2006 Adoption Note.

1956 Brattleboro and Vernon each voted yes on the articles of agreement. Guilford and Putney also voted yes but voted not to send their 7th and 8th grade students to the Union District School.

1956 The Town School District of Dumerston requested and was granted admission to Union District Number 6 for grades 7-12.

2000 Articles of agreement were changed regarding apportionment of expenses.

ARTICLE 1

In the event, and only in the event that the Town School District of the Town of Brattleboro votes in favor of entering a Union Junior-Senior High School District, to see if the voters of the Town will vote to consolidate with one or more of the following neighboring school districts - Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney or Newfane, for the purpose of forming and of becoming a member District in a Union Junior-Senior High School District pursuant to the authority contained in No. 202 of the Acts of 1953 as amended, said Union Junior-Senior High School District to be organized and operated in accordance with the provisions of said act except as modified by the following agreements entered into by the school districts forming said Union Junior-Senior High School District:

(a) Said Union Junior-Senior High School District shall provide six years of secondary school education in grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 for all towns which vote to become members of the Union Junior-Senior High School District.

(b) Said junior-senior high school shall provide school facilities for grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 such facilities to be located within the territorial limits of the Town of Brattleboro.

(c) The Union Junior-Senior High School District shall provide such transportation as is necessary to transport Union Junior-Senior High School District pupils in grades 7 through 12 to and from Union Junior-Senior High School District  schools, such transportation to be limited to the transporting of pupils to and from such central points in member district towns and such other central points as shall be determined by the Union Junior-Senior High School District Board of School Directors.

(d) Student enrollment shall consist of all students residing in a member District and enrolled for the whole or a part of given school year in grades 7 through 12, or enrolled for all or part of such year in said grades in any other school within said member District or elsewhere, except that students attending the 7th through 12th grades of a parochial or private school, including Leland and Grey Seminary, shall not be included, nor shall there be included students attending the 7th and 8th grades in those member Districts which before the July 1, 1956, have voted not to send their 7th and 8th grade students to said Union Junior-Senior High School District schools. In the event that a member District shall vote, subsequent to July 1, 1956, to send its 7th and 8th grade students to the Union Junior-Senior High School District schools and such vote is approved by the Union Junior-Senior High School District, upon the recommendation of the Board of School Directors of the Union Junior-Senior High School District, then such member District shall send its 7th and 8th grade students to the Union Junior-Senior High School District Schools and the student enrollment of such member District, as above defined, shall be amended so as to include such 7th and 8th grade students therein.

(e) All expenses of the Junior High School grades 7 and 8, including transportation, building, maintaining and operating expenses shall be shared by and charged to the member Districts in the proportion which the grade 7 and 8 student enrollment as above defined, in each member District for the previous school year bears to the total number of grade 7 and 8 student enrollment, as above defined, for said year in all the Districts. All expenses of the High School grades 9 through 12, including transportation, building, maintaining and operating expenses shall be shared by and charged to the member Districts in the proportion which the grades 9 through 12 student enrollment as above defined, in each member District for the previous school year bears to the total number of grades 9 through 12 student enrollment, as above defined, for said year in all the Districts.

(f) The School Board of said Union Junior-Senior High School District shall consist of Directors to be nominated by the member Districts at their respective annual meetings and elected at the annual Union Junior-Senior High School District meeting. Each member District shall be entitled to one Director for each 100 students or fractional part thereof, students to be counted on the basis of student enrollment, as above defined for the previous school year. It is further provided that a member District shall be entitled to a Director only if the student enrollment, as above defined, for the previous school year for that member District was 20 or more. Temporary School Directors to serve for the period of time from the formation of this Union Junior-Senior High School District up to the first annual meeting of this Union Junior-Senior High School District shall be elected from the nominees of the respective member Districts, said temporary school Directors to be nominated prior to the first meeting of the Union Junior-Senior High School District called by the Commissioner of Education, as provided for in No. 202 of the Acts of 1953, as amended. Alternate school Directors may be nominated and elected in the same manner.

(g) The Town School District of the Town of Brattleboro shall lease its present High School plant to the Union Junior-Senior High School District for an annual rental, payable on or before April 15 and October 15, sufficient to retire the bonds issued by the School District of the Town of Brattleboro against this property as they become due, plus a sum sufficient so that said bonds, the Union Junior-Senior High School District shall have paid to the School District of Brattleboro the total sum of $950,000, which is adjudged to be the fair market value of this property at this time, plus interest at 1 percent per annum on the outstanding balance due over the period of the lease, and the Town Clerk of Brattleboro, at such time as the total sum of $950,000, plus interest is paid to the School District of Brattleboro by the Union Junior-Senior High School District shall transfer by deed the present Brattleboro High School Property of the School District of Brattleboro, including the grandstand, to the Union Junior-Senior High School District.