Vermont § 732 - Unified union school district budget; preparation and authorization

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§ 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.)

Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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