GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 775

SENATE BILL 672

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM FIVE TO SEVEN MEMBERS, AND TO ALLOW THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE FOR ELECTIONS BY DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Effective on the date of ratification of this act, the Iredell County Board of Education is expanded from five to seven members.  Five members shall be those presently serving as members of the Board of Education, and two members shall be appointed by the Board of Education.  Within 30 days of ratification of this act, the Iredell County Board of Education shall appoint two persons, one to serve until the first Monday in December of 1988, and until a successor is elected and qualifies, and one to serve until the first Monday in December of 1990, and until a successor is elected and qualifies.  In making appointments, the Iredell County Board of Education shall consider the geographic and demographic makeup of the then current board so that the appointments can help ensure that the board broadly represents all the citizens of the school unit.

Sec. 2.  In 1988 and quadrennially thereafter, three members of the Iredell County Board of Education shall be elected for four-year terms.  In 1990 and quadrennially thereafter, four members of the Iredell County Board of Education shall be elected for four-year terms.

Sec. 3.  The Iredell County Board of Education may adopt an apportionment plan which provides that the Iredell County School Administrative Unit is divided into electoral districts for the purpose of electing members of the Iredell County Board of Education.  Such plan shall not affect the right of appointed members under Section 2 of this act to finish the remainder of the term of office.  The qualified voters of each district shall elect a person who resides in that district for the seat apportioned to that district.  Each district shall elect one member.  The apportionment plan may provide for up to three of the members of the Board of Education to be elected at-large by all the qualified voters of the school administrative unit.  Any apportionment plan under this section, in order to become effective for elections in the succeeding year, must be approved by the Iredell County Board of Education no later than December 31.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of August, 1987.