AGO Opinion Topics: SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Directors have authority either to permit or deny dissemination of names and addresses of students to business colleges.

School districts have no authority to acquire land outside the district for school building sites.

School district officials may approve vouchers against anticipated revenues of bond sales where such revenues were included in the budget for the fiscal year. The county auditor may issue warrants against such anticipated revenues before the bonds are sold. The county auditor may pay such warrants before the anticipated revenues are actually deposited.

The board of directors of a first class school district has authority to borrow money for the purpose of constructing a school bus garage if this can be accomplished within the framework of debt limit, budget and expenditure limit statutes pertaining to such districts.

A first class school district calling for bids for supplies in the sum of $1000 or more may not specify an item by brand name with a "no substitution" provision.

A member of the board of a first class school district may not act by proxy or in absentia, but must be personally present at a board meeting in order to participate in the proceedings of the board.

A school director may not be compensated by his district for services rendered in transporting children to school.

A school district may not legally purchase water from a private water company owned by a member of the district school board.

A nonhigh school district may reimburse one of its directors for the expense of transportation of the director's child to attend high school in an adjoining high school district, pursuant to the authorization of the transportation commission, as provided in RCW 28.24.030.

A school district cannot condemn lands already devoted to a public use.