275.8 - COOPERATION OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION -- PLANNING JOINT DISTRICTS.
275.8 COOPERATION OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION --
PLANNING JOINT DISTRICTS.
Planning of joint districts shall be conducted in the same manner
as planning for single districts, except as provided in this section.
Studies and surveys relating to the planning of joint districts shall
be filed with the area education agency in which one of the districts
is located which has the greatest taxable property base. In the case
of controversy over the planning of joint districts, the matter shall
be submitted to the director of the department of education.
Judicial review of the director's decision may be sought in
accordance with the terms of the Iowa administrative procedure Act,
chapter 17A. Notwithstanding the terms of that Act, petitions for
judicial review must be filed within thirty days after the decision
of the director. "Joint districts" means districts that lie in
two or more adjacent area education agencies.
For purposes of this chapter the planning of joint districts is
defined to include all of the following acts:
1. Preparation of a written joint plan in which contiguous
territory in two or more area education agencies is considered as a
part of a potential school district in the area education agency on
behalf of which such plan is filed with the department of education
by the area education agency board.
2. Adoption of the written joint plan at a joint session of the
several area education agency boards in whose areas the territory is
situated. A quorum of each of the boards is necessary to transact
business. Votes shall be taken in the manner prescribed in section
275.16.
3. Filing said plan with the department of education.
For purposes of subsection 1 hereof, joint planning shall be
evidenced by filing the following items with the department of
education:
a. A plat of the entire area of such potential district.
b. A statement of the number of pupils residing within the
area of said potential district enrolled in public schools in the
preceding school year.
c. A statement of the assessed valuation of taxable property
located within such potential district.
d. An affidavit signed on behalf of each of said boards of
directors of area education agencies by a member of such board
stating the boundaries as shown on such plat have been agreed upon by
the respective boards as a part of the overall plan of school
district reorganization of each such school. Section History: Early Form
[C46, 50, § 275.10, 276.4; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
81, § 275.8] Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1078, § 5; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1462; 2001 Acts, ch 24,
§43, 44
Referred to in § 275.16