§ 16-3-12 - Regional school district financial meeting – Special meetings. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 16-3-12

   § 16-3-12  Regional school districtfinancial meeting – Special meetings. – (a) The regional school district financial meeting to which all the votersqualified to vote in their respective cities or towns on any proposition forthe imposition of a tax or the expenditure of money shall be held on the firstMonday in February of each year at eight o'clock (8:00) p.m. at the regionalschool district high school or any other location that the regional schooldistrict committee may publicly designate in advance; provided, however, that:

   (1) The Exeter-West Greenwich regional school districtmeeting shall be held on the second (2nd) or third (3rd) Monday of April ofeach year at the discretion of the school committee at seven o'clock (7:00)p.m.; and

   (2) The Chariho Regional School District meeting for thecalendar year 2002 only shall be held no later than March 23, 2002 at a timeand date to be determined by the regional district school committee. Theregional district school committee shall prepare and approve a budget no laterthan thirty (30) days prior to the annual meeting date. The regional districtschool committee shall adopt a final proposed budget no later than ten (10)days prior to the annual meeting date and the treasurer of the regional schooldistrict shall certify the charge per pupil to each district treasurer by April9, 2002.

   (b) Special meetings may be called by vote of the regionalschool district committee or upon petition of two hundred (200) district votersfiled in writing with the committee; provided, however, that for theExeter-West Greenwich Regional School District, a petition of five percent (5%)of registered voters shall be required to call a special meeting and thepetition must be filed on or before May 15 of any year. The petition shall bepresented in proper format with the signature, the printed name and the addressof each registered voter, to the school committee at a duly convened schoolcommittee meeting.