Title 16APPENDIX, Title 16APPENDIX: Education Charters and Agreements

§ 11-1.5. Exemption from taxation The District shall be exempt from all local taxation in the Town of Essex.

§ 11-1.6. District voter A citizen of voting age, as defined by State and federal law, whose name is on the voting list taken in the Village of Essex Junction at the annual assessment next preceding a District meeting or who has attained voting age subsequent to such assessment, …

§ 11-1.7. Inconsistency with general law This chapter shall control whenever any general act or law is inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.

§ 11-1.8. Effect of prior law All acts, parts of acts, and bylaws, inconsistent with this chapter, except as herein otherwise provided, are hereby repealed. By the provisions of this chapter, so far as they are the same as those acts hereby amended, shall be construed as a contin…

§ 11-1.9. Implementation of charter This chapter shall not become operative or effective until approved, ratified, and adopted by a majority of the legal voters of the Essex Junction School District voting at a duly warned meeting. If this chapter is voted favorably by a majority…

§ 11-2.1. Officers The officers shall be a Moderator, five Prudential Committee members composing the Prudential Committee, a Clerk-Treasurer who shall be the same person, and a Collector of Taxes. All officers shall be chosen from legally qualified voters in the District.

§ 11-2.2. Election and terms of officers The Moderator and the five Prudential Committee members shall be elected at the annual meeting or on the day following. A Moderator shall be elected every year and shall serve a term of one year. The Moderator’s term of office shall commen…

§ 11-2.3. Vacancies When an officer resigns, dies, becomes incapacitated, or removes residency from the District, such office shall be considered vacant. When a vacancy occurs in any office, other than the office of Moderator, Clerk-Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes, the Prudenti…

§ 11-2.4. Bonding of officers A Prudential Committee member shall not be a Clerk-Treasurer or Collector of Taxes. Before entering upon their duties, the Collector of Taxes and Clerk-Treasurer shall give a bond to the District conditioned for the faithful performance of their duti…

§ 11-2.5. Board of Civil Authority The Moderator, Prudential Committee, Clerk-Treasurer, and Justices of the Peace residing in the District shall constitute a Board of Civil Authority in the District. The Board of Civil Authority shall have the same authority and power to abate t…

§ 11-2.6. Moderator The Moderator shall preside at the District meeting and in his or her absence, a Moderator Pro Tempora may be elected. As the presiding officer at District meetings, the Moderator shall perform the same duties and have the same authority as moderators at town …

§ 11-2.7. Clerk-Treasurer The Clerk-Treasurer of Essex Junction School District shall keep a record of the proceedings of the District and shall have the power to certify the copies of the same and shall perform the duties and have the authority and powers incident to clerks and …

§ 11-2.8. Collector of Taxes Except as modified by this charter, the Collector of Taxes shall perform the same duties and have the same authority and power in the collection of taxes as those given by law to collectors of taxes and collectors of delinquent taxes in towns.

§ 11-3.1. Duties and powers of Prudential Committee The Prudential Committee in addition to other powers and duties specifically assigned and allowed by law for school boards shall: (1) Have the management of all business and affairs of the District and all authority and powers n…

§ 11-4.1. Annual meeting The annual meeting of the District shall be held at an appropriate meeting place within the District on the second Tuesday of May in each year, or at such place or time as the District may vote, but never later than June 15. Annual meetings shall be warne…

§ 11-4.2. Special meetings Special meetings of the District shall be warned by the School District Clerk, or by the Prudential Committee, either upon its own volition or upon application in writing signed by one percent or more of the legal voters of the District.

§ 11-4.3. Warnings A warning for an annual or special District meeting shall be posted in three or more public places in the District not less than 30 and not more than 40 days before the meeting, setting forth the time and place of the meeting and the business to be done.

§ 11-4.4. Parliamentary and voting procedures All decisions at District meetings shall be decided by majority vote unless otherwise provided in this chapter. Parliamentary matters shall follow Robert’s Rules of Order as it is from time to time revised.

§ 11-5.1. Grand list The grand list of the Town of Essex composed of the taxable property and estate within the limits of the District shall constitute the grand list of the District. The District may at an annual or special meeting legally warned for that purpose vote to lay and…

§ 11-5.2. Borrowing The District may borrow money in any year in anticipation of taxes assessed in such year, in an amount not to exceed 90 percent of the taxes assessed in such year. Such notes or orders, however, must mature within one year from the date thereof and be paid fro…

§ 11-5.3. Issuance of negotiable bonds The District is hereby authorized and empowered by a vote of a majority of all voters voting at a legally warned meeting held for that purpose to issue its negotiable bonds or negotiable interest-bearing notes pursuant to State statutes.