The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-07-08
Date of Annual
School Meeting
Is Changed
LAW STATES MEETING SHALL
BE HELD ON EVENING OF
THIRD TUESDAY IN JULY:
CANDIDATES HAVE IL DAYS.

Annual school elections in the
State of Minnesota will be held this
year for the first time on the third
Tuesday evening of July instead of on
the third Saturday evening as has
been customary for many years. This
change was brought about by the re-
vision and amendment of the State
School Laws dealing with this matter.
The date this year is Tuesday July
21st and according to .he law, the
time of the meeting is set for seven
o'clock.
Two members of the Redwood Falls
Board of Education complete their
terms of service on the above date
and they must be reelected or their
successors elected. The two MEM
bers are Mrs. T. E. Finn and O. B.
Sparks. Names Of candidates to fill
the vacancies caused by the expira-
tion Of these terms must be filed not
more than thirty nor less than twelve
days prior to the date of the annual
meeting.
The amended and revised sections
of the state law which deal with
these two matters of date of elec-
tion and time of filing are quoted as
follows.
Section 1. That Section 271O
General Statutes 1913, is amended to
read as follows:
"2710. The annual meeting of all
common and independent districts
shall be held on the third Tuesday in
July, at z o'clock P. NJ, unless a diff
ferent hour has been fixed at the
preceding meeting, upon ten days.
posted notice given by the clerk, and
specifying the matters to come be-
fore the meeting, but failure of the
clerk to give such notice, or to spec
ify the business to be transacted
thereat, shall not affect the validity
of any business, except the raising Of
money to build or purchase school
house, the authorizing of an issue of
bonds, the fixing of schoolhouse
site, the organization as an indepen-
dent district, or the change from an
Independent to a common district,
The boards Of education or trustees
in special school districts may fix the
time of the annual meeting, when so
authorized by vote of the district:
Provided, that the polls at all school
meetings shall be held open at least
one hour.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's
passage. -. 49,,
Approved April 8, 1925.
CHAPTER 295-H. F. No. 626.
Section 1. That Section 2799 Of
the General Statutes OF Minnesota
for 1928, be amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 2799. Any person desiring
to be a candidate for a school dis
trict office at the annual meeting Of
such district shall file with the clerk
Of such district an application to be
placed on the ballot for such office
or any five (5) voters of the district
may file such application for or on
behalf of any qualified voter in the
district that they desire shall be such
candidate. Such applications shall
be filed not more than thirty (30)
days nor less than twelve (12) days
before the annual school district
meeting. The clerk of the district in
his notice of annual meeting shall
state the names of the candidates for
whom applications have been filed,
failure to do so, however, shall not
affect the validity OF the election
thereafter held. The clerk shall pre-
pare at the expense of the district,
necessary ballots for the election of
officers, placing thereon The names
Of the proposed candidates for such
office, and with blank space after
such names, and such ballots shall be
substantially prepared as are ballots
for general elections; such ballots
shall be marked and signed as Off
cial ballots and which said ballots so
prepared by the clerk OF the said
district shall be used to the exclusion
of all other ballots at suci, annual
school meeting in the election of of
ficers OF said district; provided that
nothing in this act shall apply to or
affect school district employing but
on. teache,.
Approved April 81, 1925.