2006 Adoption Note.

1962 Fair Haven, Orwell, and Benson voted yes on the articles below.

1963 Castleton and West Haven requested and were granted permission to join the union district school.

Shall the town school district join in the formation of a union high school district, as provided by law, to consist of the town school districts of Fair Haven, Orwell, and Benson, subject to the following agreements as to the operation of such union district:

(a) Type of High School. The union high school district shall operate as a high school having a four-year course consisting of grades 9, 10, 11, and 12;

(b) Location. The union high school shall be located in the building presently occupied by the Fair Haven High School, in the Town of Fair Haven, and any additions thereto that the union district may from time to time provide;

(c) Building Costs. Following the organization of the union high school district, the board of school directors of the Town of Fair Haven Town School District will enter into an arrangement with the union high school district to lease the school district for an annual sum to equal the annual interest cost and bond redemption requirements on the bond issue against the present high school building, for the remaining life of said bonds, by the terms of which lease arrangement the union high school district will upon final liquidation of said bonded debt acquire title to said building, and school lot;

(d) Board of School Directors. The school board of the union high school district shall consist of one member from each member district for each 50 students or fraction thereof, calculated as in subsection (f) of this agreement. Each member district shall have at least one member on the union high school district board of school directors;

(e) Transportation. The high school students will be transported from each member district, and the cost of such transportation will be treated as a part of the operating expense of the union high school, and paid for by the union high school district;

(f) Student Enrollment. Student enrollment shall include all students residing in a member district, and enrolled on October 15 of any school year, in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 in a public school, except that a student from any member district who is enrolled in grade 11 or 12 in a public school outside the union district on October 15 of the calendar year his district votes to become a member of the union high school district shall not be included in this student enrollment, unless he subsequently attends the said union high school;

(g) Apportionment of Expenses.

(1) All expenses, including the costs of architects, surveyors, contractors, lawyers, and educational or other consultants or experts, as well as current operating expenses to be incurred by the union high school district from the time of its organization meeting to the time the union high school district shall take over the operation of the high school, shall be pro-rated among the several member districts according to student enrollment;

(2) The net operating costs of the union high school district, including building, operation and maintenance costs, after deduction of tuition receipts and other accruing income, shall be pro-rated among the several member districts in the same proportion which the student enrollment, as defined in this agreement, bears to the total student enrollment from all member districts;

(h) Effective Date. The effective date for the commencement of the operation of the union high school shall be July 1, 1963.