2006 Adoption Note.

1973 Mount Holly and Ludlow each voted to form a union school district and agreed to an article, which has since been amended in (b), and an expenditure account and final report.

2005 Item (b) amended.

Shall the Town School District of Mount Holly, which the State Board of Education has found necessary to include in the proposed union school district, join with the Town School District of Ludlow, which the State Board of Education has found necessary to include in the proposed union school district, for the purpose of forming a union school district, as provided in Title 16, Vermont Statutes Annotated, upon the following conditions and agreements:

(a) Class of schools. The Union School District shall operate and manage schools offering instruction in grades 7 through 12.

(b) Board of School Directors. Effective April 12, 2006, the Union School Board will be apportioned based on the combined population of the member school Districts, as determined by the 2000 United States Census. The number of School Directors from each member school District within the union school district will be determined by dividing the population of each member school district by one-sixth (the initial number of total School Board Directors) of the total aggregate population of the member school districts within the Union School District. The results of this division shall be rounded to the nearest whole number.  Beginning with the 2010 United States Census and thereafter, the school Board shall be reapportioned based upon the above formula, provided however, that the Board of School Directors may adjust the total membership of the Board in order to assure proportional representation. At no time will a member school district have less than one school director on the union school board.

The term of office of each Director of the proposed union shall be for a period of three years; provided however that the initial Board shall be elected as follows:

(c) Apportionment of expenses. All classifications of expenditure accounts and all series numbers hereinafter referred are taken from "State Educational Records and Repots Series:  Handbook II OE 22017, Financial Accounting for Local and State School Systems, Standard Receipt and Expenditure Accounts, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education" to which handbook reference is hereby made. The term ADM (average daily membership) shall be defined as the average enrollment of resident pupils of the District attending the Union School for the first thirty (30) days of a school year in which school was actually in session; it is the quotient obtained by dividing by 30 the aggregate membership of resident pupils in the school District during the first 30 days in which the school was actually in session, but excluding pupils whose education is paid for by the Department of Welfare and this includes, but is not limited to, the children of a group foster home, educational programs, counseling and other creative and recreational programs for the purpose of serving underprivileged children.

The Union shall budget and pay its own expenses independently of the Ludlow Elementary School District, and the Ludlow Elementary School District shall budget and pay its own expenses independently of the Union. This includes all of the following accounts:  100 Administration, 200 Instruction, 300 Attendance Services, 640d Telephone and Telegraph, 820c Liability, 820d Fidelity Bond, 1000 Student Body Activities, 1100 Community Services, 1200 Capital Outlay, 1400 Outgoing Transfer, and 730a Replacement of Instructional Equipment.

610b  Custodial services  shall be provided the Union by the Ludlow Elementary School District and all employees shall be exclusively employed by the Ludlow Elementary School District and shall be under the exclusive control of the Ludlow Elementary School District.

620 The  contracted services for the Black River High School building shall be allocated 100% to the Union and shall be allocated between the member districts on a per pupil basis using ADM.

The contracted services for the elementary school building, and industrial arts building and the yard areas, parking areas and playing fields appurtenant to all the above buildings, including the Black River High School building, shall be allocated between the Union and Ludlow Elementary School District on a student-hour basis per school day using ADM, and shall be allocated between the member districts of the Union on a per pupil basis using ADM. This includes all of the following accounts:  720b Building-Contracted Services, 720c Repair of Equipment-Contracted Services, 740b Other Expenses for Buildings, 740c Repair of Equipment-Other Expenses, 740d Manufacture of Replacement Equipment, 820a Property Insurance, and 1300 Debt Service and 1200 Architectural Service - (Net after state aid).

400 Health services provided by the Union shall be allocated among the member districts on a per pupil basis using ADM. This includes all of the following accounts:  500 pupil Transportation Services, 650a Custodial Supplies 650b Supplies - Operation of Vehicles, 650d Other Supplies - Operation of Plant, 630 Heat for Building, 640a Water and Sewage, 640b Electricity, 720a Grounds - Contracted Services, and 740a Other Expenses for Grounds.

810b  Social Security - same as 100 series, except for professional personnel utilized by both the Union and the Ludlow Elementary School District for which costs shall be allocated on a student-hour basis per school day using ADM.

820b Workman's Compensation

900 Food services budget figure to be determined on a per cent basis of the previous year's participation.

(d) Final Report. The provisions of the final report approved by the State Board of Education on the 22nd day of May, 1973 which is on file in the town Clerk's office, shall govern the Union District.

1. The school Districts of Ludlow and Mount Holly are necessary to the establishment of the proposed Union.

2. There are no additional school Districts the Committee considers advisable to be included in the proposed union.

3. The Union shall be established for a class grade level from seven through twelve.

4. No new schools are necessary to be constructed.

5. The initial curriculum to be provided for grades seven through twelve shall be as outlined in Appendix A. As soon as practicable after the election of Union School Directors, the initial curriculum shall be re-examined and changes made as deemed necessary.

Initially, the present teaching staff of the Ludlow School District, grade levels seven through twelve, shall be utilized, where possible. As soon as practicable after the election of Union School Directors, the teaching staff shall be re-examined and changes made as deemed necessary.

The Union shall provide transportation. This provision is a specific condition of this report and shall not be rescinded or amended except by a majority vote of both member Districts at special or annual meetings being warned therefor.

The Union shall provide transportation in accordance with the transportation policy outlined in Appendix B. This provision is a specific condition of this report and shall not be rescinded or amended except by a majority vote of both member districts at a special or annual meeting being warned therefor.

6. The Union shall not assume the indebtedness of the proposed member Districts.

7. The Union shall not acquire any properties of the proposed member Districts. The union shall have exclusive use and possession of the Black River High School building in Ludlow, Vermont and also the nonexclusive use and possession, in common with the Ludlow School District, of the elementary school building, industrial arts building and Black River High School gymnasium and yard areas, parking areas and playing fields appurtenant thereto in Ludlow, Vermont, all owned by the Ludlow School District.

8. The allocation of capital and operating expenses of the Union among member districts shall be made in accordance with Appendix C.

9. Each proposed member District shall be entitled to one member on the Union School Board per fifty pupils or fraction thereof attending said Union School for said member District; provided however that, in the event this would result in a Board of more than eighteen members, then and in that event said Board shall be limited to eighteen members, with each  member school District being entitled to representation on said Board in the same proportion that students from said member District represent to the total attendance of said Union School.

10. The term of office of each Director of the proposed union shall be for a period of three years; provided however that the initial Board shall be elected as follows:

11. All students in the Mount Holly School District currently enrolled in a public school, other than the Black River High School in Ludlow, and entering grade level twelve in September, 1973, shall be permitted to continue in that school for the 1973-74 school year and shall not be included in ADM, as defined in Appendix C, for that year.

12. This Union proposal shall be submitted to the voters of the school Districts of Mount Holly and of Ludlow on           , 1973.