Authorizes the trustees of the Tuckahoe common school district to submit a proposition to reorganize as the Tuckahoe-Shinnecock union free school district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9183
IN SENATE
May 2, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the trustees of the Tuckahoe Common
School District, county of Suffolk, to submit a proposition to the
qualified electors of such district to reorganize such school district
as a union free school district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
2 trustees of the Tuckahoe Common School District, county of Suffolk may,
3 upon its own motion, cause to be submitted at an annual or special meet-
4 ing, a proposition to reorganize such school district as a union free
5 school district to be known as the Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School
6 District.
7 § 2. No such proposal shall be approved by the trustees until the
8 board conducts and approves a feasibility study of the reorganization.
9 Such study shall include at a minimum: (a) current and projected student
10 enrollments; (b) current and projected professional staffing plans; (c)
11 a plan for educational programs and curricula in the proposed district;
12 (d) a plan for transportation in the proposed district; and (e) the
13 fiscal implications of the reorganization including changes in state
14 aid, expenditures, and local tax effort.
15 § 3. Upon the approval of the proposition by the qualified electors of
16 the district, the commissioner of education shall issue an order estab-
17 lishing the union free school district. Such order shall specify the
18 effective date of the order, which shall not be later than 60 days after
19 the approval of the proposition.
20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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