Bill Text: NY A02788 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transfers control of the Yonkers Education Construction Fund Board to the mayor of the city of Yonkers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to education [A02788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02788-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2788
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2013
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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  transferring  control
         of  the  Yonkers education construction fund board to the mayor 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 1 of section 477 of the education law, as added
    2  by chapter 931 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    3    1.   There   is  hereby  created  the  "city  of  Yonkers  educational
    4  construction fund." The fund shall be a  corporate  governmental  agency
    5  constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall be administered by a
    6  board  of  trustees  consisting  of  the [chairman] MAYOR OF THE CITY OF
    7  YONKERS, THE CHAIRPERSON of the board of education of the city of  Yonk-
    8  ers,  [four members of such board appointed by the president thereof and
    9  four members appointed by the mayor of the city of Yonkers.  The  chair-
   10  man  of  the  board  of education shall be the chairman of the fund. The
   11  chairman] THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT, THE CITY COUNCIL MAJORITY  LEADER,
   12  THE  CITY  COUNCIL  MINORITY  LEADER, AND FOUR TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY THE
   13  MAYOR OF THE CITY OF YONKERS, TWO OF WHICH SHALL BE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
   14  OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF YONKERS. THE MAYOR, THE CHAIRPERSON  OF  THE
   15  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION,  and the trustees who are members of the [board of
   16  education] CITY COUNCIL shall serve during their  terms  of  office  [as
   17  chairman  and  members,  respectively,  of  the  board of education. The
   18  members first appointed by the mayor shall serve for terms  ending  two,
   19  three,  four  and  five  years,  respectively,  from  the  date of their
   20  appointment. Their successors shall serve for terms of five years  each]
   21  AND  THE  TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR SHALL SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF
   22  THE MAYOR.  THE FUND SHALL ELECT ITS  OWN  CHAIRPERSON  FROM  AMONG  ITS
   23  MEMBERS.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02492-01-3