OAR 581-024-0192: Establishment of Zones for New ESD

(1) Following the issuance of an order by the State Board of Education to join two or more ESDs together, the chairperson from the board of the most populous merging ESD must call a meeting of newly formed joint board, which must include all members of the boards of all merging ESDs. The joint board shall divide the newly formed ESD into at least seven, but no more than eleven zones. (2) The zones should be as nearly equal in population as practicable. (3) The joint board must, if possible, establish the zones so that each county represented in the newly formed ESD, if the majority of the land area of the county lies within the boundaries of the newly formed ESD, has at least one member on the new board.