The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
001
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GENERALLY
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 267)
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§ 267. Joint agreements among supervisory unions
(a) Supervisory unions, or administrative units not within a supervisory union, in order
to provide services cooperatively, may at any annual or special meeting of the supervisory
unions, by a majority vote of the directors present and eligible to vote, enter into
a joint agreement to provide joint programs, services, facilities, and professional
and other staff that are necessary to carry out the desired programs and services.
(b) The supervisory union may provide any authorized or required services by contract
with any person, partnership, corporation, or school district within or outside the
supervisory union or with other supervisory unions. The supervisory union may also
provide such services to any independent school in the supervisory union area on such
terms as the supervisory union board deems proper. Contracts shall be approved by
the board and signed by the chair or the chair’s designee. A contract may be for a
term not to exceed four years renewable for successive four-year periods.
(c) The expense of carrying on these shared programs, services, and facilities shall be
allocated according to a plan mutually agreed upon by the participating supervisory
unions and the Secretary of Education, including agreement on revision and adequate
auditing procedures to allocate costs.
(d) Facilities constructed to house such shared programs and services when constructed
with funds from the State School Building Aid Bond Account and attached to an existing
building become a part of a new construction program. The school district within
which the special facilities are located shall own the facilities subject to the mutual
agreement on reversion.
(e) A central treasury may be established among the participating unions. Such central
treasury will receive and disburse funds of participating supervisory unions. Funds
shall be disbursed only on orders signed by at least one authorized member from each
of the participating supervisory unions. The participating supervisory unions may
jointly own personal property under their contract. (Added 1967, No. 70; amended 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 78; 1991, No. 24, § 11; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 41, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2021, No. 20, § 56.)