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IA Code § 260C.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.12 - Directors of merged area.

260C.12 Directors of merged area.   1. The board of directors of the merged area shall organize at the first regular meeting following the regular school election or at a special meeting called by the secretary of the board to organize the board in advance of the first regular meeting after the canvass for the regular school election. Organization of the board shall be effected by the election of a president and other officers from the board membership as board members determine. The board of directors shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer who shall each give bond as prescribed in section 291.2 and who shall each receive the salary determined by the board. The secretary and treasurer shall perform duties under chapter 291 and additional duties the board of directors deems necessary. However, the board may appoint one person to serve as the secretary and treasurer. If one person serves as the secretary and treasurer, only one bond is necessary for that person. The frequency of meetings other than organizational meetings shall be as determined by the board of directors but the president or a majority of the members may call a special meeting at any time.   2. Members of the board, other than the secretary and the treasurer, shall be allowed their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties and may be eligible to receive per diem compensation.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.13; 82 Acts, ch 1039, §1, ch 1086, §1]  C83, §280A.12  90 Acts, ch 1253, §28  C93, §260C.12  2008 Acts, ch 1115, §3, 21; 2017 Acts, ch 155, §2, 9, 10; 2019 Acts, ch 148, §53  Referred to in §273.8, 291.2
IA Code § 260C.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.13 - Director districts.

260C.13 Director districts.   1. The board of a merged area may change the number of directors on the board and shall make corresponding changes in the boundaries of director districts. Changes shall be completed not later than August 1 of the year of the regular school election. As soon as possible after adoption of the boundary changes, notice of changes in the director district boundaries shall be submitted by the merged area to the county commissioner of elections in all counties included in whole or in part in the merged area.   2. The board of the merged area shall redraw boundary lines of director districts in the merged area after each federal decennial census.   3. Boundary lines of director districts shall be drawn according to the following standards:   a. All boundaries shall follow precinct boundaries or school director district boundaries unless a merged area director district boundary follows the boundary of a school district which divides one or more election precincts.   b. To the extent possible in order to comply with paragraph “a”, all districts shall be as nearly equal as practicable to the ideal population for the districts as determined by dividing the number of districts to be established into the population of the merged area.   c. All districts shall be composed of contiguous territory as compact as practicable.   d. Consideration shall not be given to the addresses of incumbent officeholders, political affiliations of registered voters, previous election results, or demographic information other than population head counts, except as required by the Constitution and the laws of the United States.   e. A city shall not be divided into two or more director districts unless the population of that portion of the city that is within the merged area is greater than the ideal size of a director district. Cities shall be divided into the smallest number of director districts possible.   4. If more than one incumbent officeholder resides in a district redrawn during reprecincting, their terms of office expire after the next regular school election.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §280A.23(2); C79, §280A.28, 280A.30; C81, §280A.28, 280A.29; 82 Acts, ch 1136, §9]  C83, §280A.13  C93, §260C.13  94 Acts, ch 1179, §14, 15; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §4, 21; 2010 Acts, ch 1033, §33, 34; 2017 Acts, ch 155, §3, 9, 10  Referred to in §39.24
IA Code § 260C.14A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.14A - Limitation on authority — nonprojectile high-voltage pulse weapons designed to immobilize.

260C.14A Limitation on authority — nonprojectile high-voltage pulse weapons designed to immobilize.   The board of directors of a community college shall comply with the requirements of section 724.8A regarding policies and rules relating to the carrying, transportation, or possession of a dangerous weapon that directs an electric current, impulse, wave, or beam that produces a high-voltage pulse designed to immobilize a person in the buildings or on the grounds of the community college, as long as such a dangerous weapon does not generate a projectile that directs an electric current, impulse, wave, or beam that produces a high-voltage pulse designed to immobilize a person, and such a dangerous weapon is not used in the commission of a public offense.  2019 Acts, ch 94, §1
IA Code § 260C.16 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.16 - Status of merged area.

260C.16 Status of merged area.   1. A merged area formed under the provisions of this chapter shall be a body politic as a school corporation for the purpose of exercising powers granted under this chapter, and as such may sue and be sued, hold property, and exercise all the powers granted by law and such other powers as are incident to public corporations of like character and are not inconsistent with the laws of the state.   2. The boundary lines of a merged area may divide a school district.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.4, 280A.16; 82 Acts, ch 1136, §8]  C93, §260C.16
IA Code § 260C.17 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.17 - Preparation and approval of budget — tax.

260C.17 Preparation and approval of budget — tax.   1. The board of directors of each merged area shall prepare an annual budget designating the proposed expenditures for operation of the community college. The board shall further designate the amounts which are to be raised by local taxation and the amounts which are to be raised by other sources of revenue for the operation. The budget of each merged area shall be submitted to the state board no later than May 1 preceding the next fiscal year for approval. The state board shall review the proposed budget and shall, prior to June 1, either grant its approval or return the budget without approval with the comments of the state board attached to it. Any unapproved budget shall be resubmitted to the state board for final approval. Upon approval of the budget by the state board, the board of directors shall certify the amount to the respective county auditors and the boards of supervisors annually shall levy a tax of twenty and one-fourth cents per thousand dollars of assessed value on taxable property in a merged area for the operation of a community college. Taxes collected pursuant to the levy shall be paid by the respective county treasurers to the treasurer of the merged area as provided in section 331.552, subsection 29.   2. It is the policy of this state that the property tax for the operation of community colleges shall not in any event exceed twenty and one-fourth cents per thousand dollars of assessed value, and that the present and future costs of such operation in excess of the funds raised by such levy shall be the responsibility of the state and shall not be paid from property tax.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.17]  84 Acts, ch 1003, §2; 90 Acts, ch 1253, §29  C93, §260C.17  Referred to in §260C.22, 260C.34, 260C.38, 331.512
IA Code § 260C.18 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.18 - Other funds received.

260C.18 Other funds received.   In addition to revenue derived by tax levy, a board of directors of a merged area shall be authorized to receive and expend:   1. Federal funds made available and administered by the director of the department of education, for purposes provided by federal laws, rules, and regulations.   2. Other federal funds for such purposes as provided by federal law, subject to the approval of the director.   3. Tuition in accordance with section 260C.14, subsection 2.   4. State aid and supplemental state aid to be paid in accordance with the statutes which provide such aid.   5. State funds for sites and facilities made available and administered by the director.   6. Donations and gifts which may be accepted by the governing board and expended in accordance with the terms of the gift without compliance with the local budget law, chapter 24.   7. Student fees collected from students for activities, laboratory breakage, instructional materials, and other objects and purposes for which student fees other than tuition are customarily charged by colleges and universities, as provided in a schedule of fees adopted by the area board of directors. The expenditure of funds collected from students for activities shall be determined by the student government unit with administrative and board approval. Any increases in student fees for activities shall be determined by the student government unit with administrative and board approval.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.18]  86 Acts, ch 1245, §1469  C93, §260C.18  96 Acts, ch 1215, §27; 2004 Acts, ch 1086, §55  Referred to in §260C.34, 260C.38
IA Code § 260C.18B (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.18B - Community college budget review.

260C.18B Community college budget review.   1. a. A community college budget review procedure is established for the school budget review committee created in section 257.30. The school budget review committee, in addition to its duties under chapter 257, shall meet and hold hearings each year under this chapter to review unusual circumstances of community colleges, either upon the committee’s motion or upon the request of a community college. The committee may grant supplemental state aid to the community college from funds appropriated to the department of education for community college budget review purposes.   b. Unusual circumstances shall include but not be limited to the following:   (1) An unusual increase or decrease in enrollment or contact hours.   (2) Natural disasters.   (3) Unusual staffing problems.   (4) Unusual necessity for additional funds to permit continuance of a course or program in an instructional cost center which provides substantial benefit to students.   (5) Unusual need for a new course or program in an instructional cost center which will provide substantial benefit to students, if the community college establishes the need and the amount of necessary increased cost.   (6) Unique problems of community colleges to include vandalism, civil disobedience, and other costs incurred by community colleges.   2. When the school budget review committee makes a decision under subsection 1, it shall provide written notice of its decision, including the amount of supplemental state aid approved, to the board of directors of the community college and to the department of education.   3. All decisions by the school budget review committee under this chapter shall be made in accordance with reasonable and uniform policies which shall be consistent with this chapter.   4. Failure by a community college to provide information or appear before the school budget review committee as requested for the accomplishment of review or hearing constitutes justification for the committee to instruct the department of administrative services to withhold supplemental state aid to that community college until the committee’s inquiries are satisfied completely.  96 Acts, ch 1215, §29; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286; 2010 Acts, ch 1061, §180  Referred to in §257.31, 260C.34, 260C.49
IA Code § 260C.18D (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.18D - Instructor salary distribution formula.

260C.18D Instructor salary distribution formula.   1. Distribution formula. Moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the department for community college instructor salaries shall be distributed among each community college based on the proportion that the number of full-time equivalent instructors employed by a community college bears to the sum of the number of full-time equivalent eligible instructors who are employed by all community colleges in the state for the base year. The state board shall define “eligible full-time equivalent instructor” by rule.   2. Base funding allocation. Moneys distributed to each community college under subsection 1 shall be included in the base funding allocation for all future years. The use of the funds shall remain as described in this section for all future years.   3. Purposes supplemental. Moneys appropriated and distributed to community colleges under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant any approved faculty salary increases or negotiated agreements, excluding the distribution of the funds in this section.   4. Eligible instructors. Moneys distributed to a community college under this section shall be allocated to all full-time, nonadministrative instructors and part-time instructors covered by a collective bargaining agreement. The moneys shall be allocated by negotiated agreements according to chapter 20. If no language exists, the moneys shall be allocated equally to all full-time, nonadministrative instructors with part-time instructors covered by a collective bargaining agreement receiving a prorated share of the fund.   5. Evenly divided payments. A community college receiving funds distributed pursuant to this section shall determine the amount to be paid to instructors in accordance with subsection 4 and the amount determined to be paid to an individual instructor shall be divided evenly and paid in each pay period of the fiscal year.   6. Reductions. Moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the department for community college instructor salaries are not subject to a uniform reduction in accordance with section 8.31.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §26; 2009 Acts, ch 177, §23; 2010 Acts, ch 1183, §22, 43  Referred to in §260C.18C  Definitions applicable, see §260C.18C
IA Code § 260C.19 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.19 - Acquisition of sites and buildings.

260C.19 Acquisition of sites and buildings.   Boards of directors of merged areas may acquire sites and erect and equip buildings for use by community colleges and may contract indebtedness and issue bonds to raise funds for such purposes.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.19]  90 Acts, ch 1253, §30  C93, §260C.19  Referred to in §260C.20, 260C.21, 260C.34, 260C.57
IA Code § 260C.19A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.19A - Motor vehicles required to operate on alternative fuels.

260C.19A Motor vehicles required to operate on alternative fuels.   1. A motor vehicle purchased by or used under the direction of the board of directors to provide services to a merged area shall not operate on gasoline other than ethanol blended gasoline as defined in section 214A.1. The motor vehicle shall also be affixed with a brightly visible sticker which notifies the traveling public that the motor vehicle is being operated on ethanol blended gasoline. However, the sticker is not required to be affixed to an unmarked vehicle used for purposes of providing law enforcement or security.   2. a. Of all new passenger vehicles and light pickup trucks purchased by or under the direction of the board of directors to provide services to a merged area, a minimum of ten percent of all such vehicles and trucks purchased shall be equipped with engines which utilize alternative methods of propulsion, including but not limited to any of the following:   (1) A flexible fuel which is any of the following:   (a) E-85 gasoline as provided in section 214A.2.   (b) B-20 biodiesel blended fuel as provided in section 214A.2.   (c) A renewable fuel approved by the office of renewable fuels and coproducts pursuant to section 159A.3.   (2) Compressed or liquefied natural gas.   (3) Propane gas.   (4) Solar energy.   (5) Electricity.   b. The provisions of this subsection do not apply to vehicles and trucks purchased and directly used for law enforcement or off-road maintenance work.  91 Acts, ch 254, §17  CS91, §280A.19A  C93, §260C.19A  93 Acts, ch 26, §3; 94 Acts, ch 1119, §25; 2006 Acts, ch 1142, §61, 62; 2007 Acts, ch 22, §61
IA Code § 260C.19B (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.19B - Purchase of biobased hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants.

260C.19B Purchase of biobased hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants.   Hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants purchased by or used under the direction of the board of directors to provide services to a merged area shall be purchased in compliance with the preference requirements for purchasing biobased hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants as provided pursuant to section 8A.316.  98 Acts, ch 1082, §4; 2000 Acts, ch 1109, §4; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §227; 2011 Acts, ch 25, §21
IA Code § 260C.19C (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.19C - Purchase of designated biobased products.

260C.19C Purchase of designated biobased products.   The board of directors providing services to a merged area shall give preference to purchasing designated biobased products in the same manner as provided in section 8A.317.  2008 Acts, ch 1104, §4
IA Code § 260C.20 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.20 - Payment of bonds.

260C.20 Payment of bonds.   Taxes for the payment of bonds issued under section 260C.19 shall be levied in accordance with chapter 76. The bonds shall be payable from a fund created from the proceeds of the taxes in not more than twenty years and bear interest at a rate not exceeding the rate permitted by chapter 74A, and shall be of the form as the board issuing the bonds shall by resolution provide. Any indebtedness incurred shall not be considered an indebtedness incurred for general and ordinary purposes.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.20]  83 Acts, ch 188, §2  C93, §260C.20
IA Code § 260C.21 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.21 - Election to incur indebtedness.

260C.21 Election to incur indebtedness.   No indebtedness shall be incurred under section 260C.19 until authorized by an election. A proposition to incur indebtedness and issue bonds for community college purposes shall be deemed carried in a merged area if approved by a sixty percent majority of all voters voting on the proposition in the area. However, if the costs of utilities are paid by a community college with funds derived from the levy authorized under section 260C.22, the community college may use the general fund moneys that would have been used to pay the costs of utilities for capital expenditures, may invest the funds, or may incur indebtedness without an election, provided that the payments on the indebtedness incurred, and any interest on the indebtedness, can be made using general funds of the community college and the total payments on the principal and interest on the indebtedness do not exceed the amount of the costs of the utilities.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.21]  90 Acts, ch 1253, §31  C93, §260C.21
IA Code § 260C.24 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.24 - Payment of appropriations.

260C.24 Payment of appropriations.   Payment of appropriations for distribution under this chapter, or of appropriations made in lieu of such appropriations, shall be made by the department of administrative services in monthly installments due on or about the fifteenth of each month of a budget year, and installments shall be as nearly equal as possible, as determined by the department of administrative services, taking into consideration the relative budget and cash position of the state resources.  95 Acts, ch 218, §18; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286
IA Code § 260C.31 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.31 - Auxiliary enterprises.

260C.31 Auxiliary enterprises.   1. The board of directors may expend profits from auxiliary enterprises of community colleges for services and equipment which includes but is not limited to tutoring services, scholarships, grants, furniture, fixtures and equipment for noninstructional student use, and support of intramural and intercollegiate athletics.   2. For the purpose of this section:   a. “Auxiliary enterprises” means self-supporting services provided at the community college for which fees or charges are paid, and includes but is not limited to food services, college stores, student unions, institutionally operated vending services, recreational activities, faculty clubs, laundries, parking facilities, and intercollegiate athletics.   b. “Profits from auxiliary enterprises” means the difference between the total fees or charges collected for auxiliary enterprises and the expenditures by the community college for the auxiliary enterprises.  [C81, §280A.31]  90 Acts, ch 1253, §39  C93, §260C.31  2010 Acts, ch 1061, §180
IA Code § 260C.32 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.32 - Trusts.

260C.32 Trusts.   The board of a merged area may accept and administer trusts and may authorize nonprofit foundations acting solely for the support of the community college to accept and administer trusts deemed by the board to be beneficial to the operation of the community college. Notwithstanding section 633.63, the board and the nonprofit foundations may act as trustees in these instances. The board shall require that moneys belonging to a nonprofit foundation are audited annually.  [82 Acts, ch 1121, §1]  C83, §280A.32  90 Acts, ch 1253, §40  C93, §260C.32
IA Code § 260C.33 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.33 - Joint action with board of regents.

260C.33 Joint action with board of regents. Repealed by 93 Acts, ch 82, §10 – 12. See §260C.4.
IA Code § 260C.34 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 260C - COMMUNITY COLLEGES|Section 260C.34 - Uses of funds.

260C.34 Uses of funds.   Funds obtained pursuant to section 260C.17; section 260C.18, subsections 3, 4, and 5; and sections 260C.18B, 260C.19, and 260C.22 shall not be used for the construction or maintenance of athletic buildings or grounds but may be used for a project under section 260C.56.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.34]  91 Acts, ch 267, §241  C93, §260C.34  96 Acts, ch 1215, §32; 96 Acts, ch 1215, §58