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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1251
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN, AUBRY, PERRY -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the  public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  siting
          requirements  for  the  New  York city school construction authority's
          leasing program
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 1731 of the public authorities
     2  law, as amended by chapter 285 of the laws of 2014, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    1.  Prior  to the commencing of new construction or building additions
     5  of an educational facility, or the acquisition of real property  or  any
     6  interest therein for such purpose, including the leasing of any building
     7  or  property,  the  authority shall file a copy of the site plan of such
     8  facility in its offices and shall provide a copy  thereof  to  the  city
     9  board,  the  city  planning commission and the community school district
    10  education council and the community board of the district in  which  the
    11  facility  will  be  located.  Such  plan shall include data on projected
    12  student population for the community school district  or  districts  and
    13  the  community board or boards affected, the source of that data and the
    14  reason the proposed action is necessary and how such  plan  factors  and
    15  accounts  for  student  population  projections. Upon request, any other
    16  person shall be furnished with such  plan  or  a  summary  thereof.  The
    17  authority  shall  publish  in  a newspaper of general circulation in the
    18  city a notice of the filing of such plan and  the  availability  of  the
    19  plan  and a summary thereof. Such plan shall include, in the case of any
    20  project for which the acquisition of real property or  interest  therein
    21  is  proposed,  the recommended site, any alternate sites considered, and
    22  any rationale as to why the alternate sites were not selected.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03586-01-5
        A. 1251                             2
 
     1    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1732 of the public authorities  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  562  of  the  laws  of 1990, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Following  the hearings held pursuant to section seventeen hundred
     5  thirty-one of this title, but prior to initiating  construction  of  new
     6  educational facilities, or prior to leasing any building or property for
     7  such  purpose, the authority shall submit the site plan of such projects
     8  to the mayor and the council for review, provided,  however,  that  such
     9  review shall be limited to the site selected for the project.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.