MANLIUS — Bureau Valley School Board members scurried Monday night to meet a state mandate.

“It has come to our attention of late that Bureau Valley apparently has to redistrict,” said Bureau Valley Board President Keith Bolin. “This has never been done in Bureau Valley history.”

When the Buda, Manlius, Sheffield, Walnut and Wyanet communities joined to form the Bureau Valley School District in 1995, one of the priorities was to give each community the chance to be represented on the school board. Instead of electing the school board members at large, seven districts with similar numbers of residents were created to give each community the chance to elect at least one of its own residents to the board.