(a) The County Superintendents' Advisory Council, ("the Council") is hereby established. The
purpose of the council is to promote collaboration among county districts and to provide
input to the State Board of Education and state superintendent on issues facing school
systems.
(b) After the effective date of this section, but no later than June 1, 2017, all fifty-five county
superintendents shall convene to divide the state into four geographic quadrants for the
purpose of carrying out the work of the council as described herein.
(c) County superintendents' responsibilities –
(1) County superintendents belonging to the same geographic quadrant shall meet to select
a county superintendent to represent the geographic qauadrant. The method of selection of
the representative is at the discretion of each geographic quadrant. The representative of
each geographic quadrant will represent the counclil at the state level.
(2) County superintendents of each geographic quadrant shall meet as necessary to identify
coordination and cooperation in areas of siervice to reduce administrative and/or operational
costs, including the consolidation of administrative, coordinating, and other county level
functions into shared functions to promote the efficient administration and operation of the
public school systems. These areas of service include, but are not limited to, the cooperative
agreement areas as provided in subsection (q), section thirteen of this article.
(d) The representative from each of the four geographic quadrants of the council shall
identify issues facing their geographic quadrants and present them at the state level as
follows:
(1) Meet semiannually with the State Superintendent of Schools;
(2) Meet annually with the State Board of Education; and
(3) Provide an annual report to Legislative Oversight Commission on Education
Accountability and the Governor on or before June 30 of each year.
(e) At least one meeting in each geographic quadrant annually shall include on the meeting
agenda a discussion of any recommendations of the county boards in the quadrant for
changes in laws or policies needed to better empower them to meet the state's education
goals. A report of these recommendations, if any, shall be included in the annual report to
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