How will the new law (A4) regarding shared services and consolidation affect the district building a new high school?
As we understand it, the law contains a provision regarding the role of the executive county superintendent as follows: No later than three years following the effective date of sections 42 to 58 of P.L. 2007, c.63 (C.18A:7-11 et al.), recommend to the commissioner a school district consolidation plan to eliminate all districts, other than county-based districts and other than preschool or kindergarten through grade 12 districts in the county, through the establishment or enlargement of regional school districts. After the approval of the plan by the commissioner, the executive county superintendent shall require each board of education covered by a proposal in the plan to conduct a special school election, at a time to be determined by the executive county superintendent, and submit the question whether or not the executive county superintendent’s proposal for the regionalization of the school district shall be adopted. The question shall be deemed adopted if it receives a vote in acc
