A
school director must remain a resident of the school district to be eligible to
continue to serve as a school board member.
If a director’s residence changes to a place outside the district, the
director must resign and his/her eligibility to serve ends with the change of
residence.
If a
director is required to live within a specific director area of the district in
order to be elected or appointed to the school board, and the director’s
residence changes to a place outside the director area, but within the
district, the director may continue to serve on the school board until the next
regular school district election (the fall of odd numbered years), at which
time an election will be held to fill the board position for the director area
the director no longer resides in. If
the change of residence occurs after the filing period for the regular school
district election, but before the election, and the director is in the first
two years of his/her term, he/she may continue to serve from a residence
outside the director area, but within the district, until the end of the term
he/she was elected to.
If a
director’s director area boundaries are redrawn during his/her term of office,
the director may serve out the term he/she was elected to.
Cross References: Board
Policy 1105 Director District
Boundaries
Board Policy 1110 Elections
Board Policy 1114 Board Member Resignation
Board Policy 1115 Vacancies
Legal
References: RCW 28A.343.340 Directors — When elected — Eligibility
RCW 28A.343.350 Residency
RCW 29A.04.151 Residence
RCW 29A.76.010 Redistricting by counties, municipal
corporations, and special purpose districts
RCW 42.12.010 Causes of Vacancy
AGO 1975 No. 8 Vacancy upon voluntary change of
residence out of director district (note modification by 1999 amendment
codified as RCW 28A.343.350)
Adoption Date: January, 2005
Revised: September 2006