Reference is to Printer's Date 2/17/18-S.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered section to read:
/ SECTION __. Section 2 of an Act of 2017 bearing Ratification Number 127 is amended to read:
"SECTION 2.
The school district must be governed by a
board of trustees of nine members, one of whom must be elected
from each of the same seven defined single-member election
districts as are members of the Orangeburg County Council.
These seven board members' numeric district designations shall
match that of the corresponding county council district from
which the consolidated school district board member is elected,
and a consolidated school district board member also must be a
resident of the election district from which he is elected. In
addition to the seven members elected from the single-member
districts described above, two additional members must be
elected from Orangeburg County at large. These at-large board
members shall hold seats bearing designations eight and nine.
The board member holding at-large seat eight must be a resident
of Orangeburg County Council District One, Two, Three, or Four,
and the board member holding at-large seat nine must be a
resident of Orangeburg County Council District Five, Six, or
Seven. Beginning in 2018, members of the board must be elected
at nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the
general election. Members of the board must be elected for
four-year terms and until their successors are elected and
qualify, except that of the nine members of the board elected in
2018, the members elected from election districts one, three,
five, seven, and at-large seat nine shall serve for initial
terms to expire in November 2022, when their successors elected
at the 2022 election qualify and take office. The members
elected from election districts two, four, six, and at-large
seat eight shall serve for initial terms to expire in November
2020, when their successors elected at the 2020 election qualify
and take office. In the event of a vacancy on the board
occurring for any reason other than the expiration of a term,
the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term through
appointment by the county legislative delegation. All persons
desiring to qualify as a candidate shall file written notice of
candidacy with the county election commission on forms furnished
by the commission. This notice of candidacy must be a sworn
statement and must include the candidate's name, age, election
district in which he resides and from which he seeks election,
voting precinct, period of residence in the county and election
district, and other information that the county election
commission requires. The county commissioners of election shall
conduct and supervise the elections for members of the board in
the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis
mutandis. The commissioners shall prepare the necessary
ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all
things necessary to carry out the elections, including the
counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commission
shall publish notices of the elections pursuant to Section
7-13-35. The results of the elections must be determined by the
nonpartisan plurality method contained in Section 5-15-61. The
members of the board elected in these nonpartisan elections
shall take office one week following certification of their
election pursuant to Section 59-19-315.
(A) The
school district must be governed by a board of trustees of nine
members, one of whom must be elected from each district as
outlined in this section. A member of the board must be a
resident of the election district from which he is elected.
Beginning in 2018, members of the board must be elected at
nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the
general election. Members of the board must be elected for
four-year terms and until their successors are elected and
qualify, except that of the nine members of the board elected in
2018, the members elected from election districts two, four,
six, and eight shall serve for initial terms to expire in
November 2020, when their successors elected at the 2020
election qualify and take office, and the members elected from
election districts one, three, five, seven, and nine shall serve
for initial terms to expire in November 2022, when their
successors elected at the 2022 election qualify and take office.
In the event of a vacancy on the board occurring for any reason
other than the expiration of a term, the vacancy must be filled
for the unexpired term through appointment by the county
legislative delegation. All persons desiring to qualify as a
candidate shall file written notice of candidacy with the county
election commission on forms furnished by the commission. This
notice of candidacy must be a sworn statement and must include
the candidate's name, age, election district in which he resides
and from which he seeks election, voting precinct, period of
residence in the county and election district, and other
information that the county election commission requires. The
county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the
elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the
election laws of this State, mutatis mutandis. The commissioners
shall prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the
voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the
elections, including the counting of ballots and declaring the
results. The commission shall publish notices of the elections
pursuant to Section 7-13-35. The results of the elections must
be determined by the nonpartisan plurality method contained in
Section 5-15-61. The members of the board elected in these
nonpartisan elections shall take office one week following
certification of their election pursuant to Section
59-19-315.
(B)(1)
Beginning with the Orangeburg County School District
elections in 2018, the nine single-member election districts
from which members of the Orangeburg County School District
Board of Trustees must be elected are as shown on the Orangeburg
County School District Board of Trustees map S-75-00-18 as
maintained by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.
(2)
The demographic information shown on this map is
as follows:
District Pop
Dev.
%Dev.
NH_Wht %NH_Wht
NH_Blk
%NH_Blk
*1
9,992
-286
-2.78%
3,251 32.54%
6,404
64.09%
2
10,413
135
1.31%
3,277 31.47%
6,806
65.36%
*3
10,167
-111
-1.08%
5,731 56.37%
4,087
40.20%
4
10,447
169
1.64%
4,520 43.27%
5,339
51.11%
*5
10,195
-83
-0.81%
1,815 17.80%
7,922
77.70%
6
10,396
118
1.15%
3,075 29.58%
6,819
65.59%
*7
10,550
272
2.65%
832 7.89%
9,372
88.83%
8
10,084
-194
-1.89%
5,484 54.38%
4,229
41.94%
*9
10,257
-21
-0.20%
3,221 31.40%
6,643
64.77%
TOTAL 92,501 31,206 33.74% 57,621 62.29%
District VAP
NHWVAP %NHWVAP
NHBVAP
%NHBVAP
AllOth AllOthVAP
*1
7,771 2,869
36.92%
4,678
60.20%
337 224
2
7,900 2,671
33.81%
5,004
63.34%
330 225
*3
7,583 4,410
58.16%
2,938
38.74%
349 235
4
7,632 3,561
46.66%
3,650
47.82%
588 421
*5
7,982 1,523
19.08%
6,128
76.77%
458 331
6
7,986 2,648
33.16%
4,979
62.35%
502 359
*7
8,671 702
8.10%
7,718
89.01%
346 251
8
7,744 4,363
56.34%
3,113
40.20%
371 268
*9
7,793 2,667
34.22%
4,858
62.34%
393 268
TOTAL 71,062 25,414 35.76% 43,066 60.60% 3,674 2,582
*Denotes: 4-year Term
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