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276.8 - DUTIES OF DISTRICT-WIDE ADVISORY COUNCIL.

        276.8  DUTIES OF DISTRICT-WIDE ADVISORY COUNCIL.
         The district-wide advisory council shall:
         1.  Provide guidance to local advisory councils, training and
      orientation for community persons, evaluation and assessment of needs
      and delivery systems for school districts.
         2.  Develop a "sense of total community" and promote democratic
      thinking and action.
         3.  Promote meaningful involvement of total community in the
      identifying, prioritizing, and resolving of school-community
      concerns.
         4.  Serve as an advocate of community education and foster
      community co-operation.
         5.  Provide an annual budget recommendation and annual report to
      the local board of education.
         6.  Mobilize available human and financial resources of the
      community to meet needs, interests, and concerns of people in the
      total community.
         7.  Make school facilities and resources available to all age
      groups from the total community, day and night, year round.
         8.  Facilitate the assessment of community-wide needs with the
      understanding that local advisory councils will manage their own
      assessments of needs.
         9.  Provide support and act as a resource group for local advisory
      councils and the community education director.
         10.  Help plan and recommend a community education budget for
      approval by the local board of education.
         11.  Recommend to the board, regulations, guidelines, and fees, if
      any, for facility usage.
         12.  Define short and long-range community education goals and
      objectives.
         13.  Communicate through inquiring, informing, suggesting,
      recommending and evaluating community education for the community.
         14.  Co-operate with other agencies and organizations including
      the community colleges and institutions under the control of the
      state board of regents toward common goals.
         15.  Perform the functions of the local advisory council in the
      event that the board determines that the size of the district does
      not warrant the establishment of a local advisory council.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, 81, § 276.8]
         Referred to in § 276.1, 276.3