A. Upon receipt of a request from a local school board, the state board [department] shall cause a school district survey to be made to study the feasibility of a consolidation.
B. A school district survey shall be made by a school district survey committee. The school district survey committee shall submit a written report on a school district survey, along with any recommendations made by the committee, to each local school board of each school district affected by the survey. The report shall be accompanied by all maps, records and material supporting the recommendations.
C. Any local school board of a school district affected by the survey may suggest alterations to the report and the recommendations. If these alterations are approved by each local school board of each school district affected by the survey and the school district survey committee, the alterations shall become part of the final report and recommendations of the school district survey committee. If local school boards of all school districts affected by the survey approve the final report and recommendations of the school district survey committee, the final report and recommendations shall be submitted to the state board [department].
History: 1953 Comp., § 77-3-5, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 16, § 18.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For references to the former state board, see 9-24-15 NMSA 1978.