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Except as herein otherwise provided, the Etowah City Board of Education has full and exclusive power and authority as trustees or directors, to manage, control and regulate the city schools, to maintain and adequately insure all school property and prescribe all rules and regulations for the government, control and operation of said schools and the teachers and superintendent thereof. The board of education shall also adopt and prescribe all necessary rules and regulations for its own conduct, and the dispatch of its business.
The qualifications of the members of the Etowah City Board of Education shall be the same as the qualifications of city commissioners as provided in Article V, sections two and three of this charter, and no person shall be eligible as a member of the board of education who is a member of the city commission of the city of Etowah. The members of the board are elected as herein provided, and are subject to the same recall provisions as the city commissioners.
The Etowah City Board of Education consists of five (5) members who shall serve staggered four year terms. Members of the Etowah City Board of Education shall be elected on the first Thursday in August of each even-numbered year to coincide with the municipal elections. Those persons elected in the election shall take office at the first meeting following the certification of such election by the McMinn County Election Commission.
Ties will be resolved by a vote of the members of the city commission at their first regularly scheduled meeting following the election. The Etowah City Board of Education is elected according to Tennessee Code Annotated, § 49-2-201 or any other general law, if any, governing the election of boards of education in effect on that date.
The salary of each member of the Etowah City Board of Education may be set by ordinance and may be increased or decreased provided that no such increase or decrease in salary shall take effect until after the expiration of the terms of office of all members of the board of education in office at the time of the adoption of such ordinance. Any vacancies occurring in the membership of the Etowah City Board of Education shall be filled by appointment by the city commission for the remainder of the term.
The board of education shall, at their first meeting after each general city election, elect from their number for a two-year term, a chairman, a vice-chairman, and a secretary. Said board of education shall keep minutes of all its proceedings in a well bound book, signed by the chairman, and attested by the secretary. Said book to constitute a permanent and public record. The superintendent shall receive and hold all school money for the city of Etowah, from whatever source until disbursed on checks signed by himself and countersigned by the chairman; provided, however, the chairman and superintendent shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, file with the finance director of the city of Etowah performance bonds conditioned upon the faithful discharge of their duties, which bonds shall be approved by the board of education, and which bonds shall name the city of Etowah as the obligee with a responsible indemnity corporation, qualified to do business in the state of Tennessee, being the surety on said bonds. The minimum principal sum of said performance bonds shall be set by the Etowah City Board of Education. The cost for said bonds shall be paid by the board of education.
Checks shall be issued only when adequate funds are available for the stated purpose and upon proper authorization by the board of education and appropriation ordinance. The superintendent shall submit a monthly financial statement to the city commission and the board of education on or before the fourth Monday of the next succeeding month for which the report covers.
The county trustee, the county clerk of McMinn County, or any other tax collector shall pay over to the Etowah City Board of Education out of all moneys collected by them for school purposes from any sources such portion as by law is applicable to the schools of the city of Etowah.
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