{"id":15611,"date":"2024-08-02T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15611"},"modified":"2024-08-02T02:21:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T07:21:05","slug":"orient-macksburg-cant-dissolve-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/orient-macksburg-cant-dissolve-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient-Macksburg can’t dissolve next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The below is what happens when you sit on a post too long and it gets overtaken by events. \u2014 Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n

The dissolution (not “dissolvement”) of the Orient-Macksburg school district is proceeding mostly as I expected,<\/del> with a catch that I wondered about but never stated, followed by another, much more troublesome twist.<\/em><\/p>\n

The catch is, all changes to a school district’s area, including consolidation and dissolution, must be approved in the calendar year before<\/em> it takes effect. That means a vote in March 2025<\/a> would not take effect until July 1, 2026, and O-M is in such deep a hole it can’t hold on that long.<\/p>\n

The state calendar on elections requires that this vote happen Sept. 10 \u2014 the second Tuesday of the month. That means O-M “gets one shot” at its own plan, as a committee member said in the Creston News-Advertiser<\/em> story, before the state takes over.<\/p>\n

The above was written two weeks ago. Now that shot is gone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The O-M dissolution committee told residents on Monday that because both Creston and Winterset objected to the proposed map, a Sept. 10 vote is out of the question, reports the Creston News-Advertiser<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0The map gave only minimal portions of O-M to those other districts, leaving the vast majority to merge with Nodaway Valley. That would be much less than the districts wanted.<\/p>\n

Those lines, as drawn, would not have permitted a bus from Creston to reach Orient to pick up open-enrolled students as the town would be too deep into Nodaway Valley territory. Legally, the response to that is \u2014 or at least would be expected to be \u2014 “tough beans”. However, because the objections are there, even though they are invalid objections<\/em>\u00a0(based on my interpretation of a quote in the story), a dissolution vote cannot proceed.<\/p>\n

Without a September vote, the Orient-Macksburg school district must<\/em> exist in the 2025-26 school year, even if only on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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