Amends chapter 524 of the laws of 1987, establishing the Greater Poughkeepsie library district, in the city and town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, in relation to providing additional funding authorization for such library.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8797--A
2005-2006 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 14, 2005
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Miller,
Kirwan) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Libraries and
Education Technology -- recommitted to the Committee on Libraries and
Education Technology in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend chapter 524 of the laws of 1987, relating to establish-
ing the Greater Poughkeepsie library district, in the city and town of
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, in relation to funding for such library
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 3 of chapter 524 of the laws of
2 1987, relating to establishing the Greater Poughkeepsie library
3 district, in the city and town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, as
4 amended by chapter 361 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 (d) The real property tax amounts to be contributed by the city and
7 town shall fund a maximum of [seventy-five] eighty per centum of the
8 general operating budget of the district approved by the voters for
9 fiscal years 2007 and 2008, a maximum of eighty-five per centum of the
10 general operating budget of the district approved by the voters for the
11 fiscal years 2009 and 2010, and a maximum of ninety per centum of the
12 general operating budget of the district approved by the voters for the
13 fiscal year 2011 and thereafter, and also shall fund a maximum of one
14 hundred per centum of supplemental propositions approved by the voters,
15 and also shall fund a maximum of one hundred per centum of the annual
16 cost of servicing indebtedness incurred for capital purposes approved by
17 the voters, provided that any state or federal aid received for said
18 capital purposes will be used to either reduce the amount of indebt-
19 edness incurred or reduce the amount of real property tax necessary to
20 fund the cost of servicing such indebtedness. The balance of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 district budget shall be provided from other sources including, but not
2 limited to, state funding, federal funding, county funding, other
3 governmental funding and private contributions and funding.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
