Vermont

16 V.S.A. § 423

VERMONT STATUTES ANNOTATED

TITLE SIXTEEN. Education

PART 1. ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER 9. School Districts

SUBCHAPTER 1A. Government of School Districts

§ 423 -- Directors, number, election; term

(a) Each town school district shall have a school board consisting of three directors, one of whom shall be elected by ballot at each annual meeting of the town school district for a term of three years, beginning the day of election or until a successor is elected and qualified, unless a town school district is a member of a unified union district.

(b) The electorate may vote at an annual or special town school district meeting to elect not more than two additional directors for terms of either one or two years. When the terms are to be for two years, the warning for the meeting shall so specify. If two additional directors are elected they shall have terms of the same length, but if the terms are to be for two years, when the additional directors are first elected, one shall be elected for one year and the other director for two years. Terms of these additional directors shall end on annual meeting days. If the additional directors are elected at a special meeting the term of those elected for one year shall expire on the next annual meeting day and those elected for two years shall expire on the second annual meeting day following their election.

(c) The electorate shall continue to elect additional school directors until it votes at a meeting duly warned for the purpose to rescind its previous action under subsection (b) of this section; but the additional directors then in office shall continue in office until the end of the term to which they were elected.

(d) A town school district which holds its annual meeting on a day other than annual town meeting day may vote to elect its officers and its representative directors to union school districts on town meeting day. Their terms of office shall commence on the annual school district meeting day unless the district votes to have the terms of office commence on town meeting day.

16 V.S.A. § 424

§ 424 Vacancies

The selectmen shall, with the advice of the remaining school board members, within 30 days of the creation of the vacancy, appoint a qualified person to fill a vacancy in the town school board, until an election at a special or annual meeting is held and a record thereof shall be made in the office of the town clerk.

16 V.S.A. § 558

VERMONT STATUTES ANNOTATED

TITLE SIXTEEN. Education

PART 1. ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER 9. School Districts

SUBCHAPTER 4. Other Provisions

§ 558 Eligibility for election to a school board; employment of school board members

(a) A legal voter in a school district shall be eligible for election to a school board; however, a member of a school board may not be regularly employed by the school district or by a school district within the same supervisory union or by the same supervisory union during the board member's term of office. This section shall not apply to a school board member in office on the date of passage, but shall apply to any subsequent terms of office held by such persons.

(b) The commissioner may waive the provisions of this section for employment of a specific individual as a substitute teacher, coach or supervisor of extracurricular activities for a period not to exceed one year, which may be renewed, in circumstances in which the school district or supervisory union is unable to hire another qualified person through no fault of its own.