116.02 Board of control; membership.

(1)

(a) Each agency shall be governed by a board of control composed of members of school boards of school districts within the agency. Annually on or after the 4th Monday in April, the school board of each school district in the agency shall appoint one of its members as its representative for the purpose of determining the composition of the board of control. For the purpose of determining membership on the board of control, a school district operating elementary grades only and lying in more than one union high school district shall be considered part of the union high school district territory in which the major portion of its equalized valuation lies. The board of control shall hold an annual organizational meeting on or after the 2nd Monday in May. No annual organizational meeting may be held after the 2nd Monday in August.

(c) The state superintendent shall cause to convene annually on the day that the board of control holds its annual organizational meeting under par. (a) a convention composed of the representative from each school board in the agency. There shall be no more than one representative from each union high school district. The convention may direct the board of control to determine a different date for the annual organizational meeting.

(2) The annual convention shall establish bylaws for governing the agency, including bylaws for all of the following:

(a) Subject to sub. (1) (a), setting the date of the annual convention and establishing procedures for calling a special meeting.

(b) Providing for regular meetings of the board of control.

(c) Establishing an initial plan of representation for the agency and specifying how the plan may be amended.

(d) Specifying the number of members on the board of control.

(e) Specifying what constitutes a vacancy on the board of control and establishing procedures for filling a vacancy on the board of control.

(f) Specifying the officers on the board of control, establishing procedures for choosing those officers, specifying their terms of office and their duties and establishing procedures for removing them from office.

(g) Providing for the establishment of fiscal control, responsibility and accountability requirements.

(h) Designating a public depository.

History: 1979 c. 110; 1981 c. 8; 1983 a. 27; 1993 a. 184, 492; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3914m to 3915s, 9145 (1); 1997 a. 27.