Bill Text: MA H4676 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced
Bill Title: The members of the southeastern regional school district
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-15 - Read second and ordered to a third reading [H4676 Detail]
Download: Massachusetts-2009-H4676-Introduced.html
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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By Ms. Walz of Boston, for the committee on Education, on House, No.367, a Bill providing for members of the southeastern regional school district to reallocate the sum of their local contributions to the district by a majority vote of boards of selectmen and a municipal council (House, No. 4676) . May 13, 2010.
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FOR THE COMMITTEE :
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Martha M. Walz |
8th Suffolk |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and T en
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An Act providing for members of the southeastern regional school district to reallocate the sum of their local contributions to the district by a majority vote of boards of selectmen and a municipal council.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the towns of East Bridgewater, Easton, Foxboro, Mansfield, Norton, Sharon, Stoughton, and West Bridgewater and the city of Brockton, all joined together as charter member communities of the Southeastern Regional School District, may elect to reallocate the sum of their required local contributions to the district in accordance with the regional agreement; provided, however, that the total sum of their regional contributions shall not be decreased. Election shall be by approval of a majority of the members. Approval of each member shall be given by a majority vote of the board of selectmen at a regularly scheduled meeting of towns and by a majority vote of the council in the city of Brockton. For the first year, such approval must be voted no later than 3 weeks after the effective date of this act. Thereafter, members may vote for this change in the method of such allocation on or before December 31 of the year preceding the fiscal year for which a change in the assessment allocation is desired.
SECTION 2. Once a vote to revert to the original agreement has been made as herein provided
for , the required local contributions shall be thereafter calculated in accordance with the regional
agreement for each successive year unless two-thirds of the district members vote for a change in
the method of such allocation on or before December 31 of the year preceding the fiscal year for which a change in the assessment allocation is desired. Approval of each member in this instance shall be given by a majority vote of the board of selectmen at a regularly scheduled meeting of
the towns and by a majority vote of the council in the city of Brockton.
