119.16 Board; duties.

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(1)Educational priorities and objectives. The board and the superintendent of schools shall identify broad yearly objectives and assess priorities for education in the district and shall issue an annual report and such additional reports as the board and superintendent deem desirable on the progress of pupils enrolled in the public schools.

(1m)Management of school district. The board shall have the possession, care, control and management of the schools, facilities, operations, property and affairs of the school district.

(1n)Contract with the superintendent of schools or with the commissioner. Notwithstanding sub.

(1m), immediately upon the transfer of a public school to an opportunity schools and partnership program under s. 119.33 or subch. II , the board shall make the superintendent of schools or the commissioner, respectively, an agent of the board under any lease between the board and the city and shall transfer to the superintendent of schools or the commissioner, respectively, the possession, care, control, and management of all land, buildings, facilities, and other property that is part of the school being transferred.

(2)Establish schools and districts. The board shall maintain the public schools in the city, other than those public schools transferred to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33 and subch. II , and shall establish, organize and maintain such schools as the board determines are necessary to accommodate the children entitled to instruction therein. The board shall divide the city into attendance districts for such schools.

(3)Buildings and sites.

(a)The board shall construct, purchase, lease, improve or enlarge buildings and purchase furniture and sites for the public schools, shall purchase, install and maintain heating systems in public schools and may contract for carrying out any of these purposes.

(b)Except as provided in par.

(c), schoolhouses and the sites on which they are situated shall be the property of the city. No site may be purchased or leased and no schoolhouse may be constructed unless a resolution therefor is duly adopted by the board. Except as provided in par.

(c), deeds of conveyance and leases shall be made to the city.

(c)If the redevelopment authority of the city issues bonds under s. 66.1333

(5r), the board may lease buildings or sites from the redevelopment authority or borrow money from the redevelopment authority for the purposes of par.

(a).

(3m)Master facilities plan.

(a)By July 1, 2011, the board shall evaluate all school buildings in the school district operating under this chapter according to the criteria established under par.

(b), and shall develop a master plan governing the use, repair, renovation, and demolition of buildings in the school district.

(b)The board shall establish criteria to evaluate the safety, structural integrity, utility, and costs of maintenance and repair of school buildings in the school district. Subject to the requirements under sub.

(10), the criteria shall include consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of repairing versus demolishing older buildings having high maintenance or operating costs.

(4)Competitive bidding. The board shall establish competitive bidding policies and procedures for purchases and for construction contracts.

(5)Special courses. Within budgetary limitations, the board shall establish in any public school, in grade 7 and higher, such classes of instruction consistent with the educational goals and objectives adopted by the board under sub.

(1)as are petitioned for by the parents of a number of pupils attending the school sufficient to form one or more classes of instruction. Petition by the parents of 30 or more pupils of like classification attending any such school requesting the establishment of instruction in a specified subject is prima facie evidence of the sufficiency of the number of pupils to commence instruction therein.

(6)Custodians of school premises. The board shall fix the duties and responsibilities of principals, as custodians of the school premises, and of the school engineers. Each principal shall have general supervision of and shall be custodian of all school premises over which the principal presides.

(8)Budget.