§ 273.27 — Hearing — vote — state board approval

Iowa § 273.27

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

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1. a. Within ten days following the filing of the dissolution proposal with the affected
area education agency board, the affected board shall fix a date for a hearing on the proposal,
which shall not be more than sixty days after the dissolution petition was filed with the
affected board. The affected board shall publish notice of the date, time, and location of the
hearing at least ten days prior to the date of the hearing by one publication in a newspaper
in general circulation in the area. The notice shall include the contents of the dissolution
proposal.
b. Representatives of school districts in the area served may present evidence and
arguments at the hearing. The president of the affected board shall preside at the hearing.
The affected board shall review testimony from the hearing and shall adopt or amend and
adopt the dissolution proposal.
c. The affected board shall notify by certified mail the boards of directors of all school
districts in the affected area education agency and the contiguous area education agencies
to which the districts of the affected area education agency will be attached and the director
of the department of education of the contents of the dissolution proposal adopted by the
affected board.
2. Within thirty days of the hearing, the affected board shall call a director district
convention in accordance with section 273.8, subsection 3, which shall include the boards of
directors in the area served by the area education agencies to which an area of the affected
area education agency will be attached under the dissolution proposal, for the purpose of
voting on the dissolution proposal.
3. If the dissolution proposal is approved by a majority of all directors voting on the
proposal, the proposal shall be forwarded to the state board by November 1. The state board
shall review the dissolution plan proposal and shall, prior to January 1, either grant approval
for the proposal or return the proposal with recommendations. An unapproved proposal may

be resubmitted with modifications to the state board not later than February 1. A proposal
shall take effect on July 1 of the fiscal year following the date of approval by the state board.