Policy_Manual_2-12-2024

b. It requires any person objecting to the legality, regularity, or validity of the bonds, their issue or sale, or the indebtedness represented by the bonds, to appear before the Board at a specified place within the District on a specified day and time. i. This time may not be less than 14 nor more than 60 days after the first publication or posting of the notice. c. It requires the person to appear at the meeting with his objections in writing, duly verified. 2. The Board shall convene at the time and place specified in the notice and receive all objections which satisfy the requirements of the notice. 3. The objections shall be filed with and preserved by the Board. 4. If no written objections are presented at the time and place specified in the notice, the Board shall so certify and the Board may then refund the bonds. 5. Any person filing a written objection as stated above has 20 days to commence appropriate legal proceedings against the Board and others as may be proper parties, in the district court for the county in which the school district is situated, to challenge and determine the legality, regularity, and validity of the bond or bonds, their issue and sale, or the indebtedness represented by them. 6. If a person filing a written objection fails to commence legal proceedings against the Board within 20 days, and that failure is established by a certificate of the clerk of the court, the challenge to the legality, regularity, or validity of the bond or bonds, their issue or sale, or the indebtedness represented by the bonds is barred, and the Board may refund the bonds. Utah Code § 53G-4-605 (2018)

2.0120.06 VOTED LOCAL LEVY Issue date: 01/03/19 CAB

The Board may, in accordance with Utah Code § 53F-2-601, request voter approval of a state- supported local levy and, if the ballot measure is approved, impose the levy. Before a Board-initiated voted local levy measure may be submitted to the voters, the Board must comply with the requirements of the Transparency in Ballot Propositions Act, including publication of arguments for and against the measure and holding a public meeting on the measure as required by the Act. (Compliance with the Act is not required where the voted local levy measure is initiated by citizen initiative.) Utah Code § 53F-2-601 (2018) Utah Code § 59-1-1601 et seq. (2014)

2.0120.07 BOARD-APPROVED LEEWAY Issue date: 01/03/19 CAB

The Board may, in accordance with Utah Code § 53F-8-404, levy a tax rate up to .0004 per dollar of taxable value within the local levy rate threshold. This levy does not require voter approval but the Board by majority vote may condition imposition of the levy on voter approval.

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