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(124th General Assembly)
(Amended Substitute Senate Bill Number 187)
AN ACT
To amend sections 505.71, 3311.19, and
3313.12 of the
Revised
Code to
increase the maximum
compensation
for
members of
school district boards
of education
and
educational
service center
governing boards, to
permit
compensation to school
district board and
educational service center
governing board members
for attendance at
training
programs,
to
increase the maximum
number of
meetings for which
the
board of
trustees
of a joint
ambulance district
may be compensated
each
year, and to
increase the
maximum
amount of
compensation that a
joint ambulance district board
member
may be
paid
for those
meetings.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That sections 505.71, 3311.19, and
3313.12 of the Revised
Code be
amended to read as follows: Sec. 505.71. The boards of township trustees of one or
more
townships and the legislative authorities of any one or more
municipal corporations within or adjoining
such
those townships,
or the
boards of township trustees of two or more townships, or
the
legislative
authority
authorities of two or more municipal
corporations, may,
by adoption of a joint resolution by a majority
of the members of
each board of township trustees and by a
majority of the members
of the legislative authority of each
municipal corporation,
create
a joint ambulance district
comprising the municipal
corporations
and all or any portions of
the townships as are
mutually agreed
upon, except that no portion
of a township or municipal
corporation being served by a joint
emergency medical services
district shall
be part of a joint
ambulance district. A district
so created shall be given a
name
different from the name of any
participating township or
municipal
corporation. The governing body of a district shall be a board of
trustees, which shall include one representative appointed by
each
board of township trustees and one representative appointed
by the
legislative authority of each municipal corporation in the
district. Members of the board of trustees may be compensated at
a rate not to exceed
twenty
seventy-five dollars per meeting,
not
to exceed
twelve
fifteen meetings per year, and may be reimbursed
for all
necessary
expenses incurred. The board shall employ a
clerk. Before
entering upon
the
official duties
of his office,
the
clerk
of the board of
trustees of a joint ambulance district
shall execute a bond, in
the amount and with surety to be approved
by the board, payable
to the state,
and conditioned for the
faithful
performance of all
the
official duties required of
him
the clerk.
Such
The bond shall be
deposited
with the presiding
officer of the
board, and copies
thereof
of it,
certified by
him
the presiding officer,
shall be filed with the
county auditor of
each
county with a
subdivision included in the district. To provide the services and equipment it considers
necessary
for the district, the board may levy taxes, subject to
Chapter
5705. of the Revised Code, and issue bonds and other
evidences of
indebtedness, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised
Code, after
submitting the question of
such
that issuance to the
electors of
the
district in the manner provided by Chapter 133.
of the Revised
Code. The district may purchase, lease, maintain,
and use all
materials, equipment, vehicles, buildings, and land
necessary to
perform its duties. Any municipal corporation or township may join an existing
district by the adoption of a resolution requesting
such
membership and upon approval of the board of the district. Any
municipal corporation or township may withdraw from a district by
the adoption of a resolution ordering withdrawal. On or after
the
first day of January of the year following the adoption of
the
resolution of withdrawal, the municipal corporation or
township
withdrawing ceases to be a part of
such
the district, and the
power of
the district to levy a tax upon taxable property in the
withdrawing township or municipal corporation terminates, except
that the district shall continue to levy and collect taxes for
the
payment of indebtedness within the territory of the district
as it
was comprised at the time the indebtedness was incurred. Upon the withdrawal of any township or municipal
corporation
from a district, the county auditor shall ascertain,
apportion,
and order a division of the funds on hand, moneys and
taxes in the
process of collection, except for taxes levied for
the payment of
indebtedness, credits, and real and personal
property, either in
money or in kind, on the basis of the
valuation of the respective
tax duplicates of the withdrawing
municipal corporation or
township and the remaining territory of
the district. When the number of townships and municipal corporations
constituting a district is reduced to one, the district ceases to
exist by operation of law, and the funds, credits, and property
remaining after apportionments to withdrawing municipal
corporations or townships, shall be assumed by the one remaining
township or municipal corporation. When a district ceases to
exist and an indebtedness remains unpaid, the board of county
commissioners shall continue to levy and collect taxes for the
payment of
such
that indebtedness within the territory of the
district
as it was comprised at the time the indebtedness was
incurred.
Sec. 3311.19. (A) The management and control of a joint
vocational school district shall be vested in the joint
vocational
school district board of education. Where a joint
vocational
school district is composed only of two or more local
school
districts located in one county, or when all the
participating
districts are in one county and the boards of such
participating
districts so choose, the educational
service center governing
board
of the county in which the joint vocational school district
is
located shall serve as the joint vocational school district
board
of education. Where a joint vocational school district is
composed of local school districts of more than one county, or of
any combination of city, local, or exempted village
school
districts or educational service centers, unless administration by
the
educational service center governing board has been chosen by
all the
participating districts in
one county pursuant to this
section, the board of education of
the joint vocational school
district shall be composed of one or
more persons who are members
of the boards of education from each
of the city or exempted
village school districts or
members of the educational service
centers' governing boards
affected to be appointed by the boards
of education or governing boards of
such
school districts and
educational service centers. In such joint vocational
school
districts the
number and terms of members of the joint vocational
school
district board of education and the allocation of a given
number
of members to each of the city and exempted village
districts and educational service centers shall be determined in
the plan for
such district,
provided that each such joint
vocational school district board of
education shall be composed of
an odd number of members. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, a
governing
board of an educational service center that has members
of
its
governing board serving on a
joint vocational school
district board of education may make a
request to the joint
vocational district board that the joint
vocational school
district plan be revised to provide for one or
more members of
boards of education of local school districts
that are within the
territory of the educational
service district and within the joint
vocational school district to serve in the place of or in
addition
to its educational service center governing board members. If
agreement
is obtained among a majority of the boards of education
and governing boards
that have
a member serving on the joint
vocational school district board of
education and among a majority
of the local school district
boards of education included in the
district and located within
the territory of the educational
service center
whose board requests the substitution
or addition,
the state board of education may revise the joint
vocational
school district plan to conform with such agreement. (C) If the board of education of any school district
or
educational service center governing board included within a joint
vocational district that has had its
board or governing board
membership revised under division (B) of this section
requests the
joint vocational school district board to submit to
the state
board of education a revised plan under which one or
more joint
vocational board members chosen in accordance with a
plan revised
under such division would again be chosen in the
manner prescribed
by division (A) of this section, the joint
vocational board shall
submit the revised plan to the state board
of education, provided
the plan is agreed to by a majority of the
boards of education
represented on the joint vocational board, a
majority of the local
school district boards included within the
joint vocational
district, and each educational service center
governing board
affected by such plan. The state board of education may revise
the joint vocational school district plan to conform with the
revised plan. (D) The vocational schools in such joint vocational school
district shall be available to all youth of school age within the
joint vocational school district subject to the rules adopted by
the joint vocational school district board of education in regard
to the standards requisite to admission. A joint vocational
school district board of education shall have the same powers,
duties, and authority for the management and operation of such
joint vocational school district as is granted by law, except by
this chapter and Chapters 124., 3317., 3323., and 3331. of the
Revised Code, to a board of education of a city school district,
and shall be subject to all the provisions of law that apply to a
city school district, except such provisions in this chapter and
Chapters 124., 3317., 3323., and 3331. of the Revised Code. (E) Where a governing board of an educational
service center
has been designated
to serve as the joint vocational school
district board of
education, the educational service center
superintendent shall be the
executive officer for the joint
vocational school district, and
the governing board may provide
for additional compensation to be paid to
the educational service
center superintendent by the joint
vocational school district, but
the educational service
center
superintendent shall have no
continuing tenure other than that of educational service center
superintendent. The
superintendent of schools of a joint
vocational school district
shall exercise the duties and authority
vested by law in a
superintendent of schools pertaining to the
operation of a school
district and the employment and supervision
of its personnel. The joint
vocational school district board of
education shall
appoint a treasurer of the joint vocational school
district who
shall be the fiscal officer for such district and who
shall have
all the powers, duties, and authority vested by law in
a
treasurer of a board of education. Where a governing board of
an educational service center has been designated to serve as
the
joint vocational
school district board of education, such board
may appoint the
educational service center superintendent as
the
treasurer of the joint
vocational school district. (F) Each member of a joint vocational school district
board
of education may be paid such compensation as the board
provides
by resolution, but it shall not exceed
eighty
one hundred
twenty-five dollars
per member for each meeting attended plus
mileage, at the rate per mile
provided by resolution of the board,
to and from meetings of the board. The board may provide by resolution for the deduction of
amounts payable for benefits under division (D) of section
3313.202 of the Revised Code. No member of a board of a joint
vocational school district who is purchasing any category of
benefits under such section offered by a city, local, or exempted
village school board or educational service center governing
board,
shall purchase the same category of benefits as a member of
the
joint vocational school board.
Each member of a joint vocational school district board may
be paid such compensation as the board provides by resolution for
attendance at
an approved training program, provided that such
compensation
shall not exceed sixty dollars per day for attendance
at a
training program three hours or fewer in length and one
hundred
twenty-five dollars a day for attendance at a training
program
longer than three hours in length. However, no board
member shall
be compensated for the same training program under
this section
and section 3313.12 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3313.12. Each member of the educational service center
governing board
may be paid such compensation as the governing
board provides by
resolution, provided that any such compensation
shall not exceed
eighty
one hundred twenty-five dollars a day plus
mileage both ways, at the rate per mile
provided by resolution of
the governing board,
to cover the actual and
necessary expenses
incurred during
for attendance
upon
at any
meeting of the board.
Such
expenses
compensation and the expenses of the
educational
service center
superintendent, itemized and
verified, shall be
paid from
the
educational service center governing board fund upon
vouchers
signed by
the
president of the governing board. The board of education of any city, local, or exempted
village school district
may provide by resolution for compensation
of its
members, provided that such compensation shall not exceed
eighty
one hundred twenty-five
dollars per member for meetings
attended.
The The board may provide by resolution for the deduction of
amounts payable for benefits under division (D) of section
3313.202 of the Revised Code.
Each member of a district board or educational service center
governing board may be paid such compensation as the respective
board provides by resolution for attendance at an approved
training
program, provided that such compensation shall not exceed
sixty
dollars a day for attendance at a training program three
hours or
fewer in length and one hundred twenty-five dollars a day
for
attendance at a training program longer than three hours in
length.
SECTION 2. That existing sections 505.71,
3311.19,
and 3313.12 of the
Revised Code
are hereby repealed.
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