NC S234

Changes Lincoln County Board of Education elections from nonpartisan to partisan method beginning in 2022.

Candidates for board positions shall be nominated at the same time and manner as other county officers through partisan processes.

Elections will occur at each general election in even-numbered years as terms expire, with three members elected in 2022 and four members elected in 2024 and quadrennially thereafter, all serving four-year terms.

Members elected in 2018 or 2020 under the nonpartisan system shall continue serving their existing terms; vacancies from those elections filled by appointment until the next election.

Beginning in 2022, vacancies on the board elected on a partisan basis shall be filled by appointment by remaining board members in accordance with G.S. 115C-37.1.