51] Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1263, § 3; 93 Acts, ch 160, § 14; 94 Acts, ch 1175,
§6; 95 Acts, ch 49, §7; 2001 Acts, ch 56, §13