Policy No. 1113

Board of Directors

BOARD MEMBER RESIDENCY

A school director must remain a resident of the school district to be eligible to continue to serve as a school board member.  If a director’s residence changes to a place outside the district, the director must resign and his/her eligibility to serve ends with the change of residence.

If a director is required to live within a specific director area of the district in order to be elected or appointed to the school board, and the director’s residence changes to a place outside the director area, director must resign from serving on the school board within 90 days of his/her change of residence.  The remaining board members will interview and appoint a new board member to serve the vacated directors area, until the next regular school district election.  If the change of residence occurs after the filing period for the regular school district election, but before the election, and the director is in the first two years of his/her term, he/she may continue to serve from a residence outside the director area, but within the district, until the end of the term he/she was elected to.

If a director’s director area boundaries are redrawn during his/her term of office, the director may serve out the term he/she was elected to.

Number of Directors

The Board will consist of five members, two of whom are elected at large, and three of whom represent identified zones.

Designation of Board Positions

Positions of Board members and their respective successors in office will be designated by numbers as District #1, #2, #3 and Positions #4 and #5.  In all proceedings for the nomination or election of candidates for or to the office of a Board member, every petition for nomination, declaration of candidacy, certificate of nomination, ballot or other document used in connection with the nomination or election will state the position number to which the candidate aspires.

Re-elections for Board posit6ion will occur as follows:

District #1:        Fall 2007, and every four years thereafter, two years unexpired – then every four years

District  #2:       Fall 2007, and every four years thereafter, two years unexpired – then every four years

District  #3:       Fall 2007, and every four years thereafter

Position #4:      Fall 2007, At Large, and every four years thereafter

Position #5:      Fall 2007, At Large, and every four years thereafter

Cross References:         Board Policy 1105             Director District Boundaries

                                    Board Policy 1110             Elections

                                    Board Policy 1114             Board Member Resignation

                                    Board Policy 1115             Vacancies

Legal References:         RCW   28A.343.340         Directors — When elected — Eligibility

                                    RCW  28A.343.350          Residency

                                    RCW  29A.04.151            Residence

                                    RCW  29A.76.010            Redistricting by counties, municipal corporations, and special purpose districts

                                    RCW  42.12.010               Causes of Vacancy

                                    AGO 1975 No. 8               Vacancy upon voluntary change of residence out of director district (note modification by 1999 amendment codified as RCW 28A.343.350)

Adoption Date:  February 26, 2007