120.20 School board members; compatible positions. (1) A school board member may serve as a volunteer coach or a supervisor of an extracurricular activity if all of the following apply: (a) The school board member does not receive compensation for serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor. (b) The school board member agrees to abstain from voting on any issue that comes before the school board that substantially and directly concerns the activity that he or she coaches or supervises while he or she is serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor. (c) The school board receives the results of a criminal background investigation of the school board member conducted by the department of justice or the federal bureau of investigation. (1m) A school board member may serve as a volunteer school bus driver if all of the following apply: (a) The school board member has received authorization to operate a school bus, as defined in s. 121.51 (4), from the department of transportation in the form of a school bus endorsement under s. 343.12. (b) The school board member holds a valid commercial driver license, as defined in s. 340.01 (7m). (c) The school board member does not receive compensation for serving as a volunteer school bus driver. (d) The school board member agrees to abstain from voting on any issue that comes before the school board that substantially and directly concerns school bus drivers. (2) (a) Subsections (1) (b) and (1m) (d) may not be construed to require a school board member who is serving as a volunteer coach, supervisor, or school bus driver to abstain from voting on the school district’s annual budget. (b) Reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with providing volunteer services is not considered compensation for purposes of sub. (1) (a) or (1m) (c). For a school board member serving as a volunteer school bus driver, any costs related to training for or renewing a commercial driver license or a school bus endorsement under s. 343.12 is considered an expense incurred in connection with providing the volunteer service. (3) Notwithstanding s. 120.001, this section applies to members of a school board of a common, union high, or unified school district. tract executed by all participants to the contract, own, construct, lease or otherwise acquire school facilities including real estate located within or outside the boundaries of any participating school district. (2) School boards entering into a contract under this section may, without limitation because of enumeration: (a) Provide for acquisition, construction, operation and administration of a facility, and establish the functions, projects and services to be provided in the facility, including, without limitation because of enumeration, proration of all expenses involved, operational and fiscal management including deposit and disbursement of funds appropriated, designation of the municipal employer for purposes of compliance with s. 111.70, teacher retirement, worker’s compensation and unemployment insurance. (b) Purchase real estate and personal property, including a fractional or other interest in the real estate and personal property and enter into leases for sites, building and equipment for a term not exceeding 50 years. (c) Issue municipal obligations subject to the procedures and limitations of ch. 67. (d) Provide the terms and conditions for accepting additional school districts as participants in the plan and for withdrawal from or termination of the contract including apportionment of assets and liabilities. (3) A contract entered into under this section shall at all times be limited to a period of 50 years but may, by mutual written consent of all participants, be modified or extended beyond the initial term. (4) A contract or any extension of the contract of over 5 years duration which includes a common or union high school district participant shall be approved by the annual or special school district meeting. (5) Each school board shall adopt and maintain a written policy on contracting under this section. (6) School boards entering into a contract under this section shall designate for each employee providing services under the contract either a school district entering into the contract or a cooperative educational service agency as the employer for purposes of compliance with s. 111.70, teacher’s retirement, worker’s compensation and unemployment insurance. History: 1999 a. 150 ss. 357, 632; 2005 a. 220.
SUBCHAPTER II UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTS
History: 2015 a. 92; 2023 a. 26.