2006 Adoption Note.

1964 Derby and Newport each voted yes on the following article:

 ARTICLE I: To see if the voters of the said Town of Derby/Newport School District will vote to join with the City of Newport/Derby School District to form a Union High School District under the provisions of Section 601 to 693, as amended inclusive, of Chapter 11, Title 16 of the 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:

(a) Board of School Directors: The Board of School Directors shall be nominated in accordance with Article 2, Section 613, Title 16 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, it being agreed that the number of school Directors be as follows: One school Director for each 150 pupils or major fraction thereof enrolled in each member district as of October 15 of the year preceding election and at least one director from each member district.

(b) Student enrollment: Student enrollment shall only include all students residing in a member district and enrolled on October 15 of any school year in grades 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 in the public schools.

(c) Use of present Derby Academy Building: When a Union High School is constructed, the present Derby Academy building shall be used to house grades 7 and 8 as a part of the Union High School. Prior to the vote on any bond issue an agreement of sale of the Derby Academy building to the Union High School District must be consummated.

1965 Lowell requested and was granted admission to the Union District in grades 7 through 12 upon the conditions below. In addition Brighton, Charleston, Holland, Jay, Morgan, Newport Town, Troy and Westfield requested and were granted admission to the Union District.

(a) No member Town School District shall be obliged to send its pupils to the Union High School in grades 7 and 8, but any may vote to do so at a Town School District meeting called and held for the purpose, provided that admission of such pupils to grades 7 and 8 of the union high school shall take place not earlier than September of the year following the year in which such vote is taken.

(b) Representation. Representation on the Board of School Directors of the Union High School District shall be calculated so that there will be one Director from each member district for each 150 pupils or major fraction thereof residing in such member district and enrolled in grades 7 through 12 of any public school on October 15 of the preceding school year, except that students attending the 7th and 8th grades in those member districts which have not voted to send their 7th and 8th grade students to said Union High School District shall not be included. Each member district shall be represented by at least one school Director.

(c) Apportionment of expense. The expense of building, operating and maintaining the Union High School shall be divided among the several member districts in the proportion which the student enrollment from each District, as above defined, bears to the total student enrollment from all member districts.

(d) Purchase of Derby Academy. Upon construction of a new Union High School building, the present Derby Academy building shall be used to house grades 7 and 8 as part of the Union High School. Prior to or concurrently with the issue of any bonds to finance construction of a new Union High School the Union High School District shall secure the right to acquire the Derby Academy building from the Derby Town School District, the expense of such acquisition to be divided as above provided.

1970 Holland voted to change its membership from a 9-12 basis to a 8-12 basis.

1988 The member districts voted yes on the following:

Shall the manner in which the operating and capital expenses and liabilities of the North Country Union High School District are allocated among the member town and city school districts be amended as follows:

Effective with its fiscal year beginning July 1, 1988, and for all fiscal years thereafter, the operating and capital expenses and liabilities of the North Country Union High School District shall be allocated among the member town and city school districts in the following manner:

1. All operating and capital expenses and liabilities pertaining to the North Country Union Junior High School shall be allocated only to those school districts that are members of the North Country Union High School District with respect to Grades 7 and 8, or either of said Grades. The allocation shall be made among said member school districts in the proportion which the student enrollment from each member school district in the North Country Union Junior High School bears to the total enrollment in that facility from all member school districts.

2. All operating and capital expenses and liabilities pertaining to the North Country Union Senior High School shall be allocated only to those school districts that are members of the North Country Union High School District with respect to Grades 9 through 12, both inclusive. The allocation shall be made among said member school districts in the proportion which the student enrollment from each member school district in the North Country Union Senior High School bears to the total enrollment in that facility from all member school districts.

3. Student enrollment shall be determined by reference to actual student enrollment in each facility on October 15 in the school year immediately preceding the fiscal year budget for which the allocation is being made.

4. Whenever possible all expenses and liabilities shall be apportioned between North Country Union Junior High School and North Country Union Senior High School on the basis of actual cost. If a particular expense or liability item cannot be apportioned on the basis of actual cost with respect to each facility, the Board of Directors of the North Country Union High School District, in its discretion, shall determine an apportionment by use of one of the following methods: prorated resident pupil enrollment, prorated teaching staff or prorated area of the buildings comprising each facility.

5. All decisions relative to the operation of the Junior High School will be voted on only by the board members that are elected to represent those school districts that are members of the North Country Union High School District with respect to Grades 7 and 8 or either of said grades. All decisions relative to the operation of the Senior High School will be voted on only by the board members that are elected to represent those school districts that are members of the North Country Union High School District with respect to Grades 9-12.

6. All decisions relative to the operation of the Junior High School that require a public vote will be voted on only by the legal voters that reside in a town and/or city that is a member of the North Country Union High School District with respect to Grades 7 and 8 or either of said grades. All decisions relative to the operation of the Senior High School that require a public vote will be voted on only by the legal voters that reside in a town and/or city that is a member of the North Country Union High School District with respect to Grades 9-12.