Wallace v. Des Moines Independent Community School District Board of Directors

STREIT, Justice.

Several taxpayers filed a certiorari action challenging the Des Moines School Board’s decision to close certain schools and reappropriate resources to other needs. The district court granted the Board’s motion for summary judgment finding certiorari was not an available remedy to the taxpayers because the Board’s action was not judicial or quasi-judicial. We affirm.

I. Facts and Prior Proceedings.

In 1998, the Iowa legislature created Iowa Code chapter 422E, which permitted the imposition of a local option sales tax for school infrastructure improvements upon local voter…