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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10042--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 2, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the trustees of the Tuckahoe Common
School District, county of Suffolk, to submit a proposition to the
qualified voters of such district to reorganize such school district
as a union free school district; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof
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 board of trustees of the Tuckahoe Common School District, county of
3 Suffolk, may, upon its own motion, cause to be submitted at the annual
4 meeting and election or special meeting, a proposition to reorganize
5 such school district as a union free school district to be known as the
6 Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School District.
7 § 2. No such proposition shall be approved by the board of trustees of
8 the Tuckahoe Common School District until the board conducts and
9 approves a feasibility study of the reorganization. Such study shall
10 include at a minimum: (a) current and projected student enrollments; (b)
11 current and projected professional staffing plans; (c) a plan for educa-
12 tional programs and curricula in the proposed district; (d) a plan for
13 transportation in the proposed district; and (e) the fiscal implications
14 of the reorganization including changes in state aid, expenditures, and
15 local tax effort.
16 § 3. Upon the approval of the proposition by the qualified voters of
17 the Tuckahoe Common School district, the commissioner of education shall
18 issue an order establishing the union free school district. Such order
19 shall specify the effective date of the order, which shall not be later
20 than 60 days after the approval of the proposition.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
22 deemed repealed June 30, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14944-07-4
