Opinion ID: 1198621
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Heading: school board approval.

Text: The trial court ruled that the Denver School Board, by approving addition of the entire 2,429 acre Grant Farm to its school district, did not effectively approve annexation of the 441 acre first stage. Denver claims this ruling constituted error. We agree. In 1967 the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965 [1] was amended to prohibit annexation petitions and elections which would result in detaching territory from one school district and attaching it to another school district unless accompanied by a resolution of the board of directors of the school district to which such territory will be attached, approving such annexation.1967 Perm. Supp., C.R.S.1963, 139-21-4(5). [2] It seems obvious that in enacting this addition, the General Assembly intended to empower school boards to protect themselves against having involuntarily to undertake responsibility for providing educational services in newly annexed areas. Here the school board's consent to the 2,429 acre annexation includes a consent to the 441 acre annexation. In substance the school board consented to the first stage of the annexation by having consented to the entire two-stage transaction. [3]