Chapter 2.40
EDUCATION POWERS
Sections:
2.40.020 School board – Election.
2.40.030 Relationship between school district and borough.
2.40.010 Adoption.
The Northwest Arctic Borough adopts education powers on an areawide basis. (Ord. 86-03 § 1, 1986; Code 1986 § 2.60.010)
2.40.020 School board – Election.
A. The borough constitutes the Northwest Arctic school district, of which the governing body is the Northwest Arctic school board.
B. Members of the school board are elected at the regular election held annually on the first Tuesday of October, unless a different election date or interval of years is provided by ordinance, for three-year terms and until their successors take office. All board members are elected by district in accordance with NABC 2.04.010 and shall also comply with NABC 2.04.060, conflict of interest deadline. (Ord. 86-17 § 1, 1986; Ord. 86-03 § 2, 1986; Code 1986 § 2.60.020)
2.40.030 Relationship between school district and borough.
A. The borough assembly may by ordinance require that all school money be deposited in a centralized treasury with all other borough money. The borough administrator shall have the custody of, invest and manage all money in the centralized treasury. However, the borough assembly, with the consent of the borough school board, may by ordinance delegate to the borough school board the responsibility of a centralized treasury.
B. When the borough school board by resolution consents, the borough assembly may by ordinance provide a centralized accounting system for school and all other borough operations. The system shall be operated in accordance with accepted principles of governmental accounting. However, the assembly, with the consent of the borough school board, may by ordinance delegate to the borough school board the responsibilities of the accounting system.
C. The borough assembly shall determine the location of school buildings with due consideration to the recommendations of the borough school board. To the maximum extent consistent with education needs, design of a school building shall provide for multiple use of the building for community purposes.
1. The borough school board shall provide custodial services, insurance and routine maintenance for school buildings and shall appoint, compensate and otherwise control personnel for these purposes.
2. The borough school board is responsible for the design criteria of the school buildings. Subject to the approval of the assembly, the school board shall select the appropriate professional personnel to develop the designs. The school board shall submit preliminary and subsequent designs for a school building to the assembly for approval or disapproval; if the design is disapproved, a revised design shall be prepared and presented to the assembly. Prior to submitting any design to the assembly, all preliminary and subsequent designs shall be reviewed by a joint committee of the school board and assembly or such other committee as the assembly may designate. Preliminary and subsequent designs should not be submitted to the assembly without adequate time for committee review. The borough assembly shall have 30 days after receipt to approve or disapprove a design or design professional submitted by the school board. If no regular assembly meeting is scheduled to be held within the 30 days, a special meeting shall be called. If no action is taken by the assembly, then the design or design professional as submitted by the school board is deemed approved. If a design has not had adequate committee review, it shall be grounds for the assembly, if it so chooses, to summarily disapprove the design.
3. The borough school board shall provide custodial services and routine maintenance for school board buildings and shall appoint, compensate and otherwise control personnel for these purposes. The borough assembly through the mayor shall provide for all major rehabilitation, all construction and major repair of school buildings. The recommendations of the school board shall be considered in carrying out the provisions of this section.
a. By mutual resolution of both the school board and borough assembly, the borough assembly may delegate to the school board specific authorities to undertake any major rehabilitation, construction or major repair of school buildings.
b. There is approved an appropriation of $100,000 for unbudgeted or unanticipated major rehabilitation, construction or major repair needs of school facilities.
c. By mutual resolution of both the school board and the borough assembly, annual charges, if any, shall be established for the use of borough property.
D. The school board shall submit a report to the mayor and borough assembly, by April 30th of each year, on the major rehabilitation, construction, and major repair and anticipated needs of school facilities. The school board, mayor and assembly shall work together in developing a plan to meet these capital needs of the borough and school district.
E. Definitions. As used in this section the following words shall have the definitions provided.
“Major rehabilitation and construction” means those anticipated tasks which will either extend the life of a facility or create a new facility or significantly alter the configuration of an existing facility.
“Major repair” means those tasks required to be undertaken as the result of an event which causes unexpected damage to a school facility.
“Routine maintenance” means those tasks required to be done on a regular basis to maintain the facility in its operational capacity.
F. State law relating to teacher’s salaries and tenure, to financial support, to supervision by the department and other general laws relating to schools governs the exercise of these functions by the borough. The school board shall appoint, compensate and otherwise control all school employees and administration officers in accordance with AS Title 14.
G. School boards within the borough may determine their own policy separate from the borough for the purchase of supplies and equipment.
H. The borough school board shall submit the school budget for the fall school year to the borough assembly no later than May 1st for approval of the total amount. Within 30 days after receipt of the budget, the assembly shall determine the total amount of money to be made available from local sources for school purposes and shall furnish the school board with a statement of the sum to be made available. If the assembly does not, within 30 days, furnish the school board with a statement of the sum to be made available, the amount requested in the budget is automatically approved. By June 15th, the assembly shall appropriate the amount to be made available from local sources from money available for that purpose.
I. The title to all lands and buildings that are sites of school instruction or administration shall be in the name of the Northwest Arctic Borough. (Ord. 05-08 § 1, 2005; Ord. 96-02 § 2, 1996; Ord. 95-02 §§ 6b, 7, 1995; Ord. 90-03 § 1, 1990; Ord. 89-14 §§ 1 – 5, 1989; Ord. 87-01, 1987; Ord. 86-03 § 2, 1986; Code 1986 § 2.60.030)