2006 Adoption Note.

1958 Swanton and Highgate each voted yes on the articles below.

1968 Franklin requested and was granted permission to send its grades 7-12 to the Union District School.

ARTICLE 1: To see if the voters of the Town School District of Swanton/Highgate will vote to enter into the following agreement with the Town School District of Highgate/Swanton with regard to division between them of the expense of building, maintaining and operating such union high school as may be established pursuant to the vote of these districts taken on March 4, 1958:

a) Of the portion of the construction cost to be paid by Highgate and Swanton in combination, Highgate will pay 40% and Swanton will pay 60%.

b) Each district shall contribute to the cost of maintaining and operating said school, and of conducting the general business of the union high school district in the proportion that the number of legally enrolled pupils attending said union district high school residing in that member district bears to the total number of students enrolled in said union district high school between July 1 and December 31 of the previous school year. During the first year of operation of said union district high school the proportion which each town school district shall pay shall be in the ratio which the number of resident pupils in its high school bears to the total combined enrollment of resident pupils in grades 7 to 12 inclusive in both the Swanton and Highgate Schools during the previous school year.

2000 Swanton, Franklin and Highgate each voted yes on the following article.

Shall the method of apportioning the expenses of the Missisquoi Valley Union High School District (Union District #7) among its members districts, be amended to calculate each member district's proportion share of expenses based on the average enrollment of students from the member district during the first forty (40) days of the school year ("ADM") averaged over two consecutive years, the latter being the current school year.