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CITY OF AKRON v. AKRON WESTFIELD SCHOOL

No. 02-0058.

659 N.W.2d 223 (2003)

CITY OF AKRON, Appellee, v. AKRON WESTFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 2, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Villone and Douglas L. Phillips of Klass, Stoik, Mugan, Villone, Phillips, Orzechowski, Clausen & Lapierre, L.L.P., Sioux City, for appellant.

Paul E. Horvath and F. Richard Lyford of Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C., Des Moines, and David A. Stuart of Stuart & Peterson, Beresford, South Dakota, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Because the taxpayers end up paying for public obligations, set formalities are required for a binding governmental contract. Here those formal actions were not met by a city in its contract with a school district, so the trial court held the contract was void. Because the school district negotiated, entered, and acted on the contract in good faith, school district officials view the holding as unfair. It is...

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