Prohibits the appointment of paid employees of the city of Yonkers or any public benefit corporation thereof as members of the board of education of the city school district of such city; requires the appointment of members of such board to reflect the diversity of such city.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4740
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the appointment of the
members of the board of education of the city school district of the
city of Yonkers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2553 of the education law, as
2 added by chapter 242 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. In the city school district of the city of Yonkers members of the
4 board of education shall be appointed from the city at large by the
5 mayor and shall be for terms of five years each, to begin on the first
6 Tuesday in May. Provided that no person who is an officer or employee,
7 in a paid capacity and regardless of whether such position is on a full-
8 time or part-time basis, of the city of Yonkers or any public benefit
9 corporation which is funded directly or through subcontract by the
10 monies of or contributions from such city, shall be eligible to serve as
11 a member of the board of education of the city school district of the
12 city of Yonkers. The mayor shall make appointments of such members to
13 reflect the diversity, in gender and ethnic heritage, of the city of
14 Yonkers.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
16 appointments to fill vacancies on the board of education of the city
17 school district of the city of Yonkers on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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