CESU Update on Voluntary Merger Plans

September 2013

In the Spring of 2013, Chittenden East Supervisory Union’s member school boards voted to move forward with the statutory steps required to establish a Voluntary Merger Planning Committee (VMPC) and to begin studying the viability of one unified Prek-12 school district.  The merger option the VMPC will be focusing on is a Modified Unified Union School District (MUUSD).  MUUSD’s are a school district merger option in Act 156.  

Currently, town school boards (i.e. Bolton, Richmond, Huntington, Jericho, Underhill Town and Underhill I.D.) are determining a budget for the VMPC, appointing committee members and establishing the representation of the VMPC.

The following links provide an overview of the voluntary school district merger process, the CESU Phase I Governance Study completed in 2010 and a description of Modified Unified Union School Districts:

• School District Merger Statutory Steps/Process (From: Title 16, Section 706)
• Chittenden East Supervisory Union Phase I Governance Study
• Modified Unified Union School District Description