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AMENDED
May 28, 2014
S. 1329
L. Printed 5/28/14--S.
Read the first time May 27, 2014.
TO AMEND ACT 595 OF 1992, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE EDGEFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, SO AS TO REVISE THE SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS FROM WHICH THE TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED BEGINNING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTIONS IN 2014, TO DESIGNATE A MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE ELECTION DISTRICTS ARE DELINEATED, AND TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE NEWLY DRAWN ELECTION DISTRICTS.
Amend Title To Conform
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Act 595 of 1992, as last amended by Act 418 of 2006, is amended to read:
"Section 1. (A) The Edgefield County School District must be composed of seven single-member districts from which members of the board of trustees of the district must be elected beginning with the next general election for school trustees by the qualified electors of that district as delineated on map number S-37-00-05 S-37-00-14, maintained by the Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board.
(B) The demographic information shown on this map is as follows:
District Pop Dev. %Dev. NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK
1 3,508 46 1.33% 1,261 35.95% 2,116 60.32%
2 3,519 57 1.65% 2,101 59.70% 1,051 29.87%
3 3,563 101 2.92% 1,293 36.29% 2,107 59.14%
4 3,536 74 2.14% 2,688 76.02% 630 17.82%
5 3,381 -81 -2.34% 1,275 37.71% 2,039 60.31%
6 3,469 7 0.20% 2,888 83.25% 489 14.10%
7 3,257 -205 -5.92% 3,012 92.48% 129 3.96%
Total 24,233 14,518 8,561
District VAP NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP
1 2,645 1,005 38.00% 1,547 58.49% 131 93
2 2,722 1,652 60.69% 772 28.36% 367 298
3 2,612 988 37.83% 1,519 58.15% 163 105
4 2,772 2,149 77.53% 467 16.85% 218 156
5 2,629 1,051 39.98% 1,531 58.24% 67 47
6 2,614 2,223 85.04% 324 12.39% 92 67
7 2,480 2,307 93.02% 91 3.67% 116 82
Totals 18,474 11,375 6,251 1,154 848
SECTION 2. Section 3 of Act 595 of 1992 is amended to read:
"SECTION 3. The seven present members of the Board of Trustees of the Edgefield County School District each of whom currently resides in one of the seven single-member election districts established in SECTION 1 shall be deemed to be members of the board representing these districts until their current terms of office expire. When the terms of the present incumbent members of the board of trustees of the Edgefield County School District expire beginning in 1992, their successors must be elected for terms of four years in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the general election of that year beginning in 1992 to be held in the manner provided in this act. These members of the board must continue to be residents and qualified electors of those single-member districts and shall be elected by all the qualified electors of the district. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify.
(A) Beginning in 2014, successors to the incumbent members representing single-member Districts 1 and 2 on the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be elected for terms of four years in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the general election of that year to be held in the manner provided in this act.
(B) Beginning in 2014, a member representing single-member District 6 on the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be elected for a term of four years in the nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the general election of that year to be held in the manner provided in this act.
(C) The incumbent members representing single-member Districts 3, 4, 5 and 7 on the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees shall continue to represent these districts until the expiration of their current terms in 2016, at which time their successors must be elected for four year terms in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the 2016 general election to be held in the manner provided in this act.
(D) Members of the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be residents and qualified electors of the single-member districts and must be elected by all the qualified electors of the district. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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