| LAWS OF THE 2001 REGULAR SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA |
WHEREAS, on September 11, 1990, the registered voters of the Mallard Community School District approved the district's participation in an instructional support program for a period not exceeding ten years beginning on July 1, 1991, and ending on June 30, 2001, pursuant to section 257.18; and
WHEREAS, on January 18, 1994, the West Bend Community School District Board adopted a resolution to participate in an instructional support program for a period not exceeding five years beginning on July 1, 1994, and ending on June 30, 1999, pursuant to section 257.18; and
WHEREAS, on July 1, 1995, the Mallard Community School District and the West Bend Community School District were reorganized as the West Bend-Mallard Community School District, pursuant to chapter 275; and
WHEREAS, section 257.18 provides that if school districts involved in a school reorganization under chapter 275 have approved an instructional support program, and registered voters have not voted upon the question of participation in the program in the reorganized district, the instructional support program in effect for the reorganized school district shall be the instructional support program that has been approved for the least amount and the shortest time in any of the districts; and
WHEREAS, funding for the instructional support program continued after July 1, 1995, the effective date of the reorganization of the West Bend-Mallard Community School District, and moneys were paid to the reorganized school district as instructional support state aid and were received from local funding using a combination of an instructional support property tax and an instructional support income surtax as provided in section 257.19; and
WHEREAS, the West Bend-Mallard Community School District has continued to participate in the instructional support program after June 30, 1999, the date when the instructional support program originally approved by the West Bend Community School District Board was no longer effective; and
WHEREAS, on September 12, 2000, the registered voters of the West Bend-Mallard Community School District approved the district's participation in the instructional support program in compliance with section 257.18 commencing July 1, 2001; NOW THEREFORE,
Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:
Section 1. All acts and proceedings relating to the instructional support program for the West Bend-Mallard Community School District, due to the failure to approve an instructional support program as provided in section 257.18 beginning on July 1, 1999, and ending on June 30, 2001, are legalized, validated, and confirmed.
For purposes of this section, an act or proceeding includes but is not limited to all of the following:
1. The failure of the district's board of directors to adopt a resolution to participate in an instructional support program or the failure of registered voters in the district to approve an instructional support program as provided in section 257.18.
2. The assessment, imposition, collection, receipt, deposit, and expenditure of state and local moneys used to fund the instructional support program as provided in chapter 257.
Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE AND APPLICABILITY DATES. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 1999.
Approved April 18, 2001
Updated: 25-Oct-2001 03:46 PM
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