Iowa § 260C.5 - 260C.5 Community colleges bureau — duties of bureau chief.

§ 260C.5. 260C.5 Community colleges bureau — duties of bureau chief.

The director shall appoint the bureau chief, and the bureau chief shall direct the work of the personnel as necessary to carry out this chapter. The bureau chief shall do all of the following: 1. Designate a community college as an “area career and technical education school” within the meaning of, and for the purpose of administering, the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. A community college shall not be so designated by the director for the expenditure of funds under 20 U.S.C. §2301 et seq., as amended, which has not been designated and classified as a community college by the state board. 2. Change boundaries of director districts in a merged area when the board fails to change boundaries as required by law. 3. Make changes in boundaries of merged areas with the approval of the board of directors of each merged area affected by the change. When the boundaries of a merged area are changed, the director may authorize the board of directors of the merged area to levy additional taxes upon the property within the merged area, or any part of the merged area, and distribute the taxes so that all parts of the merged area are paying their share toward the support of the college. 4. Administer, allocate, and disburse federal or state funds made available to pay a portion of the cost of acquiring sites for and constructing, acquiring, or remodeling facilities for community colleges, and establish priorities for the use of such funds. 5. Administer, allocate, and disburse federal or state funds available to pay a portion of the operating costs of community colleges. 6. Propose administrative rules to carry out this chapter subject to approval of the state board. 7. Enter into contracts with local school boards within the area that have and maintain a career and technical education program and with private schools or colleges in the cooperative or merged areas to provide courses or programs of study in addition to or as a part of the curriculum made available in the community college. 8. Make arrangements with boards of merged areas and local school districts to permit students attending high school to participate in career and technical education programs and advanced college placement courses and obtain credit for such participation for application toward the completion of a high school diploma. The granting of credit is subject to the approval of the director. 9. Prescribe a uniform system of accounting for community colleges. 10. Ensure that community colleges that provide intercollegiate athletics as a part of their program comply with section 216.9. 11. Develop an application and review process for approval of administrative and program sharing agreements between two or more community colleges or a community college and an institution of higher education under the board of regents entered into pursuant to section 260C.46. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.25; 82 Acts, ch 1136, §11] 85 Acts, ch 212, §12; 86 Acts, ch 1245, §1470; 87 Acts, ch 115, §41; 87 Acts, ch 224, §57, 58; 90 Acts, ch 1253, §36 C93, §260C.25 93 Acts, ch 82, §4 C95, §260C.5 2002 Acts, ch 1140, §13; 2016 Acts, ch 1108, §51; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §77; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2646 Referred to in §260C.43 Thu Dec 11 19:21:39 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 260C.5 (30, 0)