Shasta County Board of Education Took Your Vote Away!

Shasta County Board of Education has taken your ability to vote away in the Enterprises Elementary School District.

If we denied the voting-by-district proposal by Enterprise Elementary, it would have gone to the voters for their approval.

They used a loophole in the education code to bypass the voters. The other Shasta County Board of Trustees just took your vote away.

Education Code sections 5019 and 5030 authorize the County Committee, upon application of the Board, to change the method of election of the Board from at-large to by- trustee area;

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5019. (a) (1) In any school district or community college district, the county committee on school district organization may establish trustee areas, rearrange the boundaries of trustee areas, abolish trustee areas, and increase to seven from five, or decrease from seven to five, the number of members of the governing board, or adopt one of the alternative methods of electing governing board members specified in Section 5030.

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-edc/title-1/division-1/part-4/chapter-1/article-1/section-5019/#:~:text=(a)%20(1)%20In,members%20of%20the%20governing%20board%2C

California Code, Education Code - EDC § 5030

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

Except as provided in Sections 5027 and 5028, in any school district or community college district having trustee areas, the county committee on school district organization and the registered voters of a district, pursuant to Sections 5019 and 5020, respectively, may at any time recommend one of the following alternate methods of electing governing board members:

(a) That each member of the governing board be elected by the registered voters of the entire district.

(b) That one or more members residing in each trustee area be elected by the registered voters of that particular trustee area.

(c) That each governing board member be elected by the registered voters of the entire school district or community college district, but reside in the trustee area which he or she represents.

The recommendation shall provide that any affected incumbent member shall serve out his or her term of office and that succeeding board members shall be nominated and elected in accordance with the method recommended by the county committee.

Whenever trustee areas are established in a district, provision shall be made for one of the alternative methods of electing governing board members.

In counties with a population of less than 25,000, the county committee on school district organization or the county board of education, if it has succeeded to the duties of the county committee, may at any time, by resolution, with respect to trustee areas established for any school district, other than a community college district, amend the provision required by this section without additional approval by the electors, to require one of the alternate methods for electing board members to be utilized.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/education-code/edc-sect-5030/

Section 5020 - [Effective 1/1/2024] Election establishing or abolishing trustee areas, adopting alternative method of electing governing board or increasing or decreasing number of governing board members

https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-education-code/title-1-general-education-code-provisions/division-1-general-education-code-provisions/part-4-elections/chapter-1-election-of-school-district-board-members/article-1-elections/section-5020-effective-112024-election-establishing-or-abolishing-trustee-areas-adopting-alternative-method-of-electing-governing-board-or-increasing-or-decreasing-number-of-governing-board-members

2022 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 14 - ELECTION DAY PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 1.5 - Rights of Voters
Section 14026.

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