TITLE SIXTEEN

APPENDIX

Education Charters and Agreements

CHAPTER 31

BELLOWS FALLS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

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2006 Adoption Note.

1966 Grafton, Westminster and Rockingham each voted to form a union school district and agreed to articles which have since been amended in Article 1(d).

1969 The town school district of Athens requested and was granted admission to the Union District.

1982 Article 1(d) amended.

ARTICLE 1.

To see if the voters of the Town School District shall vote to join the Towns of  Rockingham/Grafton and Westminster for the purpose of forming a Union High School District pursuant to the authority contained in Title 16, Chapter 11, Subchapter 2, of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, said Union High School District to be organized and operated in accordance with the provisions of said statutes except as modified by the following agreements entered into by the school districts forming said Union High School.

(a) Type of High School. Said Union High School District shall operate as a high school, having a four (4) year course consisting of grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.

(b) Transportation Expense. The expense of transportation of pupils from such Town to the school shall be a matter for each Town and shall not be part of the Union District's expense.

(c) Tuition Pupils. The Union High School will accept tuition pupils, other than those prescribed by the State Board of Education, in Grades 9-12. when this is to the advantage of its educational program.

(d) Board of School Directors. The School Board for said Union High School 27 shall consist of five (5) members from Rockingham, three (3) members from Westminster, one (1) member from Grafton, and one (1) member from Athens.

(e) Student. Student enrollment shall only include students residing in a member district and enrolled for the whole or a part of a given year as of October 1, of any school year in Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.

(f) Apportionment of Expenses. All expenses, excluding transportation, but including building and maintaining and operating said Union High School District, and including the cost of architects, surveyors, contractors, lawyers and educational or other consultants or experts; the purchase price of a site for a Union High School, as well as current operating expenses to be incurred by the Union District from its organization until its first annual meeting shall be divided among the member districts in the proportion which the student enrollment, as above defined, in each member district for the previous school year bears to the total number of student enrollment, as above defined, and for said year in all Districts provided, however, that said ratio for the first two year's operation shall be as follows:

Westminster     20%

Grafton              5%

Rockingham     75%

(g) Procedure for Future Amendments. No amendment to the Articles of Agreement arrived at after the organization of the Union High School District adopted by a majority of the legal voters present and voting of each member district at a Special of Annual Meeting, duly warned.