A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand the cumberland county board of education to allow the commanding general of fort bragg to appoint one member.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 4B of A PLAN TO PROVIDE FOR THE MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND TO ESTABLISH ONE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR ALL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, as reinstated by Chapter 494 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten, with the district boundaries from 1985 omitted from this restatement:
"B. The Cumberland County Board of Education shall consist of 10 members. One member shall be appointed by the Commanding General of Fort Bragg, to serve at the pleasure of that general. Nine members of the Cumberland County Board of Education shall be elected as follows:
(1)	Six members shall be elected in November, 1988, each for a four‑year term, and quadrennially thereafter for a four‑year term, one member coming from each of the following districts:  [district boundaries omitted]
(2)	Three members shall be elected at large from Cumberland County in November 1988, for initial terms of six years, and thereafter quadrennially for four‑year terms. 
(3)	The election of the Board of Education shall be on a nonpartisan basis at the time of the November General Election, as set out in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes. Only qualified voters of each district as set out in subsection (1) above shall be eligible to vote for candidates for each respective district seat; only qualified voters of Cumberland County, as set out in subsection (2), will be eligible to vote for at‑large candidates. 
(4)	In the event of the death, resignation or other event creating a vacancy in the board after merger, other than the member appointed by the Commanding General of Fort Bragg, such member shall be replaced by a vote of the remaining members of the board, if the vacancy occurs in a seat elected by district vote, then such replacement shall be selected out of the district from which the vacancy occurred. In the event of the death, resignation or other event creating a vacancy in the board after merger in an at‑large seat, such member shall be replaced by a vote of the board without giving consideration to the district from which the at‑large member may have come."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.