Relates to the powers and duties of the Rochester board of education; prohibits board members from being employed by the district within two years of serving on such board.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and duties
of boards of education
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2554 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 27 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. To create, abolish, maintain and consolidate such positions, divi-
5 sions, boards or bureaus as, in its judgment, may be necessary for the
6 proper and efficient administration of its work; to appoint a super-
7 intendent of schools, such associate, assistant, district and other
8 superintendents, examiners, directors, supervisors, principals, teach-
9 ers, lecturers, special instructors, medical inspectors, nurses, audi-
10 tors, attendance officers, secretaries, clerks, custodians, janitors and
11 other employees and other persons or experts in educational, social or
12 recreational work or in the business management or direction of its
13 affairs as said board shall determine necessary for the efficient
14 management of the schools and other educational, social, recreational
15 and business activities; provided, however, that in the city school
16 districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse appointment
17 of associate, assistant and district superintendents, and other super-
18 vising staff who are excluded from the right to bargain collectively
19 pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law shall, within the
20 amounts budgeted for such positions, be by the superintendent of such
21 city school district; and to determine their duties except as otherwise
22 provided herein. No person who has served as a member of the board of
23 education in the city school district of the city of Rochester shall be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 employed by such city school district within the two years following the
2 termination or conclusion of such service.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
4 candidates for employment by the city school district of the city of
5 Rochester on or after such effective date.