2006 Adoption Note.

1959 Brandon Graded School District, Brandon Town School District, Goshen, and Pittsford each voted yes on the question below.

1963 Leicester requested and was granted permission to join the Union District.

1969 Whiting requested and was granted permission to join the Union District on a 7-12 basis.

2003 The member districts voted to amend section (d) in order that students are counted according to average daily membership instead of the number enrolled.

In the event, and only in the event, that the Brandon Graded School District, Inc., an Incorporated School District in the Town of Brandon shall vote to join and become a member of the Union High School District herein proposed, to see if the voters of the Town School District of the Town of Pittsford/Goshen/Brandon will vote to join with said Brandon Graded School District, Inc. and with the Town School Districts of the Towns of Brandon, Chittenden, Goshen, Leicester, Orwell, Rochester, Shoreham, Sudbury and Whiting, or with any one or more of such town school districts, for the purpose of forming a Union High School District, pursuant to No. 202 of the Acts of 1953, as amended by No. 201 of the Acts of 1955 and No. 60 of the Acts of 1957, said Union High School District to be organized and operated in accordance with the provisions of said Acts of 1953, as amended, except as the provisions of such Acts may be modified by the terms and provisions of the following paragraphs, which said terms and provisions shall constitute agreements binding upon all of the school districts as become a member of said Union High School District.

(a) Type of High School: Said Union High School District shall construct and operate a junior-senior high school providing six years of secondary school education in grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

(b) Location: Should the Town School District of the Town of Pittsford vote to join and become a member of said Union High School District, said Union High School building shall be located within the Town of Brandon upon a site situated southerly of the town road running in an easterly-westerly direction, just northerly of Jones Pond, so-called, between the highway, U.S. Route No. 7, and the highway, State Aid Route No. 8, leading from said U.S. Route No. 7 to that part of Brandon known as Forestdale. In the event the Pittsford Town School District should not become a member of said Union School District, said high school building shall be located within the Town of Brandon upon such site as the Board of School Directors of said Union School District shall select.

(c) Name: The name of said junior-senior high school shall be Otter Valley Union High School.

(d) Student Enrollment: Student enrollment, as to any given school year, shall be the average daily membership enrolled in said junior-senior union high school during the census period established by 16 V.S.A. § 4001(1)(A) as now constituted or hereafter amended.

(e) Option As To 7th And 8th Grade Students. Each member district, prior to the formation of said Union High School District, shall have the right to decide whether or not to send its 7th and 8th grade students to said junior-senior union high school, and, if any member district shall vote not to send its 7th and 8th grade students to said junior-senior union high school, such students shall not be included in the student enrollment of said Union High School District, as above defined.

(f) Apportionment of Expense. All expenses of said Union High School District, including the building, maintaining and operating of said junior-senior union high school and the transportation of students, shall be divided among the member districts in the proportion which the student enrollment, as above defined, in each member district for the previous year bears to the total student enrollment in all the member districts of said Union High School District.

(g) Board of School Directors. The Board of School Directors of said Union High School District shall consist of directors to be nominated by the member districts at their respective annual meetings, or at special meetings called for that purpose, and elected at the annual meeting of the Union High School District. Each member district shall be entitled to one director for each seventy-five (75) students, or fractional number thereof, in said District, said students to be counted on the basis of student enrollment, as above defined, for the previous year, 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 five (5) or more. Temporary school Directors to serve for the period of time from the formation of said Union High School District up to the first annual meeting of said Union High School District shall be elected from the nominees of the respective member districts, said temporary Directors to be nominated prior to the first meeting of the Union High School District to be called by the Commissioner of Education as provided in Sec. 6 of No. 202 of the Acts of 1953, as amended.