Article 2. County Committee On School District Organization Plans And Recommendations For District Reorganization of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 21. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 2.

Each county committee on school district organization shall, under the direction of the State Board of Education, formulate plans and recommendations for the organization of the districts in the county or any portion thereof including, if appropriate, a portion of one or more adjacent counties.

(a) The county committee shall adopt a tentative recommendation following which action it shall hold one or more public hearings in the area proposed for reorganization at least 30 days prior to submission of a final recommendation for unification or other reorganization to the State Board of Education.
  (b) The public hearing required by this section shall be called when both of the following conditions are met :
  (1) Notice is sent to the governing board of each school district involved at least 10 days before the hearing.
  (2) Notice of the hearing is either published in a newspaper of general circulation or posted in every schoolhouse and at least three public places in the affected territory, district, or districts.
  (c) The notice shall contain information as to the time, place, and purpose of the hearing.

(a) On receipt of a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the qualified electors residing in any district for a consideration of unification or other reorganization of any area, the county committee shall hold a public hearing on the petition at a regular or special meeting.
  (b) On receipt of a petition signed by at least 5 percent of the qualified electors residing in a school district with over 200,000 pupils in average daily attendance in which the petition is to reorganize the district into two or more districts, the county committee shall hold a public hearing on the petition at a regular or special meeting.
  (c) On receipt of a resolution approved by a majority of the members of a city council, county board of supervisors, governing body of a special district, or local agency formation commission that has jurisdiction over all or a portion of the school district for consideration of unification or other reorganization of any area, the county committee shall hold a public hearing on the proposal at a regular or special meeting.
  (d) Following the hearing conducted pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (c), the county committee shall grant or deny the petition. If the county committee grants the petition, it shall adopt a tentative recommendation following which action it shall hold one or more public hearings in the area proposed for reorganization. The provisions of Sections 35705 and 35705.5 shall apply to any such public hearing.

Before initiating proceedings to consider any reorganization plan, the county committee on school district organization shall provide written notice of the proposed action to the local agency formation commission for the affected area.

Following the public hearing, or the last public hearing, required by Section 35720.5 or subdivision (d) of Section 35721, the county committee may adopt a final recommendation for unification or other reorganization and shall transmit that recommendation together with the petition filed under subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 35721, or with the resolution filed under subdivision (c) of Section 35721, if any, to the State Board of Education for hearing as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 35750); or shall transmit the petition to the State Board of Education and order the reorganization granted if the requirements of Section 35709 are satisfied; or shall transmit the petition to the State Board of Education and order that an election be held if the requirements of Section 35710 are satisfied.

When a county committee selects an area for study for possible recommendation for reorganization which includes territory of one or more school districts under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of another county, the county committee shall so notify the members of the county committee of such other county. Thereafter, the members of the county committee of such other county shall be notified by mail of each public hearing or meeting of the county committee at which the proposed reorganization will be considered at least 10 days prior to the day of such hearing or meeting.

If plans and recommendations adopted by a county committee propose changes in the boundaries or status of school districts under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of any adjacent county, the county committee of each such adjacent county shall be requested in writing to concur in the plans and recommendations. If the county committee of an adjacent county concurs in the plans and recommendations, the concurrence shall accompany the recommendations transmitted to the State Board of Education. If the county committee of an adjacent county fails to respond to the request for concurrence within 90 days of the date of the request, such failure shall be deemed to be a concurrence in the plans and recommendations. If a county committee of an adjacent county does not concur in the plans and recommendations, it shall so notify the other county committee in writing and accompany the notification with plans and recommendations for the reorganization of school districts of its county including territory that would be affected by the plans and recommendations of the other county committee. After 60 days from the notification of nonconcurrence, if the county committees are still unable to agree upon plans and recommendations for reorganization of the territory, the county committees, or any of them, may submit plans and recommendations to the State Board of Education, and the board may approve or reject the plans, or any of them, in the same manner as other plans and recommendations.