Michigan Compiled Laws
451-1976-1-6 - Part 6 School Districts of the First Class (380.401...380.485)
Section 380.418a - Board; Meetings; Proceedings and Official Actions as Public Record; Annual Audit; Report; Publication; Actions to Be by Yea and Nay Vote Entered Upon Record.

Sec. 418a.
(1) Regular meetings of the first class school district board shall be held at least once each month, at a time and place fixed by the bylaws. If the question under section 410 is not approved, not less than 7 of the regular meetings shall be held in different voting districts of the first class school district each year. If the question under section 410 is approved, not less than 9 of the regular meetings shall be held in different voting districts of the first class school district each year. The bylaws may provide for the calling of special meetings.
(2) The proceedings and official actions of the first class school district board shall be a public record open to inspection pursuant to section 1202.
(3) The board of the first class school district shall have made a complete annual audit of its financial transactions. The board may employ a firm of certified public accountants to make the audit or, if the city with the greatest population located within the boundaries of the school district has an auditor whose duties are limited to postauditing of finances and investigation of operations, the board may arrange for the city's auditor to make the audit. The audit report shall be made to the board and the chief executive officer and shall be a public record. The board may direct the chief executive officer to publish the audit report by adding to it general school statistics or it may publish general school statistics separately.
(4) If the question under section 410 is not approved in the first class school district, every action of the first class school district board creating a liability or debt or originating the disposal or expenditure of property or money shall be by yea and nay vote entered upon its record.
History: Add. 1981, Act 96, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 71, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 303, Imd. Eff. Aug. 10, 2004 Popular Name: Act 451

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