PCSSD board adopts Act 503-related policy changes, selects six-year terms and approves budget resolution

Pulaski County Special School District trustees on July 8 approved a package of policy changes to comply with Act 503, set future board-member terms at six years for newly elected members, approved a preliminary budget resolution and designated a board member to cast the district's required November millage ballot.

Board Chair Delaney opened the new-business discussion with an overview of the state law changes: "Act 503 ... says that all school elections have to be on even years now," he said, explaining why the district needed several policy revisions and two resolutions to meet new election timing and millage requirements.

Why it matters: Act 503 moved school board elections to even-numbered years and removed November as a regular election date, forcing districts to revise policies that referenced old election timing and term lengths. PCSSD must still publish a preliminary budget and satisfy an annual millage requirement despite the election-date changes; the board approved a special process that permits a single…