§ 562 - Powers of electorate - Vermont Statutes

§ 562. Powers of electorate

At a school district meeting, the electorate:

(1) Shall conduct meetings in accordance with Roberts Rules of Order, unless other rules of order are specifically adopted at a meeting;

(2) Shall elect a moderator at the annual meeting who shall preside at the district meetings, regulate the business thereof, decide questions of order, and make a public declaration of every vote. The moderator may administer oaths to district officers and newly elected school board members. In the moderator's absence, a moderator pro tempore shall be chosen to preside;

(3) May elect a school district clerk at the annual meeting who shall keep a true record of all proceedings at each district meeting, certify its records, make an attested copy of any records of the district for any person upon request and tender of reasonable fees therefor, if so appointed serve as secretary of the school board, and perform such other duties as may be required by law;

(4) May authorize the school board to retain a public accountant, licensed in this state, to examine the accounts of the treasurer and the school board at the close of each fiscal year and at such other times whenever necessary, and report to the district whether the same are correctly cast and properly vouched;

(5) May vote annual salaries for school board members;

(6) May authorize the payment of actual and necessary expenses of school board members when traveling in the performance of duty;

(7) May authorize the school board to enter into leases of real property for more than three years, to purchase buildings or sites for school purposes, to locate and erect schoolhouses, and to sell, or otherwise dispose of, schoolhouses or sites for same;

(8) Shall authorize at each annual school district meeting an amount of money from all revenue sources to be expended by the board for the support of public schools; and, except for one-time purchase items which the board warns as a separate article, the board shall determine how the authorized funds shall be expended;

(9) May authorize the school board to borrow money by issuance of bonds, or notes not in excess of anticipated revenue for the school year;

(10) Shall elect school board directors and other officers as are required for each class of school district.

(11) [Repealed.] (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 39; amended 1975, No. 192 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1979, No. 23, § 3; 2003, No. 12, § 2; 2005, No. 54, § 4; 2005, No. 182 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)