Lawrence schools Superintendent Rick Doll will present a resolution to the school board at its Monday meeting that would have the district publicly oppose moving local elections to November.

State lawmakers are once again considering pushing local elections, including school board races, to November in either odd- or even-numbered years, the latter of which would combine them with state and federal races.

Shannon Kimball, president of Lawrence’s school board, said the proposed resolution came about at the urging of board members.

“We thought it was important to take a position,” she said.

The resolution argues that a school board election would not be able to compete for voters’ attention with state and federal races going on simultaneously. It also states that November elections would disrupt operations since a newly elected member would join the board mid-school year.

Five seats for the Lawrence school board are up for grabs in the April 7 election this year.

Rep. Steve Huebert, R-Valley Center, has said it is important to increase turnout in local elections, which can be done by moving those races to the fall.

Others, including Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have supported making the local elections partisan, saying they would lower the number of ballot variations that need to be printed.

The resolution takes issue with that as well, arguing that partisan elections would prevent employees of the executive branch and military from running for office.

“School districts should not be run in a partisan way,” said Vanessa Sanburn, vice president of the board. School districts “do a good job of putting politics aside,” she said.

In other business Monday, the board will:

• Receive reports on the district’s K-5 English language arts curriculum and an update on the expansion of the blended learning classroom initiative, which outfits classrooms with ample technology resources, such as laptops and tablets. Since its debut year in 2012-13, the program has spread from eight to 150 classrooms across the district.

• Discuss priority renovation and maintenance projects for the 2015 spring and summer and upcoming projects over the next three years. It will also discuss amending the guaranteed maximum price of the College and Career Center, from $6.2 million to $6.8 million.