GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	3 

HOUSE BILL 573*
Second Edition Engrossed 4/17/91
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/15/91

Short Title:  Guilford School Reorganization.	(Local)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors:
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  
─────────────────────────────────────── 

April 2, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE ALL OF THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN GUILFORD COUNTY OR TO PROVIDE FOR THE TWO CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN THAT COUNTY TO HAVE BOUNDARIES COTERMINOUS WITH THE CITIES, SUBJECT TO A REFERENDUM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Chapter 78, Session Laws of 1991 is amended by adding the following new sections:
"Sec. 20.1. In the event that any teacher or principal employed by the Guilford County Board of Education at the time this Part becomes effective becomes employed as a teacher or principal in either the High Point or Greensboro City School Administrative Units for the 1992-93 school year, the rights of that person provided under Article 22, Part 3 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes shall continue under the new consolidated system to the same extent as if they were still employed in the Guilford County school system.
Sec. 20.2.   If the position of any person employed by the Guilford County School Administrative Unit during the 1991-92 school year who is not covered by Part 3 of Article 22 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is eliminated because of this Part, the Greensboro City and High Point City School Administrative Units shall establish policies to give such persons a reasonable preference in hiring by those units.
Sec. 20.3.  With the approval of the Guilford County Board of Education, and upon the application of the parent, any student enrolled in the Guilford County School Administrative Unit for the 1991-92 school year whose school attendance is changed to the Greensboro City or High Point City School Administrative Unit on account of this part, may continue attending school within the Guilford County School Administrative Unit until the completion of the grades at the school they would have been attending during the 1992-93 school year had this Part not become effective, but only if the place of residence of the child does not change.
Sec. 20.4.  If this part becomes effective as provided by Section 28 of this act, it shall become effective for school attendance beginning July 1, 1992."
Sec. 2.  Section 17 of Chapter 78, Session Laws of 1991 reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 17.  From and after the effective date of this Part, the school administrative unit of the High Point Board shall become and thereafter shall include the current boundaries of the City of High Point within Guilford County and will, further, include the High Point area specified in the Greensboro-High Point Joint Annexation Agreement adopted December 20, 1988, and duly placed on file in the Offices of the City Clerks in Greensboro and High Point, respectively, and will further include any future annexations within Guilford County.  Provided, that if by October 15, 1991, the City of High Point and the Town of Jamestown have adopted a joint annexation agreement duly placed on file in the Offices of the City Clerks in High Point and Jamestown respectively, the school administrative unit of the High Point Board shall not include the Jamestown area specified in the agreement.
The High Point Board shall plan for expansion of its administrative unit when it is apprised, by any means, of the proposed expansion of the city limits in Guilford County of the City of High Point, and shall be made aware of any proposed expansion of the city limits in Guilford County of the City of High Point by the elected officials of the City of High Point by letter at the time the City of High Point, through its elected officials, formally decides to expand its limits.  The giving of such notice by elected officials of the City of High Point shall not be a prerequisite to the duty of the High Point Board to plan for expansion of the High Point Board's administrative unit, which shall be a continuing duty of the High Point Board."
Sec. 3.  Section 18 of Chapter 78, Session Laws of 1991 reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 18.  After the effective date of this Part, students living in Guilford County outside the city limits of the City of Greensboro or outside of the boundaries that establish the extent to which the City of High Point city limits can be extended as set out in the Greensboro-High Point Joint Annexation Agreement adopted December 20, 1988, and duly placed on file in the Offices of the City Clerks in Greensboro and High Point, shall become and shall be students of the County Board, and the County Board shall assign such students to school in the administrative unit of the County Board.  Provided, that if by October 15, 1991, the City of High Point and the Town of Jamestown have adopted a joint annexation agreement duly placed on file in the Offices of the City Clerks in High Point and Jamestown respectively, the students in the Jamestown area specified in the agreement shall not be assigned to school in the school administrative unit of the High Point City Board.  The County Board shall do all things necessary and proper, according to law, for the assigning of students to school within the administrative unit."
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.