1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.30 Sec.4

In the event the qualified electors of Chowan County by a majority of those voting, shall approve this Act by a special election or referendum or as hereinafter provided, the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall on the first Monday of the month following the certification of the results of the special election or referendum assume the authority and shall control, operate and administer public schools of Chowan County, including those public schools located and situated in the City Administrative Unit. In the event the majority of the electors of Chowan County voting in an election or referendum which shall be held as authorized and directed by the Board of Commissioners of Chowan County shall approve the provisions of this Act, then the Interim EdentonChowan Board of Education shall assume authority and shall control, operate and administer public schools of Chowan County, including the 75 schools located in the City Administrative Unit, and shall begin such public school administration on the first Monday of the month following the certification of the results of the special election or referendum. The Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall consist of the members of the City Board and the County Board acting jointly and by a majority of all members present, and the members of said Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall elect their own Chairman and Vice Chairman to preside at meetings, and the Chairman and Vice Chairman shall have a vote on all matters considered by the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education but shall have no authority to vote to create a tie and then again vote to break the tie. All vacancies in the membership of the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education, should the total number of Board members become less than seven during the interim period, shall be filled by the remaining members of the said Interim Board to complete the term remaining in the interim period. The Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall have power and authority to prepare and submit to the Board of County Commissioners all necessary budgets, including supplemental budgets and at the time required by law shall prepare and submit to the Board of Commissioners all necessary capital outlay, debt service, current expense budgets, including proper notice to the Board of Commissioners to include any supplemental tax with all other taxes to be levied by the Board of Commissioners for school purposes. The Board of Commissioners may approve or disapprove all budgets, in whole or in part, and shall levy such taxes as are necessary to provide for the approved budget, including the supplemental purposes, not exceeding the amount of the tax levy authorized by vote of the people. The Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall expend all funds in conformity with the approved budgets, and in the event of a disagreement between the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education and the Board of Commissioners as to the amount of the supplemental tax levy to be made or as to any budgetary items, such disagreement shall be resolved by the procedure provided by the General Statutes of North Carolina in Section 115-87 and Section 115-88. For the period of time in which its authority is exercised the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall exercise all the powers and duties that can and may be exercised by City and County Boards of Education as provided by Chapter 115 of the General Statutes as amended, and as the same may be hereafter revised and amended. When the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall assume authority as herein provided in this Act, all authority and power of the City Board and County Board shall cease and terminate, and the same shall be vested in the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education. The Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education is authorized and empowered to employ a Superintendent, Associate Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent, and to employ all necessary principals, teachers, clerical assistants, janitors, maids, and all other necessary school employees and personnel as now provided by the Public School Law, provided that no present employee of the Edenton City or Chowan County Board of Education shall lose his employment or be lowered in salary because of the provisions of this merger. In the event the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board 76 of Education shall assume power and authority to administer the public school system of the County of Chowan, including the public schools of the City Administrative Unit, then its power and authority for such purposes shall cease and terminate on January 1, 1971, when the EdentonChowan Board of Education shall assume authority and its members take office as herein provided.