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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-RVSDPB-rpt.pdf tl� 111f ! , A PROPOSAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MINUTEMAN REGIONAL VOCATIONAL 1 TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL Acton Lexington Arlington Lincoln Belmont Stow Boxborough Sudbury Carlisle Wayland Concord Weston To the residents of Acton, Arlington, Belmont, Box- entering the labor market with no job skills A voca- borough, Carlisle, Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Stow, tional-technical high school will enable many of our Sudbury, Wayland and Weston. young people to learn the necessary skills for productive employment The Minuteman Regional Vocational-Technical High The Minuteman Regional Vocational-Technical High School Planning Board has been studying the broad School will be a sound investment for the future It will area of vocational technical education for the past two permit member communities to fulfill their obligations years It is the Board's considered judgement that. to those young people who want vocational training 1 There is a lack of occupational-technicial edu- Your town will be able to broaden its base of educational cation oppoitunities fot the young people in orpottunities at a minimum of cost this area Please read this brochui e carefully. 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The situation will become more acute in the auswei the many questions you may have about the years ahead. proposed regional school district You can then make an informed decision before you vote on the proposed 3 A regional vocational technical high school is the most effective and economical solution to agreement when it is presented in your town the present and future needs for vocational Respectfully submitted, education in the several towns At a time when industry needs additional skilled Minuteman Regional Vocational-Technical workers a large number of high school graduates are High School Planning Board The Buff and Blue Acknowledgment The buff and blue colors used in this brochure are emblematic The art work, layout and printing of this brochure was done by of the uniforms worn by the Minutemen after they left their trades the students of the Blue Hills Regional Vocational High School under and shops and farms to become part of the Continental Army Origin- the guidance of their faculty It is typical of the high standards being ally the Minutemen wore only their homespun work clothes, but when set in vocational-technical education throughout Massachusetts The an army was formed they proudly donned the buff and blue of the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School Planning Board Continental soldiers who won our country's independence is sincerely appreciative of a fine job. Is there a need for a vocational-technical economical manner via a regional vocational-tech- high school in the Minuteman Region? nical school Each town in the proposed region has high school Have other towns joined together to build students who do not go on to further education and similar schools? have not been trained for suitable employment In addition, some potentially capable students are drop Massachusetts is leading the country in developing ping out of school before graduation because they are the regional-vocational school concept Nineteen such unable to find a program to meet their needs and in- schools are now operating or under construction in the terests in an academic high school Many of these have state. Minuteman will be the twentieth These schools the aptitude, interest, and ability to learn the skills of a have been accepted enthusiastically by students in the useful and highly remunerative vocation It is these participating communities. Statewide regional vocation- students who would benefit from vocational training al-technical schools are presently able to admit only one Based on present school enrollments in the twelve towns, out of three applicants. it is estimated that not lees than 1500 young people fall in this gi oup - ,,1 \ Why should we have a "regional" school? a ' It is neither fiscally prudent nor educationally sound t 1 for any of our towns individually to provide an extensive , modern vocational high school curriculum None of our -�'' wit .:--, ,' I towns could afford the facilities and personnel to 1- provide adequate vocational-technical training for the 40 comparatively small enrollment of any single town. a Recognizing this problem, the state and federal govern- ments have made provisions for a group of towns to pool their interests, talents, and resources to provide broad vocational training on a regional basis State and • 4, G " federal financial aid makes possible the planning, build- mg, and operating of regional vocational schools with little additional tax burden on already "school swollen" local tax rates With this financial assistance towns can u fulfill their obligation to provide vocational technical .,' education for those young people who need it, in the most How will students be selected? SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES The objective of the selection process will be to choose those boys and girls who will benefit the most Where will the school be located? from vocational technical training Close cooperation between the staff of the Minuteman School and the local The school will be located within a radius of five superintendents, junior high school and high school miles of the intersection of Route 2 and Bedford Road principals and guidance counselors in the various towns in Lincoln This is the geograhic center of the region and in the region will be required can be reached easily from any point in the district In many fields in which courses will be offered me- chanical aptitude on the part of the student is essential How large will it be? This aptitude can be determined by testing and students wishing to study in these fields will be throughly tested The school will be planned for a student body of before acceptance In all fields however, motivation and 1500 pupils in grades nine througn twelve. It will be interest will be important considerations for admission a modern unit with shops, laboratories, classrooms, ath- letic plant and supporting facilities. Does industry support vocational-technical education? When will it open? Yes In today's labor market there is an unprecedented The schedule calls for the school to open in Septem- demand for skilled, qualified young workers ready to ber 1974 fill the career ranks in thousands of technically-oriented industries throughout the nation Surveys by the Divi Will the towns be given an opportunity to sion of Occupational Education of the Massachusetts approve the plans? Department of Education indicate that this same situa- tion exists throughout the Minuteman Region Skilled Yes If the towns approve the establishment of the labor is often the first consideration of industries seek- region a regional school committee will be appointed ing to build or expand At the present time .many of the within ten days Among its dutiLs will be the selection courses given at regional vocational.-technical schools of an architect to prepare plans 1 hese plans, together throughout Massachusetts are at the request of individual with a proposal for a bond issue to finance the construc- companies to prepare students for specific job require- tion of the school will be presented to the towns in the merits region for their approval THE CURRICULUM a balanced program for each student consisting of shop time, shop-related courses and conventional aca- The curriculum will be built around the basic pur- demic subjects such as English, History, Mathematics, nose of the Minuteman School as set forth b) the Science, etc Planning Board TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE ACADEMIC AND Is a boy or girl entering ninth grade old TECHNICAL SUBJECTS WHICH WILL ENABLE enough to select a future career? EACH STUDENT TO DEVELOP TO HIS FULL The ninth and tenth grade programs will be explora- POTENTIAL IN TERMS OF ENTERING A CA tory in nature, allowing exposure to various areas and REER OR CONTINUING HIS EDUCATION occupational skills of potential interest to the student Specialization will occur in the eleventh and twelfth The curriculum will be designed to attract and grades satisfy the vocationally and technically oriented student At the same time it will be structured so that the student ti . with learning problems who can benefit from a tech- -y _ " a nical vocational program will be able to do so Provisions ./ -'" will be made for some students who are academically, socially, or physically disadvantaged or handicapped r - ter. ---V, Will the curriculum involve four full years? ,, Yes Most students will enter the school at the ninth t' grade level and will be required to complete tour years , -...tea .y of work to graduate, receiving not only a high school .,!,, diploma but a certificate of completion in their trade , or technology Under certain circumstances, however, .0.• 1!' a limited number of students may be allowed to transfer i I 1 from general high schools at higher levels "1 It 1 Will conventional academic subjects be -� r a, ` offered? 4 - , , ' Yes The State Department of Education requires .- _`- Will the facilities of the Minuteman School engine repair, auto repair, aircraft engine and jet mechanics. be available for adult education courses? Yes. Many of the existing regional vocational-tech Communications Technology nical schools operate on a seven day-a-week schedule with the equipment and instructors available for adult Electronics, computer technician, data processing, education courses and advance study Trade preparatory, telephone and television trade extension to upgrade those in the trade, and apprenticeship programs sponsored by both labor unions Fluids and industry could double the day school enrollment Plumbing, heating, air conditioning, pneumatics, What courses will be offered? hydraulics The specific courses to be offered will be determined by the Regional School Committee and the Superm General Science Technology tendent-Director of the school working closely with the staffs of the general high schools and industrial Science and engineering laboratory technician, in- and labor union leaders in the region Subjects of strument test and repair, ecology interest to girls as well as boys will be given. The final selection of courses will be subject to approval Graphic Arts by the State Board of Education The Planning Board recommends the consideration of the following fields Printing, commercial art, photography, graphic arts of study design Materials Fabrication Home Economics Autobody repair, carpentry trades, welding, sheet metal Culinary arts, food services, dietary technician, furni- work, machine shop including program operated ma- ture design, interior design, cosmetology, tailoring and chines, plastics, mechanical drafting, architectural draft clothing manufacture ing Energy Conversion Health Occupations Rotating machinery, electric motors and generators, Health services, practical nursing, dental assistants, power distribution (electrician), heating plants, small laboratory assistants, family health care services s "' , ed in the future Individual courses will be designed _ - to make the students aware of the pace of technological -------- d :,t. 3' progress and to encourage a desire to keep abreast of <� i -------- such progress and to learn to adapt to changes in job requirements Training for adaptable skills rather than ''..<,:41 s specificjobs will be stressed Advisorycommittees for p meach subject field, composed of representatives of in- "'l �" v , --� i ; �_ dustry and labor, are required by the state These com- 1 iyp� N, .;,, ;,.: mittees will help keep the administration abreast of changing technology and will make certain that the school equipment is up to date and includes the latest ` ' 4 r models used by industry 421 ~ �� ,• mak, `� Will the vocational-technical school duplicate - '40P.44„, , V > the programs and objectives of existing high schools? Can a graduate of a vocational-technical No The purposes of the schools are different There high school qualify for admittance to college? must, however, be close coordination and working ar- Yes Many do Whenever a student has the motivation rangements between the Minuteman staff and the high and ability to continue his education beyond high school schools in the region so that each can benefit from the he is encouraged to take the academic courses necessary strengths of the other For example, Minuteman's special for college entrance or advanced technical training laboratories and facilities should be available in special Existing vocational technical schools have found that cases for students from general high schools and the many youngsters with little interest in school, or with faculty should be available to assist in the development disciplinary problems, become "turned on' and want of the Industrial Arts activities in the other high more education because this type of education is mean schools The faculties of the general high schools will ingful to them be able to assist Minuteman's students interested in Will a technical vocation learned at Minute- advanced work in academic subjects To secure the necessary coordination the Planning man today be obsolete tomorrow because of Board recommends the establishment of an "Education technological progress? Advisory Committee" consisting of the school superin It is difficult if not impossible, to forecast in detail tendents in each of the original towns to work with the what jobs will be available or what skills will be need Superintendent Director of the Minuteman School COSTS interest sates in September 1970 A reduction in interest 1 ates to 5% would reduce total costs by over $1,000,000 What will it cost to construct and equip the school? Chapter 70 Monies Vo-Tec is an educational bargain By virtue of various State and Federal aids to regional vocational-technical Each year Chaptei 70 monies (Cherry Sheet figures) schools the per pupil costs to member towns are sur- i eturned by the Commonwealth to treasurers of towns prismgly low which are members of a region are increased by 15% Following consultations with State authorities, the above what they would have normally received for Regional Planning Board has estimated that the net that yeas were they not members of a school region cost to the region for a fully equipped 1500 pupil The following listed towns ai e not presently members school will approximate $12,000,000 The following of such regions An indication of the additional amounts is a break down of the estimated costs ins olved is shown by the following figures 1 Total estimated constuction and Adt'l Amts equipment costs (a) $12,000,000 which would 2 Reimbursable planning costs 600,000 Town Act'l 1969 R c pts have been 1ec'd 3 Adjusted costs 11,400,000 Arlington $ 786,520 $117,978 4 Estimated State construction grant (b) 5,760,000 Belmont 381,062 57,159 5 Net cost of construction 5,640,000 Lexington 1,444,085 216,613 6 Interest on loan Wayland 530,168 79,525 (6% for 20 years) (c) 6,426,000 Weston 249,337 37,401 7 Total estimated net cost of These funds go directly to each town treasurer, • construction and financing $12,066,000 NOT to the Regional School District, and can be used (a) This figure does not include site acquisition costs in any manner the town meeting deems advisable, i e, which could approach $300,000 sewers, i oad constiuction, etc These funds ai e apps o- (b) This figure is based on 40% State aid on adjusted priated by the Legislature to encourage regionahzation cost plus a minimum of 10% Federal funds The 10% These ha\e been suggestions in the Legislature that estimated Federal aid is conservative and will probably the above 15% be increased and thele have been sug- be higher The Federal goverment also loans available gestions that when a to'n is a member of mo or more equipment for the cost of transportation from govern- legions an additional inclement be added to the pres- ment warehouses ent 15% Neither of these pioposals, however, can be (c) The 6% interest cost is conservative and is based on counted on at this time Estimated Apportionment of Net Capital Cost (exclusive of site) Based on Present High School Attendance % of Cost total Cost 1st Yr.* 10th Yr * 20th Yi * "I own (A) (20 years) Cost Cost Cost Acton 8.40% • $1,013,544.00 $75,096.00 $51,962.40 $26,258.40 Arlington 19 98% 2,410,786 80 178,621 20 123,596 28 62,457 48 Belmont 10.52% 1,269,343.20 94,048.80 65,076.72 32,885.52 Boxboi ough 93% 112,213 80 8,314 20 5,752 98 2,907 18 Carlisle 1.69% 203,915.40 15,108.60 . 10,454.34 5,282.94 Como!d 8 84`,c, 1,066,634 40 79,029 60 54,681 2-1 27 613 8 I Lexington _ 20.61% 2,486,802.60 184,253.40 127,493.46 64,426.86 Lincoln 2 35% 283,551.00 21,009 00 14,537 10 7,346,10 Sudbury 9.39% 1,132,997.40 83,946.60 58,086.54 29,353.14 Stow 2 06% 248,559 60 18,416.40 12,713 16 6,439 56 Wayland 9.23% • 1,113,691.80 • 82,516.20 57,096.78 28,852.98 Weston 6 00% 723,960.00 53,640 00 37,116 00 18,756 00 TOTAL $12,066,000.00 $894,000.00 1 $618,600.00 $312,600.00 (A) Cost distribution among the towns used above, is based on high school attendance during 1969-1970. It may vary slightly from year to yeas based on the proportion the number of students attending from each town bears to the total number of students attending the Minuteman School. At the tune the bond issue to cover the cost of the school is pre- sented to the towns percentages as of that time will be used *As annual payments are made on the bond principal, interest payments will lx, reduced accordingly - 1 ... Estimated No Estimated Town of pupils Cost per Town �� Acton 126 $ 75,600 , ` 4. Arlington 300 180,000 �.s Belmont 158 94,800 1 It ., e�' Boxborough 14 8,400 ��,'' Carlisle 25 15,000 Concord 131 78,600 '? ` Lexington 310 186,000 �` `t* .` t . - Lincoln 35 21,000.= Sudbury 142 85,200 c\,,, r � .''��x Stow 31 18,600 a '' kms, r Wayland 138 82,800 rt"�� �� ; `30 'l ,.r-.' Weston 90 54,000 `"°:- Apportionment of operating costs among the towns ..-14 i each year will be based on the number of students tom - actually attending from each town These low operating costs are made possible by state will it cost too operate the school? and federal contributions which piov de 50% of the oper- WhatP ating costs and 100% of the transportation cost for bus- The average per pupil operating cost for regional sing students Additional funding to meet the tremendous vo-tec schools in Massachusetts for 1971 is budgeted need for more vocational education is under consider- at a gross cost of $1200 per pupil State and Federal aid anon by both the State Legislature and the Federal will reduce this cost to approximately $600 per pupil Government It is anticipated that these proposals will eventually lead to further aid for vo-tec schools Based on these figures the net cost of operating a 1500 pupil regional vo-tec school, exclusive of capital Will any appropriations be asked from each costs, would approximate $900,000 per year Using town at the time of the formation of the present high school enrollments, and assuming each regional district town sends a proportionate share of pupils to the g Minuteman School, costs to the towns would be ap- At the time the regionalization vote is presented to proximately as follows. the towns each town will also be asked to appropriate funds fol the use of the Regional School Committee al School Committee in 1971 as set forth in the prim for the balance of the 1971 fiscal year The appropria- patagraph tion of these funds will be contingent upon a favorable vote for the establishment of the region The funds The Ballot will be used pi mai ily to covet the cost of hiring a superintendent and undertaking necessary planning The won ding of the ballot will be as follows Based on estimated attendance from each town the towns will be asked to appropriate a total of $20,000 as fol- Shall the 'Town accept the pi ovisions of Section Six- lows teen to Sixteen I inclusive, of Chapter Seventy-one of the Genet al Laws, providing fol the establishment of Town Amount Town Amount a regional vocational technical school district, to consist - of the towns of Aihngton, Belmont, Concord and Lex- Acton $1,680 Lexington $4,120 ington, together with such of the towns of Acton, Box- borough., Carlisle, l mcoln, Sudbui y, Stow, Wayland and Arlington 4,000 Lincoln 470 Weston as vote to accept such sections, and the consti tic- Belmont 2,100 Sudbury 1,880 tion, maintenance and operation of a regional school by the said disti ret in accordance with the provisions of Boxborough 190 Stow 400 a proposed agreement filed with the Selectmen? Carlisle 340 Wayland 1,850 YES . NO Concord 1,770 Weston 1,200 In 1972 and the following years specific budgets will The Agreement be presented to the towns by the Regional School 'The pi oposed agicement which you will be voting to Committee. have your town accept is set for tlr on the following pages and has been approved by The Minuteman Re- Exactly what will you be voting for? gional Vocational-Technic al School Distinct Planning Boai d, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Emetgem y You will be voting to establish a regional vocational- Finance Board and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts technical high school district and to have your town Department of Education It will become effectivc when become a member thereof by accepting the piovisions it is accepted by the votes of the towns of Allington, or the appropriate sections of Chapter 71 of the General Belmont, Concord and Lexington The region will also Laws of Massachusetts, as amended You will also be include such other towns as vote to accept the terms voting on the appropriation for the use of the Region- of the agreement AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE board which submitted this agreement if such per son is ax ailable and willing to serve The twelve ESTABLISHMENT OF A TECHNICAL AND member s so appointed shall serve on the Commit VOCATIONAL REGIONAL SCHOOL tee until their respective successors are appointed DISTRICT and qualified as provided in subsection I (C) (C) Appointed Members On or before April 1, 1972, the moderators of This agreement is entered into pursuant to Chapter such of the towns of Acton, Arlington, Boxborough 71 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, as amended, and Carlisle as shall become members of the Dis among the towns of Arlington, Belmont, Concord and trict pursuant to Section XII shall each appoint Lexington and such of the towns of Acton, Boxborough, one membei to serve on the Committee for a term Carlisle, Lincoln, Sudbury, Stow, Wayland and Weston of one year, the moderators of such of the towns of as shall accept its provisions, hei einafter sometimes re- Belmont, Concord, Lincoln and Sudbury as shall ferred to as member towns In consideration of the mu- become membeis of the District pursuant to Sec- tual promises herein contained, it is hereby agreed as tion XII shall each appoint one member to serve follows on the Committee for a term of two years, and the moderators of such of the towns of Lexington, Section I The Regional District School Stow, Wayland and Weston as shall become mem Committee bers of the District pursuant to Section XII shall each appoint one membei to serve on the Corn (A) Composition mittee for a term of three yeas s Thereafter, in The regional district school committee, hereinaftei every yeas in which the teem of office of a mem- sometimes referred to as the Committee, shall bei expires, the modes atoi s of the respective mem consist of one member from each member town bei towns involved shall each appoint one mem- The members of the Committee shall be appointed ber to seive for a term of three yea's The term as hereinafter provided All members shall serve of each such member shall commence on April until their respective successors are appointed and 1 of the yea' in which lie or she is appointed qualified (D) Vacancies (B) Initial Committee If a vacancy occurs among the members appointed Within ten days after the establishment of the by the moderator under subsection I (B), the regional school district, the moderator of each moderator of the town involved shall within member town shall appoint one member to serve thirty days after such vacancy occurs appoint a on the Committee, each of whom shall have been member to serve until his successor is appointed a member of the regional school district planning and qualified as provided in subsection I (C) If a vacancy occurs among the members appoint- The Committee shall have all the powers and ed under subsection I (C), the moderator of the duties conferred and imposed upon school com- member town involved shall appoint a member mittees by law and conferred and imposed upon to serve foi the balance of the unexpired team, if it by this agreement, and such other additional any powers and duties as are specified in Sections 16 to 16 I, inclusive, of Chapter 71 of the General Note: Why Are Committee Members Appointed Laws and any amendments thereof or additions Rather Than Elected? thereto now or hereafter enacted, or as may be specified in any other applicable general or spec- It will be noted that members of the regional ial law dist?act school committee shall consist of one (G) Quorum member from each town to be appointed by The quorum for the transaction of business shall the town's moderator Appointment, rather be a majority of the Committee, but a number than election, has been necessitated by a recent less than the majority may adjourn ruling of the U S. Supreme CouMt that the "one man one vote" concept applies to the election of Section II Type of Regional School District regional dish act school committees If the p7oposed Iegaonal dish act school committee The regional district school shall be a technical were to be elected on this basis a committee and vocational high schoolconsisting of grades nine consisting of over 100 members would be through twelve, inclusive The Committee is hereby 'Iequared to assure even one representative from authorized to establish and maintain such kinds of edu- the smaller towns Accordingly an appointive cation, acting as trustees therefor, as may be provided committee appeals to be the only workable by towns under the provisions of Chapter 74 of the solution General Laws and acts amendatory thereof, in addition thereto or dependent thereon, including courses beyond (E) Organization the secondary school level in accordance with the pro- Promptly upon the appointment and qualification visions of Section 37 A of said Chapter 74 of the members of the initial Committee and an- nually thereafter, at the first regular meeting of the Committee held in the month of April, the Section III Location of the Regional Committee shall organize and choose by ballot a District School chairman and a vice chairman from among its own The regional district school shall be located within membership the geographical limits of the district and within a (F) Power and Duties radius of 5 miles from the intersection of Route 2 and Bedford Road, which intersection is in the town and Interest on bonds, notes of other obligations of Lincoln issued by the District to finance capital costs. (C) Opel ating Costs Section IV Apportionment and Payment of Operating costs shall include all costs not included Costs in capital costs as defined in subsection IV (B), but including interest on temporary notes issued (A) Classification of Costs by the District in anticipation of revenue }or the purpose of apportioning assessments levied by the District against the member towns, costs (D) Apportionment of Capital Costs shall be divided into two categories capital costs Capital costs shall be apportioned to the membei and operating costs. towns annually for the ensuing fiscal year in the following manner Each member town's share of (B) Capital Costs capital costs for each fiscal year shall be deter- Capital costs shall include all expenses in the mined by computing the ratio which the town's nature of capital outlay such as the cost of acquiring pupil enrollment in the regional district school land, the cost of constructing, reconstructing, or on October 1 of the fiscal year next preceding the adding to a school building or buildings, the cost fiscal year for which the apportionment is deter- of remodeling or making extraordinary repairs mined bears to the total pupil enrollment from to a school building or buildings, the cost of all the member towns on the said date, except constructing sewerage systems and sewerage treat- that if there is an enrollment of less than five ment and disposal facilities or the cost of the pupils from any member town in the regional purchase or use of such systems with a munici- district school on said date, such member town pality, and any other item of capital outlay for shall be deemed to have an enrollment of five which a regional school district may be author- pupils in the regional district school For the ized to borrow, including without limitation the purpose of this subsection, in computing this cost of original equipment and furnishings for apportionment the "persons" referred to in sub- such school buildings or additions, plans, archi- section IV (F) shall not be included Notwith- tects' and consultants' fees, grading and other costs standing the foregoing, in the event that there incidental to placing school buildings and addi- is no enrollment in the regional district school tions, sewerage systems and sewerage treatment from all the member towns on October 1 of any and disposal facilities, and any premises related such yeai, capital costs shall be apportioned on to the foregoing in operating condition Capital the basis of enrollment in grades nine through costs shall also include payment of principal of twelve of pupils residing in each membei town and receiving education at such town's expense ionises 01 any other types of courses which are on October 1 of such year Capital costs represented offered by the District to persons other than the by debt service shall be apportioned as a capital pupils attending the regular clay regionalvocational cost of the fiscal year in which the debt service school Each member town's share of such oper ating falls due costs shall be determined by computing the ratio which that town's enrollment of pupil hours in (E) Apportionment of Operating Costs such courses on Novembei 1 of the fiscal year next All operating costs, except those demi ibed in preceding the fiscal yeai foi which the apportion- subsection IV (F), for the first fiscal year next ment is determined bears to the total enrollment following the establishment of the regional school of pupil hours in such courses from all the member district, and foi every fiscal yeai thereafter, shall towns on the same date In the event that enroll- be appoi toned to the member towns on the basis ment of pupil hours in such coui ses has not been of each town's respective pupil enrollment in the accomplished by Novembei 1 of any year, such i egional disti ict school Each member town's share opei ating costs shall be apportioned on the basis foi each fiscal year shall be determined by corn- of enrollment in grades nine through twelve of. puting the ratio which that member town's pupil pupils residing in each member town and receiv- enrollment in the regional district school on Octo- ing education at such town's expense on October ber 1 of the fiscal year next preceding the fiscal 1 of such year yeai for which the apportionment is determined bears to the total pupil enrollment in the regional (G) Times of Payment of Appoi tioned Cost:, school from all the member towns on the same Each member town shall pay to the District in each date In computing this apportionment the pupil fiscal year its proportionate slur e, certified as hours referred to subsection IV (F) shall be ex- provided in subsection V (C) of the capital and chided In the event that enrollment of pupils operating costs Except as otherwise provided in in the regional district school has not been accom- subsection V (A) or in section XI the annual plished by October 1 of any year, operating costs share of each member town shall be paid in such shall be appoi tioned on the basis of enrollment amounts anti at such times that at least the follow in grades nine through twelve of pupils residing ing percentages of such annual share shall be paid in each member town and receiving education on or before the dates indicated, respectively at such town's expense on October 1 of such year April 1 25% (F) Special Operating Costs June 1 60% The Committee shall determine the operating costs September 1 75% for each fiscal yeai of any evening trade extension November 15 100% Note: How are students to be chosen from IV herein The regional district treasurer shall among the towns? certify to the treasurer of each member town its respective shares of said budget The sums thus While there is no specific provision within the certified shall be payable by each member town agreement it is expected that each town in the to the regional district school committee but only district will be alloted a share of the student from funds which may be or may have been body approximately proportionate to the rela appropriated by each member town for such tionship the number of high school students purpose in that town bears to the total number of high (B) Tentative Operating and Maintenance Budget school students in the region.It should be noted, Thereafter, the Committee shall annually prepare however, that once the school is in operation a tentative operating and maintenance budget for each town will bear each year a share of the the ensuing fiscal year, attaching thereto provision annual capital and operating costs proportion for any installment of principal or interest to be- ate ONLY to its share of students attending come due in such fiscal year on any bonds or other from that town during that year evidence of indebtedness of the District and any other capital costs to be apportioned to the member Section V Budget towns The said Committee shall mail a copy (A) Initial Budget thereof to the chairman of the board of selectmen and the finance or advisory committee, if any, of Within sixty days after the initial regional district each member town on or before November 15, school committee is organized, it shall prepare a itemized as follows or in such further detail as the reasonably detailed operating and maintenance Committee may deem advisable budget covering expenses, if any, for the balance 1 Administration of the then fiscal year Copies of such proposed budget shall be submitted to the chairman of 2 Instruction the finance or advisory committee of each member 3 Other school services town, or if there is no finance or advisory com- 4 Operating and maintenance of plant mittee in a member town, to the chairman of 5 Fixed charges the board of selectmen, for its consideration. A 6 Acquisition of fixed assets budget shall be adopted not earlier than fourteen days but within twenty one days after the proposed 7 Community services budget has been so submitted The amount of the 8 Debt retirement and debt service said budget shall be apportioned among the mem- 9 Programs with other districts and private ber towns according to the provisions of Section schools (C)Final Operating and Maintenance Budget ital costs of the District represented by bonds or The Committee shall adopt an annual operating notes of the district then outstanding and of inter- and maintenance budget, including debt and inter- est thereon est charges and any other current capital costs as separate items, on or before December 1 for the (B) Procedure ensuing fiscal year and the said Committee shall Any proposal for amendment, except a proposal for apportion the amounts necessary to be raised in amendment providing for the withdrawal of a order to meet the said budget in accordance with member town (which shall be acted upon as the provisions of Section IV The amounts so provided in Section IX), may be initiated by a apportioned to each member town shall, prior vote of a majority of all members of the Corn- to December 31 of each year preceding the fiscal mittee or by a petition signed by at least 10 per cent year to which said budget relates, be certified by of the registered voters of any one of the member the district treasurer to the treasurer of such mem- towns In the latter case, said petition shall contain ber town, and each such town shall, at the next at the end thereof a certification by the town clerk annual town meeting, appropriate the amounts of such member town as to the number of registered so certified voters in said town according to the most recent Section VI Transportation voting list and the number of signatures on the petition which appear to be the names of registered School transportation shall be provided by the re- voters of said town and said petition shall be pre- gional school district and the cost thereof shall be ap sented to the secretary of the Committee In either portioned to the member towns as an operating cost case, the secretary of the committee shall mail or Section VII Amendments deliver a notice in writing to the board of selectmen of each of the member towns that a proposal to (A) Limitation amend this agreement has been made and shall This agreement may be amended from time to time enclose a copy of such proposal (without the in the manner hereinafter provided, but no such signatures in the case of a proposal by petition) amendment shall be made which shall substantially The selectmen of each member town shall include impair the rights of the holders of any bonds or in the warrant for the next annual or a special notes or other evidences of indebtness of the town meeting called for the purpose an article District then outstanding, or the rights of the Dis- stating the propoal or the substance thereof Such trict to procure the means for payment thereof, amendment shall take effect upon its acceptance by provided that nothing in this section shall prevent all the member towns, acceptance by each town the admission of a new town or towns to the Dis- to be by a majority vote at a town meeting as trict and the reapportionment accordingly of cap- aforesaid Section VIII Admission of new towns Committee shall draw up an amendment to the By an amendent of this agreement adopted under agreement setting forth such terms of withdrawal and in accordance with Section VII above, any other as it deems advisable, subject to the limitation town or towns may be admitted to the regional school contained in subsection VII(A) The secretary district upon adoption as therein provided of such of the Committee shall mail or deliver a notice in amendment and upon acceptance by the town or towns writing to the board of selectmen of each member seeking admission of the agreement as so amended town that the Committee has drawn up an amend and also upon compliance with such provisions of law ment to the agreement providing for the with as may be applicable and such terms as may be set forth drawal of a member town (enclosing a copy of in such amendment such amendment) The selectmen of each member town shall include in the warrant for the next Section IX Withdrawal annual or a special town meeting called for the purpose an article stating the amendment or the (A) Limitations substance thereof Such amendment shall take ef- The withdrawal of a member town from the fect upon its acceptance by all of the member District may be effected by an amendment to this towns, acceptance by each town to be by a majority agreement in the manner hereinafter provided vote at a town meeting as aforesaid by this section Any member town seeking to (C) Cessation of Terms of Office of Withdrawing withdraw shall, by vote at an annual or special town meeting, request the Committee to draw up Town's Members an amendment to this agreement setting forth the Upon the effective date of withdrawal the terms terms by which such town may withdraw from the of office of the member serling on the regional District, provided that the said town shall remain district school committee from the withdrawing liable to the District for its share of the indebted- town shall terminate and the total membership of ness of the District outstanding at the time of the Committee shall be decreased accordingly such withdrawal, and for interest theron, to the (D) Apportionment of Capital Costs After Withdrawal same extent and in the same manner as though the town had not withdrawn from the District The withdrawing town's annual share of any future installment of principal and interest on (B) Procedure obligations outstanding on the effective date of its The clerk of the town seeking to withdraw shall withdrawal shall be not less than the average notify the Committee in writing that such town of any such town's annual capital cost appor- has voted to request the Committee to draw up tionment percentages for the three years next an amendment to the agreement (enclosing a preceding the year in which its withdrawal certified copy of such vote) Thereupon, the becomes effective, or, in case such withdrawal becomes effective before there shall have been of the member towns and the word year or fiscal year an apportionment of capital costs for three years as it relates in this agreement to a fiscal or budget next preceding the year in which such withdrawal period shall mean the fiscal year of the District. becomes effective, the withdrawing town's annual If the fiscal year of the District shall be other than share of such future installments of principal the calendar year, the dates on or before which and interest shall be not less than the average the respective percentages of the annual share of each of such towns annual capital cost apportion- member town shall be paid as provided in subsection ment percentage for such of the year or years pre- IV (G) shall be adjusted so that not less than 25% ceding the year in which its withdrawal becomes thereof shall be paid not later than the first day of the effective for which an apportionment of capital third month of such fiscal year, 60% shall be paid not costs shall have been made The remainder of any later than the first day of the sixth month of such fiscal such installment after subtracting the share of any year, 75% shall be paid not later than the first day of town or towns which have withdrawn shall be the ninth month of such fiscal year and 100% shall be apportioned to the remaining member town or paid not later than the first day of the eleventh month towns in the manner provided in subsection IV of such fiscal year (D) or as may be otherwise provided in the amend- ment providing for such withdrawal Section XII Submission for approval Section X Tuition Students This agreement shall be submitted for approval pursu- The Committee may accept for enrollment in the ant to the applicable provisions of Section 15 of Chapter regional district school pupils from towns other than 71 of the General Laws to the towns of Acton, Arling- member towns on a tuition basis. Income received by ton, Belmont, Boxborough, Carlisle, Concord, Lexington, the District from tuition pupils and not previously de- Lincoln, Sudbury, Stow, Wayland and Weston In the ducted from operating costs shall be deducted from the event that at least the towns of Arlington, Belmont, total operating costs in the next annual budget to be Concord and Lexington vote in the affirmative as provid- prepared after the receipt thereof, prior to apportion- ed in said Section 15 to establish a regional technical ment under subsection IV (E) to the member towns. and vocational school district, this agreement shall become effective and a regional technical and vocational Section XI Fiscal year school district, composed of the towns of Arlington, Belmont, Concord, Lexington and such additional towns, Except as may otherwise be provided by law, the fiscal if any, as so vote, shall be deemed to be established, year of the district shall be the same as the fiscal period otherwise this agreement shall be void and of no effect (continued on back cover) IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this agreement has been executed as of the 18th day of 8kig: June, 1970 REGIONAL VOCATIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PLANNING BOARD P A I C For the Town of Acton For the Town of Lexington 13e§fe ; Mk§§: Charles E Courtright Erik Mollo-Christensen t8€RM#f Me in, Beverly W Lydiard, Secretary Vernon C. Page • Marilyn Peterson Ann Wallace For the Town of Arlington For the Town of Lincoln Norman R Jacobsen Henry Haroian Eugene J Kirby, Vice Chairman Henry M Morgan Walter C. Verney Ruth Wales For the Town of Belmont For the Town of Stow Marilyn L Gonzalez Arnold Akerley Henry L Hall, Chairman Gerald A Horne Malcolm Hecht, Jr Barbara Spencer For the Town of Boxborough For the Town of Sudbury James L. Donovan Joseph E. Brown Ruth Kennedy Alfred C. Cron William T. Maloney Riclarl H. Rattin For the Town of Carlisle For the Town of Wayland Kenneth L Bilodeau Paul Alphen 15 Paul Fevere Rd Alfred A. Callahan Frederick L Heinrich Lexin_,ton 73, Mass. Fred Macone Douglas Hendrick For the Town of Concord For the Town of Weston Michele Lombardo David Bradley Anna Manion, Treasurer Margaret Pexton Robert Palmer Charles M. Sutherland APPROVED The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education By Neil V Sullivan Commissioner The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Emergency Finance Board By Bernard Solomon, Chairman Arthur H MacKinnon, Secretary William G. Scotti Ruth T. Alexander Robert Q. Crane BRING THIS BROCHURE TO TOWN MEETING