The powers and duties of a center board are as follows: 1. To supervise, manage, and control an area career and technology center established by the cooperating school districts pursuant to this chapter. 2. To provide career and technical education programs approved by the state board. 3. To contract with, employ, or pay personnel to administer the affairs and to teach in the area career and technology center, and to remove for cause any personnel when the interests of the area career and technology center may require it; provided, that personnel employed by a center board shall have the same statutory rights as provided by law for personnel employed by public school districts.
4. To lease, acquire, or purchase career and technical education equipment for an area career and technology center. 5. To lease, acquire, purchase, or sell career and technical education facilities, including real property, for an area career and technology center; provided, that any purchase or sale of real property must first be approved by two-thirds of the school boards of the participating school districts. 6. To receive and administer any private, local, state, or federal funds provided for the operation and maintenance of an area career and technology center. 7. To enter into contracts consistent with the other powers and duties provided for by this chapter. 8. To accept real or personal property available for distribution by the United States or any of its departments or agencies and also to accept federal grants that may be made available in the field of career and technical education. 9. To offer a first-year signing bonus to an individual who is licensed or approved by the education standards and practices board, has signed a contract of employment with the center board, and was not a classroom teacher in the state during the previous school year. A bonus paid under this subsection: a. Is in addition to an amount payable under a negotiated teachers' contract. b. May not be included in the center board's negotiated salary schedule. c. May not be included as salary for continuing contract purposes.
15-20.2-08. Assessment of participating districts for share of center expenses - Allocation of students - Civil penalty for failure to remit payment. 1. A center board, for the purpose of paying any administrative, planning, operating, or capital expenses incurred or to be incurred, shall assess each: a. Participating school district a center membership fee based upon its high school enrollment as compared to the total high school enrollment of all participating school districts in the area career and technology center and may assess fees based on access and use of programs. b. Nonparticipating school district receiving services a fee based upon its use of programs. 2. A center board shall allocate, as nearly as possible, the number of students from each participating district to be served in an area career and technology center on the same proportionate basis as is used for the assessment of expenses. 3. Each participating school district shall remit payment of the assessment of its share of expenses to the center board promptly after receipt of the assessment notice, or within a period of time determined by the center board, but no later than sixty days after the official date of receipt as noted on the assessment notice. A civil penalty of one percent per month must accrue on all assessments not paid when due.