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     Section 29. Public postsecondary technical institute regional advisory boards are hereby established. Each public postsecondary technical institute shall be represented by a regional advisory board. The membership of each public postsecondary technical institute regional advisory board shall include the director of the public postsecondary technical institute and representatives of local business and industry. Each regional advisory board shall meet as necessary, but at least annually, and remain in communication with the Workforce Development Council. Each regional advisory board shall provide to the secretary of education recommendations regarding program offerings at the public postsecondary technical institutes and suggestions on how the public postsecondary career and technical education available in the state might be enhanced.
    The secretary of education shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to provide for the membership of the public postsecondary technical institute regional advisory boards and the process whereby the regional advisory boards provide recommendations to the secretary. ".

     13-8-3.   The voters of any school district may increase the number of board members to seven or to nine, or establish or discontinue school board representation areas, by a majority vote of all voters voting at an election called and held as hereinafter provided. If a petition signed by ten percent of the registered voters of any school district, based upon the total number of registered voters at the last preceding general election, is presented to the board requesting that an election be called for the purpose of voting upon the question of the change of number of board members, or the establishment or discontinuation of school board representation areas, the board shall call an election. The school board may, by resolution, call for an election for the purpose of voting upon the question of the change of number of board members, or the establishment or discontinuation of school board representation areas. The question shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held not less than forty-five nor more than sixty days from the date of the filing of such petition with the business manager. If such a petition is filed less than one hundred twenty days prior to the next annual election, the question shall be submitted at the annual election. Such election shall be held upon the same notice and conducted in the same manner as provided by chapter 13-7. Any increase or decrease in the number of board members shall be implemented at the next succeeding annual election. "

Wayne Lueders, Associated School Boards of SD
John Pederson, School Administrator of South Dakota

Moved by:    Van Gerpen
Second by:    Hunt
Action:    Prevailed by voice vote.

Jeanette Black