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(C) Final Operating and Maintenance Budget The Committee shall adopt an annual operating and maintenance budget for the ensuing fiscal year not later than forty-five days prior to the earliest date on which the business session of the annual town meeting of any member town is to be held, but in no event later than March 31, provided that said budget need not be adopted earlier than February 1. Said annual operating and maintenance budget shall include debt and interest charges and any other current capital costs as separate items, and the said Committee shall apportion the amounts necessary to be raised in order to meet the said budget in accordance with the provisions of Section IV. The amounts so apportioned to each member town shall be certified by the district treasurer to the treasurer of such member town within thirty days from the dates on which the annual operating and maintenance budget is adopted by the Committee, and each such town shall, at the next annual town meeting, appropriate the amounts so certified. (Amendment #1 -- 11/20/73) If the amount necessary to meet the annual operating and maintenance budget for a fiscal year in which the admission of one or more new member towns becomes or is to become effective, shall have been determined and apportioned without regard to the payments to be received from any such member town as its share of the capital and operating costs of the District, the Committee may reopen the budget, may re-determine the amounts necessary to meet the budget taking account of such payments, and may reapportion such amounts among the other member towns in accordance with the provisions of Section IV; provided, however, that the shares of such amounts reapportioned to the member towns (other than such new member towns) shall be less than the amounts previously apportioned to such towns. (Amendment #2 -- 2/20/79) SECTION VI TRANSPORTATION School transportation shall be provided by the regional school district and the cost thereof shall be apportioned to the member towns as an operating cost. During the first fiscal year in which the admission pursuant to Section VIII of a new member town is effective, such town shall be responsible for providing school transportation for pupils from the town enrolled in the regional district school and for paying the costs of such transportation. (Amendment #2 -- 2/20/79) SECTION VII AMENDMENTS (A) Limitation This agreement may be amended from time to time in the manner hereinafter provided, but no such amendment shall be made which shall substantially impair the, rights of the holders of any bonds or notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the District then outstanding, or the right of the District to procure the means for payment thereof, provided that nothing in the section shall prevent the admission of a new town or towns to the District and the reapportionment accordingly of capital costs of the District represented by bonds or notes of the District then outstanding and of interest thereon. (B) Procedure Any proposal for amendment, except a proposal for amendment providing for the withdrawal of a member town (which shall be acted upon as provided in Section DC), may be initiated by a vote of a majority of all members of the Committee or by a petition signed by at least 10 per cent of the registered voters of any one of the member towns. In the latter case, said petition shall contain at the end thereof a certification by the Town Clerk of such member town as to the number of registered voters in said town according to the most recent voting list and the number of signatures on the petition which appear to be the names of registered voters of said town and said petition shall be presented to the secretary of the Committee. In either case, the secretary of the Committee shall mail or deliver a notice in writing to the Board of Selectmen of each of the member towns that a proposal to amend this agreement has been made and shall enclose a copy of such proposal (without the signatures in the case of a proposal by petition). The selectmen of each member town shall include in the warrant for the next annual or a special town meeting called for the purpose an article stating the proposal or the substance thereof. Such amendment shall take effect upon its acceptance by all the member towns, acceptance by each town to be by a majority vote at a town meeting as aforesaid. File Number 2.10District AgreementPage 5 of 7