Chapter 72, SCHOOLS

72-1135. Clerk; appointment and duties. (a) The board of education of each school district shall appoint a clerk, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The clerk shall receive compensation fixed by the board. The clerk shall not be a member of the board and shall not be t…

72-1136. Treasurer; appointment and duties; surety bond required. (a) The board of education of each school district shall appoint a treasurer, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The treasurer shall receive compensation fixed by the board. The treasurer shall not be a …

72-1137. School district officers and employees; appointment; compensation of school board members. In addition to the officers provided for in this act, the board of education of any school district may appoint other officers and employees to serve at the pleasure of the board. …

72-1138. Boards of education; meeting times; quorum; abstention from voting; general powers; legal counsel for officers and employees. (a) The board shall meet at least once each month. On or after the second Monday in January and before February 1 of each year, or at a later dat…

72-1139. Same; state board definition. "State board of education" means the constitutional state board of education. History: L. 1968, ch. 209, § 2; March 26. Source or Prior Law: 72-8206.

72-1140. Expenses of board of education members. Board members shall be paid their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. History: L. 1968, ch. 59, § 33; July 1. Source or Prior Law: 72-8207. Cross References to Related Sections: Expenses and mil…

72-1141. Judgments against school districts; tax levy, use of proceeds. Whenever any judgment rendered against any school district becomes final, the board of education may levy a tax at the first tax levying period after such judgment becomes final, sufficient to pay such amount…

72-1142. Legal successor of rights and powers; bequests and donations. The unified district shall be legal successor to all of the rights, powers and authorities vested in boards of disorganized districts of the unified district except as is otherwise provided in any of the schoo…

72-1143. Teacherages. The board of education of any unified school district may acquire, purchase, construct, rent, operate and maintain suitable quarters for the use of its teachers. Such quarters may consist of real or personal property or both, and may be referred to as "teach…

72-1144. Acquisition of real property under eminent domain power; conditions; procedures. (a) A unified school district may acquire by condemnation, for school purposes, any interest in real property, including fee simple title. If, within 10 years after entry of final judgment u…

72-1145. Dues payments to Kansas association of school boards authorized. The board of education of any school district or the board of trustees of any community junior college is hereby authorized to appropriate money out of its general fund to pay the annual dues in the Kansas …

72-1146. Contracts; indemnification or hold harmless provisions, void. (a) It is the public policy of the state of Kansas that all contracts entered into by the board of education of a school district, or any officers or employees thereof acting on behalf of the board, provide th…

72-1147. Contracts; governed by Kansas law. (a) It is the public policy of the state of Kansas that all contracts entered into by the board of education of a school district, or any officers or employees thereof acting on behalf of the board, shall be governed by and interpreted …

72-1148. Contracts; mandatory provisions. (a) Except as provided by subsection (c), any contract entered into by the board of education of a school district or any of its officers or employees acting on behalf of the board shall contain the mandatory contract provisions prescribe…

72-1149. Leases and lease-purchase agreements; terms and conditions; cash basis and budget laws not applicable. The board of education of any school district, as lessee or lessor, may enter into written contracts for the use of real or personal property and, in addition to the fo…

72-1150. Lease of equipment, land, improvements by certain school districts; disposition of proceeds; terms; limitations; cash basis and budget laws exception; election. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of K.S.A. 72-1149 to the contrary, the board of education of any school dist…

72-1151. School district expenditures over $20,000; requirements relating to bids and bidders; exemptions. (a) Except as provided by this section and K.S.A. 72-6760b, no expenditure involving an amount greater than $20,000 for construction, reconstruction or remodeling or for the…

72-1152. Kansas unified school district alternative project delivery building construction procurement act. K.S.A. 72-1152 through 72-1157, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas unified school district alternative project delivery building construc…

72-1153. Same; definitions. As used in the Kansas unified school district alternative project delivery construction procurement act, unless the context expressly provides otherwise: (a) "Act" means the Kansas unified school district alternative project delivery building construct…

72-1154. Criteria for use; alternative project delivery. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, the board is hereby authorized to institute an alternative project delivery program whereby construction management at-risk procurement processes may be ut…

72-1155. Procedures; construction management at-risk projects. Construction management at-risk project delivery procedures shall be conducted as follows: (a) The board shall determine the scope and level of detail required to permit a qualified firm to submit construction managem…

72-1156. Bid proposals, other; open for public inspection. Every bid proposal conforming to the terms of the advertisement, together with the name of the firm, shall be recorded, and all such records with the name of the successful firm indicated thereon shall, after award or let…

72-1157. Parking lots excluded. The provisions of the Kansas unified school district alternative project delivery building construction procurement act shall not apply to the process of designing, constructing, altering or repairing stand-alone parking lots. History: L. 2008, ch.…

72-1161. Fiscal year of school districts. The fiscal year of each school district shall close on the last day of June of each year. History: L. 1965, ch. 410, § 17; L. 1970, ch. 293, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 276, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 280, § 45; July 1. Source or Prior Law: 72-8204. Law Rev…

72-1162. Annual budget and tax levy; certification. Every school district shall be a municipality for the purpose of K.S.A. 79-2925 to 79-2968, inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. The annual budget amounts of ad valorem tax to be levied of every schoo…

72-1163. Budget and summary of proposed budget; notice of availability; needs assessment of attendance centers; evaluation by boards of education; annual review of state assessment results. (a) (1) Each year the board of education of a school district shall conduct an assessment …

72-1164. Profile of school district; contents; notice of availability. (a) From and after July 1, 2004, each year the board of education of a school district shall prepare a profile of the school district. The profile shall include any information specified by the state departmen…

72-1165. School district internet-based data reporting system. (a) The purpose of this section is to allow any person desiring to obtain, analyze and compare financial and performance data of school districts the ability to do so. (b) On or before December 31, 2005, the state boa…

72-1166. Compilation and report of expenditures; verification by department. (a) Each school district shall compile and report expenditures of the district in providing programs required by law and the number of pupils enrolled in such programs. Such information shall be compiled…

72-1167. Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act. (b) As used in this section: (1) "Budget summary" means a one-page summary of the official budget adopted…

72-1168. School district funds; temporary cash deficits; limited authority for issuance of temporary notes and tax levies. Whenever the board of education of any school district shall make a finding that such school district has a temporary cash deficit in any school district fun…

72-1169. Payments required to be paid by districts; insufficient revenues. Whenever a school district is required by law to make any payment during the month of June and there is insufficient revenue to make such payment as a result of the payment of state aid after the date pres…

72-1170. Transfer of funds when school district in more than one county. Whenever any school district in this state lies partly within two or more counties, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county, or counties, which are not the home county of the school district, to …

72-1172. Payment of tuition by secretary for children and families for attendance of certain children at school; disposition of tuition payments. (a) The secretary for children and families shall pay tuition to the board of education of any school district for children in any ins…

72-1173. Educational services for pupils at Flint Hills job corps center or psychiatric residential treatment facilities; grants of state moneys. (a) In each school year, to the extent that appropriations are available, each school district which has provided educational services…

72-1174. Moneys derived from gifts or donations; transfers to community foundations. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Community foundation" or "foundation" means any community foundation or community trust to which deductible contributions can be made by individuals, corporation…

72-1175. Credit cards, policies on acquisition and use; public record; cash basis and budget laws not applicable. (a) The board of education of any school district, pursuant to a policy developed and adopted by the board, may provide for the acquisition of credit cards in the nam…

72-1176. Tuition, fees, charges; policy providing for payment by credit or debit cards; internet usage authorized. The board of education of any school district, pursuant to a policy developed and adopted by the board, may provide for the acceptance of payment in the form of a cr…

72-1177. Petty cash funds. (a) The board of education of any school district may authorize, by separate resolutions, the establishment of petty cash funds from which to make needed expenditures for school district purposes in emergencies. Every such resolution shall specify the g…

72-1178. School activity funds. (a) The board of education of any school district may authorize, by separate resolutions, the establishment of school activity funds from which to make needed expenditures for the payment of expenses attributable to activities in which pupils of th…

72-1179. Special liability expense fund; uses of money. (a) There is hereby established in every school district a special liability expense fund. Moneys in such fund shall be used to: (1) Pay the cost of providing for its defense and the defense of employees pursuant to the Kans…

72-1180. Special reserve fund; uses of money. (a) There is hereby established in every school district a special reserve fund. Moneys in such fund shall be used to: (1) Pay claims, judgments, expenses and other purposes relating to health care services, disability income benefits…

72-1181. Publication of certain financial and accountability reports; requirements. (a) All reports prepared pursuant to K.S.A. 72-1167, 72-5170 and 72-5171, and amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 72-5178, and amendments thereto, shall be published on the state department …

72-1208. Contracts to provide education for military dependents. The board of education of any school district may enter into written contracts with the proper authorities of any military reservation or establishment all or part of which is in such school district for the mainten…

72-1209. Fort Leavenworth military reservation school district. The Fort Leavenworth military reservation, by and with the consent of the department of defense of the United States, shall be and the same is hereby set apart, established and created a school district, to be design…

72-1210. Same; board of education; appointment and officers; powers, duties, authority; application of laws; finance. (a) The unified school district maintaining and operating a school on the Fort Leavenworth military reservation, being unified school district No. 207 of Leavenwo…

72-1211. Same; listing, assessing and taxing property. For the purpose of listing, assessing and valuing the franchises and property of railroad companies and other corporations on the Fort Leavenworth military reservation, and in order that taxes for school purposes may be levie…

72-1212. Same; school census authorized. A school census may be taken, as required by law, of all children of school age situate, living or residing upon said military reservation, and for the purpose of this act such school census may be taken by the board of education of the sc…

72-1213. Same; inquiry into agreement with United States; renewal of understanding. In accordance with K.S.A. 75-107 the governor, with the assistance of the state board of education, is requested to inquire into the matters relating to Fort Leavenworth school district and the te…

72-13,100. Interlocal cooperation agreements; requirements and conditions; duration; partial or complete termination; financing; definitions. (a) In the event the boards of education of any two or more school districts enter into a school district interlocal cooperation agreement…