Natomas Union School District v. Grant Joint Union High School District
Opinion
Opinion
Blease, J.
This appeal is from an order dissolving a preliminary injunction and denying permanent injunctive relief in a dispute between two school districts concerning the division of property incident to a reorganization. Natomas Union School District (Natomas) seeks to bar the sale of real property by the Grant Joint Union High School District (Grant) pending an arbitration of the dispute. Natomas contends, inter alia, that the trial court erred in failing to submit the dispute to arbitration pursuant to Education Code section 35565. We agree and will reverse the order denying injunctive relief.
Facts and Procedural Background
On March 5, 1991, the voters within Natomas, then a component elementary school district included within Grant, approved the creation of a unified district, withdrawing Natomas from Grant and expanding Natomas’s responsibilities to include ninth through twelfth grade students. Within the boundaries of the districts is an undeveloped 25-acre parcel of real property, the Truxel site, acquired by Grant in 1960. During the process of reorganizing the districts Grant took preliminary action to sell the property.