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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1211
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State of Washington 53rd
Legislature 1993 Regular Session
AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/22/93.
Authorizing educational service districts to provide cooperative and
informational services to local school districts.
AN ACT Relating to educational service
districts; reenacting and amending RCW 28A.310.200; and creating a new section.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 28A.310.200 and 1990 c 159 s 1 and 1990 c 33 s 278 are each reenacted and
amended to read as follows:
In addition to other powers and duties as
provided by law, every educational service district board shall:
(1) Approve the budgets of the educational
service district in accordance with the procedures provided for in this
chapter.
(2) Meet regularly according to the schedule
adopted at the organization meeting and in special session upon the call of the
chair or a majority of the board.
(3) Approve the selection of educational
service district personnel and clerical staff as provided in RCW 28A.310.230.
(4) Fix the amount of and approve the bonds for
those educational service district employees designated by the board as being
in need of bonding.
(5) Keep in the educational service district
office a full and correct transcript of the boundaries of each school district
within the educational service district.
(6) Acquire by borrowing funds or by purchase,
lease, devise, bequest, and gift and otherwise contract for real and personal
property necessary for the operation of the educational service district and to
the execution of the duties of the board and superintendent thereof and sell,
lease, or otherwise dispose of that property not necessary for district
purposes. No real property shall be acquired or alienated without the prior
approval of the state board of education and the acquisition or alienation of all
such property shall be subject to such provisions as the board may establish.
When borrowing funds for the purpose of acquiring property, the educational
service district board shall pledge as collateral the property to be acquired.
Borrowing shall be evidenced by a note or other instrument between the district
and the lender. The authority to borrow under this subsection shall be limited
to educational service districts serving a minimum of two hundred thousand
students in grades kindergarten through twelve.
(7) Under RCW 28A.310.010, upon the written
request of the board of directors of a local school district or districts
served by the educational service district, the educational service district
board of directors may provide cooperative and informational services not in
conflict with other law that provide for the development and implementation of
programs, activities, services, or practices that support the education of
preschool through twelfth grade students in the public schools or that support
the effective, efficient, or safe management and operation of the school
district or districts served by the educational service district.
(8) Adopt such bylaws and rules and
regulations for its own operation as it deems necessary or appropriate.
(((8))) (9) Enter into contracts,
including contracts with common and educational service districts and the
school for the deaf and the school for the blind for the joint financing of
cooperative service programs conducted pursuant to RCW 28A.310.180(3), and
employ consultants and legal counsel relating to any of the duties, functions,
and powers of the educational service districts.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.
The Washington state institute for public policy shall submit to the
legislature by January 10, 1994, a report with recommendations for the design
of a comprehensive study of the role and performance of educational service
districts.
