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HOUSE
BILL 1257
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Passed
Legislature ‑ 2001 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/22/2001. Referred to Committee on Education.
Modifying educational service districts' borrowing
authority.
AN
ACT Relating to educational service districts' authority to borrow; and
amending RCW 28A.310.200.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
28A.310.200 and 1993 c 298 s 1 are each 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.
(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.
Passed the House March 9, 2001.
Passed the Senate April 10, 2001.
Approved by the Governor May
2, 2001.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State May 2, 2001.
