School Board Powers and Duties
Purpose:
To define the responsibilities of the Gadsden Independent School Board of
Education.
Participants:
School Board members.
Process:
The local school board shall have the following powers or duties:
- subject to the regulations of the department,
develop educational policies for the school district;
- employ a
superintendent of schools for the school district and fix his/her
salary;
- review and approve the school district budget;
- acquire, lease and dispose of property;
- have the capacity to sue and be sued;
- acquire property by eminent domain pursuant to
the procedures provided in the Eminent Domain Code;
- issue general obligation bonds of the school
district;
- provide for the repair and maintain all
property belonging to the school district;
- for good cause and upon order of the district
court, subpoena witnesses and documents in connection with a hearing
concerning any powers or duties of the local school boards;
- except for expenditures for salaries, contract
for the expenditure of money according to the provisions of the
Procurement Code;
- adopt rules pertaining to the administration
of all powers or duties of the local school board;
- accept or reject any charitable gift, grant, devise or bequest. The
particular gift, grant, devise or bequest accepted shall be considered
an asset of the school district or the public school to which it is
given; and
- offer and, upon compliance with the conditions of such offer, pay
rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction or other
appropriate disciplinary disposition by the courts or juvenile
authorities of offenders in case of theft, defacement or destruction of
school district property. All such rewards shall be paid from school
district funds in accordance with rules promulgated by the department;
and
- give prior approval for any educational program in a public school in
the school district that is to be conducted, sponsored, carried on or
caused to be carried on by a private organization of agency.
Timeline:
The enforcement of this policy is ongoing.
- HB 212 Section 21.
Section 22-5-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 16, Section 28, as
amended) 2003
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