RCW 28A.310.010 Purpose. It shall be the intent and purpose of this chapter to establish educational service districts as regional agencies which are intended to: (1) Provide cooperative and informational services to local school districts; (2) Assist the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education in the performance of their respective statutory […]
RCW 28A.310.020 Changes in number of, boundaries—Initiating, hearings, considerations—Superintendent’s duties. The superintendent of public instruction upon his or her own initiative, or upon petition of any educational service district board, or upon petition of at least half of the district superintendents within an educational service district, or upon request of the state board of education, […]
RCW 28A.310.030 ESD board—Membership—Board member district boundaries. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, in each educational service district there shall be an educational service district board consisting of seven members elected by the school directors of the educational service district, one from each of seven educational service district board-member districts. Board-member districts in districts […]
RCW 28A.310.040 ESD board—Members—Terms. The term of office for each board member shall be four years and until a successor is duly elected and qualified. For the first election or an election following reorganization, board-member district positions numbered one, three, five, and seven in each educational service district shall be for a term of four […]
RCW 28A.310.050 ESD board—Members—Nine member boards. Any educational service district board may elect by resolution of the board to increase the board member size to nine board members. In such case positions number eight and nine shall be filled at the next election called by the executive director of the Washington state school directors’ association, […]
RCW 28A.310.060 ESD board—Members—Terms—Vacancies. The term of every educational service district board member shall begin on the second Monday in January next following the election at which he or she was elected: PROVIDED, That a person elected to less than a full term pursuant to this section shall take office as soon as the election […]
RCW 28A.310.070 ESD board—Members—Restriction on other service. No person shall serve as an employee of a school district or as a member of a board of directors of a common school district or as a member of the state board of education and as a member of an educational service district board at the same […]
RCW 28A.310.080 ESD board—Members—Elections, calling and notice. Not later than the 25th day of August of every odd-numbered year, the executive director of the Washington state school directors’ association shall call an election to be held in each educational service district within which resides a member of the board of the educational service district whose […]
RCW 28A.310.090 ESD board—Members—Elections—Declarations of candidacy. Candidates for membership on an educational service district board shall file declarations of candidacy with the Washington state school directors’ association on forms prepared by the association. Declarations of candidacy may be filed by person or by mail not earlier than the first day of September, nor later than […]
RCW 28A.310.100 ESD board—Members—Elections—Certification. Each member of an educational service district board shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast at the election for all candidates for the position. All votes shall be cast by mail addressed to the Washington state school directors’ association and no votes shall be accepted for counting if […]
RCW 28A.310.110 ESD board—Members—Elections, contest of. Any common school district board member eligible to vote for a candidate for membership on an educational service district or any candidate for the position, within ten days after the secretary to the state board of education’s certification of election, may contest the election of the candidate pursuant to […]
RCW 28A.310.120 ESD board—Return to seven member board. Any educational service district board which elects under RCW 28A.310.050 to increase the size of the educational service district board from seven to nine members, after at least four years, may elect by resolution of the board to return to a membership of seven educational service board […]
RCW 28A.310.130 ESD board—Vacation of board member position because of failure to attend meetings. Absence of any educational service district board member from four consecutive regular meetings of the board, unless excused on account of sickness or otherwise authorized by resolution of the board, shall be sufficient cause for the members of the educational service […]
RCW 28A.310.140 School district to be entirely within single educational service district. Every school district must be included entirely within a single educational service district. If the boundaries of any school district within an educational service district are changed in any manner so as to extend the school district beyond the boundaries of that educational […]
RCW 28A.310.150 ESD board—Members—Qualifications, oath, bond—Organization—Quorum. Every candidate for membership on a educational service district board shall be a registered voter and a resident of the board-member district for which such candidate files. On or before the date for taking office, every member shall make an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the […]
RCW 28A.310.160 ESD board—Reimbursement of members for expenses. The actual expenses of educational service board members in going to, returning from and attending meetings called or held pursuant to district business or while otherwise engaged in the performance of their duties under this chapter shall be paid; all such claims shall be approved by the […]
RCW 28A.310.170 ESD superintendent—Appointment, procedure—Term, salary, discharge—ESD superintendent review committee. (1) Every educational service district board shall employ and set the salary of an educational service district superintendent who shall be employed by a written contract for a term to be fixed by the board, but not to exceed three years, and who may be […]
RCW 28A.310.180 ESD board—Compliance with rules and regulations—Depository and distribution center—Cooperative service programs, joint purchasing programs, and direct student service programs including pupil transportation. In addition to other powers and duties as provided by law, every educational service district board shall: (1) Comply with rules of the state board of education and the superintendent of […]
RCW 28A.310.190 ESD board—Teachers’ institutes, directors’ meetings—Cooperation with state supervisor—Certification of data. In addition to other powers and duties as provided by law, every educational service district board shall: (1) If the district board deems necessary, hold each year one or more teachers’ institutes as provided for in RCW 28A.415.010 and one or more school […]
RCW 28A.310.200 ESD board—Powers and duties—Rules. In addition to other powers and duties as provided by law, every educational service district board shall: (1) Approve the budgets of the educational service district in accordance with the procedures provided for in this chapter; (2) Meet regularly according to the schedule adopted at the organization meeting and […]
