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Town of Charlestown, RI
Washington County
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New Laws (5) Index Notes (5)
[Added 11-5-2002; amended 11-4-2008]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Art. XXXIII, Minimum Housing Inspector, consisting of §§ C-116 through C-118, was repealed 11-5-1996.
A. 
In the event of a Charlestown School District, there shall be a Charlestown School Committee.
B. 
The School Committee shall be composed of 5 residents elected in a town-wide vote on a nonpartisan basis for staggered four-year terms.
C. 
The first election shall be held on the first Tuesday in November in the year in which withdrawal from the Chariho Regional School District would take place. The three candidates with the highest number of votes shall serve four-year terms; the two candidates with the next highest number of votes shall serve two-year terms. In subsequent elections either two or three members shall be elected for four-year terms.
D. 
Any vacancy in the membership of the School Committee shall be filled by appointment by a majority of all members of the Council until the next regular Town election, when the office shall be filled for the unexpired term.
[Amended 11-2-2010]
E. 
The stipends for the five (5) members of the School Committee shall be established by the Budget Commission and approved by the Council.
F. 
The School Committee shall elect a chair and vice chair at its first organizational meeting and thereafter shall elect a chair and a vice chair at its first meeting following a regular town election or following the vacancy in either the chair or vice chair.
G. 
The School Committee shall determine its own rules and order of business at the time of its first organizational meeting. The School Committee shall hire or appoint a clerk to keep the records of the meeting and a finance officer.
A. 
The Council may appoint a five-member interim School Committee to assist the Town in establishing its School System.
[Amended 11-2-2010]
B. 
The interim School Committee shall remain in office until the certification of elected School Committee members after the November election.
C. 
Members of the Chariho School Committee may be appointed to the interim School Committee, on condition they resign from the Chariho School Committee.
A. 
The School Committee shall determine and control all policies affecting the administration, maintenance, scheduling, and operation of the public schools and shall have all the powers and be subject to all duties as prescribed by the laws of the state. In addition, it shall have the power to inquire into the conduct of any office, department or activity of the public schools and make investigations as to school affairs.
B. 
The School Committee shall appoint a Superintendent of Schools as its administrative agent. The appointment and removal of all school employees and shall be made by School Committee upon recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, except as may otherwise be provided by state law.
C. 
The School Committee shall have the sole authority to negotiate and conclude all collective bargaining agreements with teachers, support staff, or others, which relate to the operation and maintenance of the school system, and otherwise establish employment policies and benefit programs, and the terms and conditions thereof, which the School Committee shall determine is in the best interest of the school system.
D. 
Except for the purpose of inquiry, the School Committee and its members shall deal with the administration of the public schools solely through the Superintendent of Schools, and neither the School Committee nor any member thereof shall give orders to any subordinate of the Superintendent of Schools, either publicly or privately.
E. 
The School Committee shall submit budget estimates to the Town Administrator and the Budget Commission no later than the third Tuesday in March. The estimates shall show those costs mandated by state law or contract and those costs that are discretionary. The Budget Commission and the Council may cut or add to the bottom line of the School Committee budget proposal but the allocations of the amount appropriated shall be determined by the School Committee.
F. 
The Charlestown school operating budget shall go before the voters separately from the municipal operating budget.
G. 
The School Committee, with the approval of the Council, may delegate to any office or department of the Town any function or service under their control not directly connected with education.