§ 273.24 — Commission to dissolve area education agency

Iowa § 273.24

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 273: AREA EDUCATION AGENCIES

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1. As an alternative to area education agency reorganization prescribed in this
subchapter, the board of directors of an area education agency may establish an area
education agency dissolution commission to prepare a proposal of dissolution of the area
education agency and attachment of all of the area education agency to one or more
contiguous area education agencies and to include in the proposal a division of the assets and
liabilities of the dissolving area education agency. If twenty percent or more of the school
districts within an area education agency file a petition by March 1 with the area education
agency board to consider dissolving, the area education agency board shall consider the
request and vote on the petition. If a majority of the board members vote to study dissolving
the area education agency, the agency board shall immediately begin a study to consider
such action effective by July 1 of the next calendar year, or the area education agency board
may establish a dissolution commission.
2. An area education agency dissolution commission established by the board of directors
of an area education agency shall consist of a minimum of seven members appointed by the
board of directors of the area education agency 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 vote on the proposal.
Members of the dissolution commission must be board members of school districts within
the area served, not more than three of whom may be members of the board of directors of
the area education agency. Members shall be appointed from throughout the area served and
should represent the various school districts present in the area served.
3. 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.
4. The board of the area education agency shall certify to the department of education
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
elements present in the school districts that the area serves.