§ 706. Proposal to form study committee; budget and membership (a) Establishment of committee. When the boards of two or more school districts vote to establish a study committee to study the advisability of forming a union school district or are petitioned to do so by at least five percent of voters in the school […]
§ 707. Approval of study budget; appointment of study committee; participation (a) Proposed budget exceeding $50,000.00. (1) If the proposed budget established in section 706 of this chapter exceeds $50,000.00, then subject to the provisions of that section the board of each potentially participating school district shall warn the district’s voters to meet at an […]
§ 708. Study committee; necessary and advisable districts; contents of study committee report and proposed articles; dissolution of committee (a) Study committee; process. (1) The superintendent shall convene a study committee’s first meeting when the committee’s members are appointed. If the participating districts are members of more than one supervisory union, then the superintendents shall […]
§ 709. Review by local school district boards; consideration and approval by State Board of Education (a) If a study committee determines that it is advisable to propose formation of a union school district, then the committee shall transmit its report and proposed articles of agreement to the school board of each school district that […]
§ 710. Vote to form union school district Subject to the provisions of subsections 706(c) (proposal to form study committee; existing union school districts) and 708(b) (study committee; necessary and advisable districts) of this chapter, the voters of each school district identified as “necessary” or “advisable” shall vote whether to form the proposed union school […]
§ 711. Vote to elect initial members of the union school district board (a) Election of initial members of union school district board. At the meeting warned to vote on formation of a union school district under section 710 of this chapter, the voters shall also elect the initial members who will serve on the […]
§ 712. Contents of warning on votes to establish the union school district and elect the initial members of the union school district board The warning for each school district meeting to vote on formation of a union school district shall contain two articles in substantially the following form. The language used in Article 1 […]
§ 713. Certification of votes; designation of district as union school district; recording by Secretary of State (a) Within 45 days after the vote or 15 days after a vote to reconsider the original vote under 17 V.S.A. § 2661, whichever is later, the clerk of each school district voting on the proposal to form […]
§ 714. Initial members of union school district board; tallying of at-large votes; oath of office and assumption of duties (a) Tallying of at-large votes for initial members of board. If the voters have elected some or all of the initial members of the union school district board under either model involving at-large voting as […]
§ 715. Organizational meeting; notice; business to be transacted (a) Meeting. The union school district shall hold an organizational meeting within 60 days after the Secretary of State files the certified copy of the recorded certification with each clerk pursuant to subsection 713(e) of this chapter. (b) Notice. (1) The Secretary of Education shall prepare […]
§ 716. Transition to full operations (a) Operational date. The operational date of a union school district is the July 1 next following the date on which the voters vote to approve formation of the district, unless the voter-approved articles of agreement establish a different date. (b) Roles and authority during transitional period. During the […]
§ 717. Dissolution, reorganization, and discontinuation of forming districts (a) Unified union school district; dissolution of forming districts. On its operational date, a unified union school district shall supplant all forming districts and the forming districts shall cease to exist; provided, however, that if the voter-approved articles of agreement explicitly provide for it, then the […]
§ 718. Transfer of real property to town in which it is located If the original voter-approved articles of agreement require sale of real property to the town in which the property is located and the sale is scheduled to occur after the operational date, or if after the operational date and after completing any […]
§ 719. Supervisory union; supervisory district (a) The State Board shall assign each union school district formed under this chapter to a supervisory union for administrative, educational, and planning services, effective on the day on which the union school district becomes a body politic and corporate pursuant to subsection 713(d) (Secretary of State records the […]
§ 721. Joining an existing union school district (a) Action initiated by district outside the union school district. (1) After preliminary study, if the board of a school district determines that it would be advisable to join an existing union school district, then the board of the interested school district shall request approval of the […]
§ 722. Amendments to articles of agreement (a) The union school district voters. Only the voters of a union school district may amend a specific condition or agreement in the district’s articles of agreement if the condition or agreement was set forth as a distinct subsection in the warning required by section 712 (warning on […]
§ 723. Decision to vote by Australian ballot (a) If a union school district’s articles of agreement do not provide that the election of board members or district officers, budget votes, or votes on other public questions shall proceed by Australian ballot, then the voters of a union school district may vote to do so […]
§ 724. Withdrawal from or dissolution of a unified union school district (a) Definition. As used in this section, “petitioning town” means the town within a unified union school district that seeks to withdraw from the union district pursuant to the provisions of this section. (b) Withdrawal study committee. (1) To initiate the process set […]
§ 725. Withdrawal from or dissolution of a union elementary or union high school district (a) Definitions. As used in this section: (1) “Petitioning district” means: (A) a member district of a union elementary or union high school district that seeks to withdraw from the union district pursuant to the provisions of this section; or […]
