SECTION
6.01. BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(a)
The control of the School Department shall be vested in a Board of Education
which shall consist of five {5) members elected at large by the qualified
voters of the City at a general municipal election to be held therein every
even-numbered year in the same manner and time as for the members of the
Council. They shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their
respective successors qualify.
No
person not an elector of the City shall be eligible to hold office as a member
of the Board of Education, and no person shall be eligible for nomination for
such office without having been a resident of the City for thirty (30) days
immediately preceding nomination.
Three
members of the Board of Education shall be elected at the regular Municipal
Election as herein provided in 1954 and two (2) members thereof at such
election in 1956 and thereafter in similar rotation each even-numbered year.
Not more than thirty (30) days after this section becomes effective, the Board of Education shall appoint a successor to replace the member of the City Council serving on the Board of Education. The term of this appointee shall expire at the next regular Municipal Election. (Amended, ratified, August 7, 1952; November 5, 1974)
(b)
Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at such times as the Board may
prescribe, provided that at least one regular meeting shall be held in each
calendar month. All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public.
(c)
The Board shall have the entire management of the public schools of the City
and, in addition to the powers and duties prescribed by the provisions of this
Charter, shall have 25 all the powers that are now, or may hereafter be,
conferred and discharge the duties imposed by law upon City Boards of
Education.
(d)
Inspection of accounts by City. Deleted. (Ratified July 2, 1970)
(e)
The Board shall make such rules and regulations governing its meetings and
procedure as may seem proper. A majority of the Board shall constitute a
quorum, but the affirmative vote of three members shall be necessary to
authorize the payment of public money or the election of a superintendent,
principals, teachers and all officers and employees who the Board is authorized
to elect or appoint.
(f)
Any vacancy of the Board shall be filled by the vote of a majority of the Board
until the next general city election for Municipal Officers, when a member
shall be elected to fill the unexpired term.
In the event that three (3) or more such vacancies exist at one time, sufficient vacancies shall be filled by the appointment by the County Superintendent of Schools to make a majority of such Board to act and fill the remaining vacancies. Each such appointed member shall hold office until the next general City Election for Municipal Officers, when a member shall be elected to fill the unexpired term.
If
any member of the Board of Education shall remove from the City or absent
himself therefrom for more than sixty (60) days consecutively without
permission of the Board of Education, or shall fail to qualify, his office
shall thereupon become vacant. (Amended, ratified, August 7, 1952; February 18,
1969; July 2, 1970; April 13, 1976)
SECTION
6.02. LIMITATION OF TERMS. Any person who shall have been elected to two (2)
successive terms as a member of the Board of Education shall be ineligible to
serve again in that office until an intervening period of two (2) years has
elapsed. Election to an unexpired term pursuant to Section 6.01 (f) of this
Charter shall constitute election to a term as a member of the Board. This
section shall not operate to create a vacancy or vacancies on the Board as
constituted on the effective date of this section. (Added, ratified, April 15,
1975)
SECTION
6.03. PLACE ON BALLOT. The order of names of candidates for the Board of
Education shall be determined by lot, conducted by the City Clerk, and the
names placed on the ballot as determined by the said lot drawing. (Added,
ratified, April 15, 1975)