2006 Adoption Note.
1964 Orleans and Barton each voted yes on the articles below.
1965 Albany, Brownington, Glover, Irasburg, Westmore, and part of Coventry requested and were granted admission to join the Union District.
To see if the voters of Barton Academy and Graded School District will vote to join with the Orleans Incorporated School District for the purpose of forming a union high school district pursuant to the authority contained in Title 16, Chapter 11, Section 601 to Section 663 inclusive of Vermont Statutes Annotated, said union 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 high school district:
(a) TYPE OF HIGH SCHOOL: Said Union High School District shall operate as a High School, a Senior High School having a four year course, consisting of Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.
(b) LOCATION: Said Senior High School shall be located within the territorial limits of the Town of Barton on the so-called Doyon site.
(c) TRANSPORTATION EXPENSE: The expense of transportation of pupils to the said Senior High School shall be provided by the Union High School District from a central pick-up point in each member district to the school and then return thereto.
(d) STUDENT ENROLLMENT: Student enrollment shall include all students residing in a member district and enrolled in a public school on October 15 of any school year in Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.
(e) APPORTIONMENT OF EXPENSE: All expenses including capital cost and debt service for maintaining and operating said Union High School District shall be divided among the member districts in the proportion which the student enrollment as above defined, in each member district for the previous school year bears to the total number of student enrollment, as above defined, for said year in all the districts in said Union High School District.
(f) BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS: The School Board of said Union High School District shall consist of two directors from Barton Academy and Graded School District and two directors from Orleans Incorporated School District.