275.57 - CHANGING DIRECTOR DISTRICT BOUNDARIES FOLLOWING DISSOLUTION.
275.57 CHANGING DIRECTOR DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
FOLLOWING DISSOLUTION.
1. If a school district accepting attachments of a dissolved
district is currently divided into director districts as provided in
section 275.12, subsection 2, paragraph "b", "c", "d", or
"e", the board of directors of the district shall draft a
proposal to incorporate the newly received territory into existing
contiguous director districts. If the attached territory is
contiguous to more than one director district, the board may divide
the territory and attach it to more than one director district. If
necessary to comply with the population equality standards prescribed
in section 275.23A, the board shall redraw the boundaries of all
director districts according to the standards provided in section
275.23A, subsection 1, paragraphs "a", "c", and "d".
2. A public hearing on the proposed changes to director districts
shall be held no later than May 15 following the dissolution. Not
less than ten nor more than twenty days before the public hearing,
the board shall publish notice of the time and place of the hearing.
3. The final plan for the assignment of attached lands and any
other boundary changes made shall be adopted by resolution of the
board. The resolution shall contain a legal description of the new
director district boundaries and a map of the director district
boundaries changed by the resolution. A copy of the resolution shall
be filed with the county commissioners of elections of each county in
which a portion of the school district is located. The resolution
shall also be filed with the state commissioner of elections not
later than June 15. The boundary changes shall take effect upon
approval by the state commissioner of elections for the next regular
school election, but not later than July 1. Section History: Recent Form
2002 Acts, ch 1134, §88, 115
Referred to in § 256.11