Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 28A.315 - Organization and Reorganization of School Districts.
28A.315.221 - Financial oversight committee—Membership—Review of financially insolvent districts—Enhanced financial monitoring—Rules.

RCW 28A.315.221
Financial oversight committee—Membership—Review of financially insolvent districts—Enhanced financial monitoring—Rules.

(1) The superintendent of public instruction shall convene a financial oversight committee:
(a) At the request of the board of directors of a financially insolvent district;
(b) When the superintendent of public instruction determines a district is financially insolvent, after first consulting with the educational service district where the district is located and notifying the district the committee will be convened; or
(c) When a district has been on binding conditions pursuant to RCW 28A.505.110 for two consecutive years and does not have a satisfactory financial plan.
(2) The financial oversight committee comprises two representatives from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, one representative from an educational service district where a financially insolvent school district is not located, and one nonvoting representative from the educational service district where the financially insolvent school district is located.
(3) The financial oversight committee shall review the financial condition of a financially insolvent school district. In conducting its review, the committee shall hold a public hearing in the financially insolvent school district or educational service district in order to receive public comment on any proposed financial plans. If the financial oversight committee feels that dissolution of the financially insolvent school district is a valid option, it shall receive input at the public hearing on options for dissolving said school district.
(4) After holding a public hearing as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the financial oversight committee must make a recommendation to the superintendent of public instruction to either dissolve a financially insolvent school district or to place a district under enhanced financial monitoring to reduce the risk of dissolution due to insolvency. The superintendent of public instruction must implement financial oversight committee recommendations via enhanced financial oversight, which will be monitored by the educational service district.
(5) Enhanced financial oversight may include, but is not limited to, the following types of actions, which the superintendent of public instruction is expressly authorized to implement and enforce:
(a) Appointment of a special administrator to oversee and carry out financial conditions imposed on the district as recommended by the financial oversight committee;
(b) Review, approval, and limitations on a school district's authority to enter into contracts;
(c) Review, approval, and limitations on hiring and personnel actions; and
(d) Liquidation or disposition of fixed assets and contractual liabilities by any reasonable and documented method provided the liquidation or disposition of fixed assets and contractual liabilities is reasonably necessary before filing a dissolution petition.
(6) Any new, amended, or renewed contract entered into by a school district that is subject to enhanced financial monitoring that has not been approved by the educational service district or special administrator, or that is inconsistent with conditions imposed on the district pursuant to this section, is null and void.
(7) Any action taken by a school district subject to enhanced financial monitoring that is likely to affect the district's finances is null and void if the action was not approved by the educational service district or special administrator or if the action is inconsistent with conditions imposed on the district pursuant to this section.
(8) The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules to carry out the provisions in this section, which may include, but are not limited to, identifying the responsibilities and authority of the financial oversight committee, the educational service district, the special administrator, and the school district and the implementation of enhanced financial oversight.

[ 2012 c 186 § 8.]
NOTES:

Effective date—2012 c 186: See note following RCW 28A.315.025.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 28A - Common School Provisions

Chapter 28A.315 - Organization and Reorganization of School Districts.

28A.315.005 - Governance structure.

28A.315.015 - Purpose—Policy.

28A.315.025 - Definitions.

28A.315.035 - Organization of school districts.

28A.315.045 - Reorganization.

28A.315.055 - Conflicting or incorrectly described school district boundaries.

28A.315.065 - District boundary changes—Filing with county auditor.

28A.315.085 - Personnel and supplies—Reimbursement.

28A.315.095 - Regional committees—Powers and duties.

28A.315.105 - Regional committees—Appointment and terms of members—New regional committees.

28A.315.115 - Regional committees—Membership limitation.

28A.315.155 - Regional committees—Members' expenses reimbursed.

28A.315.165 - Regional committees—Organization, meetings, quorum.

28A.315.175 - Superintendent of public instruction—Powers and duties.

28A.315.185 - Annual training.

28A.315.195 - Transfer of territory by petition—Requirements—Rules.

28A.315.199 - Transfer of territory or dissolution of financially insolvent school district by petition—Notification to affected districts—Mediation—Request for hearing—Notification to regional committee—Costs.

28A.315.205 - Transfer of territory or dissolution by petition—Regional committee responsibilities—Rules—Appeals.

28A.315.215 - Transfer of territory or annexation of financially insolvent district by agreement or order—Approval—Order—Previously approved and imposed excess tax levies.

28A.315.221 - Financial oversight committee—Membership—Review of financially insolvent districts—Enhanced financial monitoring—Rules.

28A.315.225 - Dissolution and annexation of certain districts—Dissolution of financially insolvent districts—Annexation of nondistrict property.

28A.315.229 - Employment contracts and collective bargaining agreements in dissolved financially insolvent districts.

28A.315.235 - Consolidation—Petition.

28A.315.245 - Adjustment of assets and liabilities.

28A.315.255 - Adjustment of indebtedness.

28A.315.265 - Adjustment of bonded indebtedness—Order—Special elections.

28A.315.275 - Notice of elections.

28A.315.285 - Special election—Determination—Order—Certification.

28A.315.295 - Rejection of proposal.

28A.315.305 - School district organizational changes—Corporate existence—Payment of bonded indebtedness—Levy authority—Levy requirements for dissolved or annexed financially insolvent school districts.

28A.315.308 - School district organization changes—Adjustment of school district assets and liabilities—School districts in two or more educational service districts.

28A.315.311 - Validation of proceedings to effect dissolution, annexation, consolidation, or transfer of territory between districts.

28A.315.315 - Appeal.

28A.315.325 - Condensed compliance reports—Second-class districts.

28A.315.902 - Rule-making authority—2012 c 186.