The members of the School Committee shall have all the powers
and perform all the duties in regard to the care and management of
the public schools of the City of Bangor, which are now or may hereafter
be conferred and imposed upon School Committees by the laws of the
State of Maine, except as otherwise provided in this Charter. They
shall elect a Superintendent of Schools for a term not to exceed five
years, who shall have the care and supervision of said public schools
under the Committee's direction, and act as secretary of their Board;
and they shall fix the Superintendent's salary. They shall annually
furnish to the City Council an estimate in detail of the several sums
required during the ensuing municipal year for the support of public
schools. On the basis of such estimates, the City Council shall make
one gross appropriation for the support of the public schools for
the ensuing municipal year, and such appropriation shall not be exceeded,
except by consent of the City Council, but the expenditure of said
appropriation shall be under the direction and control of the School
Committee.
The School Committee shall consist of seven members to be elected,
at large, by popular vote from among the qualified voters of the City
of Bangor. At each regular municipal election the qualified voters
of the City shall ballot for candidates for office on the committee
whose terms expire that year. All members of the School Committee
shall serve for terms of three years and until their successors are
duly elected and qualified.
No person elected as of the regularly scheduled 2003 municipal
election may serve as a member of the School Committee for more than
three complete consecutive terms, provided that no terms served prior
to the regularly scheduled 2003 municipal election shall be counted
against said three complete consecutive terms.
The members of the School Committee shall annually by majority
vote designate one of its members to serve as Chair of the School
Committee.
The School Committee shall meet at the usual place for holding
meetings at eleven o'clock A.M. on the first Monday in November following
the regular City Election and at said meeting the members-elect of
the School Committee shall be sworn to the faithful performance of
their duties by the City Clerk or a dedimus judge. Members elected
at other than regular city elections will be sworn in at the first
meeting of the School Committee following their election.
