AN ACT to provide for a more even balance in the election cycle for the cleveland county board of education.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 7 of S.L. 2004‑41 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 7.  Six members of the Cleveland County Board of Education shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2007, with the five persons receiving the highest numbers of votes elected to four‑year terms and the person receiving the sixth highest number of votes elected to a two‑year term. Five members shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2011 and every four years thereafter. The six members elected in November 2007 shall replace the six members of the board, or their successors, originally appointed from the previous boards for the Cleveland County, Kings Mountain and Shelby school units."
SECTION 2.  Section 6 of S.L. 2004‑41 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 6.  Three members of the Cleveland County Board of Education shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2005, and four members shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2009 and every four years thereafter. The three members elected in November 2005 shall replace the three members of the board originally appointed at large without regard to membership on the previous boards for the Cleveland County, Kings Mountain and Shelby school units."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of May, 2007.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives