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State Board adopts procedures for nominating School Land Board and TRS candidates; sets June 6 deadline
Summary
The State Board of Education approved procedures for compiling nomination lists to send to the governor for two School Land Board seats and for a Teacher Retirement System trustee seat. Procedures require two lists of six for each School Land Board appointment (one list must include a candidate from a county under 200,000 population), set a June 6
The State Board of Education adopted procedures for selecting nominees to send to the governor for appointment to two School Land Board seats and for one upcoming Teacher Retirement System (TRS) board seat.
Chair Maynard and staff outlined the procedures and related documents. For the School Land Board, the procedures call for two lists of six candidates for each gubernatorial appointment that the board provides; by statute one candidate on a list must be from a county with fewer than 200,000 residents. Seats on the School Land Board have two-year terms; staff said the board historically provided lists at two-year intervals and that two current SBOE-nominated members (David Eiler and Brad Curley) are on existing lists and may be renominated.
Staff described desired qualifications for School Land Board nominees as primarily financial and real-estate expertise (roughly an 80/20 split favoring finance/real-estate experience over public-education engagement). The procedures list disqualifying conditions, including incompatibility for current school-district trustees or superintendents and for certain lobbyists or paid consultants in oil, gas or mining trade associations.
For the TRS trustee nomination, staff said TRS terms are six years and that the board provides a pool rather than a mandated number of candidates. TRS nominees should demonstrate financial and investment expertise, with preference for investment experience in pension funds or endowments. Staff said the deadline for candidate submissions to the board is June 6; candidates must submit a resume and a supplemental information sheet for the board's review. Staff's role will be to compile qualifications and flag statutory disqualifications for the committee; the committee then will produce lists for full-board approval at the June meeting.
Staff noted additional procedural items: the board can amend committee-produced lists before sending them to the governor provided substitutions are among applicants who submitted materials; nominees appointed by the governor may be asked to complete the governor's application and could face Senate confirmation processes for interim appointments; and ethics/financial-disclosure questions may be part of the governor's application process and will be clarified by staff on request.
After discussion, the committee approved separate motions to adopt the procedures for the School Land Board nominee lists and for TRS trustee nominations. The motions were seconded and carried by voice votes; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript.
