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Mapleton SD 32 board approves single-district charter proposal and contract
Summary
The Mapleton SD 32 board voted to approve a single-district charter proposal and an accompanying contract after staff circulated a draft and made a small set of edits, including nonprofit dissolution language. The board recorded unanimous affirmative votes during the June 25 meeting.
The Mapleton SD 32 board voted to approve a single-district charter proposal and its related contract during a June 25 board meeting, with the board recording unanimous affirmative votes in the roll call.
A staff member who prepared the materials told the board she had posted the charter-plan draft to ParentSquare and Facebook and emailed it to full staff but received "0 responses," and she walked the group through the templates and sample contract language she used. "So I can move to accept the single district charter proposal and contract," said a board member who made the motion; another participant seconded and the board voted in favor.
Why it matters: approving the proposal and contract allows staff to finalize documents for submission to the state education office (the presenter said the charter plan draft is the document the board likely must file with ODE). The staff member said she adapted templates and examples from other charter documents to produce a charter proposal, a draft district–charter contract and sample nonprofit bylaws.
Board discussion focused on ensuring required legal language was included. One participant read language for nonprofit dissolution and distribution that references "section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code," and staff confirmed by locating matching dissolution language in the bylaws draft. Staff and board members also discussed where to place language tied to Oregon statutory references (the transcript contains a reference transcribed as "chapter 3 38").
The motion to accept the charter proposal and contract passed after a roll call that recorded affirmative responses from participants named on the call: Abby, Mizu, Adam, Mary and the Chair. An immediate follow-up motion to reapprove the contract with the inserted IRS/dissolution language also passed.
Next step: staff said they will finalize the contract text, include the nonprofit/IRS language in the appropriate document(s), and submit the necessary paperwork to the state office. The board signaled that bylaws for a related nonprofit entity can be completed once the nonprofit is formally established and that officer elections for that nonprofit could occur in August.
