Bill Text: NY A00066 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A00066 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00066-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 66 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ 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. LBD01899-01-7A. 66 2 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.