38.04(29) (29) Master logger apprenticeship grants. The board shall use the moneys appropriated under s. 20.292 (1) (km) to award grants to businesses that provide technical college students with forest product internships for the purpose of placing eligible apprentices with loggers who are certified by the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association as master loggers.

38.04(31) (31) Truck driver training. From the appropriation under s. 20.292 (1) (hm), subject to 2001 Wisconsin Act 16, section 9148 (1f), the board shall award grants to the district boards governing Chippewa Valley Technical College, Fox Valley Technical College, and Waukesha County Technical College for truck driver training.

38.04(32) (32) Grants; report.

38.04(32)(a) (a) The board may award grants to district boards for the development of apprenticeship curricula and for activities the board determines are related to the performance criteria specified in s. 38.28 (2) (be) 1. To the extent practicable, the board shall ensure that such grants are awarded annually to all districts. Amounts awarded shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.292 (1) (f).

38.04(32)(b) (b) Annually, the board shall submit a report to the department of administration, the joint committee on finance, and the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) that describes how the moneys appropriated under s. 20.292 (1) (f) will be distributed to the district boards in the current fiscal year and the programs that the moneys will fund.

38.04 History History: 1971 c. 154, 211; 1973 c. 90, 333; 1975 c. 39; 1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 20; 1981 c. 93 ss. 19m, 30m, 30o; 1981 c. 269, 314; 1983 a. 27, 379; 1985 a. 12, 29; 1985 a. 332 s. 251 (1); 1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 31, 107, 125, 169, 299, 335, 336; 1991 a. 39, 227, 250; 1993 a. 16, 223, 377, 399, 455, 491; 1995 a. 27 ss. 1800n to 1803, 9126 (19) and 9145 (1); 1995 a. 342; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 9, 124; 2001 a. 16, 109; 2003 a. 33, 62; 2005 a. 25, 466; 2007 a. 20 ss. 737, 9121 (6) (a); 2007 a. 68, 125, 130; 2009 a. 28, 59, 64, 181, 220, 302; 2011 a. 32, 173; 2013 a. 20, 253; 2015 a. 55; 2017 a. 59, 366; 2019 a. 27, 46; 2023 a. 160.

38.04 Annotation Vocational, technical and adult education (technical college) districts are subject to city equal employment opportunity ordinances, but only within the geographic boundaries of the city. 70 Atty. Gen. 226.

38.04 Annotation A VTAE (technical college) district is a “school district” under s. 19.21 (7) [now s. 19.21 (6)], governing destruction of obsolete school records. 71 Atty. Gen. 9.

38.04 Annotation The state board may by rule require that the record concerning appointment of district board members show compliance with statutory procedural requirements, and the state board may disapprove appointments because of procedural irregularities except those involving the Open Meetings Law. 73 Atty. Gen. 108.

38.06 38.06 District boundaries.

38.06(1) (1) Each district shall include one or more counties, municipalities or school districts in any contiguous combination.

38.06(2) (2) In this section, “reorganization” means any alteration, dissolution, creation or merger of any district.

38.06(3) (3) 

38.06(3)(a) (a) Upon its own motion or upon approval of a petition filed under sub. (4), the board may issue a district reorganization order. Prior to issuing an order under this subsection, the board shall conduct such studies, investigations and hearings as it deems necessary.

38.06(3)(b) (b) Any reorganization order issued by the board shall take effect on the July 1 next succeeding the date of the order.

38.06(3)(c) (c) Three months prior to the effective date of any reorganization order, the board shall report to the joint committee on finance the fiscal and educational impact of the reorganization order upon the affected districts.

38.06(4) (4) 

38.06(4)(a) (a) The governing body of a county, municipality or school district may file a petition with the board requesting that its territory be detached from the district in which it lies and attached to a district to which such territory is contiguous, or if portions of its territory lie in more than one district, by requesting that all such portions be placed within one of such districts.

38.06(4)(b) (b) Immediately upon receipt of the petition, the board shall notify each district board affected of the receipt of the petition and the boundary reorganization requested therein. Such district boards shall within 45 days notify the board of their recommendations on the petition.

38.06(4)(c) (c) Within 90 days of the receipt of the petition, the board shall notify the governing body filing the petition and the district boards affected of its approval or disapproval of the proposed detachment and attachment of territory.

38.06(5) (5) If school district boundaries are changed in accordance with chs. 115 to 121, the board may act to change district boundaries to coincide with school district boundaries without holding a public hearing.

38.06 History History: 1971 c. 154; 1973 c. 333; 1989 a. 56.

38.06 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also ch. TCS 1, Wis. adm. code.

38.08 38.08 Composition and organization of district board.

38.08(1) (1) 

38.08(1)(a) (a)

38.08(1)(a)1. 1. A district board shall administer the district and, except as provided in subd. 1g., shall be composed of 9 members who are residents of the district, consisting of the following:

38.08(1)(a)1.a. a. Two employers.

38.08(1)(a)1.b. b. Two employees.