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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="3-2B-03" title_number="3" title_name="Establishment of County Boards of Education" subtitle_number="2B" subtitle_name="Baltimore County">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The purpose of the Commission is to select nominees to be recommended to the Governor as qualified candidates for appointment to the Baltimore County Board of Education.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Commission shall hold at least three public hearings, each in a different councilmanic district, on the selection of multiple nominees before recommending to the Governor nominees for appointment to the county board.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For a single vacancy on the county board, the Commission shall hold public meetings in the following manner on the selection of a nominee before recommending to the Governor the nominee for appointment to the county board:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>For a vacancy in a councilmanic district, at least one public meeting in that councilmanic district; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>For a vacancy for a member appointed at large, at least one public meeting at the county board administrative offices.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The Commission shall make publicly available on its website:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Live video streaming of each public meeting; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A complete and unedited archived video recording of each public meeting for which live streaming was made available under item 1 of this subparagraph.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Before the Commission begins interviewing candidates for appointment to the county board, the Commission shall publish the names of all the candidates on the Commission’s website.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, a meeting of the Commission shall be open to the public if it involves an action on a candidate for appointment to the county board.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>A meeting of the Commission that involves an interview of or a deliberation about a candidate for appointment to the county board shall be held without the public in attendance and the meeting shall be recorded.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The Commission shall provide a copy of a meeting recording for public inspection within 48 hours after receiving a request for the recording.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission consists of 21 members who shall be appointed in accordance with this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commission shall reflect the rich cultural, geographic, ethnic, and racial diversity of Baltimore County.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Governor, in consultation with the County Executive of Baltimore County, shall appoint eight members, one from each legislative district that lies in whole or in part in Baltimore County.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The County Executive of Baltimore County shall appoint one member from the county at large.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The following organizations each shall appoint one member:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Teachers Association of Baltimore County;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Greater Baltimore Chamber of Commerce;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The PTA Council of Baltimore County, Inc.;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Towson University;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The League of Women Voters of Baltimore County;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>The Baltimore County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>The Baltimore County Public Schools’ Special Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>The Baltimore County Student Councils;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>The Council of Administrative and Supervisory Employees;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>The Education Support Personnel of Baltimore County;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3, Council 434; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>The Citizens Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The County Executive of Baltimore County shall designate one of the Commission’s members as chair of the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The term of the chair of the Commission is 4 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The term of a member of the Commission is 4 years.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Baltimore County Public Schools shall provide staff for the Commission.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Beginning October 1, 2018, for each nomination for a vacancy on the county board, the Commission shall submit to the Governor a list of nominees that contains:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least two names for each vacancy; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there are fewer than two applicants for a vacancy, the number of names that is equal to the number of applicants for the vacancy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Commission may retain and reactivate the application of a candidate for a vacancy on the county board for up to 2 years from the date the Commission submitted the list of nominees to the Governor for the vacancy for which the applicant was initially considered.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Commission may reactivate the application of a candidate under paragraph (1) of this subsection only with the consent of the applicant.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To reactivate an application under this subsection, the Commission shall:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Within 14 days after the date of the new vacancy, send a notice to the applicant requesting consent to reactivate the applicant’s application; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Within 14 days after the date the applicant received the notice under item 1 of this subparagraph, receive the consent of the applicant.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Absent an extraordinary circumstance, the Governor shall appoint a member to the county board from the list provided by the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the Governor elects not to appoint a member from a list submitted by the Commission, the Governor shall return the list to the Commission and request that the Commission submit the names of additional qualified candidates.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
