Addison Northwest Supervisory UnionSECTION: Board Procedures |
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CODE: C18 |
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POLICY:
Qualifications & Duties of a School Board Member |
ANWSU: 2/26/76
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Qualifications:
A. A school director must be a
legal voter of the district he/she is to represent.
B.
She/he must not be employed
in Addison Northwest School District as a teacher, principal, or
superintendent.
C. Member (or spouse) must be
neither an auditor nor trustee of public money.
Organization of Board of School Directors:
A. The school board must organize and elect officers within five days
after the annual Town
Meeting.
Duties of Officers of School Board:
A. Chair:
1.
Presides over meetings
of the board.
2.
Calls special meetings
when necessary.
3.
Serves in a leadership
role in school board deliberations and in the community.
4. Performs
other duties as may be delegated by the board of school directors.
B. Vice Chair:
When there is
one, acts in the absence of the chair.
C.
Clerk:
Duties may be delegated to the hired treasurer of the
school board and to the
secretary.
D. Secretary:
1. Keeps permanent record of minutes of all school
board meetings.
2. Carries on official correspondence.
Duties and responsibilities of the Board of School Directors:
A.
As members of a supervisory
union board, annually select a superintendent and fix his/her salary.
B.
Enter into contracts
with supervisory unions for joint services.
C.
May vote to establish a
central supervisory union treasury.
D.
Advise selectmen of
items to be included in warning of school district meetings.
E.
May recommend to the
district a vote to pension a teacher who has taught 30 years.
F.
File a certificate of
their election as school directors with town clerk and take oath of office.
G.
Care for and manage
school property, keep schoolhouses repaired and insured, receive gifts of money
or other items of value for school purposes, examine claims against the town
district for school expenses, draw orders for loans to the town's general fund,
make regulations not inconsistent with law to carry their powers into
effect.
H.
Determine the number and
locations of schools subject to approval by voters under certain circumstances.
I.
Report to the state and
to the town school district regarding expenditures and recommend a budget for
adoption by the district.
J.
Annually appoint one or
more truant officers.
K.
Provide a competent
number of elementary schools or arrange for elementary tuition.
L.
Maintain a high school or
furnish secondary education through tuition, subject to appeal to the State
Board of Education.
M.
May provide for
instruction in music, physical culture, drawing, and the safe and proper use of
firearms.
N.
Fix the number of hours
that shall constitute a school day subject to revision by the State Board of
Education; petition the State Board of Education for waiver of the number of
school days required.
O.
Determine the residence
of legal pupils, subject to appeal to the Commissioner of Education.
P. Through the clerk, prepare
the school census and submit it to the superintendent.
Q.
Subject to the approval
of the superintendent, designate the school each pupil shall attend and furnish
the superintendent a list of legal pupils.
R.
Receive non-resident pupils
and payment therefor.
S.
Notify school directors
of towns from which non-resident pupils come, of any proposed tuition increase
on or before February 1 in any year.
T.
Furnish transportation
as within their discretion appears necessary.
U.
Appoint one or more
medical inspectors for the schools in the town district.
V.
Provide certain health
services for children of indigent parents.
W.
Organize and supervise
safety patrols where deemed necessary.
X.
Enter into contracts
with teachers.
Y.
Hear appeals of teachers
suspended by a superintendent and if no appeal is taken,
the suspension
of a teacher by a superintendent.
Z.
Control and manage
revenue from grammar school lands in certain circumstances.
(a)
Provide, furnish, maintain
and control schoolhouses or sell schools and sites when authorized by voters.
(b)
Erect on each
schoolhouse or adjacent thereto a flagpole and fly a United States flag thereon
while school is in session.
(c)
Select and provide all
textbooks, appliances, and supplies, required for use in the schools, subject
to the approval of the superintendent.
(d)
Apply to the selectmen
to initiate eminent domain proceedings.
(e)
Performs all other
duties required by law.