2006 Adoption Note.
1987 Barre City and Barre Town voted yes to form a union school district and agreed to articles which have since been amended in Section 8.
1995 Articles amended in Section 8.
1. The School Districts of Barre City and Barre Town are necessary for the establishment of the proposed Union High School District.
2. There are no additional school districts the Committee considers advisable to be included in the proposed Union High School District.
3. The Union High School District shall be established for a class grade level from 9 through 12 as well as the Regional Vocational Center.
4. No new schools are to be constructed.
5.A. Any transportation of students to and from the Union High School shall be the responsibility of each member district at its own discretion.
B. The negotiated agreements and individual contracts for Spaulding High School administrators, teachers, aides and custodians shall be honored by the Union High School District until such time as the Union High School District Board and the staff organizations represented negotiate new agreements for Union High School District employees.
C. The curriculum to be offered for grades 9 through 12 shall be the current Spaulding High School curriculum with any amendments made by the Barre City School Board before the Union High School District is formed or by the Union High School Board after the Union High School District is formed.
6. The Union High School District shall not assume the indebtedness of the proposed member districts.
7. The Union High School District shall not acquire any properties of the proposed member districts. The Union High School District shall have exclusive use of and responsibility for all property encompassing the present Spaulding High School and Barre Vocational Center owned by the City of Barre until such time as this Union High School District ceases to exist. All renovations, additions, or free standing capital improvements to the property being used by the Union High School District shall be funded by the Union High School District and owned by the City of Barre.
8. The expenses of building, maintaining and operating schools within Spaulding Union High School District #41 shall be divided between Barre City School District and Barre Town School District in the proportion which the average student enrollment in each district for the three immediately preceding school years bears to the total student enrollment in any given school year, commencing July 1, 1995 and continuing thereafter.
9. The Union High School District School Board representation shall be on a per capita basis, with 1 member for every 2,500 residents.
Based on population data as of October 1986 the initial representation shall be as follows:
Barre Town - 7,093 = 3 members
Barre City - 9,824 = 4 members
The representation shall be subject to re-apportionment following each decennial census.
10. Terms of office of the Union High School District School Board members:
A. One director from Barre Town and two directors from Barre City to be elected to serve until July 1 following the second annual meeting of said District.
B. One director from Barre Town and one director from Barre City to be elected to serve until July 1 following the third annual meeting of said District.
C. One director from Barre Town and one director from Barre City to be elected to serve until July 1 following the fourth annual meeting of said District.
Schedule:
July 1, 1988 - 1 Barre Town - 2 Barre City expire
July 1, 1989 - 1 Barre Town - 1 Barre City expire
July 1, 1990 - 1 Barre Town - 1 Barre City expire
11. The Union High School District proposal shall be submitted to the voters of Barre Town and Barre City on March 3, 1987.
12. Tuition students from Barre Town who will be juniors or seniors in their present State approved tuition receiving school in 1987-88 may elect
to complete their studies and graduate from the school with full tuition being paid by the Barre Town School District. These students will not be counted in determining the allocation of capital and operating expenses of the Union High School District.
13. The Union High School shall be known as Spaulding High School.