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TN Code § 49-2-1103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 11 - Contractual Joint Operation of Schools|§ 49-2-1103. Administration of Schools — Funds

  The administration of schools established, maintained and operated pursuant to a contract entered into under this part may be placed under the board of education of the county, city or special school district in which the school is located; or the administration of the schools may be placed under a board of control created pursuant to the terms of the contract.   In the event a board of control is created, it shall elect its own chair and secretary and may designate as ex officio secretary the director of schools of the county, city or special school district in which the school is located. The board of control shall exercise all the administrative powers and functions with respect to the school that county boards of education are authorized to perform and exercise with respect to the operation of county schools.   The schools may be administered by such other persons and in such other manner as the terms of the contract may provide.   The county trustee or treasurer or other fiscal or disbursing officer, as the case may be, of the county, city or special school district in which the school is located, or such other disbursing officer as may be designated by the contract, shall have the same powers, rights and duties with respect to the receipt, protection and disbursement of the funds allocated to or for the use of the school as provided by law for other school funds.
TN Code § 49-2-1104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 11 - Contractual Joint Operation of Schools|§ 49-2-1104. Assistance of State Officials

 It is the duty of the attorney general and reporter and the commissioner of education, upon the request of any county, city or special school district or the board of education of any of those, to render advice and assistance in the preparation, execution and interpretation of contracts proposed or executed under this part.
TN Code § 49-2-1203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1203. Director

  Any plan of consolidation shall provide that the consolidated board of education is authorized to designate a person experienced in public school management and supervision and possessing the qualifications required of a director of schools pursuant to § 49-2-301 as the chief administrative employee of the board, and to enter into an employment contract with such person for a period not to exceed five (5) years and for a compensation to be determined in the contract.   The person so employed shall be designated director of consolidated schools.   The consolidated board of education is authorized to assign to the director such duties and responsibilities as are necessarily, usually or properly assigned to a city director of schools or to a county director of schools.
TN Code § 49-2-1204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1204. Rights of Employees

   Any plan of consolidation shall require continuation of a local retirement system for all officers, teachers and other employees who elect to remain in the system.   The plan shall also provide:  For continuation of the local retirement system for new officers, teachers and other employees; or   For a new retirement system or coverage under the Tennessee consolidated retirement system for all new officers, teachers and other employees and those present officers, teachers and other employees who elect to be transferred to the other system.       No plan of consolidation adopted under this part shall in any way abridge, diminish or impair any tenure right or sick leave right that an officer, teacher or other employee may have earned during service in any component system.   Any plan of consolidation shall guarantee that the salary schedule under which the teachers and other employees of a component part of any consolidated school system were employed shall continue to apply for the teachers and other employees, and no such salary schedule may be lower than it was prior to consolidation. The plan shall provide that within three (3) years after the establishment of the new consolidated school system, a new salary schedule shall be established for the consolidated school system, which shall be no lower than the highest salary schedule maintained by a component part of the system prior to the establishment of the new consolidated school system.
TN Code § 49-2-1205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1205. Transitional Board

  Any plan of consolidation shall provide for a transitional school board in the event the plan makes consolidation of schools effective at a date prior to September 1 next after the general election in August when members of the consolidated board of education are to be elected.   The transitional board shall be composed of all members of the boards of education of school systems consolidated under the plan of consolidation.   The transitional board shall have all powers and duties of the permanent consolidated board, except that the transitional board shall not make an employment contract with a director of consolidated schools for a period extending beyond the date when the terms of members of the consolidated board begin.
TN Code § 49-2-1207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1207. Powers of State Regarding Consolidation

 The department of education and the commissioner of education are vested with the following powers and duties respecting the consolidation of school systems as provided in this part:   Formulate recommended policies and practices for conducting the consolidation programs;   Develop suggested methods of procedure and a manual as guides for use by the planning commissions;   Provide professional assistance in consolidation studies and development of consolidation proposals;   Appraise reports of studies made by the planning commissions and examine plans for consolidation, recommending changes or modifications where deemed desirable; and   Afford financial assistance that may be required by counties in effecting consolidation, within the limits of funds available for such purposes.
TN Code § 49-2-1208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1208. Construction

  This part is declared to be remedial legislation to be liberally construed for the purpose of increased economy and efficiency in the operation of public schools; and, after any plan of consolidation provided for in this part has become effective, no officer or agency of any constituent school system shall retain any power or duty where such retention would be inconsistent with this part or with the plan of consolidation.   Nothing in this part shall be construed to alter or repeal any other law prescribing methods and procedures, contractual, cooperative, unilateral or otherwise by which schools or school systems may be operated.
TN Code § 49-2-1252 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1252. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Unification Educational Planning Commission

   In all counties in this state there may be created a unification educational planning commission, sometimes called the “commission” in §§  49-2-1251 — 49-2-1266.   It is the duty of the planning commission to study and consider the need for and problems in conjunction with the consolidation of all county schools within the subject counties into a unified school system, and to make and file a written report as provided in this part. If the report recommends consolidation, it shall be accompanied by a proposed plan of consolidation, as provided in §§  49-2-1251 — 49-2-1266.      The county mayor, the chair of the county commission and the chair of the board of education of each county may each appoint three (3) competent citizens as members of the planning commission.   The names of all appointees, other than those made by the county mayor, shall be certified to the county mayor by the appointing authority.   The county mayor of one (1) of the counties, which one (1) shall be determined by mutual agreement of the counties, shall furnish the commissioner of education with a certified list of all members of the planning commission promptly after all appointments have been made.   The certified list, together with the appointing officials who shall be ex officio voting members, shall constitute the planning commission, subject to the right of the appointing authorities thereafter to fill any vacancies that may subsequently occur.      Within thirty (30) days after the planning commission has been constituted, its members shall hold an organizational meeting at a time and place fixed by one (1) of the county mayors, which one (1) to be determined by mutual agreement of the counties, with notice of the meeting to all members.   The planning commission shall elect a chair, a secretary and other officers as it deems necessary.   Future meetings of the planning commission shall be held at such times and places as may be determined.      Members of the planning commission shall not receive per diem or other compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred by them.   The expenses and other necessary expenses of the planning commission shall be paid from funds appropriated for those expenses by the participating counties.
TN Code § 49-2-1253 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1253. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Comprehensive Study

  The planning commission shall make a comprehensive study of the need for, issues in, and problems of consolidation of the various county school systems.   The study shall be completed and a written report made and filed with the commissioner of education within one (1) year after the first meeting of the planning commission.
TN Code § 49-2-1254 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1254. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Preparation of Consolidation Plan

   The planning commission shall be authorized to prepare a plan for the consolidation of such county school systems.   The plan as agreed upon by a majority of the planning commission shall be submitted to the department of education for appraisal.   The recommendations that the department sees fit to make shall be considered by the planning commission and the plan of consolidation may be revised in the light of the recommendations.      Before presentation of any proposed plan of consolidation to the department, the planning commission shall hold at least one (1) public hearing duly advertised at least one (1) week prior to the hearing in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in each of the counties involved.   A record shall be kept of the public hearing in each county and a copy filed with the department.     In developing any consolidation plan, the planning commission shall consider and provide for the following:  Administrative organization of the proposed consolidated system;   A method to ensure no diminution in the level of the educational service in the schools in any of the county systems involved;   Appropriate means for the transfer of all assets and liabilities, including title to all school property, real and personal, of the county systems to the consolidated system;   Plans for disposition of existing bonded indebtedness, which shall not impair the rights of any of the bond holders;   Plans for the preservation of the existing pension rights of all teachers and nonteaching personnel in the respective systems;   Plans for preserving the existing tenure rights, sick leave rights and salary schedule rights, of all teachers and nonteaching personnel in the respective systems;   Appropriate plans for contributions by counties to the consolidated system for the operation of a unified system of schools during the period of transition following consolidation, which period shall not exceed three (3) years;   Appropriate plans for reapportionment after each federal decennial census of districts for election of members of the consolidated school board; and   Any other matter deemed by the planning commission to be pertinent.
TN Code § 49-2-1255 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1255. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Consolidated Boards of Education

  Any plan of consolidation shall provide for a consolidated board of education, sometimes referred to as the “board” in §§  49-2-1251 — 49-2-1266, to be composed of nine (9) members whose terms of office shall be four (4) years.    The plan shall provide for the election of nine (9) board members by popular vote at the August general election, with the requirement that all of the board members be bona fide residents of particular districts and elected from such districts.   Members elected at the regular August election shall take office on September 1, following their elections.   The nine (9) districts shall be described by the plan, shall cover all of the counties, may cross county lines and shall be of substantially equal population.   The districts shall be apportioned after every federal decennial census, so that members of the board may continue to be elected from districts of substantially equal population.   The terms of the board members shall be  staggered as the plan may determine.     Every consolidated board of education has all powers and duties conferred by general law upon county boards of education. The board is authorized to do all things necessary or proper for the establishment, operation and maintenance of an efficient and accredited consolidated school system.
TN Code § 49-2-1256 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1256. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Director

  Any plan of consolidation shall provide that the consolidated board of education is authorized to designate a person experienced in public school management and supervision and possessing a license of qualification issued by the state board of education pursuant to § 49-2-301 as the chief administrative employee of the board, and to enter into an employment contract with that person for a period not to exceed five (5) years and for compensation to be determined in the contract.   The person so employed shall be designated director of consolidated schools.   The board is authorized to assign to the director duties and responsibilities that are necessarily, usually or properly assigned to a county director of schools.
TN Code § 49-2-1257 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1257. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Approval or Rejection of Plan

  Where the planning commission has submitted a plan of consolidation to the department of education and has thereafter approved the plan, the proposed plan of consolidation shall be submitted to the governing bodies of the counties involved.   Before taking action upon the proposed plan, each of the governing bodies shall hold at least one (1) public hearing duly advertised one (1) week or more prior to the hearing, in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation throughout the county.   Subsequent to the public hearing, each governing body shall consider and act upon the proposed plan of consolidation at its next regular meeting.   The governing body is authorized to:  Approve the proposed plan of consolidation; or   Disapprove the proposed plan of consolidation.     Where the governing bodies of all the counties have disapproved the proposed plan of consolidation, the proposed plan of consolidation shall be deemed rejected and finally disposed of.   Whenever a plan of consolidation has been approved by all counties involved, a copy of the plan of consolidation shall be delivered to the consolidated school board.
TN Code § 49-2-1258 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1258. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Issuance of Bonds

 Any consolidated board of education created under §§ 49-2-1251 — 49-2-1266 has the authority to issue bonds as a separate and independent local government under the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986, compiled in title 9, chapter 21.
TN Code § 49-2-1259 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1259. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Audit of Boards

 Consolidated boards of education shall be subject to the audit provisions of § 49-2-112.
TN Code § 49-2-1260 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1260. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Adoption of Local Option Sales Tax Rate

 Prior to or in conjunction with the adoption of a multi-county school system, the counties that adopt a multi-county school system shall adopt the same local option sales tax rate and distribute according to law.
TN Code § 49-2-1261 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1261. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Budgeting, Fiscal and Purchasing Procedures

  A multi-county school system created pursuant to this part shall budget according to the County Budgeting Law of 1957, compiled in title 5, chapter 12, part 1.(b)   The school system shall follow the fiscal procedures of the County Fiscal Procedure Law of 1957, compiled in title 5, chapter 13.(c)   The school system shall follow the purchasing process of the County Purchasing Law of 1957, compiled in title 5, chapter 14, part 1.
TN Code § 49-2-1262 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1262. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Funding Bonus

 To aid in the offset of the expenses incurred in the consolidation process, the state shall supplement combining systems with a five percent (5%) funding bonus for the first five (5) years of the existence of the combined system. This five percent (5%) bonus shall be over and above the funds received from the state under this title. Funds distributed under this title for administrative purposes shall continue to be distributed as if each school system were still a separate entity.
TN Code § 49-2-1263 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1263. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Powers and Duties of Department of Education

 The department of education and the commissioner of education are vested with the following powers and duties respecting the consolidation of school systems:   Formulate recommended policies and practices for conducting the consolidation programs;   Develop suggested methods of procedure and a manual as guides for use by the planning commissions;   Provide professional assistance in consolidation studies and development of consolidation proposals;   Appraise reports of studies made by the planning commissions and examine plans for consolidation, recommending changes or modifications where deemed desirable; and   Afford financial assistance that may be required by counties in effecting consolidation, within limits of funds available for such purposes.
TN Code § 49-2-1264 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1264. Multi-County Consolidated School Systems — Participation by Municipal or Special School Districts

  Any municipal or special school district within a county contemplating consolidation may participate in the consolidation process. The municipal or special school district shall notify the county commission of their respective county of their wish to consolidate with the county systems.   The chair of the board of education of each municipal or special school district may appoint three (3) competent citizens as members of the consolidation planning commission. The chair of the respective boards of education shall be ex officio voting members of the commission.   If the municipal or special school district wishes to withdraw from the consolidation process, it may do so at any time prior to submittal of the plan to the local governing bodies.
TN Code § 49-2-1265 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1265. Multi-County Consolidated School System — Property Tax

  In addition to any other tax applicable to property located within the consolidated school district created pursuant to this part, there shall be levied a property tax sufficient to fund the consolidated school district. The tax rate shall be set by the general assembly by private act.   The board of education of the consolidated school district shall have the authority to set the tax rate lower than that imposed by any private act setting a tax rate for the school district, but shall not have the power to impose a tax in excess of any statutory levy nor shall it have the power to lower any special levy assessed for the purpose of bond repayment. In order to change the rate of taxation, the board must certify, on or before September 1, to the county trustees the new school district tax rate not to exceed the rate imposed by the legislative act, and the county trustees shall collect the taxes based on the rates so certified.
TN Code § 49-2-1266 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 12 - Consolidation of Systems|§ 49-2-1266. Construction of §§ 49-2-1251 — 49-2-1265

  Sections 49-2-1251 — 49-2-1265 are declared to be remedial legislation to be liberally interpreted for the purpose of increased economy and efficiency in the operation of public schools and after any plan of consolidation provided for shall become effective, no officer or agency of any constituent school system shall retain any power or duty where such retention would be inconsistent with §§ 49-2-1251 — 49-2-1265 or with the plan of consolidation.   Nothing in §§ 49-2-1251 — 49-2-1265 shall be construed to alter or repeal any other law prescribing methods and procedures, contractual, cooperative, unilateral or otherwise by which schools or school systems may be operated.
TN Code § 49-2-1301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 13 - Educational Cooperation Act|§ 49-2-1301. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Educational Cooperation Act.”
TN Code § 49-2-1302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 2 - Local Administration|Part 13 - Educational Cooperation Act|§ 49-2-1302. Purpose

 It is the purpose of this part to permit local governmental units and boards of education the most efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with other localities on a basis of mutual advantage and to thereby provide educational services and facilities in a manner that will accord best with geographic, economic, population and other factors influencing the needs and development of local educational facilities and services.