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Title 16 : Education
Chapter 011 : Union School Districts
Subchapter 003 : Unified Union School Districts
(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 732)-
§ 732. Unified union school district budget; preparation and authorization
(a) The board of a unified union school district shall prepare and distribute a proposed budget annually for the next school year pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 563(11) (powers of school boards; budget) of this title.
(b) If the voters do not approve the board’s proposed budget, then the board shall prepare and present a revised proposed budget pursuant to 17 V.S.A. § 2680(c)(2) (local elections; Australian ballot system; rejected budget).
(c) If the voters do not approve a budget on or before June 30 of any year, then the board of the unified union school district may borrow funds pursuant to the authority granted under section 566 (school district; authority to borrow) of this title. As used in section 566, the “most recently approved school budget” of a union school district in its first fiscal year of full operations means the cumulative budget amount of the most recently approved school budgets of all districts that merged to form the union district plus one percent. (Added 2021, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. June 7, 2022.)
