Other LanguagesThe statutory limitation of 75 words in the ballot title is directory rather than mandatory.
1. Under chapter 195, Laws of 1959, a school district may grant sick leave which accumulated prior to June 11, 1959, during the 1959-60 and successive school years. 2. A school district may not hereafter authorize by rule and regulation the payment of all or a part of a day's salary to a teacher where the absence is caused by other than the teacher's own illness.
(1) The county reviewing committee has the authority to refuse to approve or sign a school district budget if some items are too large, but it must prepare a revised budget. (2) The reviewing committee has the authority to reduce specific items of the budget and to finally fix the total thereof even if revenues are available for those expenditures.(3) The county reviewing committee cannot act arbitrarily in refusing to approve a school district budget on the ground that the school district did not budget 14 mills.(4) The reviewing committee is required by statute to finally fix the budget of the district either by signing the budget submitted by the local board of directors or by revising the budget and signing it as revised.(5) A school district may not operate under an unapproved budget.
Chapter 126, Laws of 1974, 1st Ex. Sess., does not authorize a board of fire commissioners to impose a service charge on real and personal property owned by the state or any county or other municipal corporation which is benefited by fire protection service offered by a fire protection district.
Where property of a first class school district is required for state highway purposes, the directors of the district may mutually agree with the state as to the selling price and may proceed to make the sale on that basis without submitting the question of the sale to the voters of the district even though the value of the property exceeds $20,000.00.
A school district of the first class may not collect a fee from parents of kindergarten pupils in order to make up a deficiency in public funds available for operation of kindergartens.
A school district of the first class may, but is not required to, advertise for bids in purchasing a contract of public liability or fire insurance, although the anticipated premiums may exceed $1,000.00. The board of directors of a district must act in good faith in awarding the contract for insurance.
Chapter 253, Laws of 1955, (The Ryder Plan) does not affect the limits of bonded indebtedness for school districts.
(1) If a special school excess levy election is held on November 8, 1960, the validating vote is to be based on the last preceding general election in the district, which would be the March 1960 general school district election.(2) If a general obligation bond issue payable out of excess levies is on the November 8, 1960 ballot, the validating vote is to be based on the November, 1958 general state election.
A school district which has an indebtedness in excess of one and one‑half per cent of the last assessed valuation of property in the district cannot purchase real property on an installment contract without prior approval of the electors of the district.