GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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SENATE BILL 656
Second Edition Engrossed 4/18/89
House Committee Substitute Favorable 7/28/89

Short Title:  Iredell School Districts.	(Local)
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March 27, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT UPON MERGER OF LOCAL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN A COUNTY, THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY LEVY AND COLLECT A SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL TAX WITHOUT VOTER APPROVAL IN THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA ENCOMPASSED BY THE NEW SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT RESULTING FROM THE MERGER AND, IF THE STATESVILLE CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT IS MERGED WITH THE IREDELL COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT, MAKING A CONFORMING CHANGE TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUOR STORE PROFITS OF THE STATESVILLE ABC SYSTEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  If a county school administrative unit merges with one or more other school administrative units, and one of the merging school administrative units has previously voted a supplemental school tax which is in effect prior to and at the time of the merger, then the board of county commissioners of the county where the merger takes place may levy and collect, in lieu of the supplemental tax in effect, a supplemental school tax, not to exceed the rate of the supplemental tax in effect prior to the merger, for the purpose provided in G.S. 115C-501(a) in the school administrative unit resulting from the merger, without approval of the voters of the geographic area affected by the merger.
Sec. 1.1  If the Statesville City Board of Education is merged with the Iredell County Board of Education, then effective for any distributions made after the effective date of the merger, Section 6.3(2) of the Charter of the City of Statesville, being Chapter 289, Session Laws of 1977 reads as rewritten:
"(2)	Twenty-five percent (25%) shall be turned over to the Iredell County Board of Education."
Sec. 2. Section 1 of this act shall apply to Iredell County only and to the school administrative units within that county.
Sec. 3.  To facilitate the transfer of students among the local school administrative units in Iredell County, the following factors shall, in addition to other considerations, be the measure of a child's attendance in a particular school in a particular administrative unit:
(1)	Distance from school,
(2)	Time spent on school buses,
(3)	Availability of programs or the lack of programs,
(4)	Whether other members of the same family are attending the school in question and whether the school to which transfer is sought can accommodate additional students, and
(5)	Distance to school which interferes with the student's participation in extracurricular activities.
The best interest of the student shall be paramount among all factors and considerations regarding student transfers.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.