Reference is to Printer's Date 3/30/17-S.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Act 260 of 1981, as last amended by Act 90 of 2011, is further amended to read:
"Section 1.
Notwithstanding another provision of law, the
Public Educational System of Pickens County is directed and
managed by the Board of Trustees of the School District of
Pickens County. The Beginning with the 2018
general election, the board must be comprised of
six seven members, all
each of whom must be a qualified
electors elector from each
of and each must reside in the single-member
district he represents. districts for which members
of the county governing body of Pickens County are
elected The lines defining the single-member
districts are as shown on an official map on file with the
Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office designated as document
S-77-00-17 and on file with the Pickens County GIS Mapping
Department. A current at-large member holding Seat
7, 8, or 9 shall continue to serve until his term is ended or he
vacates the at-large seat for whatever reason, whichever occurs
first. Upon the end of the term or the earlier vacation of the
at-large seat, that at-large seat no longer exists.
This map must be used for the 2018 general election and to
fill any vacancies that occur following the 2018 general
election. Beginning with the 2022 general election, the seven
single-member districts must conform to the latest United States
Decennial Census and be approved by statewide legislation
amending this section in order to become effective. Only
those electors residing in the particular district are eligible
to vote for each of the six
single-member trustees representing trustee who will
represent the district. The On the
effective date of these provisions, the current trustees
from the single-member districts shall continue
to serve until their four-year terms expire and until their
successors are elected and qualify. In the 2018 general
election, trustees will be elected for single-member Districts
2, 4, 6, and 7. Each trustee residing in single-member
Districts 1, 3, and 5 shall continue to serve as the trustee for
the single-member district in which he resides until his term
ends in 2020 and his successor is elected and qualifies or until
his office is vacated, whichever occurs first.
The electors of the Dellwood Subdivision of
the City of Clemson, Anderson County, as shown in Plat Book
1920, page 150-A, Plat Book 12, page 266, and Plat Book 14, page
31, filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Pickens County,
shall be eligible to vote in the election of the member of the
board of trustees for the nearest contiguous
single-member school district and shall be eligible to
serve on the board for that district.
All members of the board of trustees must
be elected in a nonpartisan election at the time of the general
election in the year in which their terms expire.
Upon the termination of the term of each
single-member district trustee, his successor must be a
qualified elector of the same district and must be elected in a
nonpartisan election to be held at the same time as the general
election preceding the expiration date by the qualified electors
of the district for a term of four years and until his successor
is elected and qualifies. If a single-member district seat is
vacated before the end of its the term,
the seat must be filled for the remainder of the term by
way of special election conducted in the same
manner. The board of trustees shall elect a chairman and such
other officers as it considers necessary.
Section 2.
If any of the five current trustees who
reside in any particular area of the county but are elected at
large shall offer for any of the seats created pursuant to
Section 1 of this act, their seat shall be abolished. At the
expiration of the term of one of the present at large seats,
such seat shall be abolished. Any action by the
Board of Trustees to close a school in the School District
requires consideration at three separate board meetings held on
three separate days with a minimum of six days between each
meeting. During at least one of the three meetings, the Board
of Trustees must allow public testimony, and at least one of the
three meetings must be held at the school to be closed or in a
location within one mile of the school to be closed.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor and must be applicable: (1) for the 2018 general election of Board of Trustees members; and (2) to school closure actions taken after the effective date of this act. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.