SENATE, No. 1005

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 21, 1996

 

 

By Senators PALAIA and CIESLA

 

 

An Act concerning boards of education of school districts involved in sending-receiving relationships and amending P.L.1995, c.8.

 

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

    1. Section 2 of P.L.1995, c.8 (C.18A:38-8.2) is amended to read as follows:

    2. A school district which is sending pupils to another school district pursuant to N.J.S.18A:38-8 shall have representation on the board of education of the receiving school district as follows:

    a. (1) If the pupils of the sending district comprise less than 10 percent of the total enrollment of the pupils in the grades of the receiving district in which the pupils of the sending district will be enrolled, the sending district shall have no representation on the receiving district board of education.

    (2) If the pupils of the sending district comprise at least 10 percent of the total enrollment of the pupils in the grades of the receiving district in which the pupils of the sending district will be enrolled, the sending district shall have one representative on the receiving district board of education.

    b. If the total number of pupils of two or more sending districts, which do not qualify for representation under subsection a. of this section, comprise at least 15 percent of the total enrollment of the pupils in the grades of the receiving district in which the pupils of the sending districts will be enrolled, they shall have collectively two representatives on the receiving district board of education. The annual designation of the representatives, in the event more than two districts collectively qualify under this subsection, shall be rotated among the boards of education of the sending districts according to a schedule determined by the joint agreement of the boards.

    c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, the number of representatives designated by the sending districts to be additional members shall not exceed three additional members on a receiving board with originally nine or more members unless the sending districts would be eligible for five or more additional representatives pursuant to subsections a. and b. of this section in which case the number of representatives designated by the sending districts shall not exceed four additional members, two additional members on a receiving board with originally seven or eight members, and one additional member on a receiving board with originally less than seven members. In the event that this restriction results in an unequal representation of sending districts, the annual designation of the representative or representatives shall be rotated among the boards of education of the sending districts according to a schedule determined by the joint agreement of the boards.

    d. A representative of a sending district board of education shall be designated at the meeting of the board which is closest in time to the annual organizational meeting of the receiving district board of education and shall serve a one-year term beginning with the organizational meeting of the receiving district board. The representative shall be subject to the rules and procedures of the receiving district board of education.

    e. The calculation of percentages required under this section shall be based on the number of pupils reported as of October 15 of each year.

(cf: P.L.1995, c.8, s.2)

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill amends current law concerning additional membership on the board of education of a school district which is a receiving district involved in a sending-receiving relationship. Current law limits the number of additional members which may be appointed to represent sending districts on a nine member receiving district board of education to three additional members. The additional membership is limited to three regardless of the number of sending districts which would qualify for representation in accordance with the sending district student enrollment percentages outlined in other sections of law. This bill provides that if the sending districts would be eligible for five or more representatives on the receiving district board of education pursuant to their student enrollment percentages in the total enrollment of the sending-receiving district, then the number of sending district representatives on a nine member receiving district board of education shall not exceed four additional members.


 

Provides for additional member on receiving board of education for certain sending districts.